top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-07-30

Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

https://sfcompute.org/

3 years ago

Show HN: Khoj – Chat offline with your second brain using Llama 2

https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj

3 years ago

Linux Air Combat: free, lightweight and open-source combat flight simulator

https://askmisterwizard.com/2019/LinuxAirCombat/LinuxAirCombat.htm

3 years ago

One week of empathy training (2019)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/07/i-feel-hopeless-rejected-and-a-burden-on-society-one-week-of-empathy-training/

3 years ago

Ffmprovisr – Making FFmpeg Easier

https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/

3 years ago

What's up, Python? The GIL removed, a new compiler, optparse deprecated

https://www.bitecode.dev/p/whats-up-python-the-gil-removed-a

3 years ago

Emacs 29.1

https://emacsredux.com/blog/2023/07/30/emacs-29-1-released/

3 years ago

Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux

https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

3 years ago

Scientists may have found mechanism behind cognitive decline in aging

https://news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/scientists-may-have-found-mechanism-behind-cognitive-decline-in-aging

3 years ago

The Reluctant Sysadmin's Guide to Securing a Linux Server

https://pboyd.io/posts/securing-a-linux-vm/

3 years ago

The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

https://mstdn.ca/@paulisci/110798058470040619

3 years ago

How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-private-nonprofits-ultrawealthy-tax-deductions-museums-foundation-art

3 years ago

Snowflake

https://snowflake.torproject.org/

3 years ago

Welcome to Wikifunctions

https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Main_Page

3 years ago

GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot

https://libreboot.org/news/gnuboot.html#gnu-boot-cease-and-desist-email

3 years ago

Banished to a remote Idaho valley, beavers created a lush wetland

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/idaho-beavers-stream-drought-fire

3 years ago

Feynman's Messenger Lectures (1964)

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/messenger.html

3 years ago

Reasons Not to Be a Manager (2019)

https://charity.wtf/2019/09/08/reasons-not-to-be-a-manager/

3 years ago

An Introduction to APIs

https://zapier.com/resources/guides/apis

3 years ago

Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback

https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2023/05/02/1

3 years ago

Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/worldcoin-a-solution-in-search-of

3 years ago

New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages

https://www.mpg.de/20666229/0725-evan-origin-of-the-indo-european-languages-150495-x

3 years ago

The matrix calculus you need for deep learning (2018)

https://explained.ai/matrix-calculus/

3 years ago

ASML EUV lithography machine could keep Moore’s Law on track

https://spectrum.ieee.org/high-na-euv

3 years ago

The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity”

https://rants.org/2023/07/the-right-to-lie-and-google-wei/

3 years ago

Fighting for the open web [image]

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article982/fighting-for-the-open-web

3 years ago

Show HN: Pyflo – a free, interactive guide to learning Python

https://pyflo.net

3 years ago

You Are Atlas, You Hold Up the Sky

https://youareatlas.com/

3 years ago

Microbially produced protein that is much sweeter than sugar

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01865-x

3 years ago

Regular use of Vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36580363/

3 years ago

The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace

https://blog.plover.com/Unix/whitespace.html

3 years ago

A dive into the AMD driver workflow

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2023/06/07/a-dive-into-amds-drivers.html

3 years ago

American hard hat jobs have the highest level of open positions ever recorded

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/29/the-hard-hat-job-with-highest-level-of-open-positions-ever-recorded.html

3 years ago

X to Close – The origins of the use of [x] in UI design. (2014)

https://medium.com/re-form/x-to-close-417936dfc0dc

3 years ago

Apple Pencils don’t draw straight on replaced iPad screens

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/apple-pencils-cant-draw-straight-on-third-party-replacement-ipad-screens/

3 years ago

A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2022

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/07/the-ups-and-downs-of-0-days-year-in.html

3 years ago

Trying to become a better developer by learning more about aviation

https://medium.com/@Fcmam5/trying-to-become-a-better-developer-by-learning-more-about-aviation-5241e7092f7e

3 years ago

Repeating yourself thrice doesn’t turn you into a 3x developer

https://yrashk.medium.com/repeating-yourself-thrice-doesnt-turn-you-into-a-3x-developer-a778495229c0

3 years ago

Secret identities in Dwarf Fortress (2017)

https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIIDE/article/view/12963

3 years ago

Korea Superconductor Papers Published ‘Without Consent’

https://www.asiafinancial.com/korea-superconductor-papers-published-without-consent-yonhap

3 years ago

Illegal lab containing bioengineered mice infected with HIV and herpes in Cali

https://www.insider.com/illegal-lab-found-full-of-bioengineered-mice-and-infectious-diseases-2023-7

3 years ago

What I would do if I ran Tarsnap (2014)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/

3 years ago

Comma 3X

https://www.comma.ai/

3 years ago

US offices are sitting empty – business owners will have to adapt

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/30/us-small-business-office-workers-gene-marks

3 years ago

Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML

https://blog.dornea.nu/2023/07/30/documentation-as-code-for-cloud-plantuml/

3 years ago

Nvidia DGX GH200 Whitepaper

https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-dgx-gh200/technical-white-paper

3 years ago

Microbial Odor Profile of Polyester and Cotton Clothes After a Fitness Session

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4249026/

3 years ago

Why I use the D programming language for scripting (2021)

https://opensource.com/article/21/1/d-scripting

3 years ago

Why transformative artificial intelligence is hard to achieve

https://thegradient.pub/why-transformative-artificial-intelligence-is-really-really-hard-to-achieve/

3 years ago

Show HN: Single-Instruction (Subleq) Programming Game

https://jaredkrinke.itch.io/sic-1

3 years ago

The Parts-Bin Approach: Konami’s Contra

https://nicole.express/2023/the-best-take-on-iran-contra.html

3 years ago

The death of privacy front ends?

https://tux.pizza/posts/service2/

3 years ago

The Secretive World of Penile Enlargement

https://www.propublica.org/article/penis-enlargement-enhancement-procedures-implants

3 years ago

Unsafe deserialization vulnerability in many Minecraft mods

https://github.com/dogboy21/serializationisbad

3 years ago

Ask HN: Share one man boring internet businesses

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36926984

3 years ago

Rising evidence that leprosy has become endemic in Southeastern United States

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/8/22-0367_article

3 years ago

We bailed out the banks but we’re not prepared to bail out the planet

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/30/we-bailed-out-the-banks-prepared-planet-state-economy-sustainable

3 years ago

Workarounds for C11 _Generic()

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/c11-generic/

3 years ago

The power of weeds to end hunger in an uncertain climate

https://worldsensorium.com/the-power-of-weeds-to-end-hunger-in-an-uncertain-climate/

3 years ago

“We are not cheating” (YH Kwon superconductor comments)

https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1685294623449874432

3 years ago

Don’t Forget Intuition: The art of doing science

https://theamericanscholar.org/dont-forget-intuition/

3 years ago

Why has Britain become so poor?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-has-britain-become-so-poor-lw22lhvkh

3 years ago