news, !paper 2024-10-21

1366 Busy Status Bar / busy.bar / 461

864 The quiet art of attention / billwear.github.io / 278

827 Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator / emoji.build / 147

783 Show HN: Graphite, a Blender-inspired 2D procedural design Rust app / graphite.rs / 127

767 Web Browser Engineering (2021) / browser.engineering / 131

640 Sqlite3 WebAssembly / sqlite.org / 191

589 Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power / wsj.com / 541

550 Inkscape 1.4 / inkscape.org / 124

519 Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort / bbc.com / 55

513 The C23 edition of Modern C / gustedt.wordpress.com / 343

466 Huly – Open-source project management platform / github.com/hcengineering / 204

461 Show HN: I 3D scanned the tunnels inside the Maya Pyramid Temples at Copan / mused.com / 96

450 How I Experience Web Today (2021) / how-i-experience-web-today.com / 128

424 World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating / theguardian.com / 578

422 CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished / fossil-scm.org / 264

419 Show HN: Pumpkin – A Modern Minecraft server written in Rust / github.com/Snowiiii / 153

413 Why don't we use awnings anymore (2022) / thecraftsmanblog.com / 337

407 CapibaraZero: A cheap alternative to FlipperZero based on ESP32-S3 / capibarazero.github.io / 79

403 Gosub – An open-source browser engine / github.com/gosub-io / 164

361 Asterinas: OS kernel written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI / github.com/asterinas / 206

353 Python client for the $20 Colmi R02 smart ring / tahnok.github.io / 113

351 Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence / arstechnica.com / 371

345 Show HN: X11 tool to share a screen area in any video meeting / github.com/splitbrain / 152

330 Commonly used arm positions can overestimate blood pressure readings: study / medicalxpress.com / 228

327 Microsoft is introducing hidden APIs to VS Code only enabled for Copilot? / old.reddit.com / 184

322 Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died / en.wikipedia.org / 93

317 Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence / apple.com / 497

306 Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world / bdrc.io / 156

303 Gettiers in software engineering (2019) / jsomers.net / 219

294 Redbox left PII on decommissioned machines / digipres.club / 161

282 Zamba2-7B / zyphra.com / 71

277 Please do not write below the line / bbctvlicence.com / 228

277 Mothbox 4.0 / digital-naturalism-laboratories.github.io / 42

259 Why does FM sound better than AM? / johndcook.com / 267

257 Show HN: Epublifier – scrape pages (books, manuals) for offline reading / github.com/maoserr / 40

256 Play 3.0 mini – A lightweight, reliable, cost-efficient Multilingual TTS model / play.ht / 83

247 Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space (2018) / people.eecs.berkeley.edu / 66

245 Show HN: Vortex – a high-performance columnar file format / github.com/spiraldb / 60

240 Meta's open AI hardware vision / engineering.fb.com / 126

238 First images from Euclid are in / dlmultimedia.esa.int / 81

234 Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet / uber.com / 198

233 Show HN: Mermaid ASCII Diagrams / mermaid-ascii.art / 50

231 Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time / github.com/urin / 136

231 Restic: Backups done right / restic.net / 107

230 An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker / bbc.com / 91

223 Furilabs Linux Phone / furilabs.com / 248

220 Cargo Airships Are Happening / elidourado.com / 297

217 NASA's Europa Clipper Launch / youtube.com / 113

214 PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework / github.com/payloadcms / 84

211 Introducing Our New Name / blog.minetest.net / 77

210 Splitting engineering teams into defense and offense / greptile.com / 122

205 Embedded Rust in Production? / blog.lohr.dev / 285

201 Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove / nature.com / 467

186 Math is still catching up to the genius of Ramanujan / quantamagazine.org / 98

184 America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs / wsj.com / 260

184 DeepSeek: Advancing theorem proving in LLMs through large-scale synthetic data / arxiv.org / 53

183 T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users / arstechnica.com / 177

181 All possible plots by major authors (2020) / the-fence.com / 136

178 Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin / pcmag.com / 95

178 The Physics of Magic Windows (2021) / mattferraro.dev / 11

175 Scale Ruins Everything / coldwaters.substack.com / 239

165 Project Euler #912: Where are the Odds? / projecteuler.net / 99

164 Eye Contact Correction: Redirecting the eyes to look at the camera / sievedata.com / 187

161 How ham radio endures / zdnet.com / 73

156 DARPA is funding reef structures that will be colonized by corals and bivalves / wired.com / 32

155 Cofounder Mode: My tactical guide to finding a cofounder / repromptai.com / 75

154 Lessons learned from profiling an algorithm in Rust / blog.mapotofu.org / 38

152 Intelsat 33e breaks up in geostationary orbit / spacenews.com / 133

149 IOCCC Flight Simulator (2010) / blog.aerojockey.com / 22

148 Faster convergence for diffusion models / sihyun.me / 22

143 Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app / ftwa.mathix.dev / 50

142 Drawing Graphics on Apple Vision with the Metal Rendering API / github.com/gnikoloff / 91

139 Software engineer titles have almost lost all their meaning / trevorlasn.com / 132

138 Scientists working to decode birdsong / newyorker.com / 124

138 Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf] / ieeecs-media.computer.org / 79

137 The richest people borrow against their stock (2021) / forbes.com / 331

135 ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project / bbc.com / 158

132 Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder / torrentfreak.com / 66

129 In Jordan, a ‘stunning’ discovery under Petra’s ancient stone / nytimes.com / 75

129 Try to fix it one level deeper / matklad.github.io / 61

128 Big advance on simple-sounding math problem was a century in the making / quantamagazine.org / 40

126 Can SpaceX land a rocket with 1/2 cm accuracy? / theshamblog.com / 130

124 AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner / learn.umh.app / 135

123 U.S. border surveillance towers have always been broken / eff.org / 113

123 Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab / amoses.dev / 58

119 'Islands' of regularity discovered in the famously chaotic three-body problem / phys.org / 26

113 Show HN: Gomponents, HTML components in pure Go / gomponents.com / 40

112 Show HN: Erin – Open-source and self-hosted TikTok feed for your own videos / github.com/will-moss / 47

112 Sound Lab – A Simple Analogue Synthesiser / technoblogy.com / 19

109 FreeBSD/EC2 boot performance over time / daemonology.net / 35

108 Morsle – A daily Morse code challenge / morsle.fun / 35

106 Learn Rust the Dangerous Way / cliffle.com / 16

105 Forscape – A Language and Editor for Scientific Computation / github.com/JohnDTill / 32

105 Short films by Lillian F. Schwartz (1927-2024) / lillian.com / 16

104 Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy / bloomberg.com / 115

103 Internet Archive Services are "temporarily offline" / archive.org / 33

102 Australian coal plant in 'extraordinary' survival experiment / abc.net.au / 152

102 PEP 762 – REPL-acing the default REPL / peps.python.org / 84

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