news, !paper 2023-09-08

1081 Bun v1.0.0 / bun.sh / 364

825 Touch Pianist / touchpianist.com / 227

699 Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurrent, userspace software / bitbashing.io / 608

500 Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later / mtlynch.io / 168

446 Procreate Dreams / procreate.com / 150

423 Flexport is rescinding a bunch of signed offer letters / twitter.com/typesfast / 522

406 I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in iPadOS 17 / macstories.net / 54

391 Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy / growth.design / 345

364 Emoji Generator with AI / emoji.fly.dev / 155

357 FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” / arstechnica.com / 87

344 FTC judge decides Intuit’s ‘free’ TurboTax ads misled consumers / theverge.com / 101

292 An Internet of PHP / timotijhof.net / 316

264 Bees struggle to find flowers because of air pollution / birmingham.ac.uk / 38

261 Decoded: GNU Coreutils (2018) / maizure.org / 123

240 Safety inspector fired for finding 'too many defects' / kstp.com / 105

230 Snoop unto them as they snoop unto you / blog.dataparty.xyz / 149

226 LogoScale – A method for vectorizing small, crappy logos / msprout.notion.site / 37

225 PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril / jpcamara.com / 73

209 NYPD spent millions to contract with firm banned by Meta for fake profiles / theguardian.com / 133

203 Scammers can exploit email forwarding flaws to impersonate high-profile domains / today.ucsd.edu / 58

199 LibreWolf – Custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom / librewolf.net / 170

198 Using LD_PRELOAD to cheat, inject features and investigate programs / rafalcieslak.wordpress.com / 108

192 Julia and Mojo Mandelbrot Benchmark / discourse.julialang.org / 157

186 Newly discovered comet Nishimura could be visible to naked eye this weekend / theguardian.com / 129

186 Show HN: Conway's Game of Life in TypeScript's type system / github.com/RuyiLi / 45

183 Critical ignoring as a core competence for digital citizens (2022) / journals.sagepub.com / 134

174 The thinking path / robinsloan.com / 43

171 Show HN: Rivet – open-source AI Agent dev env with real-world applications / rivet.ironcladapp.com / 30

169 JIT-optimized Ruby can outperform a C extension / railsatscale.com / 105

165 The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines / daily.jstor.org / 135

164 FAA closes SpaceX Starship mishap investigation / apnews.com / 186

160 TSMC warns AI chip crunch will last another 18 months / theregister.com / 100

154 Cerabyte: ceramic storage poised to usher in 'yottabyte era' / tomshardware.com / 77

143 Zinc-air batteries as an alternative to lithium-ion: study / ecu.edu.au / 125

140 Towards a new SymPy / oscarbenjamin.github.io / 66

140 The rxv64 Operating System: MIT's xv6, in Rust, for SMP x86_64 machines / github.com/dancrossnyc / 52

138 A small-town police officer took down a large match-fixing ring in tennis / washingtonpost.com / 83

129 Lean 4.0 / github.com/leanprover / 88

127 Dating app Grindr loses nearly half its staff after trying to force RTO / cnn.com / 161

123 GitHubGuessr / github-guessr.vercel.app / 52

123 Unpacking Elixir: Syntax / underjord.io / 48

120 Just how constexpr is C++20’s std:string? / quuxplusone.github.io / 103

119 Consumers defrauded on Zelle are left high and dry by the banks that created it [pdf] / warren.senate.gov / 97

118 The Power of Food for People with Dementia / newyorker.com / 30

104 IBM to increase cloud costs in 2024 / cio.com / 89

103 The Le Guin Precepts / seths.blog / 28

102 AI girlfriend ads are flooding Instagram and TikTok / nbcnews.com / 167

102 My speed cubing page / ws.binghamton.edu / 55

100 Why we didn’t get a malaria vaccine sooner / worksinprogress.co / 110

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