top 50% hacker news stories for 2023-08-14

Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time

https://github.com/normal-computing/outlines

3 years ago

Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better

https://addyosmani.com/blog/write-learn/

3 years ago

Bypassing YouTube video download throttling

https://blog.0x7d0.dev/history/how-they-bypass-youtube-video-download-throttling/

3 years ago

Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions

https://github.com/dnakov/little-rat

3 years ago

OpenFarm – a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge

https://openfarm.cc

3 years ago

Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript

https://github.com/a16z-infra/ai-town

3 years ago

Internet Archive responds to recording industry lawsuit targeting obsolete media

https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/14/internet-archive-responds-to-recording-industry-lawsuit-targeting-obsolete-media/

3 years ago

Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet

https://stackdiary.com/the-data-of-760000-discord-io-users-was-put-up-for-sale-on-the-darknet/

3 years ago

Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models

https://www.darkreading.com/analytics/following-pushback-zoom-says-it-won-t-use-customer-data-to-train-ai-models

3 years ago

Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2

https://go.dev/blog/compat

3 years ago

Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193676139/newspaper-marion-county-kansas-police-raid-first-amendment

3 years ago

JWST spots giant black holes all over the early universe

https://www.quantamagazine.org/jwst-spots-giant-black-holes-all-over-the-early-universe-20230814/

3 years ago

Software Engineering at Google (2020)

https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book/html/toc.html

3 years ago

I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn’t need one

https://claytonwramsey.github.io/2023/08/14/dumpster.html

3 years ago

Bankman-Fried used $100M in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says

https://www.reuters.com/legal/bankman-fried-used-customer-funds-100-mln-us-political-donations-prosecutors-say-2023-08-14/

3 years ago

The 2002 Überlingen midair collision

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/tears-in-the-rain-the-2002-%C3%BCberlingen-midair-collision-591232d0c51e

3 years ago

The anesthetic effect of air at atmospheric pressure

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1130736/

3 years ago

Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/14/youths-win-montana-climate-trial/

3 years ago

Python: Just Write SQL

https://joaodlf.com/python-just-write-sql

3 years ago

Elixir – Why the dot when calling anonymous functions?

https://dashbit.co/blog/why-the-dot

3 years ago

Veilid is an open-source, P2P, mobile-first, networked application framework

https://veilid.com/

3 years ago

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810

3 years ago

Jitsi Meet Flutter SDK

https://jitsi.org/blog/introducing-the-jitsi-meet-flutter-sdk/

3 years ago

Testing on production

https://marcochiappetta.medium.com/yes-you-should-test-on-production-61f6dc61908b

3 years ago

Things Unix can do atomically (2010)

https://rcrowley.org/2010/01/06/things-unix-can-do-atomically.html

3 years ago

Peter Shor's MIT Fall 2022 course lecture notes on quantum computing

https://math.mit.edu/~shor/435-LN/

3 years ago

Ask HN: Burnout because of ChatGPT?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37126182

3 years ago

Caught by MuseScore's Dark Patterns (2021)

https://gadanidis.ca/posts/2021-11-09-musescore.html

3 years ago

Does there exist a complete implementation of the Risch algorithm?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/374089/does-there-exist-a-complete-implementation-of-the-risch-algorithm

3 years ago

Montana loses fight against youth climate activists in landmark ruling

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/montana-loses-fight-against-youth-climate-activists-in-landmark-ruling/

3 years ago

Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/14/def_con_roundup/

3 years ago

Java 21: First Release Candidate

https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/21/

3 years ago

Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange

https://www.thediff.co/archive/inside-the-decline-of-stack-exchange/

3 years ago

Study shows dementia more common in older adults with vision issues

https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/study-shows-dementia-more-common-older-adults-vision-issues

3 years ago

Small Kansas newspaper says co-owner, 98, collapsed and died after police raid

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kansas-newspaper-police-raid-marion-county-record-joan-meyer-dies/

3 years ago

Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-core, Python-based dbt alternative

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37119311

3 years ago

Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/dell-fined-6-5m-after-admitting-it-made-overpriced-monitors-look-discounted/

3 years ago

Hip hop historians who are racing to preserve its story

https://www.wired.com/story/archiving-hip-hop-history/

3 years ago

Autospam and Naive Bayes

https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/autospam-and-naive-bayes-the-grandfather-of-spam-filters-still-making-waves

3 years ago

Trafilatura: Python tool to gather text on the Web

https://github.com/adbar/trafilatura

3 years ago

How to run a miserable code review

https://badsoftwareadvice.substack.com/p/how-to-run-a-miserable-code-review

3 years ago

Is Venus in some way tidally locked to Earth? (2020)

https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/36488/is-venus-in-some-way-tidally-locked-to-earth

3 years ago

What happened to the microfinance company Kiva?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/14/1077351/microfinance-money-making/

3 years ago

Positive association between altitude and suicide in U.S. counties

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3114154/

3 years ago

Anti Warez Association, 1 (1993)

https://defacto2.net/f/a3178

3 years ago

Analysis of the data job market using HN job posts

https://emiruz.com/post/2023-08-12-data-jobs/

3 years ago

Grindr employees have 2 weeks: agree to move across the country+RTO or lose jobs

https://www.businessinsider.com/grindr-united-unionized-employees-work-from-home-return-in-person-2023-8

3 years ago

Show HN: Epsilla – Open-source vector database with low query latency

https://github.com/epsilla-cloud/vectordb

3 years ago

Bombe: Minesweeper, but you only solve each situation once

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2262930/Bombe/

3 years ago

Google marked https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/ as unsafe

https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=https:%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fprogramming%2F

3 years ago

Fan-made port of Wipeout (PSX) for modern browsers

https://phoboslab.org/wipegame/

3 years ago

Stefan Tilkov has died

https://www.innoq.com/en/news/2023/08/stefan-tilkov-english/

3 years ago

The Cuts at WVU

https://community.wvu.edu/~jokatz/Closure/

3 years ago

Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly over Sports Trading Cards

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/how-fanatics-is-building-a-weird

3 years ago

AST vs. Bytecode: Interpreters in the Age of Meta-Compilation [pdf]

https://stefan-marr.de/downloads/oopsla23-larose-et-al-ast-vs-bytecode-interpreters-in-the-age-of-meta-compilation.pdf

3 years ago

The Problem with Linus Tech Tips [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc

3 years ago

The Dance of Śiva

https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/08/09/the-dance-of-siva/

3 years ago

LangChain Agent Simulation – Multi-Player Dungeons and Dragons

https://python.langchain.com/docs/use_cases/agent_simulations/two_player_dnd

3 years ago

The IPv6 mess (2002)

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html

3 years ago

Decimal to fraction

https://leancrew.com/all-this/2023/08/decimal-to-fraction/

3 years ago

Timing with Curl (2010)

https://susam.net/blog/timing-with-curl.html

3 years ago

Lack of Walkability in the US is destroying mental health

https://makeamericawalkable.com/

3 years ago

The Virtual Blender Camera

https://www.srlt.ca/virtual-blender-camera

3 years ago

The Cost of Convenience

https://surma.dev/things/cost-of-convenience/

3 years ago

Silicon Valley Bank vice president sentenced to 15 months in prison

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/silicon-valley-bank-vice-president-sentenced/

3 years ago

Migrating Netflix to GraphQL

https://netflixtechblog.com/migrating-netflix-to-graphql-safely-8e1e4d4f1e72?gi=6070ab8bb55c

3 years ago

Semantic Code Reviews – Simple and direct comments without drama

https://www.m31coding.com/blog/semantic-reviews.html

3 years ago

Non-thoughts on the Open Source Initiative (2020)

https://yakshav.es/non-thoughts-on-the-osi/

3 years ago