Automated reading list update on Fri Sep 1 08:15:22 UTC 2023

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@@ -1435,3 +1435,4 @@ https://www.wired.com/story/poland-train-radio-stop-attack/,The Cheap Radio Hack
 https://opentf.org/,OpenTF Foundation,"Supporting an impartial, open, and community-driven Terraform.",https://opentf.org/images/og.png,2023-08-29T23:16:27.921811071Z,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37262440
 https://birchtree.me/blog/a-note-to-young-folks-download-the-videos-you-love/,A note to young folks: download the things you love,"Many years ago, my favorite podcast was The Totally Rad Show. It was a fun video podcast where the hosts reviewed movies, games, TV shows, and other general nerd stuff. The hosts were Jeff Cannata (who last year I called the podcasting GOAT), Dan Trachtenberg (who went on to direct",,2023-08-30T08:28:57.073918158Z,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37304125
 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02648-9,A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care — what's next?,A community of people with type 1 diabetes got a self-built device approved. What can they offer that big companies can’t?,https://media.nature.com/lw1024/magazine-assets/d41586-023-02648-9/d41586-023-02648-9_25958308.jpg,2023-08-31T08:01:02.909314145Z,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37321028
+https://www.marginalia.nu/log/87_absurd_success/,Absurd Success @ marginalia.nu,"So… I’ve had the most unreal week of coding. Zero exaggeration, I’ve halved the RAM requirements of the search engine, removed the need to take the system offline during an upgrade, removed hard limits on how many documents can be indexed, and quadrupled soft limits on how many keywords can be in the corpus. It’s been a long term goal to keep it possible to run and operate the system on low-powered hardware, and so far improvements have been made, to the point where my 32 Gb RAM developer machine feels spacey rather than cramped, but this set of changes takes it several notches further.",,2023-09-01T08:15:22.396896506Z,https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37331778