news, !paper 2023-09-19

1201 Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor / twitter.com/matthew_d_green / 589

1158 Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) / web.mit.edu / 195

593 Fixing for loops in Go 1.22 / go.dev / 447

553 I digitalized Berlin's registration form / nicolasbouliane.com / 310

551 We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score / ifixit.com / 350

523 FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones / faa.gov / 437

425 YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform / nytimes.com / 977

354 Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers / lichess.org / 201

339 The Pirate Bay's 20th Anniversary / torrentfreak.com / 122

306 Facebook is blocking Canadians’ posts on the assassination of a BC Sikh leader / pressprogress.ca / 262

303 Forty years of GNU and the free software movement / fsf.org / 160

287 Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol / signal.org / 131

284 RabbitMQ vs. Kafka – An Architect’s Dilemma (Part 1) / eranstiller.com / 160

273 How many medical studies are faked or flawed? / web.archive.org / 243

269 OSS Game Engines are increasing their stars on GitHub due to Unity's missteps / twitter.com/OSSInsight / 204

267 VCMI: Open-Source Engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III / vcmi.eu / 86

258 Tracing: Structured logging, but better / andydote.co.uk / 126

253 Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer / fx.wtf / 77

246 JDK 21 Release Notes / jdk.java.net / 327

245 64-bit bank balances ‘ought to be enough for anybody’? / tigerbeetle.com / 359

233 Circles do not exist / nibblestew.blogspot.com / 207

219 Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not / rachelbythebay.com / 154

218 Exploring the Halo 1 System Link Protocol / hllmn.net / 64

215 GraalVM for JDK 21 / medium.com / 76

211 Chonky Menu Re-Creation / nathanmanousos.com / 94

204 A simple web server written in Awk / github.com/crossbowerbt / 69

194 UK Parliament passes Online Safety Bill / bbc.co.uk / 121

191 Java 21 Released / mail.openjdk.org / 1

187 Bard can now connect to your Google Apps and services / blog.google / 91

182 U.K. rejoins Horizon Europe research funding scheme / science.org / 242

180 Musk Wanted to Spy on Drivers to Defend Tesla from Lawsuits / cleanenergyrevolution.co / 203

173 Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster / railsatscale.com / 152

165 Headsets Delayed into 2024 / simulavr.com / 94

163 Show HN: Cheq UPI – India's first UPI payments app for foreigners / chequpi.com / 122

162 A small community of unofficial Apple technicians in Cuba / restofworld.org / 54

157 Show HN: Graphite – Stacked Diffs on GitHub / news.ycombinator.com / 63

155 100 Parking Tickets (2004) / 100parkingtickets.com / 130

152 A basic guide to using Asian names / asiamediacentre.org.nz / 199

148 My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia / ounapuu.ee / 21

147 Improving your online privacy: An update / blog.ovalerio.net / 44

144 Historical maps probably helped cause World War I / resobscura.substack.com / 93

141 NFS > FUSE: Why We Built Our Own NFS Server in Rust / about.xethub.com / 90

135 Getting into Pinball / tynan.com / 102

134 MGM losing up to $8.4M a day due to cyberattack, analyist says / reviewjournal.com / 106

129 Google quietly raised ad prices to boost search revenue / theverge.com / 62

129 Graph Neural Networks use graphs when they shouldn't / arxiv.org / 22

122 Show HN: Hydra - Open-Source Columnar Postgres / hydra.so / 33

122 A closer look at BookCorpus, a key dataset in machine learning / towardsdatascience.com / 32

120 Programming is hard / myme.no / 111

114 Web apps are better than no apps / molodtsov.me / 192

114 Shaving 40% Off Google’s B-Tree Implementation with Go Generics (2022) / scylladb.com / 47

112 Smashing the state machine: the true potential of web race conditions / portswigger.net / 32

111 Simple Open-Source Java Virtual Machine in C / github.com/phillbush / 13

108 Aldous Huxley's Deep Reflection / thereader.mitpress.mit.edu / 60

106 GCC Preparing to Introduce “-Fhardened” Security Hardening Option / phoronix.com / 69

103 Lies my calculator and computer told me (1987) [pdf] / stewartcalculus.com / 51

103 Apache Pinot 1.0 / pinot.apache.org / 39

103 Safety Gate: the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products / ec.europa.eu / 32

102 The path to detecting extraterrestrial life with astrophotonics / arxiv.org / 47

102 The physical process that powers a new type of generative AI / quantamagazine.org / 14

100 One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows / bloomberg.com / 177

100 Writing HTML by hand / simblob.blogspot.com / 71

100 Q-Transformer: Scalable Reinforcement Learning via Autoregressive Q-Functions / q-transformer.github.io / 15

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