July 2019 Archive
5251.
Opinion – Please Touch Me (nytimes.com)
5252.
Show HN: Filmbot – indie movie theater digest (filmbot.info)
5253.
Seeing the invisible: High-res thermal images show Icelandic nature at work (petapixel.com)
5254.
Requiem for “The Cable Guy” (cringely.com)
5255.
Hack any Instagram account ($30k Bug bounty) (thezerohack.com)
5256.
LeapIN rebrands as Xolo, raises $6.8M for its ‘virtual company service’ (xolo.io)
5257.
Alan Turing Will Be the Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note (bbc.com)
5258.
Most private VPN I’ve ever seen: Mullvad VPN (kevinhq.com)
5259.
£40 headphones accessory is a bonafide long-haul flight hero (wired.co.uk)
5260.
Microsoft and Telekom no longer offer cloud storage under German jurisdiction (nextcloud.com)
5261.
Notes from Peter Thiel’s Speech at the National Conservatism Conference (medium.com)
5262.
Minneapolis Freed Itself from the Stranglehold of Single-Family Homes (politico.com)
5263.
How to Manage a Board (blog.ycombinator.com)
5264.
Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD Cluster (nextplatform.com)
5265.
The dangers of conditional consistency guarantees (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
5266.
Why Chores Are So Hard (theatlantic.com)
5267.
Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale is a model of longform worldbuilding (theverge.com)
5268.
Election Security Is Still Hurting at Every Level (wired.com)
5269.
SpaceX IDs cause of Dragon explosion, says crewed launch in 2019 is 'difficult' (wired.com)
5270.
Elephant extinction in Africa would speed up climate crisis (independent.co.uk)
5271.
The $260M utility token built on a network with less than 10k verified users (theblockcrypto.com)
5272.
Oculus Finally Pulled the Plug on Perforce – Switches to Mercurial (twitter.com)
5273.
The dangers of conditional consistency guarantees (dbmsmusings.blogspot.com)
5274.
Democrats are considering a bill to ban Facebook from the finance industry (theverge.com)
5275.
Webhose provides an API to search for images based on Geolocation Exif data (webhose.io)
5276.
Secure Alternatives to JSON Web Tokens (wesleyhill.co.uk)
5277.
New Facebook Reporting Tool to Crackdown on Scam Adverts (digit.fyi)
5278.
Two million in Zimbabwe’s capital have no water as city turns off taps (climatechangenews.com)
5279.
Substack (YC W18) Raises $15.3m from Andreessen Horowitz (on.substack.com)
5280.
Racism Comes Out of the Closet (nytimes.com)