Hacker News on Friday, 21 July 2023

I have written a JVM in Rust(andreabergia.com)

655 points by lukastyrychtr 3 years ago | 144 comments

Blog post by Andrea Bergia describing rjvm, a toy Java Virtual Machine he wrote in Rust as a learning project, and its limitations.

Web Environment Integrity API Proposal(github.com)

446 points by reactormonk 3 years ago | 335 comments

GitHub repository by Rupert Ben Wiser containing the Web Environment Integrity API proposal, a browser attestation spec, with docs and README.

Study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers(news.unl.edu)

426 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 301 comments

University of Nebraska–Lincoln news article on a study finding microwaving plastic baby food containers releases billions of nanoplastics that harm cultured kidney cells.

Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists(natesilver.substack.com)

424 points by amadeuspagel 3 years ago | 299 comments

Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin Substack essay arguing journalists should scrutinize scientists as sources, citing prominent scientists' misinformation on COVID's origins.

Llama: Add grammar-based sampling(github.com)

379 points by davepeck 3 years ago | 95 comments

A GitHub pull request to llama.cpp adding an API for grammar-based sampling that constrains LLM output with a BNF-like context-free grammar.

In the LLM space, "open source" is being used to mean "downloadable weights"(alessiofanelli.com)

353 points by FanaHOVA 3 years ago | 210 comments

Blog post by Alessio Fanelli arguing that LLaMA2 isn't truly open source under the OSS definition, and why that distinction may not matter much.

‘World of Warcraft’ players trick AI-scraping website into publishing nonsense(forbes.com)

335 points by mikhael 3 years ago | 157 comments

Forbes article about World of Warcraft players tricking an AI-scraping games news website into publishing a story about a nonsense feature.

Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors(blog.zaccohn.com)

316 points by zacharycohn 3 years ago | 144 comments

Death Metal English (2013)(invisibleoranges.com)

315 points by cdme 3 years ago | 83 comments

Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age(nature.com)

308 points by pseudolus 3 years ago | 99 comments

Show HN: Primo – a visual CMS with Svelte blocks, a code editor, and SSG(primocms.org)

304 points by mmmateo 3 years ago | 104 comments

Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common(evanjones.ca)

279 points by ingve 3 years ago | 236 comments

MiniZinc(minizinc.org)

222 points by gavi 3 years ago | 65 comments

Diablo(filfre.net)

219 points by doppp 3 years ago | 106 comments

Quench of LHC inner triplet magnet causes a small leak with major consequences(home.cern)

218 points by untilted 3 years ago | 155 comments

Crockford on JSON license (2011)(gist.github.com)

217 points by samuel246 3 years ago | 53 comments

90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president(arstechnica.com)

216 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 126 comments

IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release(arstechnica.com)

201 points by riffraff 3 years ago | 118 comments

Tell HN: Upgrade your Metabase installation(github.com)

192 points by zhoutong 3 years ago | 64 comments

Slackware Linux distribution turns 30 years old(theregister.com)

191 points by akoster 3 years ago | 93 comments

RFC 9420 a.k.a. Messaging Layer Security(blog.phnx.im)

178 points by jakobdabo 3 years ago | 26 comments

Big Tech as the New Big Tobacco(bigtechwiki.com)

165 points by Andrex 3 years ago | 99 comments

Amazon shuts down customer’s smart home(forums.macrumors.com)

157 points by KnuthIsGod 3 years ago | 108 comments

Employees bid on Anchor Brewery(vinepair.com)

154 points by selimthegrim 3 years ago | 87 comments

Sub-Pixel Distance Transform(acko.net)

154 points by signa11 3 years ago | 29 comments

NativePHP: A framework for building desktop apps using PHP(nativephp.com)

149 points by brysonreece 3 years ago | 104 comments

Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown (2013)(onehundredpages.wordpress.com)

143 points by codetrotter 3 years ago | 136 comments

Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API(jcs.org)

135 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 39 comments

Book Review: The Laws of Trading(astralcodexten.substack.com)

133 points by feross 3 years ago | 27 comments

There’s a heatwave in the sea and scientists are worried(bbc.com)

131 points by gardenfelder 3 years ago | 80 comments

High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system(github.com)

131 points by Kinrany 3 years ago | 47 comments

Small joys of programming in Odin(zannzen.com)

126 points by lerno 3 years ago | 45 comments

FreeWilly 1 and 2, two new open-access LLMs(stability.ai)

120 points by anigbrowl 3 years ago | 40 comments

For BSD Unix, It's Sayonara (1992)(tech-insider.org)

120 points by operator-name 3 years ago | 67 comments

How to make cheese at home(themanual.com)

115 points by tosh 3 years ago | 70 comments

Using Prolog in Windows NT Network Configuration (1996)(web.archive.org)

114 points by zdw 3 years ago | 17 comments

Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking(latimes.com)

112 points by supertimor 3 years ago | 78 comments

C89 compiler produces printable executables from C code [pdf] (2017)(cs.cmu.edu)

109 points by CharlesW 3 years ago | 14 comments

By 2028 there must be fast chargers every 60 km on the EU’s key motorways(fleeteurope.com)

108 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 179 comments

Ask HN: What are some low cost payment processing alternatives to Stripe?

106 points by NavyG 3 years ago | 66 comments

India’s ban on rice exports raises fear of global food price rises(theguardian.com)

103 points by vanburen 3 years ago | 105 comments

Stem Formulas(stemformulas.com)

102 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 30 comments

How Turborepo is porting from Go to Rust(vercel.com)

98 points by hardwaregeek 3 years ago | 73 comments

Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record(msn.com)

90 points by belltaco 3 years ago | 89 comments

Medieval Table Manners: The Messiest Myth?(medievalists.net)

84 points by BerislavLopac 3 years ago | 50 comments

Longitudinal study on the relationship between childhood maltreatment and ADHD(psypost.org)

84 points by geox 3 years ago | 57 comments

How we see ourselves and how we see others (2008) [pdf](courses.washington.edu)

83 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 7 comments

'Mystery company' buys land worth $800M near Travis AFB, raising concerns(abc7news.com)

81 points by Benlights 3 years ago | 117 comments

Data breach exposes personal information of 4k Roblox developers(theverge.com)

81 points by amalinovic 3 years ago | 13 comments

TSMC warns over deepening slump in chipmaking sector(ft.com)

81 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 90 comments

Exxon bets carbon will be the new oil(semafor.com)

80 points by mfiguiere 3 years ago | 58 comments

Social media is too much for most of us to handle(theregister.com)

78 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 53 comments

Rethinking Infrastructure as Code from Scratch(nathanpeck.com)

75 points by dguo 3 years ago | 90 comments

Meta stops ordering new parts for Quest Pro(zdnet.com)

71 points by miiiiiike 3 years ago | 48 comments

Mali Government takes back .ml domain, brings down one of largest Lemmy servers(very.bignutty.xyz)

71 points by rglullis 3 years ago | 78 comments

Consumer software is expected to be next fast-growing segment (1994)(csmonitor.com)

68 points by 1970-01-01 3 years ago | 70 comments

The Tallest Atrium (2019)(world-architects.com)

68 points by perihelions 3 years ago | 8 comments

Cooking Air Quality(jefftk.com)

68 points by miohtama 3 years ago | 65 comments

LLM Constellation(llmconstellation.olafblitz.repl.co)

67 points by fzliu 3 years ago | 13 comments

TV Typewriter Remembered(hackaday.com)

66 points by beardyw 3 years ago | 10 comments