Feb 2, 2025 | Apple open sources Swift Build; archivists save data.gov datasets; Bay Area 'Zizians' linked to killings

Apple is open sourcing Swift Build
https://www.swift.org/blog/the-next-chapter-in-swift-build-technologies/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899703

Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets
https://www.404media.co/archivists-work-to-identify-and-save-the-thousands-of-datasets-disappearing-from-data-gov/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367

String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bay-area-death-cult-zizian-murders-20064333.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877910

CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research
https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905937

Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-space/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42897120

Macrodata Refinement
https://lumon-industries.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902691

Bzip3: A spiritual successor to BZip2
https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899713

Avoid ISP Routers (2024)
https://routersecurity.org/ISProuters.php
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42903576

RLHF Book
https://rlhfbook.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902936

Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks
https://www.quantamagazine.org/chatbot-software-begins-to-face-fundamental-limitations-20250131/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42905453