Elon Musk says X[Twitter] to have voice and video calls, updates privacy policy

Article URL: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/elon-musk-says-x-formerly-twitter-will-have-voice-and-video-calls-updates-privacy-policy/

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What we know so far about school buildings closures

Schools in England have been told to shut buildings made with a type of concrete, unless safety measures are in place.

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Font awesome plans to charge pageviews

Article URL: https://imgur.com/a/hO7uX4N

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37326793

Points: 1

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Police release CCTV of Aston Villa coach bricking in Burnley

The footage shows the moment a brick was hurled at the Premier League team's bus as it left Burnley.

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Theory vs. Practice in Modeling Edge Storage Systems

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12115

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37312613

Points: 1

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Watch: BBC gets as close as possible to Prigozhin grave

Russia editor Steve Rosenberg is at the cemetery in St Petersburg where it is believed Prigozhin is buried.

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California DMV Tells Cruise to Halve Its Fleet in SF

Article URL: https://sfist.com/2023/08/19/california-dmv-steps-into-autonomous-taxi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37298941

Points: 1

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PMET: Precise Model Editing in a Transformer

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08742

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37285396

Points: 5

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Selling ‘Handmade’ USB Drives with Pirated Movies Is a Thing

Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/selling-handmade-usb-drives-with-pirated-movies-is-a-thing-230827/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37285390

Points: 1

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Latest copyright ruling should give brands pause for thought on AI creativity

Article URL: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2023/08/25/latest-copyright-ruling-should-give-brands-pause-thought-ai-creativity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37285379

Points: 1

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Captain Cliché, AI that only responds in platitudes

Article URL: https://newsletter.pnote.eu/p/captain-cliche-ai-that-only-responds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37285372

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World Athletics Championships 2023: Keely Hodgkinson wins 800m silver as Mary Moraa triumphs

Keely Hodgkinson is forced to settle for silver as Kenya's Mary Moraa triumphs in a thrilling 800m final at the World Championships.

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Longtime 'Price Is Right' Host Bob Barker Dies at 99

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/26/200752493/price-is-right-host-bob-barker-dead

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37275795

Points: 3

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The Rubiales World Cup kiss row... in 75 seconds

The controversy concerning the head of Spanish football and a kiss at the Women's World Cup final explained.

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Brighton & Hove Albion 1-3 West Ham United: James Ward-Prowse scores first goal for Hammers

West Ham continue their unbeaten Premier League start by stunning Brighton as James Ward-Prowse scores his first Hammers goal.

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Wrote about my journey with alopecia

Article URL: https://www.siddg.com/my-hair-became-my-spectacles

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Points: 1

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Spain wants Rubiales kiss row to be 'MeToo moment'

The Rubiales affair appears to feed into broader social changes in Spanish society over recent years.

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Cassandra Parameters for Dummies

Article URL: https://www.ecyrd.com/cassandracalculator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37252826

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GCSE English and maths resits to rise by thousands

Tens of thousands more 16-year-olds will need to retake their papers in England.

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Ask HN: Best online courses to become a data analyst?

What are the best online courses for someone with practically no technical background to get on the path of becoming a data analyst?

Courses with a certificate (paid fine) at the end are the best fit for the purpose.

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‘Chinese spy’ targeted thousands over LinkedIn

The alleged spy used several names in attempt to entrap officials and extract state secrets

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AI Funds Don’t Like AI Stocks

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-22/ai-funds-don-t-like-ai-stocks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37227131

Points: 1

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Magaluf: Men suspected of gang-raping British teen were not all friends

The woman was allegedly forced to have sex and was filmed by the suspected aggressors.

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Rate-Limiting Primer

Article URL: https://blog.fluxninja.com/blog/from-static-to-adaptive-a-framework-for-implementing-rate-limits

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37213621

Points: 5

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Let childminders work in own homes, landlords urged

But the sector says asking landlords to review restrictive contracts will only make a small difference.

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CCC Talk: All cops are broadcasting Obtaining the secret TETRA primitives [video]

Article URL: https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57100-all_cops_are_broadcasting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37201762

Points: 4

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British Museum: How easy is it to steal from a museum?

Stolen items from the British Museum spark debate over the safety of the world's greatest treasures.

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‘Fed up with airports’: Long-distance trains take on air travel in Europe

Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230815-fed-up-with-airports-long-distance-trains-take-on-air-travel-in-europe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37192256

Points: 2

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Elon Musk's Latest Big Idea for X Is Removing the Block Button

Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/elon-musks-latest-big-idea-for-x-is-removing-the-block-button

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37180560

Points: 3

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Man in hospital after fall from cruise ship at Port of Cromarty Firth

The Viking Cruises crew member was airlifted to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after the incident

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DAF selects JetZero to develop blended wing body aircraft prototype

Article URL: https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3494520/daf-selects-jetzero-to-develop-blended-wing-body-aircraft-prototype/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37166461

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Chance to Vote for the 'Just Work Podcast: Live from SXSW' Session

Article URL: https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/143159

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37166455

Points: 1

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Conversations, Design, Pattern Languages, Rheomode and Emergence of Creativity

Article URL: https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/conversations-design-pattern-languages-rheomode-and-the-emergence-of-creativity-a7c72820ab1e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37166426

Points: 1

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Mediocre Samurai Describes Real Life in Historical Japan [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQY3dbUsVgE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37166413

Points: 1

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Dog walker surprised by bear at her front door

A doorbell camera recorded a woman and her dog coming face-to-face with a bear outside her home

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Ötzi the iceman had receding hairline and dark skin tone, study reveals

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/16/otzi-iceman-receding-hairline-dark-skin-tone-study-reveals

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37151572

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Former Royal Marine shot by pirate in Amazon

John Bathgate was hit twice when he was attacked near the Colombian border during a charity expedition.

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Every greenfield OSS project should join Mastodon

Article URL: https://blog.erlend.sh/every-greenfield-oss-project-should-join-mastodon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37138069

Points: 3

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Tips to become a kid's favorite adult

Article URL: https://text.npr.org/1186984003

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37125059

Points: 3

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EastEnders: Shane Richie's Alfie Moon set for prostate cancer story

Shane Richie's character is diagnosed with prostate cancer in a script devised to raise awareness.

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Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/azurechatgpt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37112741

Points: 25

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Hawaii wildfires: Volunteers bring aid by boat to devastated Maui

Volunteers formed a human chain to pass aid off the boat as quickly as possible.

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The ESRB wants to start using facial scanning technology to check people's ages

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/the-esrb-wants-to-start-using-facial-recognition-to-check-peoples-ages/

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Hawaii wildfires: Drone footage shows extent devastation in Lahaina

The wildfires spread through the historic town of Lahaina, destroying buildings and vehicles.

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Yellow Magic Orchestra – Tong Poo [video]

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Ask HN: Where can I have good, technical discussion on random topics?

Stack exchange usually bans random discussion and Reddit is usually pretty service level.

I have had some decent conversation on HN, but the medium is semi poor for convo.

I’m wanting to get into studying DB implementation, btree optimizations, parsers, etc. Whats a good place for hackers to just passionately chat and learn from each other?

Open source is cool, but I’m speaking more generally

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Noise, Signal, Small, Huge and More

Article URL: http://kannangce.in/noise-signal-small-huge-and-more.html

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Video shows people struggling in water to escape Hawaii flames

The chaotic moments of the fire sweeping across Lahaina are captured on mobile phone footage.

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Turns out lowly thymus may be saving your life

Article URL: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/08/turns-out-lowly-thymus-may-be-saving-your-life/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37080404

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Big freeze drove early humans out of Europe

Severe cold a million years ago forced our ancestors from the continent, but they adapted and returned.

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Mines, drone strikes, organised crime: Ukraine grain to Danube ports no easy fix

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/09/mines-drone-strikes-organised-plan-to-export-ukraine-grain-via-danube-ports-is-no-easy-fix

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Lizzo: Lawyers reviewing at least six new allegations against singer

Lawyers representing three of Lizzo's former dancers say they are reviewing new complaints against her.

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Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit

Article URL: https://khronokernel.github.io/macos/2023/08/08/AS-VM.html

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Learning (Some) Haskell by Building Tetris

Article URL: https://a.skh.am/2023/08/06/tetris-haskell.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37039679

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Prison and probation staffing dangerously low

The Ministry of Justice publishes its views on the services accidentally on a government website.

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Ask HN: GPT4 and Voice?

Is there an app or service to interact with GPT4 (or Claude) using voice? Up to $50/mo (I already pay $20/mo for GPT4).

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Women's World Cup 2023: Why exit of holders USA was a predictable 'catastrophe'

The USA hoped to become the first team to win three successive Women's World Cup titles but made history of a very different kind.

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Slovenia floods 'worst-ever natural disaster'

The extreme flooding in Slovenia has caused millions of dollars worth of damage and killed at least three people.

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Quantum computing with superconducting qubits (2022)

Article URL: https://pennylane.ai/qml/demos/tutorial_sc_qubits/

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Wales 20-9 England: Warren Gatland's side defeat disappointing England in warm-up

Wales enjoy victory in the opening World Cup warm-up game against England in Cardiff to leave Steve Borthwick mulling over Monday's tournament selection.

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Schizotypy–Do Not Worry, It Is Not All Worrisome [pdf]

Article URL: https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_51FE06B27509.P001/REF.pdf

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Strictly: Angela Rippon, Amanda Abbington and Layton Williams lead line-up

The Rip-Off Britain presenter is set to be the oldest contestant in the show's history, at the age of 78.

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NPM Security Woes Continue Amidst a Series of CDN Attacks

Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/npm-security-woes-continue-amidst-a-series-of-cdn-attacks/

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Officer calls parents on Florida teen driving 132mph (212km/h)

The teen was going double the posted speed limit and the officer dialled up his father right away.

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Hosting Ars, part 3: CI/CD, or how I learned to stop worrying and love DevOps

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/ars-on-aws-03/

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VIP abuse ‘liars’ to be investigated after seven-year delay

The announcement follows a long campaign by ex-MP Harvey Proctor, who was among those falsely accused.

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Like all workers, federal employees need to get back to the office

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/01/michael-bloomberg-federal-employees-offices-washington/

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Violinist who played during brain surgery reunites with doctor

Dagmar Turner played the violin while surgeons were removing a brain tumour in January 2020.

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