Daily Hacker News 22-06-2024

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Daily Hacker News

1. Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought [pdf] gwern.net comments
2. Farm: Fast vite compatible build tool written in Rust www.farmfe.org comments
3. 20x Faster Background Removal in the Browser Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU img.ly comments
4. A Forth Story (1995) groups.google.com comments
5. Memory sealing for the GNU C Library lwn.net comments
6. Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design blog.jitx.com comments
7. OWASP Juice Shop: Hacking a Modern Web Application blog.javascripttoday.com comments
8. RuneLite – open-source RuneScape Client runelite.net comments
9. Photoroom (YC S20) Is Hiring a Django Back End Lead in Paris (PostgreSQL, REST) jobs.lever.co comments
10. Aster shootdown over Sydney in 1955 navyhistory.au comments
11. CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux criu.org comments
12. Connection Machine Lisp (1986) dl.acm.org comments
13. Using Stockfish to identify ideal squares lichess.org comments
14. From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction arstechnica.com comments
15. An Introduction to Sleep Obfuscation for Malware (2023) dtsec.us comments
16. Atari 520ST Review in Creative Computing – By Paul Lefebvre www.goto10retro.com comments
17. Software design gets worse before it gets better tidyfirst.substack.com comments
18. How does a computer/calculator compute logarithms? zachartrand.github.io comments
19. NTS (TeX reimplementation in Java from 2001) still compiles under Java 16 github.com comments
20. Show HN: Eidos – Offline alternative to Notion github.com comments
21. The Eggcorn Database eggcorns.lascribe.net comments
22. Self-driving Waymos secure final clearance for expansion beyond S.F www.sfchronicle.com comments
23. Show HN: Lady Deirdre 2 – Rust Framework for Compilers and LSP Servers github.com comments
24. Show HN: High-frequency trading and market-making backtesting tool with examples github.com comments
25. Twitter and the spread of academic knowledge mattsclancy.substack.com comments