news, !paper 2024-11-20

2090 MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia / jan.miksovsky.com / 251

1888 The Onion buys Infowars / nytimes.com / 1227

693 The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development / pikuma.com / 320

687 Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess / dynomight.substack.com / 470

613 Thomas E. Kurtz has died / computerhistory.org / 147

504 What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) / history.stackexchange.com / 109

484 Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke / bsky.app / 613

481 Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now / letsencrypt.org / 176

475 AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing / blog.frost.kiwi / 71

408 Lessons from my first exit / mtlynch.io / 113

398 Undergraduates with family income below $200k will be tuition-free at MIT / news.mit.edu / 285

377 Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# / github.com/BAndysc / 162

376 Francois Chollet is leaving Google / developers.googleblog.com / 174

332 Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe / legiscope.com / 381

323 A Student's Guide to Writing with ChatGPT / openai.com / 309

322 Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200 / relativty.com / 124

308 Interview with gwern / dwarkeshpatel.com / 247

294 SQLite Index Visualization / mrsuh.com / 25

286 PRC Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure / fbi.gov / 146

283 The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017) / mathoverflow.net / 142

281 Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm / emschwartz.me / 54

265 Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code / flightglobal.com / 281

258 New York City Council Votes to End Broker Fees Squeezing Renters / bloomberg.com / 170

250 The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast / blog.helix.ml / 187

249 FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan / axios.com / 214

245 Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data / nianticlabs.com / 194

238 Blender 4.3 / blender.org / 107

233 Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB / github.com/bahaaador / 113

224 A memory leak in Apple's Network Extension framework / obdev.at / 53

218 PyPI now supports digital attestations / blog.pypi.org / 186

188 A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard / ohrg.org / 94

188 Go-Safeweb / github.com/google / 74

186 Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies" / arstechnica.com / 110

184 Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media / newscientist.com / 232

183 Why don't you move abroad? / orkohunter.net / 180

182 Looking for a Job Is Tough / blog.kaplich.me / 272

173 MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical / news.mit.edu / 146

172 How good are American roads? / construction-physics.com / 379

170 Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds / torrentfreak.com / 32

163 Old Vintage Computing Research: Dusting Off Dreamcast Linux / oldvcr.blogspot.com / 30

158 Weight-loss drug found to shrink heart muscle in mice, human cells / ualberta.ca / 168

147 Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset / simonwillison.net / 25

146 Wonder is acquiring Grubhub / about.grubhub.com / 159

141 BERTs Are Generative In-Context Learners / arxiv.org / 45

140 How Google spent 15 years creating a culture of concealment / nytimes.com / 147

133 Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction / netflixtechblog.com / 71

129 GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released / artanis.dev / 51

126 La Basilica Di San Pietro / unlocked.microsoft.com / 58

124 DeepL Voice: Real-time voice translations for global collaboration / deepl.com / 58

120 Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About / catonmat.net / 25

118 SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems / philipzucker.com / 10

117 JSON for Classic C++ / github.com/jart / 89

116 The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916 / spectrum.ieee.org / 24

114 SqueakJS: A modern and practical Smalltalk that runs in any browser (2014) [pdf] / freudenbergs.de / 20

113 Speeding up the Rust edit-build-run cycle / davidlattimore.github.io / 122

113 Show HN: Konga Beat – A custom track editor for Donkey Konga 2 and 3 / kongabeat.com / 30

112 Lush: My favorite small programming language / scottlocklin.wordpress.com / 19

109 Terence Tao: "It can become more rational to think and act more boldly" / mathstodon.xyz / 63

108 Smaller Than Pixel Art: Sub-Pixel Art [video] / youtube.com / 31

107 Europe's Internet resilience mitigates impact of submarine cable cuts / blog.cloudflare.com / 22

107 OpenMP 6.0 / openmp.org / 12

100 Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE / codeium.com / 50

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