news, !paper 2024-08-20

798 Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine / zen-browser.app / 387

695 Toasts are bad UX / maxschmitt.me / 380

641 Calling All Hackers / phrack.org / 245

596 Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection / promptarmor.substack.com / 174

580 MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract / sparcopen.org / 216

447 The semantic web is now widely adopted / csvbase.com / 258

432 The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown / zarar.dev / 265

431 Bug squash: An underrated interview question / blog.jez.io / 266

419 Sourcegraph went dark / eric-fritz.com / 182

390 Zed AI / zed.dev / 273

362 Transformers for Ruby / github.com/ankane / 52

342 Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers (1953) [video] / youtube.com / 114

315 US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements / ft.com / 381

289 The U.S. Navy's $100M checkbox (2019) / adrian3.com / 244

253 Pragtical: Practical and pragmatic code editor / pragtical.dev / 104

238 Nasir Ahmed's digital-compression breakthrough helped make JPEGs/MPEGs possible / spectrum.ieee.org / 60

216 The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018) / jakevdp.github.io / 188

216 Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o / openai.com / 87

208 Why are Texas interchanges so tall? / practical.engineering / 330

203 I picked up a shitty NUC from ewaste and it had a label on it for an AI company / digipres.club / 67

199 Plasmo – A framework for building modern Chrome extensions / github.com/PlasmoHQ / 32

165 Exposure to the Sun's UV radiation may be good for you / economist.com / 194

163 Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checker highlights mistakes / github.com/gruhn / 58

160 Uv 0.3 – Unified Python packaging / astral.sh / 56

146 Making database systems usable / muratbuffalo.blogspot.com / 153

145 US Judge Strikes Down Ban on Worker 'Noncompete' Agreements / reuters.com / 147

133 Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles / ycombinator.com / 275

132 The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video] / youtube.com / 142

125 I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs / theguardian.com / 97

115 The secret lives of snowblowers / lcamtuf.substack.com / 66

100 When Serial Isn't RS-232, Geocaching with the Garmin GPS 95 / terinstock.com / 35

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