news, !paper 2024-08-31

957 Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop / magazine.sebastianraschka.com / 125

576 Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained / old.reddit.com / 462

421 Harder Drive: hard drives we didn't want, or need (2022) [video] / tom7.org / 72

411 Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky / theverge.com / 736

293 EU ChatControl is back on the agenda / digitalcourage.social / 263

279 Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero / zkintro.com / 147

277 Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla / sfchronicle.com / 647

234 Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+ / fortune.com / 228

212 Playstation 2 GS emulation – the final frontier of Vulkan compute emulation / themaister.net / 66

190 Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms / blocks.md / 76

186 WatchYourLAN: Lightweight Network IP Scanner / github.com/aceberg / 25

181 Rust solves the problem of incomplete Kernel Linux API docs / vt.social / 65

175 Orphaning bcachefs-tools in Debian / jonathancarter.org / 213

171 Client-side QR code generator with SVG output / fietkau.software / 31

167 Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit) / github.com/velorek1 / 60

159 Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen / ethz.ch / 99

149 The Threat to OpenAI / wsj.com / 152

149 My fake job in Y2K preparedness / nplusonemag.com / 95

148 AirTags key to discovery of Houston's plastic recycling deception / appleinsider.com / 155

148 Building Bubbletea Programs / leg100.github.io / 38

147 Making an atomic trampoline [video] / youtube.com / 58

142 Taming the beast that is the Django ORM – An introduction / davidhang.com / 139

126 A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks / loriemerson.net / 14

118 Seeing America by train / washingtonpost.com / 90

113 Texas State Police Gear Up for Expansion of Surveillance Tech / texasobserver.org / 89

112 Deepwater Sub Recovers Roman Battering Ram Used in Carthage in Punic Wars Battle / gizmodo.com / 16

111 MapRoulette: the micro-tasking tool for OpenStreetMap / maproulette.org / 29

101 Greece announces new rules banning mobile phones in schools from September / euronews.com / 48

100 Percona Everest: open-source automated database provisioning and management / docs.percona.com / 51

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