top 50% 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

959 upvotes – 1681 comments

YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

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

3 years ago

907 upvotes – 1342 comments

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

622 upvotes – 395 comments

The Awk Programming Language

https://awk.dev/

3 years ago

554 upvotes – 155 comments

CLI tools hidden in the Python standard library

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

3 years ago

552 upvotes – 154 comments

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

465 upvotes – 565 comments

Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time

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

3 years ago

425 upvotes – 209 comments

Kagi raises $670k

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

3 years ago

408 upvotes – 359 comments

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

383 upvotes – 484 comments

Github.com is down

https://github.com/status

3 years ago

338 upvotes – 150 comments

Programming languages going above and beyond

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

3 years ago

338 upvotes – 180 comments

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

313 upvotes – 217 comments

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

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

3 years ago

307 upvotes – 266 comments

Ask HN: Is GitHub down?

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

3 years ago

306 upvotes – 184 comments

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

293 upvotes – 57 comments

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

269 upvotes – 92 comments

Racket: Lisp for the modern day

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

3 years ago

268 upvotes – 182 comments

Keeping Open Source Open

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

3 years ago

268 upvotes – 245 comments

OpenOrca: open source dataset and instruct-tuned LLMs

https://erichartford.com/openorca

3 years ago

234 upvotes – 57 comments

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

232 upvotes – 317 comments

Leo Tolstoy on why people drink (2014)

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/12/30/why-do-men-stupefy-themselves-leo-tolstoy/

3 years ago

218 upvotes – 286 comments

Tesla Fleet Telemetry

https://github.com/teslamotors/fleet-telemetry

3 years ago

214 upvotes – 130 comments

Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT 'privacy violations'

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/microsoft_openai_sued_privacy/

3 years ago

194 upvotes – 225 comments

Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new category for them

https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/06/29/psychedelics-drugs/

3 years ago

192 upvotes – 198 comments

Reverse-engineering Google’s "Skip Button Guarantee"

https://checkmyads.org/branded/googles-epic-multi-billion-dollar-ad-scam-makes-sense-to-us/

3 years ago

190 upvotes – 95 comments

How long can open-source LLMs truly promise on context length?

https://lmsys.org/blog/2023-06-29-longchat/

3 years ago

189 upvotes – 62 comments

FTC reportedly plans major antitrust lawsuit against Amazon

https://nypost.com/2023/06/29/ftc-plans-major-antitrust-lawsuit-against-amazon-report/

3 years ago

184 upvotes – 110 comments

Happy 50th Birthday, Ethernet

https://blog.apnic.net/2023/06/29/happy-50th-birthday-ethernet/

3 years ago

184 upvotes – 43 comments

Building Boba AI: Lessons learnt in building an LLM-powered application

https://martinfowler.com/articles/building-boba.html

3 years ago

171 upvotes – 65 comments

Delta flight lands in Charlotte without front landing gear

https://www.wbtv.com/2023/06/28/plane-lands-charlotte-douglas-international-airport-after-dealing-with-mechanical-issues/

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 293 comments

Gitlab’s AI-assisted code suggestions

https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/code-suggestions/

3 years ago

168 upvotes – 154 comments

Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/self-publishing-technical-book-10-years

3 years ago

165 upvotes – 35 comments

The KDE Free Qt Foundation: 25 Years of Celebration

https://www.qt.io/blog/the-kde-free-qt-foundation-25-years-of-celebration

3 years ago

161 upvotes – 75 comments

Tkinter Designer: Quickly Turn Figma Design to Python Tkinter GUI

https://github.com/ParthJadhav/Tkinter-Designer

3 years ago

161 upvotes – 36 comments

Clog – The Common Lisp Omnificent GUI

https://github.com/rabbibotton/clog

3 years ago

157 upvotes – 18 comments

Aristotle’s Rules for Living Well

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/how-to-flourish-an-ancient-guide-to-living-well-aristotle-susan-sauve-meyer-book-review

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 55 comments

Gorilla-CLI: LLMs for CLI including K8s/AWS/GCP/Azure/sed and 1500 APIs

https://github.com/gorilla-llm/gorilla-cli

3 years ago

152 upvotes – 62 comments

Submarine expert tried to dissuade OceanGate CEO, from taking customers in Titan

https://www.insider.com/submersible-expert-oceangate-ceo-hull-defect-will-only-get-worse-2023-6

3 years ago

146 upvotes – 281 comments

Show HN: Build a discord/Slack bot to answer questions with your docs and GPT4

https://www.windmill.dev/blog/knowledge-base-discord-bot

3 years ago

144 upvotes – 22 comments

JavaScript macros in Bun

https://bun.sh/blog/bun-macros

3 years ago

136 upvotes – 55 comments

Wayland is pretty good

https://serebit.com/posts/wayland-is-pretty-good/

3 years ago

126 upvotes – 143 comments

Every new DMD version breaks some of my code

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]

3 years ago

124 upvotes – 60 comments

Baseball-sized hail destroys Scottsbluff solar farm

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/06/27/baseball-sized-hail-smashing-into-panels-at-150-mph-destroys-scottsbluff-solar-farm/

3 years ago

122 upvotes – 148 comments

Aspartame is set to be declared a possible carcinogen

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/whos-cancer-research-agency-say-aspartame-sweetener-possible-carcinogen-sources-2023-06-29/

3 years ago

121 upvotes – 30 comments

Physicists produce neutrino images of Milky Way galaxy

https://drexel.edu/news/archive/2023/June/Drexel-Physicists-Produce-New-Images-of-Milky-Way-Galaxy

3 years ago

120 upvotes – 26 comments

What if California's dams fail?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/magazine/california-dams.html

3 years ago

119 upvotes – 65 comments

A PyTorch Approach to ML Infrastructure

https://www.run.house/blog/a-pytorch-approach-to-ml-infrastructure

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 22 comments

Water heavily polluted with PFAS in 15 km radius around Dordrecht chemical plant

https://nltimes.nl/2023/06/29/water-heavily-polluted-pfas-15-km-radius-around-dordrecht-chemical-plant-report

3 years ago

113 upvotes – 44 comments

English as the new programming language for Apache spark

https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-english-new-programming-language-apache-spark

3 years ago

105 upvotes – 51 comments

ToneMatrix

https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/

3 years ago

101 upvotes – 36 comments

Is it possible to write games like Pac-Man in a functional language? (2008)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/23.html

3 years ago

99 upvotes – 155 comments

A compressed indexable bitset

https://quickwit.io/blog/compressed-indexable-bitset/

3 years ago

95 upvotes – 11 comments

Concord bank offers a 100-year CD

https://www.concordmonitor.com/100-year-CD-walden-mutual-bank-new-hampshire-51306578

3 years ago

94 upvotes – 127 comments

BART ridership is still down nearly 70% from pre-Covid levels

https://statecraft.beehiiv.com/p/public-transit-recovery

3 years ago

88 upvotes – 133 comments

The new desktop Outlook is a bad idea

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/office-365/new-desktop-outlook-is-a-bad-idea-heres-why

3 years ago

84 upvotes – 150 comments

Tell HN: Yahoo Mail deletes all emails due to inactivity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36518361

3 years ago

82 upvotes – 34 comments

Find a B Corp

https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/

3 years ago

81 upvotes – 36 comments

A modern and open-source cross-platform software for chips reverse engineering

https://github.com/DegateCommunity/Degate

3 years ago

80 upvotes – 3 comments

The Lava Layer Anti-Pattern (2014)

http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-lava-layer-anti-pattern.html

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 62 comments

Canada’s bill C-18 and our search and news products

https://blog.google/canada-news-en/

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 3 comments

Last-minute Government amendment seeks to muzzle DPC critics (Ireland)

https://www.iccl.ie/news/last-minute-government-amendment-seeks-to-muzzle-dpc-critics/

3 years ago

77 upvotes – 22 comments

People Hire Phone Bots to Torture Telemarketers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/people-hire-phone-bots-to-torture-telemarketers-2dbb8457

3 years ago

74 upvotes – 39 comments

Video: Power LED Attack [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXe8pe18MNk

3 years ago

73 upvotes – 31 comments

Use pygwalker to build visual analysis app in streamlit

https://docs.kanaries.net/pygwalker/use-pygwalker-with-streamlit.en

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 8 comments

Reddit is going to remove mods of private communities unless they reopen

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778997/reddit-remove-mods-private-communities-unless-reopen

3 years ago

71 upvotes – 24 comments

Amazon poaching Federal Trade Commission officials ahead of antitrust lawsuit

https://nypost.com/2023/06/29/amazon-poaching-ftc-officials-ahead-of-antitrust-lawsuit/

3 years ago

70 upvotes – 11 comments

Beware of Unreliable Data in Model Evaluation: A LLM Prompt Selection Case Study

https://cleanlab.ai/blog/prompt-selection/

3 years ago

66 upvotes – 9 comments

Vickrey Auction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickrey_auction

3 years ago

66 upvotes – 65 comments

Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/28/23777195/reddit-protesting-moderators-communities-subreddits-private-reopen

3 years ago

66 upvotes – 25 comments

Yahoo 1995: First-Round Financing [pdf]

https://web.stanford.edu/class/e145/2007_fall/materials/Yahoo_1995_STVPCase.pdf

3 years ago

64 upvotes – 8 comments

Practical Procedural Macros in Rust

https://xy2.dev/blog/simple-proc-macro/

3 years ago

63 upvotes – 5 comments
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