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Stories by bjourne

Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri despite evidence of innocence (innocenceproject.org)
Ray Tracing in One Weekend (raytracing.github.io)
The Roman Roads Research Association (romanroads.org)
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4M followers reports TikTok ban (aljazeera.com)
Track AIPAC – Follow Israel lobby spending in U.S. politics (trackaipac.com)
Elon Musk appears to have tweaked X's algorithm to promote Trump, study claims (independent.co.uk)
Nearly a Billion Dollars in Doge 'Savings' Disappeared Overnight (notus.org)
Open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the fact-checkers, nine years later (poynter.org)
Ask HN: How do you find honest tech reviews?
YouTube is useless for tech reviews. Most reviews are fake and using photos from advertisements. Top 10 lists that says nothing negative about any hardware (cause they haven't used them) and affiliate links everywhere. Even Linus Tech Tips and other big channels publish dishonest reviews withou...
Nvidia Tensor Core Programming (leimao.github.io)
Grok believes Trump won the 2020 US Election (twitter.com)
Ask HN: Opinions on facial recognition at air ports?
Both the EU and the US have introduced face scanning at airports to "increase security". EU rules are currently stricter and US rules allow some opt-outs for people that are uncomfortable with it. But it's only a matter of time before it becomes de facto mandatory for everyone. They c...
Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? (theguardian.com)
TikTokers offered $5k to join Facebook and Instagram (bbc.com)
Ask HN: What do you use for spell and grammar checking?
I've tried Emacs's various spell-checking modes, but they are bad. They are all based around dictionary lookups so not very useful for agglutinative languages. Nor do they work with text containing markup or text containing multiple languages (e.g., English cites, but text in a different l...
Ask HN: Linux on Snapdragon X Laptops?
I'm considering buying one due to their reasonable price and impressive power/performance ratio. So I wonder if anyone has been able to run a Linux desktop on Snapdragon X laptops?
Valve removes pro-Palestinian shooter from Steam after police complaint (pcgamer.com)
Ask HN: What Happened to Genetic Algorithms?
Maybe 10-20 years ago genetic algorithms were hyped. Mutation and mating were thought to be good methods for optimizing towards some goal. What happened to the field? Was it out-competed by fitter learning methods such as gradient descent?
23andMe is filing for bankruptcy. Here's what it means for your genetic data (npr.org)
Misconduct in Post-Selections and Deep Learning (2024) (arxiv.org)
EFTA00400459 has been cracked, DBC12.pdf liberated (neosmart.net)
UpScrolled – Your Voice Amplified (upscrolled.com)
Ask HN: Is Uber Exploitative?
Smokers are less likely to develop Parkinson's. Why? (2024) (news.harvard.edu)
"Operation Wrath of Zion" Aims to Dox and Deport Pro-Palestinian Protestors (dropsitenews.com)
In bed with Hari and Aruna (2023) (forbetterscience.com)
Btop: A Monitor of Resources (github.com)
Four Posts on Instagram Destroyed Her Life (nytimes.com)
Mold: A Modern Linker (superfast linker) (github.com)
Unix buffering delays output to stdout, ruins your day (turnkeylinux.org)