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Bookshop.org survives and thrives in Amazon’s world
Link: wired.com/story/books-bookshop…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
How Bookshop.org Survives—and Thrives—in Amazon’s World
Andy Hunter’s ecommerce platform was a pandemic hit. Now he’s on a mission to prove that small businesses can scale up without selling out.Kate Knibbs (WIRED)
New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Instead of Bible
Link: independent.co.uk/space/nasa-d…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
New Nasa director swears oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ instead of Bible
Makenzie Lystrup first woman in Nasa’s history to become director of Goddard Space Flight CentreVishwam Sankaran (The Independent)
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Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
Link: github.com/everythingishacked/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
GitHub - everythingishacked/Semaphore: A full-body keyboard using gestures to type through computer vision
A full-body keyboard using gestures to type through computer vision - GitHub - everythingishacked/Semaphore: A full-body keyboard using gestures to type through computer visionGitHub
Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency
Link: infoq.com/news/2023/04/virtual…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
JEP 444: Virtual Threads Arrive in JDK 21, Ushering a New Era of Concurrency
JEP 444, Virtual Threads, was promoted from Candidate to Proposed to Target status for JDK 21. This feature offers a lightweight threading model to simplify the creation, management, and monitoring of high-throughput concurrent Java applications, all…A N M Bazlur Rahman (InfoQ)
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WordPerfect for Unix character terminals
Link: github.com/taviso/wpunix
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
GitHub - taviso/wpunix: WordPerfect for UNIX Character Terminals
WordPerfect for UNIX Character Terminals. Contribute to taviso/wpunix development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Car alarms and smoke alarms: tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity (2012)
Link: blog.danslimmon.com/2012/11/02…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Car alarms and smoke alarms: the tradeoff between sensitivity and specificity
Wouldn’t you like to live in a world where your monitoring systems only alerted when things were actually broken? And wouldn’t it be great if, in that world, your alerts would always fi…Dan Slimmon
WordGrinder: Terminal-based distraction free word processor
Link: github.com/davidgiven/wordgrin…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
GitHub - davidgiven/wordgrinder: A word processor which gets the hell out of your way and lets you get some work done.
A word processor which gets the hell out of your way and lets you get some work done. - GitHub - davidgiven/wordgrinder: A word processor which gets the hell out of your way and lets you get some w...GitHub
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NEWSEXTRABD
"Welcome to newsextrabd the ultimate destination for all things sports! Here, you'll find in-depth analysis, highlights, interviews, and everything in between.YouTube
Sega 3-D Glasses: How did they work?
Link: nicole.express/2023/the-third-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Sega 3-D Glasses: How did they work?
Most people have two eyes, allowing for a stereoscopic view of reality.[citation needed]. Nevertheless, video games are generally designed to run on monitors...nicole.express
From Oversight to Overkill
Link: astralcodexten.substack.com/p/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Eve Online player uses obscure rule to pull off biggest heist in game history
Link: pcgamer.com/eve-online-player-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off the biggest heist in the game's history
The robbery was quick, quiet, and clean, and netted more than 2.2 trillion ISK—that's $22,300 in real money.Andy Chalk (PC Gamer)
Garum Masala: trade between ancient Rome and India
Link: nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/2…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Garum Masala | William Dalrymple | The New York Review of Books
In March 2022 a team of American archaeologists was excavating a temple of the Egyptian goddess Isis at the ancient site of Berenike, on the shores of theThe New York Review of Books
Colorado passes agricultural Right to Repair
Link: ifixit.com/News/73291/colorado…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Colorado Approves First-Ever Agricultural Right to Repair Bill | iFixit News
Denver legislators have just passed the first-ever agricultural Right to Repair bill. Today’s landslide 44-16 vote in the House follows successful votes in the Senate last month.Elizabeth Chamberlain (iFixit)
Twitter showed us its algorithm – what does it tell us?
Link: knightcolumbia.org/blog/twitte…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Deck.of.cards
Link: deck.of.cards/old/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
HTML5 Deck of Cards
Play with Deck of Cards, source available! Pure vanilla JS – no dependencies.deck.of.cards
The Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens
Link: jetpens.com/blog/The-42-Best-P…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The 42 Best Pens for 2023: Gel, Ballpoint, Rollerball, and Fountain Pens
We draw on years of testing to crown the best beginner fountain pen, best gel pen, best pen for note-taking, and more. Each recommendation includes links to related guides so that you can evaluate the competition for yourself.Connie (JetPens)
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Htmx 1.9.0 has been released
Link: htmx.org/posts/2023-04-11-htmx…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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The Beauty of Pulse Arc Welding
Link: hermansilver.com/pulse-arc-wel…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Herman Silver Restoration & Conservation: The Beauty of Pulse Arc Weldingfor Silver
Sterling welding with the Lampert PUK04 pulse arc welder.www.hermansilver.com
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The otherworldly compositions of an Ethiopian nun
Link: newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The Otherworldly Compositions of an Ethiopian Nun
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, who died recently, wrote pieces that were elegiac, but suffused with a sense of survival, Amanda Petrusich writes.Amanda Petrusich (The New Yorker)
I ported the Firefox Archive.today extension to Safari
Link: apps.apple.com/us/app/archive-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Archive Page Extension
The Archive.today website archive service, but now for Safari. This extension allows you to open your current tab in the archive.today web service.App Store
GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam
Link: scottaaronson.blog/?p=7209
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam!
[Warning: This might be the longest Shtetl-Optimized post of all time! But that’s OK; I expect most people will only want to read the introductory part anyway.] As I’ve mentioned before…Shtetl-Optimized
Rules for developers to design beautiful UIs without a designer
Link: refactoringui.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Refactoring UI
Learn how to design awesome UIs by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer's point-of-view.www.refactoringui.com
An Open Source Book That Teaches JavaScript
Link: github.com/sumn2u/learn-javasc…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
GitHub - sumn2u/learn-javascript: A book that teaches JavaScript
A book that teaches JavaScript. Contribute to sumn2u/learn-javascript development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Substack Notes Launched
Link: on.substack.com/p/notes
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Two algorithms for randomly generating aperiodic tilings
Link: chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Now live for all: Substack Notes
Link: on.substack.com/p/notes
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Ask HN: Is the job market brutal? or is it just me?
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison
Link: cnbc.com/2023/04/11/theranos-e…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Theranos' Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison
Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has been rebuffed in her attempt to stay out of federal prison while she appeals her conviction for fraud.Reuters (CNBC)
Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words
Link: stevejobsarchive.com/book
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Make Something Wonderful | a book from the Steve Jobs Archive
Discover the new digital book Make Something Wonderful, a curated collection of speeches, correspondence and photographs from Steve Jobs revealing his approach to life and work with Apple and Pixar.stevejobsarchive.com
Why is sea level rise worse in some places?
Link: nautil.us/why-is-sea-level-ris…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Why Is Sea Level Rise Worse In Some Places? - Nautilus
One question for Sönke Dangendorf, a coastal flooding researcher at Tulane University.Katherine Harmon Courage (Nautilus)
Open source is fueling the future of nuclear physics
Link: github.com/readme/featured/nuc…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Open source is fueling the future of nuclear physics
A look at the open source artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and high performance computing (HPC) tools used in the nuclear fusion ignition breakthrough at Lawerence Livermore Labs.Klint Finley (GitHub)
Redpill me on using urine to create the philosopher's stone
/x/ - Redpill me on using urine to create the philosophe - Paranormal - 4chan
Redpill me on using urine to create the philosopher's stone - "/x/ - Paranormal" is 4chan's imageboard for the discussion of paranormal, spooky pictures and conspiracy theories.boards.4channel.org
Nach Corona-Impfungen: Kaum Klagen wegen Impfschäden
Zwei Anwaltskanzleien wollen knapp 200 Fälle von Corona-Impfnebenwirkungen vor Gericht bringen. Möglicherweise muss der Staat zahlen.
Nach Corona-Impfungen: Kaum Klagen wegen Impfschäden
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SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
Link: prequel.co/blog/sql-maxis-why-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ And Replaced It With A Postgres Queue
Embracing our SQL Maxi nature: how we ripped out RabbitMQ from our infrastructure and replaced it with a Postgres queue.www.prequel.co
Distributed² Machine Learning Notebooks with Elixir and Livebook
Link: news.livebook.dev/distributed2…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Distributed² Machine Learning notebooks with Elixir and Livebook - Launch Week 1 - Day 2 - Livebook.dev The Livebook Blog
Explore Livebook v0.9's enhanced Machine Learning features: new Neural Network tasks with the built-in Smart Cell, Distributed² Machine Learning in Elnews.livebook.dev
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Show HN: Skip the SSO Tax, access your user data with OSS
Link: github.com/AccessOwl/open_owl
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
GitHub - AccessOwl/open_owl: Download user lists including user permissions from various SaaS applications without the need for a public API
Download user lists including user permissions from various SaaS applications without the need for a public API - GitHub - AccessOwl/open_owl: Download user lists including user permissions from va...GitHub
KDE Plasma Widget for external monitor brightness adjustment
Link: github.com/davidhi7/ddcci-plas…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
GitHub - davidhi7/ddcci-plasmoid: KDE Plasma widget to adjust the brightness of multiple external monitors
KDE Plasma widget to adjust the brightness of multiple external monitors - GitHub - davidhi7/ddcci-plasmoid: KDE Plasma widget to adjust the brightness of multiple external monitorsGitHub
The Coming of Local LLMs
Link: nickarner.com/notes/the-coming…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The Coming of Local LLMs
While there’s been a truly remarkable advance in large language models as they continue to scale up, facilitated by being trained and run on larger and larger GPU clusters, there is still a need to be able to run smaller models on devices that have c…nickarner.com
The EU proposed CRA law may have unintended consequence for the Python ecosystem
Link: pyfound.blogspot.com/2023/04/t…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
The EU's Proposed CRA Law May Have Unintended Consequences for the Python Ecosystem
After reviewing the proposed Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Act , the PSF has found issues that put the mission of our organizat...pyfound.blogspot.com
I worked at Google for -10 days
Link: andgein.ru/blog/all/20-i-worke…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
I worked at Google for -10 days
It’s the story of how I was laid off from Google before I even started to do my job there.andgein.ru
Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno Functions
Link: supabase.com/blog/edge-runtime…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
People with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system
Link: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
My Childhood Best Friend and America’s Failure to Help the Mentally Ill
Thousands of people with severe mental illness have been failed by a dysfunctional system. My friend Michael was one of them. Twenty-five years ago, he killed the person he loved most.Jonathan Rosen (The Atlantic)
Becoming Rustacean: Resources to Learn Rust Programming
Link: nativebyx.dev/rust/becoming-ru…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Awesome Free Online Resources to Learn Rust Programming Language
Awesome Free Online Resources to Learn Rust Programming Language.www.nativebyx.dev
Aura – Python source code auditing and static analysis on a large scale
Link: github.com/SourceCode-AI/aura
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
GitHub - SourceCode-AI/aura: Python source code auditing and static analysis on a large scale
Python source code auditing and static analysis on a large scale - GitHub - SourceCode-AI/aura: Python source code auditing and static analysis on a large scaleGitHub
Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI
Link: techcrunch.com/2023/04/06/anth…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Anthropic's $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI | TechCrunch
AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise as much as $5 billion over the next two years to take on rival OpenAI.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
Rust, RR, Neovim: A perfect debug combination
Link: github.com/vlopes11/rrust.nvim
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
GitHub - vlopes11/rrust.nvim
Contribute to vlopes11/rrust.nvim development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engineering
Link: ruxu.dev/articles/ai/maximizin…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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