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/

3 years ago

Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

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

3 years ago

Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Llama: Add grammar-based sampling

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

‘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/

3 years ago

Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors

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

3 years ago

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

https://primocms.org

3 years ago

Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age

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

3 years ago

Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

MiniZinc

https://www.minizinc.org/

3 years ago

Crockford on JSON license (2011)

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

3 years ago

Diablo

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old

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

3 years ago

Tell HN: Upgrade your Metabase installation

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

3 years ago

Amazon shuts down customer’s smart home

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

3 years ago

RFC 9420 a.k.a. Messaging Layer Security

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

3 years ago

Sub-pixel distance transform

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco

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

3 years ago

NativePHP: A framework for building desktop apps using PHP

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

Book Review: The Laws of Trading

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

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

Small joys of programming in Odin

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

3 years ago

FreeWilly 1 and 2, two new open-access LLMs

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

3 years ago

How to make cheese at home

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

3 years ago

For BSD Unix, It's Sayonara (1992)

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Stem Formulas

https://stemformulas.com/formulas/

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

'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/

3 years ago

TSMC warns over deepening slump in chipmaking sector

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Social media is too much for most of us to handle

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Rethinking Infrastructure as Code from Scratch

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Medieval Table Manners: The Messiest Myth?

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

3 years ago

Stack Overflowed

https://stackoverflowed.com

3 years ago

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/

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

Meta stops ordering new parts for Quest Pro

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

3 years ago

Exxon bets carbon will be the new oil

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

3 years ago

ChatGPT for Android – Pre-orders

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

3 years ago

Cooking Air Quality

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

3 years ago

Systemd by Example

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

3 years ago

Electrolytic capacitors: overview, teardown and experiments [video]

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

3 years ago

The Tallest Atrium (2019)

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

3 years ago

TV Typewriter Remembered

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

3 years ago

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

3 years ago

LLM Constellation

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

3 years ago

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

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

3 years ago

Why did Meta open-source Llama 2?

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

3 years ago

Proofs from the Book

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

3 years ago

Consumer software is expected to be next fast-growing segment (1994)

https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0513/13082.html

3 years ago

Musl: List of alternative libs that are lightweight, not bloated and efficient

https://wiki.musl-libc.org/alternatives.html

3 years ago

Silicon, Silica, Silicates and Silicone (1998) [pdf]

https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/11591/Silicon.pdf

3 years ago

Computer chip with built-in human brain tissue gets military funding

https://newatlas.com/computers/human-brain-chip-ai/

3 years ago

A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure from the White House

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/us/politics/ai-regulation-biden.html

3 years ago