A video game where you are an operating system — and Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better

Issue #1224 — August 15, 2023

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A video game where you are an operating system plbrault.com \| points: 593 \| comments: 115

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Writing about what you learn pushes you to understand topics better addyosmani.com \| points: 578 \| comments: 144

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Bypassing YouTube video download throttling blog.0x7d0.dev \| points: 492 \| comments: 196

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Toki Pona: an attempted universal language with only ~120 words cohost.org \| points: 471 \| comments: 224

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Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time github.com \| points: 369 \| comments: 121

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Show HN: I wrote a RDBMS (SQLite clone) from scratch in pure Python github.com \| points: 348 \| comments: 73

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Police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom npr.org \| points: 342 \| comments: 131

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Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions github.com \| points: 332 \| comments: 60

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Judge denies HP’s plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit theregister.com \| points: 321 \| comments: 192

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Following pushback, Zoom says it won’t use customer data to train AI models darkreading.com \| points: 320 \| comments: 160

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Discord.io breached, 760k user accounts for sale on darknet stackdiary.com \| points: 301 \| comments: 115

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Software Engineering at Google (2020) abseil.io \| points: 290 \| comments: 296

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Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2 go.dev \| points: 287 \| comments: 217

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Thoughts on Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView after 18 months of commercial use korban.net \| points: 285 \| comments: 120

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Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand reseller.co.nz \| points: 256 \| comments: 337

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I built a garbage collector for a language that doesn’t need one claytonwramsey.github.io \| points: 224 \| comments: 106

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Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison in absentia pcgamer.com \| points: 215 \| comments: 183

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Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision washingtonpost.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 112

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If you succeed you will fail boyter.org \| points: 196 \| comments: 58

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Python: Just Write SQL joaodlf.com \| points: 195 \| comments: 230

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