Discord, or the Death of Lore — Hardware microphone disconnect (2021) — and Parse, Don't Validate (2019)

Issue #1064 — March 08, 2023

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Discord, or the Death of Lore ascii.textfiles.com \| points: 551 \| comments: 366

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Hardware microphone disconnect (2021) support.apple.com \| points: 547 \| comments: 291

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Parse, Don’t Validate (2019) lexi-lambda.github.io \| points: 328 \| comments: 177

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Haraldur Thorleifsson’s Personal Site haraldurthorleifsson.com \| points: 311 \| comments: 130

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Meta plans thousands more layoffs as soon as this week bloomberg.com \| points: 304 \| comments: 312

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The lost art of lacing cable (2018) thebroadcastbridge.com \| points: 303 \| comments: 140

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Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business ben-evans.com \| points: 294 \| comments: 244

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Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth medicalxpress.com \| points: 293 \| comments: 155

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Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money growth.design \| points: 245 \| comments: 167

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Young people in 13 EU countries refuse surveillance of online communication edri.org \| points: 240 \| comments: 97

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Stochastic gradient descent written in SQL maxhalford.github.io \| points: 229 \| comments: 135

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Zig as an alternative to writing unsafe Rust zackoverflow.dev \| points: 214 \| comments: 144

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Show HN: Total.js – Low-code development (Node-RED alternative) totaljs.com \| points: 206 \| comments: 77

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RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter written in Rust github.com \| points: 195 \| comments: 109

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Show HN: Programming language for making NES games pubby.games \| points: 189 \| comments: 59

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A low latency guitar effects processor suitable for running on a Raspberry Pi github.com \| points: 186 \| comments: 81

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Palm-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model palm-e.github.io \| points: 184 \| comments: 61

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Atlassian to shed 5 per cent of workers abc.net.au \| points: 180 \| comments: 200

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A Vulnerability in Implementations of SHA-3, Shake, EdDSA eprint.iacr.org \| points: 176 \| comments: 44

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GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them vgel.me \| points: 171 \| comments: 159

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