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1. I have written a JVM in Rust (andreabergia.com)
718 points by lukastyrychtr on July 21, 2023 | 181 comments
2. Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it (googleusercontent.com)
797 points by burnerbob on July 20, 2023 | 477 comments
3. A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis (linyangchen.com)
513 points by _emacsomancer_ on July 20, 2023 | 137 comments
4. Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists (natesilver.substack.com)
479 points by amadeuspagel on July 21, 2023 | 358 comments
5. Llama: Add grammar-based sampling (github.com/ggerganov)
417 points by davepeck on July 21, 2023 | 105 comments
6. Web Environment Integrity API Proposal (github.com/rupertbenwiser)
639 points by reactormonk on July 21, 2023 | 447 comments
7. ‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense (forbes.com/sites/paultassi)
387 points by mikhael on July 21, 2023 | 213 comments
8. Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers (unl.edu)
471 points by thunderbong on July 21, 2023 | 333 comments
9. Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors (zaccohn.com)
367 points by zacharycohn on July 21, 2023 | 166 comments
10. In the LLM space, "open source" is being used to mean "downloadable weights" (alessiofanelli.com)
400 points by FanaHOVA on July 21, 2023 | 228 comments
11. Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common (evanjones.ca)
316 points by ingve on July 21, 2023 | 286 comments
12. Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG (primocms.org)
356 points by mmmateo on July 21, 2023 | 117 comments
13. MiniZinc (minizinc.org)
250 points by gavi on July 21, 2023 | 74 comments
14. Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences (home.cern)
239 points by untilted on July 21, 2023 | 166 comments
15. Ability to see expertise is a milestone worth aiming for (2022) (commoncog.com)
261 points by nickwritesit on July 19, 2023 | 168 comments
16. Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age (nature.com)
353 points by pseudolus on July 21, 2023 | 109 comments
17. For BSD Unix, It's Sayonara (1992) (tech-insider.org)
129 points by operator-name on July 21, 2023 | 80 comments
18. RFC 9420 a.k.a. Messaging Layer Security (phnx.im)
205 points by jakobdabo on July 21, 2023 | 33 comments
19. Small joys of programming in Odin (zannzen.com)
144 points by lerno on July 21, 2023 | 61 comments
20. Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old (theregister.com)
217 points by akoster on July 21, 2023 | 126 comments
21. Hipgnosis, the designers who changed the record sleeve (theguardian.com)
94 points by 8bitsrule on July 20, 2023 | 33 comments
22. Momofuku Ando invented instant ramen (2016) (vox.com)
99 points by thunderbong on July 19, 2023 | 85 comments
23. Sub-pixel distance transform (acko.net)
196 points by signa11 on July 21, 2023 | 31 comments
24. Hollywood movie aside, just how good a physicist was Oppenheimer? (science.org)
166 points by andrewl on July 20, 2023 | 455 comments
25. IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release (arstechnica.com)
231 points by riffraff on July 21, 2023 | 147 comments
26. My Beautiful Friend (thepointmag.com)
132 points by jger15 on July 20, 2023 | 66 comments
27. 90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president (arstechnica.com)
252 points by mfiguiere on July 21, 2023 | 148 comments
28. FTC warns board game content creators, publishers to disclose relationships (boardgamewire.com)
158 points by webmaven on July 21, 2023 | 95 comments
29. LLM Constellation (repl.co)
74 points by fzliu on July 21, 2023 | 13 comments
30. Revisiting the “Cansole”, because my TV doesn't have the right connectors (jgc.org)
73 points by jgrahamc on July 19, 2023 | 9 comments

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