Daily Hacker News 16-05-2024

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Daily Hacker News

1. VCs aren’t your friends www.openvc.app comments
2. Some notes on Rust, mutable aliasing and formal verification graydon2.dreamwidth.org comments
3. Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019) blogs.sciencemag.org comments
4. New exponent functions that make SiLU and SoftMax 2x faster, at full accuracy github.com comments
5. Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013) computerhistory.org comments
6. Swift sucks at web serving or does it? wadetregaskis.com comments
7. What’s the difference between an -ectomy, an -ostomy, and an -otomy? (1986) www.straightdope.com comments
8. Typewise (YC S22) is hiring Product Designer for AI writing assistant www.ycombinator.com comments
9. Enhancing R: The Vision and Impact of Jan Vitek's MaintainR Initiative www.r-consortium.org comments
10. Learning from the Object Oriented Mania lemire.me comments
11. Earth rotation limits in-body image stabilization to 6.3 stops (2020) thecentercolumn.com comments
12. Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking www.apple.com comments
13. SSD death, tricky read-only filesystems, and systemd magic? rachelbythebay.com comments
14. Jepsen: Datomic Pro 1.0.7075 jepsen.io comments
15. Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers github.com comments
16. A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history thebulletin.org comments
17. If you wanna know why I am resigned from OpenAI twitter.com comments
18. Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the filter nondeterministic.computer comments
19. Project Gameface launches on Android developers.googleblog.com comments
20. MKUltra en.wikipedia.org comments
21. Localization in .NET console and desktop apps blog.axantum.com comments
22. (OpenBSD) Add sysctl to disable Nagle's algorithm marc.info comments
23. Dragonfly: An optical telescope built from an array of off-the-shelf Canon lens www.dunlap.utoronto.ca comments
24. Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks to Local Governments www.techdirt.com comments
25. Fast Tokenizers with StringScanner (2023) tenderlovemaking.com comments