top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-25

The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008

3 years ago

Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow

https://infosec.exchange/@paco/110772422266480371

3 years ago

Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API

https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852

3 years ago

Guide to running Llama 2 locally

https://replicate.com/blog/run-llama-locally

3 years ago

At this company, we are family

https://pboyd.io/posts/at-company-we-are-family/

3 years ago

Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed

https://httptoolkit.com/blog/apple-private-access-tokens-attestation/

3 years ago

Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An open source app to create PDF invoices

https://invoicedragon.com/

3 years ago

PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language

https://github.com/PRQL/prql

3 years ago

OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy

https://decrypt.co/149826/openai-quietly-shutters-its-ai-detection-tool

3 years ago

Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote

https://blog.spatial.chat/tracking-hackernews-shifting-preferences-for-remote-jobs-over-5-years/

3 years ago

A forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w

3 years ago

Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?

https://alicegg.tech//2023/07/25/technical-analysis.html

3 years ago

What we know about LLMs

https://willthompson.name/what-we-know-about-llms-primer

3 years ago

Treemaps are awesome

https://blog.phronemophobic.com/treemaps-are-awesome.html

3 years ago

Way ahead of its time: The Remote Lounge NYC (2013)

https://docpop.org/2013/10/way-ahead-of-its-time-the-remote-lounge-nyc/

3 years ago

Twitter’s Rebrand to X Could Be a Trademark Nightmare Thanks to Microsoft

https://themessenger.com/tech/twitters-rebrand-to-x-could-be-a-trademark-nightmare-thanks-to-microsoft

3 years ago

Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66238618

3 years ago

From Python to Elixir Machine Learning

https://www.thestackcanary.com/from-python-pytorch-to-elixir-nx/

3 years ago

Parents, environmentalists to Google: stop Chromebooks from expiring this summer

https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/chromebook-expiration-full-letter/

3 years ago

Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230725-00/?p=108482

3 years ago

Autoenshittification. How the computer killed capitalism. – by Cory Doctorow

https://doctorow.medium.com/autoenshittification-cb851c2574fb

3 years ago

Signal walks the line between anarchism and pragmatism

https://www.wired.com/story/signal-politics-software-criticism/

3 years ago

Texas A&M suspended professor accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Patrick in lecture

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/

3 years ago

Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal

https://github.com/1j01/textual-paint

3 years ago

How too much daydreaming affected me

https://sunghoyahng.substack.com/p/how-too-much-daydreaming-affected

3 years ago

The 1990s Amiga with Video Toaster has a VFX cool factor that endures today

https://cdm.link/2023/07/amiga-video-toaster-cool-factor/

3 years ago

“We’ve Changed the Game”: Teamsters Win Historic UPS Contract

https://teamster.org/2023/07/weve-changed-the-game-teamsters-win-historic-ups-contract/

3 years ago

Octox: Unix-like OS in Rust inspired by xv6-riscv

https://github.com/o8vm/octox

3 years ago

Arc Browser 1.0

https://arc.net/

3 years ago

Whom the gods would destroy, they first give real-time analytics (2013)

https://mcfunley.com/whom-the-gods-would-destroy-they-first-give-real-time-analytics

3 years ago

Trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@cfenollosa/103469996345323076

3 years ago

The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9420

3 years ago

ONNX runtime: Cross-platform accelerated machine learning

https://onnxruntime.ai/

3 years ago

Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language

https://github.com/alantech/marsha

3 years ago

Alpine Linux does not make the news

https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/25/Alpine-does-not-make-news.html

3 years ago

A command-line murder mystery (2014)

https://github.com/veltman/clmystery

3 years ago

20 Years of Programming (2020)

https://flooey.org/twentyyearsofprogramming.html

3 years ago

Hyperlink maximalism (2022)

https://thesephist.com/posts/hyperlink/

3 years ago

Unicode is harder than you think

https://mcilloni.ovh/2023/07/23/unicode-is-hard/

3 years ago

Digikey's Physical Connectors Tutorial

https://www.digikey.com/en/articles/connector-tutorial

3 years ago

The burden of Long Covid “so large as to be unfathomable”

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018899512/prof-danny-altmann-the-burden-of-long-covid

3 years ago

Launch HN: Roundtable (YC S23) – Using AI to Simulate Surveys

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36865625

3 years ago

The Internet Free Zone (1997)

https://arachnoid.com/freezone/

3 years ago

Social engineering campaign targeting tech employees spreads through NPM malware

https://socket.dev/blog/social-engineering-campaign-npm-malware

3 years ago

Practical comparison of ARM compilers

https://m0agx.eu/practical-comparison-of-ARM-compilers.html

3 years ago

Crucial system of ocean currents is collapsing; ‘affects everyone on the planet’

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/25/world/gulf-stream-atlantic-current-collapse-climate-scn-intl/index.html

3 years ago

We're not Platonists, we've just learned the bitter lesson

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/were-not-platonists-weve-just-learned

3 years ago

Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2023 Results [pdf]

https://abc.xyz/assets/20/ef/844a05b84b6f9dbf2c3592e7d9c7/2023q2-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf

3 years ago

How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporaneous x86? (2020)

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/13611/how-much-better-was-dec-alpha-than-contemporaneous-x86

3 years ago

So, you don't like a web platform proposal

https://blog.yoav.ws/posts/web_platform_change_you_do_not_like/

3 years ago

RealAboutInstagram – a replica highlighting harmful strategies

https://realaboutinstagram.netlify.app/

3 years ago

Researchers find evidence of a 2000 year old curry, oldest ever found in SE Asia

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-evidence-year-old-curry-oldest-southeast.html

3 years ago

The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS – Thomas Park (2020)

https://thomaspark.co/2020/06/the-mad-magazine-fold-in-effect-in-css/

3 years ago

'Verified human': Worldcoin users queue up for iris scans

https://neuters.de/technology/verified-human-worldcoin-users-queue-up-iris-scans-2023-07-25/

3 years ago

Our World of Pixels

https://ourworldofpixels.com/

3 years ago

Feuding twin sisters popularized the American advice column

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/wake-and-smell-coffee

3 years ago

Email in the 18th century: the optical telegraph (2007)

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2007/12/email-in-the-18.html

3 years ago