news, !paper 2024-11-20

2086 MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia / jan.miksovsky.com / 251

1884 The Onion buys Infowars / nytimes.com / 1227

692 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

455 Let's Encrypt is 10 years old now / letsencrypt.org / 168

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

377 Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# / github.com/BAndysc / 161

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

359 AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing / blog.frost.kiwi / 46

338 What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) / history.stackexchange.com / 71

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

319 Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke / bsky.app / 404

307 Interview with gwern / dwarkeshpatel.com / 247

293 SQLite Index Visualization / mrsuh.com / 25

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

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

265 Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code / flightglobal.com / 280

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

246 Understanding the BM25 full text search algorithm / emschwartz.me / 48

234 Blender 4.3 / blender.org / 107

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

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

217 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

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

175 Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media / newscientist.com / 202

174 Why don't you move abroad? / orkohunter.net / 172

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 OpenMP 6.0 / openmp.org / 12

102 How good are American roads? / construction-physics.com / 196

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

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