Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40754229
Thermodynamic Natural Gradient Descent
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.13817
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466826
Samsung WB850F Firmware Reverse-Engineering
Link: https://op-co.de/blog/posts/samsung_wb850f_firmware/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40467232
Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination
Link: https://gizmodo.com/google-search-ai-overview-giant-hallucination-1851499031
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40468230
Writing a Unix clone in about a month
Link: https://drewdevault.com/2024/05/24/2024-05-24-Bunnix.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40467297
ICQ will stop working from June 26
Link: https://icq.com/desktop/en#windows
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40467625
Voxel Displacement Renderer – Modernizing the Retro 3D Aesthetic
Link: https://blog.danielschroeder.me/2024/05/voxel-displacement-modernizing-retro-3d/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464558
Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography
Link: https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/advancing-our-amazing-bet-on-asymmetric.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457500
New Regular expression (Regex) functions in Excel
Link: https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/new-regular-expression-regex-functions-in-excel
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426720
Lewis Carroll – computing the day of the week for any given date (1887)
Link: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/05/24/day-tripper/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464303
Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize
Link: https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/anger-health-effects-risks-heart-brain-mental-f4105ed7
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464887
Go's old $GOPATH story for development and dependencies
Link: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoTheGopathDevelopmentStory
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40438007
"Unacceptable": Spotify bricking Car Thing devices in Dec. without refunds
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40465102
Kabosu, the Dog Behind the 'Doge' Meme, Has Died
Link: https://www.ign.com/articles/kabosu-the-dog-behind-the-doge-meme-has-died
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40464495
LunarML – The Standard ML compiler that produces Lua/JavaScript
Link: https://github.com/minoki/LunarML
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40440436
#javascript
2D Rigid Body Collision Resolution
Link: https://www.sassnow.ski/rigid-body-collisions/1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40463764
Perplexica: Open-Source Perplexity Alternative
Link: https://github.com/ItzCrazyKns/Perplexica
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40462369
You Can Hear the Temperature of Water
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/science/hot-water-sound-cold.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40317629
How Nestlé gets children hooked on sugar in lower-income countries
Link: https://stories.publiceye.ch/nestle-babies/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40067575
Land Use Policies Make Urban Childcare Expensive and Rare
Link: https://www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/who-cares-about-childcare
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39922294