top 20 hacker news stories for 2023-07-29

If we want a shift to walking we need to prioritize dignity

https://streets.mn/2023/07/19/if-we-want-a-shift-to-walking-we-need-to-prioritize-dignity/

3 years ago

Functions are vectors

https://thenumb.at/Functions-are-Vectors/

3 years ago

Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate

https://www.slowboring.com/p/how-critical-theory-is-radicalizing

3 years ago

IRC is the only viable chat protocol (2022)

https://koshka.love/babel/irc-forever.html

3 years ago

Argonne National Lab is attempting to replicate LK-99

https://www.science.org/content/article/spectacular-superconductor-claim-making-news-here-s-why-experts-are-doubtful

3 years ago

So you want to build your own open source chatbot

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/07/so-you-want-to-build-your-own-open-source-chatbot/

3 years ago

U.S. Marine Corps Antenna Handbook (1999) [pdf]

https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/MCRP%203-40.3C%20With%20Erratum%20z.pdf

3 years ago

What happened to Vivaldi Social?

https://thomasp.vivaldi.net/2023/07/28/what-happened-to-vivaldi-social/

3 years ago

Big Tobacco knew radioactive Po210 in cigarettes posed cancer risk, kept quiet

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/big-tobacco-knew-radioactive-particles-in-cigarettes

3 years ago

LPython: Novel, Fast, Retargetable Python Compiler

https://lpython.org/blog/2023/07/lpython-novel-fast-retargetable-python-compiler/

3 years ago

Gzip beats BERT? Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results

https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper2/

3 years ago

Facebook users have less than a month to claim a piece of the $725M settlement

https://www.facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/

3 years ago

US Army Field Manual on Leadership (1990) [pdf]

https://armyoe.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/1990-fm-22-100.pdf

3 years ago

Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor

https://www.airgradient.com/open-air/

3 years ago

Universal and transferable adversarial attacks on aligned language models

https://llm-attacks.org/zou2023universal.pdf

3 years ago

The papers were not ready for publication

https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1684385895565365248

3 years ago

Ask HN: Online activities to be made impossible by the UK Online Safety Bill

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36919175

3 years ago

Cyberdecks (2013)

https://blog.rfox.eu/en/Hardware/Cyberdecks.html

3 years ago

Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Redis

https://philbooth.me/blog/four-ways-to-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot-with-redis

3 years ago

Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity Critics Slam It as Danger

https://techreport.com/news/google-tries-to-defend-its-web-environment-integrity-as-critics-slam-it-as-dangerous/

3 years ago