news, !paper 2024-08-21

1468 I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it / switowski.com / 414

520 I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code / medium.com / 326

442 How to build a 50k ton forging press / construction-physics.com / 181

438 Make Firefox Private Again / make-firefox-private-again.com / 327

398 US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died / theguardian.com / 220

360 ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator / github.com/shadps4-emu / 163

351 Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45% / ostechnix.com / 373

339 Midjourney web experience is now open to everyone / midjourney.com / 173

332 Celebrating 6 years since Valve announced Steam Play Proton for Linux / gamingonlinux.com / 155

267 A deep dive into how linkers work (2008) / lwn.net / 25

252 Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging / lucumr.pocoo.org / 138

223 Designing my own watch (2020) / willem.com / 139

207 Breaking down a record-setting day on the Texas grid / blog.gridstatus.io / 141

189 SIMD Matters: Graph Coloring / box2d.org / 72

188 Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM / github.com/hsfzxjy / 53

173 Do low-level optimizations matter? Faster quicksort with cmov (2020) / cantrip.org / 74

173 Better Living Through Algorithms (2023) / clarkesworldmagazine.com / 34

172 Euclid's Proof that √2 is Irrational / mathsisfun.com / 93

168 Australian government approves AAPowerLink project to export solar to Singapore / pv-tech.org / 285

147 Mathematicians prove Hawking wrong about the most extreme black holes / quantamagazine.org / 68

140 Euphemisms are best changed frequently (2016) / aeon.co / 378

140 Turnstyle – An esoteric, graphical functional language / jaspervdj.be / 8

137 Google Play will no longer pay to discover vulnerabilities in Android apps / androidauthority.com / 62

134 Mimalloc Cigarette: Losing one week of my life catching a memory leak (Rust) / pwy.io / 107

131 Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains / ncbi.nlm.nih.gov / 153

129 Code review antipatterns / chiark.greenend.org.uk / 122

128 Electrostatic motors reach the macro scale / spectrum.ieee.org / 64

117 Bum Farto / en.wikipedia.org / 29

114 The weird of function-local types in Rust / elastio.github.io / 28

111 Crypto 'pig butchering' scam wrecks bank, sends ex-CEO to prison for 24 years / cnbc.com / 109

111 Kill the Newsletter: Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds / kill-the-newsletter.com / 52

101 Juice rerouted to Venus in first lunar-Earth flyby / esa.int / 44

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