top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-21

I have written a JVM in Rust

https://andreabergia.com/blog/2023/07/i-have-written-a-jvm-in-rust/

2 years ago

718 upvotes – 181 comments

Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity

2 years ago

639 upvotes – 447 comments

Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists

https://natesilver.substack.com/p/journalists-should-be-skeptical-of

2 years ago

479 upvotes – 358 comments

Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers

https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/nebraska-study-finds-billions-of-nanoplastics-released-when-microwaving/

2 years ago

471 upvotes – 333 comments

Llama: Add grammar-based sampling

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/1773

2 years ago

417 upvotes – 105 comments

In the LLM space, "open source" is being used to mean "downloadable weights"

https://www.alessiofanelli.com/blog/llama2-isnt-open-source

2 years ago

400 upvotes – 228 comments

‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/07/21/world-of-warcraft-players-trick-ai-scraping-games-website-into-publishing-nonsense/

2 years ago

387 upvotes – 213 comments

Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors

https://blog.zaccohn.com/Fruitflies-and-the-Little-Shop-of-Horrors/

2 years ago

367 upvotes – 166 comments

Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG

https://primocms.org

2 years ago

356 upvotes – 118 comments

Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02374-2

2 years ago

353 upvotes – 109 comments

Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common

https://www.evanjones.ca/nanosecond-collisions.html

2 years ago

316 upvotes – 286 comments

90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/the-90s-internet-when-20-hours-online-triggered-an-email-from-my-isps-president/

2 years ago

252 upvotes – 148 comments

MiniZinc

https://www.minizinc.org/

2 years ago

250 upvotes – 74 comments

Crockford on JSON license (2011)

https://gist.github.com/kemitchell/fdc179d60dc88f0c9b76e5d38fe47076

2 years ago

249 upvotes – 59 comments

Diablo

https://www.filfre.net/2023/07/diablo/

2 years ago

242 upvotes – 121 comments

Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences

https://home.cern/news/news/accelerators/accelerator-report-quench-lhc-inner-triplet-magnet-causes-small-leak-major

2 years ago

239 upvotes – 166 comments

Ask HN: What are the best papers you read in your life?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817231

2 years ago

237 upvotes – 106 comments

IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/imax-emulates-palmpilot-software-to-power-oppenheimers-70-mm-release/

2 years ago

231 upvotes – 147 comments

Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/20/slackware_turns_30/

2 years ago

217 upvotes – 126 comments

Tell HN: Upgrade your Metabase installation

https://github.com/metabase/metabase/releases/tag/v0.46.6.1

2 years ago

208 upvotes – 72 comments

Amazon shuts down customer’s smart home

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/amazon-shuts-down-customers-smart-home.2392704/

2 years ago

206 upvotes – 203 comments

RFC 9420 a.k.a. Messaging Layer Security

https://blog.phnx.im/rfc-9420-mls/

2 years ago

205 upvotes – 33 comments

Sub-pixel distance transform

https://acko.net/blog/subpixel-distance-transform/

2 years ago

196 upvotes – 31 comments

Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown (2013)

https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown/

2 years ago

183 upvotes – 165 comments

Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco

https://www.bigtechwiki.com/index.php/Big_Tech_as_the_New_Big_Tobacco

2 years ago

181 upvotes – 118 comments

NativePHP: A framework for building desktop apps using PHP

https://nativephp.com/docs/1/getting-started/introduction

2 years ago

179 upvotes – 124 comments

Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of largest Lemmy servers

https://very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hfv05qcs5xf7irr

2 years ago

160 upvotes – 185 comments

Book Review: The Laws of Trading

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-the-laws-of-trading

2 years ago

159 upvotes – 30 comments

FTC warns board game content creators, publishers to disclose relationships

https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2023/07/17/ftc-warns-board-game-influencers-publishers-over-failing-to-properly-disclose-relationships-free-gifts/

2 years ago

158 upvotes – 95 comments

India’s ban on rice exports raises fear of global food price rises

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/21/india-ban-on-rice-exports-raises-fear-of-global-food-price-rises

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 166 comments

Ask HN: What are some low cost payment processing alternatives to Stripe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36811026

2 years ago

155 upvotes – 114 comments

Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-07-21/column-hollywood-sag-aftra-strike-strike-silicon-valleys-magical-thinking

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 174 comments

There’s a heatwave in the sea and scientists are worried

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230720-theres-a-heatwave-in-the-sea-and-scientists-are-worried

2 years ago

150 upvotes – 151 comments

High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system

https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server

2 years ago

146 upvotes – 72 comments

Small joys of programming in Odin

http://www.zannzen.com/blog/small_joys_with_odin_1/

2 years ago

144 upvotes – 61 comments

FreeWilly 1 and 2, two new open-access LLMs

https://stability.ai/blog/freewilly-large-instruction-fine-tuned-models

2 years ago

140 upvotes – 47 comments

How to make cheese at home

https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/how-to-make-cheese/

2 years ago

133 upvotes – 94 comments

For BSD Unix, It's Sayonara (1992)

https://www.tech-insider.org/unix/research/1992/0622.html

2 years ago

129 upvotes – 80 comments

By 2028 there must be fast chargers every 60 km on the EU’s key motorways

https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-energies/europe/article/fast-chargers-every-60-km-key-eu-motorways?a=FJA05&t%5B0%5D=Charging&curl=1

2 years ago

128 upvotes – 227 comments

Texas worker accused of being on drugs was dying of heatstroke

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/20/texas-construction-worker-death-lawsuit-greg-abbott

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 87 comments

Stem Formulas

https://stemformulas.com/formulas/

2 years ago

118 upvotes – 33 comments

How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust

https://vercel.com/blog/how-turborepo-is-porting-from-go-to-rust?nxtPslug=how-turborepo-is-porting-from-go-to-rust

2 years ago

116 upvotes – 119 comments

'Mystery company' buys land worth $800M near Travis AFB, raising concerns

https://abc7news.com/travis-afb-air-force-base-flannery-associates-llc-john-garamendi/13527836/

2 years ago

114 upvotes – 170 comments

TSMC warns over deepening slump in chipmaking sector

https://www.ft.com/content/f433971d-fd8e-4ed3-91e9-e25a96284ea0

2 years ago

109 upvotes – 135 comments

Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/death-valley-just-had-the-hottest-midnight-on-record/ar-AA1e2u4W

2 years ago

107 upvotes – 124 comments

Rethinking Infrastructure as Code from Scratch

https://nathanpeck.com/rethinking-infrastructure-as-code-from-scratch/

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 120 comments

Social media is too much for most of us to handle

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/20/social_overload/

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 76 comments

Data breach exposes personal information of 4k Roblox developers

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/21/23802742/roblox-data-breach-leak-developer-personal-information-exposed

2 years ago

102 upvotes – 15 comments

Longitudinal study on the relationship between childhood maltreatment and ADHD

https://www.psypost.org/2023/07/longitudinal-study-highlights-bidirectional-relationship-between-childhood-maltreatment-and-adhd-symptoms-166568

2 years ago

100 upvotes – 63 comments

Medieval Table Manners: The Messiest Myth?

https://www.medievalists.net/2023/06/medieval-table-manners/

2 years ago

95 upvotes – 69 comments

Stack Overflowed

https://stackoverflowed.com

2 years ago

94 upvotes – 21 comments

As AI porn generators get better, the stakes get higher

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/21/as-ai-porn-generators-get-better-the-stakes-raise/

2 years ago

91 upvotes – 116 comments

Meta stops ordering new parts for Quest Pro

https://www.zdnet.com/article/meta-cancels-quest-pro-stops-development-of-quest-pro-2/

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 64 comments

How we see ourselves and how we see others (2008) [pdf]

http://courses.washington.edu/pbafhall/514/514%20Readings/2008%20Self%20and%20Other%20Pronin.pdf

2 years ago

89 upvotes – 7 comments

Exxon bets carbon will be the new oil

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/21/2023/exxon-carbon-denbury

2 years ago

88 upvotes – 80 comments

ChatGPT for Android – Pre-orders

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.openai.chatgpt&hl=en_US

2 years ago

85 upvotes – 76 comments

Cooking Air Quality

https://www.jefftk.com/p/cooking-air-quality

2 years ago

83 upvotes – 82 comments

Systemd by Example

https://systemd-by-example.com/

2 years ago

79 upvotes – 11 comments

Electrolytic capacitors: overview, teardown and experiments [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAP-VA1m-A4

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 14 comments

The Tallest Atrium (2019)

https://www.world-architects.com/en/architecture-news/found/inside-the-worlds-tallest-atrium

2 years ago

78 upvotes – 10 comments

TV Typewriter Remembered

https://hackaday.com/2023/07/20/tv-typewriter-remembered/

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 10 comments

The 115F Heat Is Killing Phones in Sardinia

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-19/dying-phones-wilting-cyclists-epicenter-of-europe-heat-wave-has-grim-warnings

2 years ago

76 upvotes – 129 comments

LLM Constellation

https://llmconstellation.olafblitz.repl.co/

2 years ago

74 upvotes – 13 comments

Ask HN: Do Agile 'Sprints' Benefit Software Developers?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36813858

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 119 comments

Why did Meta open-source Llama 2?

https://matt-rickard.com/why-did-meta-open-source-llama

2 years ago

73 upvotes – 66 comments
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