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August 2023 Archive
331.
Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable (bloomberg.com)
305 points by cududa on Aug 17, 2023 | 489 comments
332.
Transcript of taped conversations among German nuclear physicists (1945) (ghdi.ghi-dc.org)
305 points by davidbarker on Aug 1, 2023 | 283 comments
333.
StableCode (stability.ai)
305 points by kpozin on Aug 8, 2023 | 107 comments
334.
How NAT traversal works (2020) (tailscale.com)
305 points by punnerud on Aug 2, 2023 | 106 comments
335.
Seattle becomes first in U.S. to protect gig workers from sudden 'deactivation' (kuow.org)
304 points by pseudolus on Aug 10, 2023 | 387 comments
336.
B.C. woman buried in Amazon packages she did not ask for and does not want (cbc.ca)
304 points by hnuser0000 on Aug 9, 2023 | 320 comments
337.
The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm (mindmatters.ai)
303 points by momirlan on Aug 15, 2023 | 450 comments
338.
Stable Diffusion in C/C++ (github.com)
303 points by kikalo00 on Aug 19, 2023 | 115 comments
339.
Request: Re-open JPEG XL issue (bugs.chromium.org)
302 points by blurred on Aug 7, 2023 | 160 comments
340.
CSS Selectors: A Visual Guide (fffuel.co)
302 points by CosmosSeb on Aug 15, 2023 | 57 comments
341.
Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode (aheze.substack.com)
300 points by aheze on Aug 17, 2023 | 387 comments
342.
TypeScript is surprisingly ok for compilers (matklad.github.io)
300 points by Fudgel on Aug 18, 2023 | 231 comments
343.
The $1M shot that changed sports contests (espn.com)
300 points by thunderbong on Aug 7, 2023 | 130 comments
344.
How do we save water: Stop growing alfalfa in Imperial County (desertsun.com)
299 points by cute_boi on Aug 16, 2023 | 254 comments
345.
Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security (arstechnica.com)
299 points by WalterSobchak on Aug 2, 2023 | 153 comments
346.
Thoughts about what worked in math circles (buttondown.email)
299 points by sberens on Aug 26, 2023 | 44 comments
347.
Fear of AI just killed a useful tool (techdirt.com)
298 points by donohoe on Aug 9, 2023 | 297 comments
348.
Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” (kottke.org)
296 points by DemiGuru on Aug 7, 2023 | 489 comments
349.
Modern genetic data suggests pre-humans were a group of only 1,280 individuals (nature.com)
296 points by geox on Aug 31, 2023 | 216 comments
350.
Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim (arstechnica.com)
296 points by nixgeek on Aug 8, 2023 | 28 comments
351.
Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies (marijuanamoment.net)
295 points by pseudotrash on Aug 1, 2023 | 250 comments
352.
Executive Function Theft (hedgehoglibrarian.com)
295 points by luu on Aug 20, 2023 | 214 comments
353.
Jacobin: A more than minimal JVM written in Go (jacobin.org)
295 points by yla92 on Aug 24, 2023 | 178 comments
354.
GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn (gpt-unicorn.adamkdean.co.uk)
294 points by imdsm on Aug 10, 2023 | 203 comments
355.
The Terraform Registry Terms of Service have been updated (github.com)
294 points by yankcrime on Aug 31, 2023 | 132 comments
356.
Grave flaws in BGP Error handling (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
294 points by greyface- on Aug 29, 2023 | 120 comments
357.
An unexpected find that freed 20GB of unused index space (2021) (hakibenita.com)
294 points by skadamat on Aug 28, 2023 | 62 comments
358.
AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs (qz.com)
293 points by geox on Aug 17, 2023 | 239 comments
359.
New study finds microplastics infiltrate all systems of body, alter behaviour (sustainableplastics.com)
292 points by myshpa on Aug 29, 2023 | 373 comments
360.
NetMaker: Connect Everything with a WireGuard VPN (netmaker.io)
292 points by thunderbong on Aug 16, 2023 | 164 comments