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
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
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
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
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
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