August 2024 Archive
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CockroachDB license change (cockroachlabs.com)
182.
RLHF is just barely RL (twitter.com)
183.
Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy (github.com)
184.
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS (allthingsdistributed.com)
185.
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
186.
The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection (quantamagazine.org)
187.
Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf] (files.eric.ed.gov)
188.
Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue (github.com)
189.
EFF’s concerns about the UN Cybercrime Convention (eff.org)
190.
Isometric Projection in Game Development (pikuma.com)
191.
Anthropic Claude 3.5 can create icalendar files, so I did this (gregsramblings.com)
192.
Let's Write a Reverb (2021) (signalsmith-audio.co.uk)
193.
Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021) (blog.reverberate.org)
194.
Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V (box86.org)
195.
Postgres.new: In-browser Postgres with an AI interface (supabase.com)
196.
Transformers for Ruby (github.com)
197.
Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
198.
ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator (github.com)
199.
Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa (catonmat.net)
200.
SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99 (github.com)
201.
Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M (theblock.co)
202.
Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor (theartnewspaper.com)
203.
Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45% (ostechnix.com)
204.
Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles (macrumors.com)
205.
We need to liberate the Postcode Address File (takes.jamesomalley.co.uk)
206.
Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs (servermono.com)
207.
Public Work: a search engine for public domain images (public.work)
208.
WhenFS: Calendar Is Now a File System (github.com)
209.
Vim Racer (vim-racer.com)
210.
Leaving Neovim for Zed (stevedylan.dev)