news, !paper 2023-09-15

1013 My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website / csvbase.com / 263

745 I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it / basta.substack.com / 533

732 Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source / ramatak.com / 697

723 Willingham sends Fables into the public domain / billwillingham.substack.com / 267

609 FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker / findmycat.io / 366

507 Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands / theguardian.com / 508

476 Building an economy simulator from scratch / thomassimon.dev / 197

387 Akiyoshi’s Illusion Pages / ritsumei.ac.jp / 63

379 Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain / subdomain.center / 122

378 TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts / theguardian.com / 313

330 Shrinkflation Tracker / shrinkflation.io / 228

323 Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software / kopia.io / 130

306 Inflation in Austria / mastodon.gamedev.place / 1

275 How does Linux start a process / iq.thc.org / 28

270 Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man) / johnnycashhasbeeneverywhere.com / 46

249 “Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat MS and other autoimmune diseases / pme.uchicago.edu / 98

236 Google to pay $93M in settlement over deceptive location tracking / theguardian.com / 71

214 The first week of US v. Google – Defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing / theverge.com / 186

200 Everyday uses for PVC water pipe / tomtilley.net / 160

200 California passes bill to make it easier to delete data from data brokers / latimes.com / 141

196 Books for Game Developers / mrelusive.com / 57

188 How to store a chess position in 26 bytes using bit-level magic (2022) / ezzeriesa.com / 193

172 Yes, Android 14 still allows modification of system certificates / g1a55er.net / 80

166 “Most notorious” illegal shadow library (LibGen) sued by textbook publishers / arstechnica.com / 113

154 Yazi: Fast terminal file manager based on async I/O / github.com/sxyazi / 51

151 enron :: discover the power of WHY (2001) / enroncorp.com / 71

142 Ex-Finance developers mock McKinsey's monitoring metrics / efinancialcareers.com / 73

142 Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library / github.com/jedisct1 / 53

141 Custom Minecraft Classic client written from scratch in C / github.com/UnknownShadow200 / 73

140 The Evolution of Vi and Vim / pikuma.com / 48

138 Marginalia Search Receives FUTO Grant / marginalia.nu / 8

137 Optimizing LLMs from a Dataset Perspective / sebastianraschka.com / 24

136 Relational is more than SQL / fauna.com / 166

130 Archaeologists discover ancient drawings in a Spanish cave / smithsonianmag.com / 38

128 Repeat after me: building any new homes reduces housing costs for all / ft.com / 199

127 ‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood death toll may hit 20k / theguardian.com / 151

127 Marc Benioff: “I don’t work well in an office” / fortune.com / 117

123 Deno by Example / examples.deno.land / 31

119 Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one / arstechnica.com / 141

119 Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”? / news.ycombinator.com / 133

119 Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called / arstechnica.com / 43

119 Painting with math: A gentle study of raymarching / blog.maximeheckel.com / 19

117 A Primer on Logic Programming / juxt.pro / 7

115 MaplePad – RP2040 Dreamcast controller, VMU, and Purupuru (rumble pack) emulator / github.com/mackieks / 27

112 On the Impending Crypto Monoculture (2016) / metzdowd.com / 71

111 Norway Fining Meta $98,500 per Day for User Privacy Breach / twipla.com / 91

110 ChessMonitor – Analytics for Lichess and Chess.com / chessmonitor.com / 24

106 Pixel Sea: Search 88x31 badges and 32x32 icons / pixelsea.neocities.org / 23

104 Introduction to Hilbert Space (2022) [pdf] / cphysics.org / 24

102 Should I Rust or Should I Go? / kerkour.com / 166

101 SexualActivityRecord / developer.android.com / 37

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