top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-06-29

Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-29/supreme-court-strikes-down-affirmative-action-in-college-admissions

3 years ago

YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-ad-blockers-three-strikes/

3 years ago

Valve is not willing to publish games with AI generated content anymore?

https://old.reddit.com/r/aigamedev/comments/142j3yt/valve_is_not_willing_to_publish_games_with_ai/

3 years ago

The Awk Programming Language

https://awk.dev/

3 years ago

CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library

https://til.simonwillison.net/python/stdlib-cli-tools

3 years ago

Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/29/aspartame-artificial-sweetener-possible-cancer-risk-carcinogenic

3 years ago

Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02167-7

3 years ago

Kagi raises $670k

https://blog.kagi.com/safe-round

3 years ago

Bill C-18: Google to remove news links in Canada over online news law

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/google-set-to-remove-news-links-in-canada-meta-ends-contract-for-journalism-fellowship-as-bill-c-18-fallout-continues-1.6461557

3 years ago

Github.com is down

https://github.com/status

3 years ago

Programming languages going above and beyond

https://whileydave.com/2023/06/27/programming-languages-going-above-and-beyond/

3 years ago

Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-kill-android-aosp-dialer-messages-app-3334980/

3 years ago

Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry

https://morepablo.com/2023/06/creatives-industries.html

3 years ago

Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36523878

3 years ago

Structures in C: From Basics to Memory Alignment

https://abstractexpr.com/2023/06/29/structures-in-c-from-basics-to-memory-alignment/

3 years ago

XGen-7B, a new 7B foundational model trained on up to 8K length for 1.5T tokens

https://blog.salesforceairesearch.com/xgen/

3 years ago

Racket: Lisp for the modern day

https://www.deusinmachina.net/p/racket-the-scheme-you-should-try

3 years ago

Keeping Open Source Open

https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/

3 years ago

OpenOrca: open source dataset and instruct-tuned LLMs

https://erichartford.com/openorca

3 years ago

Canada’s new tech talent strategy

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2023/06/minister-fraser-launches-canadas-first-ever-tech-talent-strategy-at-collision-2023.html

3 years ago