Interactive intro to shaders — and The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

Issue #1298 — October 28, 2023

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Interactive intro to shaders mayerowitz.io \| points: 481 \| comments: 65

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The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy coryzue.com \| points: 426 \| comments: 311

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Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution federalregister.gov \| points: 410 \| comments: 281

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Lean4 helped Terence Tao discover a small bug in his recent paper mathstodon.xyz \| points: 386 \| comments: 179

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’Not of faculty quality’: How Penn mistreated Katalin Karikó thedp.com \| points: 340 \| comments: 200

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Why you should probably be using SQLite epicweb.dev \| points: 305 \| comments: 261

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Takkyu-bin: Luggage forwarding in Japan craigmod.com \| points: 304 \| comments: 148

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How to draw software architecture diagrams (2022) terrastruct.com \| points: 289 \| comments: 143

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Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering sre.google \| points: 286 \| comments: 71

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Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3 simonwillison.net \| points: 280 \| comments: 70

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My Left Kidney astralcodexten.com \| points: 261 \| comments: 280

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A third of chocolate products are high in heavy metals consumerreports.org \| points: 250 \| comments: 169

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WebSDR – Internet-connected Software-Defined Radios websdr.org \| points: 247 \| comments: 63

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Bird with GPS flies into typhoon newatlas.com \| points: 227 \| comments: 103

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Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco theeyewall.com \| points: 219 \| comments: 124

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We need to talk about funding octoprint.org \| points: 207 \| comments: 56

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Yugoslavia’s Digital Twin – When a country’s internet domain outlives the nation thedial.world \| points: 200 \| comments: 203

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Generate images in one second on your Mac using a latent consistency model replicate.com \| points: 179 \| comments: 60

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Ceasing print publication of ACM journals and transactions acm.org \| points: 177 \| comments: 115

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Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine theverge.com \| points: 161 \| comments: 158

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