news, !paper 2023-09-16

656 Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites / mastodon.gamedev.place / 388

521 Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model / jackcook.com / 244

495 Horcrux: Split your file into encrypted fragments / github.com/jesseduffield / 135

410 Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize / nature.com / 194

406 Java 21 makes me like Java again / wscp.dev / 728

344 Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability Training / github.com/kbre93 / 116

340 Generative Image Dynamics / generative-dynamics.github.io / 29

313 How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers / engineercodex.substack.com / 186

243 The Sound Proof Booths of Silence / dota2.com / 190

238 Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR / twitter.com/danielcroe / 219

226 Game developers turning off all IronSource and Unity Ads monetization / docs.google.com / 143

224 “I want to use this tactically vs. GOOG/AAPL” (2022) / twitter.com/TechEmails / 258

223 I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system (2013) / theguardian.com / 124

215 Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023 / wejn.org / 159

215 Show HN: exaequOS - a new OS running in a web browser / exaequos.com / 105

204 AMD’s Phoenix SoC / chipsandcheese.com / 155

203 The database servers powering Let's Encrypt (2021) / letsencrypt.org / 118

201 Is this fraud? And if so, to what extent am I responsible? / workplace.stackexchange.com / 206

200 Breakfast cereal is in long-term decline / wsj.com / 690

187 America's advanced manufacturing problem and how to fix it / americanaffairsjournal.org / 288

174 Layoffs.fyi / layoffs.fyi / 72

171 Don't be afraid to be wrong / nlopes.dev / 99

168 Americas richest 10% is responsible for 40% of its planet heating pollution / journals.plos.org / 150

159 Unity's Self-Combustion Engine / gamesindustry.biz / 153

153 Linux on a MacBook Pro (M1 Pro): How Good Is Asahi Now? / youtube.com / 118

148 GPT-4 is not getting worse / coagulopath.com / 171

140 Adobe will charge “credits” for generative AI / helpx.adobe.com / 171

139 Percy Ludgate / en.wikipedia.org / 17

138 BtrBlocks: Efficient Columnar Compression for Data Lakes [pdf] / cs.cit.tum.de / 27

131 The “Do Something About It” Club / chavanniclass.com / 120

124 Single-bladed floating wind turbine promises half the cost, more power / newatlas.com / 29

122 New camera offers ultrafast imaging at a fraction of the normal cost / phys.org / 42

121 Pirates of the Caribbean (Metric Edition) (2017) / nist.gov / 72

120 French supermarket using ‘shrinkflation’ stickers to pressure PepsiCo and others / cnn.com / 3

117 Formatting text in C++: Old and new ways / mariusbancila.ro / 65

116 Bitwarden login down due to Azure outage / status.bitwarden.com / 123

116 Why Ugly Architecture Is Bad for Your Health / architecturaluprising.com / 59

116 The Early Days of American English / laphamsquarterly.org / 59

111 NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens / theconversation.com / 205

106 Ask HN: Do I need AWS? Or am I thinking this wrong? / news.ycombinator.com / 100

103 Guidance: A guidance language for controlling large language models / github.com/guidance-ai / 41

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