August 2019 Archive
7321.
A tool, approved by WhatsApp, to automate the distribution of fact-checks (poynter.org)
7322.
The Exxon Valdez of Cyberspace (economist.com)
7323.
Great Ideas Are Growing Scarce. That’s Not So Great (bloomberg.com)
7324.
Show HN: Articles that can be summarised as 'no' (github.com)
7325.
Asset Managers with $74T on Brink of Historic Shakeout (ritholtz.com)
7326.
San Clemente’s man-made reef, likely the world’s largest, is getting bigger (dredgewire.com)
7327.
A Functional Pattern System for Object-Oriented Design (web.archive.org)
7328.
In Praise of Rust's Structopt for Command Line Parsing (robert.ocallahan.org)
7329.
Why your F# evangelism isn't working (2015) (ericsink.com)
7330.
Nationalist Programming Language (citrine-lang.org)
7331.
How a Group of Heretical Thinkers Chipped Away at the Idea of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ (nytimes.com)
7332.
Teen hacker found bugs in school software that exposed millions of records (wired.com)
7333.
World’s first commercial grasshoppers farm (petacrunch.com)
7334.
eBay scammers turned Nespresso buyers into cash mules (mashable.com)
7335.
The Bw-Tree (paulcavallaro.com)
7336.
The state of the XMPP Community (2019, video) (media.ccc.de)
7337.
In danger of being overrun, some places are trying to manage tourism (latimes.com)
7338.
Consumer Reports Finds Numerous Home Routers Lack Basic Security Protections (techdirt.com)
7339.
No Logo at 20: have we lost the battle against the total branding of our lives? (theguardian.com)
7340.
Ask HN: How do you balance having a personal and a work computer?
7341.
Chevron starts burying CO2 underground (qz.com)
7342.
Kazakhstan’s aggressive mass surveillance technique explained (protonmail.com)
7343.
A Bridging Model for Parallel Computation (1990) [pdf] (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
7344.
A State Plans to Turn Coal Country into Coding Country (nytimes.com)
7345.
Binance launching US exchange to compete with Coinbase, others (cryptoslate.com)
7346.
Comparision of IPFS and EdgeFS for Edge Computing Use Cases
7347.
Darpa's $10M voting machine couldn't be hacked at Defcon (cnet.com)
7348.
Deliveroo Stopping Operations in Germany
7349.
Telegram and the Cypherpunk Rebellion Against the Libra Empire (hackernoon.com)
7350.
The Man Who Invented Modern Probability (2013) (nautil.us)