Inside the JVM: Arrays

Link: https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/java-array-objects

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37216489

Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012)

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/aug/21/life-on-board-nuclear-submarine

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37241601

So Long, Twitter and Reddit

Link: https://andrewkelley.me/post/goodbye-twitter-reddit.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37244292

An Old Conjecture Falls, Making Spheres a Lot More Complicated

Link: https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-old-conjecture-falls-making-spheres-a-lot-more-complicated-20230822/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37228822

PostgreSQL Lock Conflicts

Link: https://pglocks.org/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37229030

SeamlessM4T, a Multimodal AI Model for Speech and Text Translation

Link: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/08/seamlessm4t-ai-translation-model/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37222822

I walked across Luxembourg

Link: https://blog.ioces.com/matt/posts/i-walked-across-luxembourg/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218841

Show HN: Just intonation keyboard – play music without knowing music

Link: https://ad8e.pages.dev/keyboard

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37194128

Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512

Link: https://lemire.me/blog/2023/08/18/transcoding-latin-1-strings-to-utf-8-strings-at-12-gb-s-using-avx-512/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37197921

I Made Stable Diffusion XL Smarter by Finetuning It on Bad AI-Generated Images

Link: https://minimaxir.com/2023/08/stable-diffusion-xl-wrong/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37211519

Why bumblebees love cats and other beautiful relationships (2021)

Link: https://longreads.com/2021/03/23/nation-of-plants-excerpt-stefano-mancuso/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37208228

FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs

Link: https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1693127769901969772

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37205053

macOS updates for Apple Silicon Macs are larger than reported

Link: https://eclecticlight.co/2023/08/19/macos-updates-for-apple-silicon-macs-are-larger-than-reported/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37199449

Electrical detection of RNA cancer biomarkers at the single-molecule level

Link: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-electrical-rna-cancer-biomarkers-single-molecule.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37194394

An abandoned cabinet full of Kodachrome slides in San Francisco

Link: https://petapixel.com/2023/08/16/the-mystery-of-an-abandoned-cabinet-full-of-kodachrome-slides-in-san-francisco/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37202415

Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)

Link: https://max.engineer/server-informed-ui

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37197257

Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified

Link: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/54499/shouldnt-very-very-distant-objects-appear-magnified

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37198954

Tesla repossessed my car due to an extreme oversight on their end

Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/15u8wuv/tesla_repossessed_my_car_due_to_an_extreme/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37189216

Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot

Link: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/microsoft-ai-suggests-food-bank-as-a-cannot-miss-tourist-spot-in-canada/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171955

TypeScript Is Surprisingly OK for Compilers

Link: https://matklad.github.io/2023/08/17/typescript-is-surprisingly-ok-for-compilers.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171801