news, !paper 2024-08-19

614 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted / github.com/wasi-master / 262

545 Artificial intelligence is losing hype / economist.com / 772

453 The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud / berthub.eu / 247

392 Stripe's Monorepo Developer Environment / blog.nelhage.com / 230

366 Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021) / blog.reverberate.org / 158

366 Let's Write a Reverb (2021) / signalsmith-audio.co.uk / 62

364 Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data / news.ycombinator.com / 172

293 Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet / snats.xyz / 109

282 Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place / netboot.xyz / 61

280 FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator / github.com/MatthewKuKanich / 65

271 The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile / righto.com / 175

258 Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping / github.com/srcbookdev / 48

222 On finishing projects / alexreichert.com / 96

218 Seven basic rules for causal inference / pedermisager.org / 67

217 Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring / builder.io / 140

213 Phrack 71 / phrack.org / 23

209 Transformers in music recommendation / research.google / 124

191 Lenticular Clock / instructables.com / 46

182 'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera / phys.org / 54

168 On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) / cs.utexas.edu / 136

162 Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe" / blog.archive.org / 27

160 Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults / sociologicalscience.com / 209

148 LLMs know more than what they say / arjunbansal.substack.com / 17

145 Migrating Mess with DNS to Use PowerDNS / jvns.ca / 34

144 Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly / andadinosaur.com / 71

139 Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional / techdirt.com / 83

139 Client-side filtering of private data is a bad idea / mjg59.dreamwidth.org / 49

134 Procreate's anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives / theverge.com / 110

133 $50 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 comes with a lower price and a tweaked, cheaper CPU / arstechnica.com / 146

132 AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products / aisnakeoil.com / 195

129 DRAKON / en.wikipedia.org / 37

125 Spine – 2D skeletal animation for games, with physical secondary motions / en.esotericsoftware.com / 53

121 So you want to build an embedded Linux system? / jaycarlson.net / 40

116 Uniqueness Bias: Why it matters, how to curb it / arxiv.org / 67

116 The Dying Computer Museum / ascii.textfiles.com / 22

116 Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday / thingswemake.com / 17

114 HID Remapper / github.com/jfedor2 / 65

112 Ask HN: How do you work as a tech lead? / news.ycombinator.com / 109

110 When Nothing Ever Goes Out of Print: Maintaining Backlist Ebooks (2016) / teresaelsey.medium.com / 82

108 Show HN: Wd-40, a static webserver with automatic hot-reloads / github.com/baalimago / 84

100 Caltrain's new electric trains / fastcompany.com / 114

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