1711
486
OpenTF announces fork of Terraform
https://opentf.org/announcement
3 years ago
1443
354
Factorio: Space Age
https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-373
813
284
Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a fine-tuned CodeLlama-34B
https://www.phind.com/blog/code-llama-beats-gpt4
582
152
Web scraping for me, but not for thee
https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/08/web-scraping-for-me-but-not-for-thee-guest-blog-post.htm
498
220
The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06457-y
382
617
Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
https://sixcolors.com/post/2023/08/why-i-gave-up-on-the-ipad-only-dream/
338
223
How to drill your own water well
https://drillyourownwell.com/
329
131
Unpacking Elixir: Concurrency
https://underjord.io/unpacking-elixir-concurrency.html
309
405
The EU's war on behavioral advertising
https://thisisunpacked.substack.com/p/the-eu-war-on-behavioral-advertising
308
45
Understanding Automatic Differentiation in 30 lines of Python
https://vmartin.fr/understanding-automatic-differentiation-in-30-lines-of-python.html
180
Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager
https://www.os-js.org/
253
142
HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD
https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/
250
76
Leaked Wipeout source code leads to near-total rewrite and remaster
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/08/developer-rewrites-original-wipeout-from-abysmal-leaked-windows-source/
248
271
Apple supports right-to-repair bill
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/hell-freezes-over-as-apple-supports-right-to-repair-bill/
231
73
CVE-2020-19909 is everything that is wrong with CVEs
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/08/26/cve-2020-19909-is-everything-that-is-wrong-with-cves/
219
151
Fifth Circuit: Law enforcement doesn’t need warrants to search phones at border
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/25/fifth-circuit-says-law-enforcement-doesnt-need-warrants-to-search-phones-at-the-border/
209
50
Email Authentication: A Developer's Guide
https://resend.com/blog/email-authentication-a-developers-guide
205
78
How to speed up the Rust compiler
https://nnethercote.github.io/2023/08/25/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-august-2023.html
194
112
UBC device uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water
https://news.ubc.ca/2023/08/16/microplastic-pollution-plants-could-be-the-answer/
183
96
The College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores with TikTok and Facebook
https://gizmodo.com/sat-college-board-tells-facebook-tiktok-your-scores-gpa-1850768077
181
90
Just 23% of Americans Know the US Has Failed to Pass an Internet-Era Privacy Law
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/25/just-23-of-americans-know-the-u-s-has-failed-to-pass-an-internet-era-privacy-law/
178
85
Why Htmx Does Not Have a Build Step
https://htmx.org/essays/no-build-step/
174
95
Meta throttles 404media investigation on drug ads, continues to advertise drugs
https://www.404media.co/instagram-throttles-404-media-investigation-into-drug-ads-on-instagram-continues-to-let-people-advertise-drugs/
172
365
AI isn’t good enough
https://skventures.substack.com/p/ai-isnt-good-enough
165
212
A place where no humans will tread for 100k years
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230824-the-descent-to-the-worlds-first-waste-nuclear-fuel-storage-site
164
186
Record low sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00927-x
163
138
Helicopter Footage Reveals State Trooper Surveillance Capabilities
https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/helicopter-footage-from-mass-arrest-reveals-state-trooper-surveillance-capabilities-tactics-and-communications/
162
36
Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]
https://algoritmos-iii.github.io/assets/bibliografia/programming-as-theory-building.pdf
160
108
Finetuning of Falcon-7B LLM Using QLoRA on Mental Health Conversational Dataset
https://github.com/iamarunbrahma/finetuned-qlora-falcon7b-medical
155
39
Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List
https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List
148
51
I cycled to all the villages in alphabetical order
https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/16260.html
143
173
50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity
https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/08/23/50tb-ibm-tape/
84
Show HN: Release AI – Talk to Your Infrastructure
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37263473
139
273
America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/08/05/america-is-building-chip-factories-now-to-find-the-workers
137
159
Improving sleep
https://vincelwt.com/sleep
136
37
How do domain-specific chatbots work? A retrieval augmented generation overview
https://scriv.ai/guides/retrieval-augmented-generation-overview/
134
Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty?
https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2020/python-square-of-opposition/
133
31
Slime Molds [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpt9cJrEZ_Y
206
The Silicon Valley elite who want to build a city from scratch
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-solano-county.html
129
None of us are truly living off the grid
https://www.okdoomer.io/youre-not-going-to-make-it/
128
59
Algebraic Topology for Data Scientists
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10825
92
Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/paper-bamboo-straws-contain-pfas-forever-chemicals-rcna101614
114
71
Naked Mole Rat’s Longevity Gene Gives Mice a Longer Life
https://scienceswitch.com/2023/08/25/naked-mole-rats-longevity-gene-gives-mice-a-longer-life/
111
27
Support ActivityPub for merge requests
https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247
57
Untouchable number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchable_number
107
2
Wavefont: A Typeface for Rendering Data
https://dy.github.io/wavefont/
106
Stable Linux mainline builds for Ubuntu
https://stgraber.org/2023/08/24/stable-linux-mainline-builds/
103
13
Research group detects a quantum entanglement wave for the first time
https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/research-group-detects-a-quantum-entanglement-wave-for-the-first-time-using-real-space-measurements
102
87
Note-taking apps are designed for storage, not insight – can AI change that?
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/25/23845590/note-taking-apps-ai-chat-distractions-notion-roam-mem-obsidian
101
NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-shares-first-images-from-us-pollution-monitoring-instrument/
100
6
How to Read an RFC (2018)
https://www.ietf.org/blog/how-read-rfc/
93
55
LuaJIT uses rolling releases
https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/LuaJIT-uses-rolling-releases
58
Rust Malware Staged on Crates.io
https://blog.phylum.io/rust-malware-staged-on-crates-io/
64
Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law
https://www.justsecurity.org/87615/changes-to-uk-surveillance-regime-may-violate-international-law/
49
A new futex API
https://lwn.net/Articles/940944/
67
Huawei reportedly building 'secret' semiconductor fabs
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/25/huawei_building_secret_fabs/
24
Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06391-z
28
BASH Stack – Bash Awk Sed HTMX web framework
https://bashsta.cc/
80
261
The real cost of a preventive health scan goes well beyond the price tag
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/full-body-preventive-scan-cost-eb291fcc
54
Implementing Interactive Languages
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/implementing-interactive-languages/
61
Why do cats love tuna so much?
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-do-cats-love-tuna-so-much-scientists-may-finally-know
77
Casio Caleid XM-700 Mobile Navigator (1997)
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/08/25/casio-caleid-xm700-mobile-navigator-hardware/
23
Instacart S-1
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579091/000119312523221345/d55348ds1.htm
38
Windows popup to change competing browser search engine to Bing anticompetitive?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37267447
75
Dropbox axes unlimited cloud storage for businesses
https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/product/updates-to-our-storage-policy-on-dropbox-advanced
7
Engineering Serendipity: Does Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production? [pdf]
https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/20-058_39f454e9-bef0-4bed-bfa8-526e90601ade.pdf