Historical maps probably helped cause World War I

Link: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/historical-maps-probably-helped-cause

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37569622

U.K. finally rejoins Horizon Europe research funding scheme

Link: https://www.science.org/content/article/uk-finally-rejoins-horizon-europe-research-funding-scheme

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37566929

FTC Warns Pharma: May Go After Them for Sham Patents Designed to Delay Generics

Link: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/18/ftc-warns-pharma-companies-that-it-may-go-after-them-for-sham-patent-listings-designed-to-delay-generic-competitors/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37561696

What If OpenDocument Used SQLite?

Link: https://www.sqlite.org/affcase1.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37553574

The Early Days of American English

Link: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/early-days-american-english

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37529284

A look at Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model

Link: https://jackcook.com/2023/09/08/predictive-text.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37541093

Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man)

Link: http://www.johnnycashhasbeeneverywhere.com/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37529359

Building an Economy Simulator from Scratch

Link: https://thomassimon.dev/ps/4

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37527773

Optimizing LLMs from a Dataset Perspective

Link: https://sebastianraschka.com/blog/2023/optimizing-LLMs-dataset-perspective.html

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37524890

No Sacred Masterpieces, that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it

Link: https://basta.substack.com/p/no-sacred-masterpieces

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37527720

MaplePad – RP2040 Dreamcast controller, VMU, and Purupuru (rumble pack) emulator

Link: https://github.com/mackieks/MaplePad

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37519928

Show HN: Shrinkflation Tracker

Link: https://www.shrinkflation.io/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37524202

Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C

Link: https://github.com/UnknownShadow200/ClassiCube

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37518874

California passes bill to make it easier to delete data from data brokers

Link: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-09-14/california-bill-delete-online-personal-data

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37524158

Google to pay $93M in settlement over deceptive location tracking

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/14/google-location-tracking-data-settlement

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37523992

Marginalia Search Receives FUTO Grant

Link: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/88-futo-grant/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37519982

Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/14/carrefour-puts-shrinkflation-price-warnings-on-food-to-shame-brands

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37522858

‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood death toll may hit 20k

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/13/libya-flood-death-toll

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520528

How does Linux start a process

Link: https://iq.thc.org/how-does-linux-start-a-process

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37521240

TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/15/tiktok-fined-345m-for-breaking-eu-data-law-on-childrens-accounts

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37521710