October 2020 Archive
1681.
Ban All Ransomware Payments, in Bitcoin or Otherwise (coindesk.com)
1682.
Dr.Mario 64's gzip implementation is taken almost verbatim from gzip source code (twitter.com)
1683.
Overcoming Writer's Block (blog.streetwriters.co)
1684.
Why the Unix newgrp command exists (sort of) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1685.
Ask HN: How to Think Clearly?
1686.
Custom domains now available on Substack (blog.substack.com)
1687.
What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school (offlinemark.com)
1688.
The Jim Roskind C/C++ Grammar (2018) (blog.robertelder.org)
1689.
Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin (theverge.com)
1690.
Digital Camera Know-Hows (av.jpn.support.panasonic.com)
1691.
House: Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google have “monopoly power,” should be split (arstechnica.com)
1692.
Probability and Statistics with Applications to Computing [pdf] (alextsun.com)
1693.
Hand-Coloured Glass Transparencies of the Meiji-Era (publicdomainreview.org)
1694.
I switched to Linux after using Windows for 10 years (shalithasuranga.medium.com)
1695.
Show HN: Chat bot powered by GPT-3 (blog.quickchat.ai)
1696.
Archive of tech interview questions of Google, Amazon, FB, Samsung and et al. (github.com)
1697.
Former Google CEO Calls Social Networks ‘Amplifiers for Idiots’ (bloomberg.com)
1698.
Microsoft Overhauls Excel with Custom Data Types (theverge.com)
1699.
What gravitational-wave events reveal about the Universe (nature.com)
1700.
Raindrop 5.0 (medium.com)
1701.
RTX3090 TensorFlow, NAMD and HPCG Performance on Linux (pugetsystems.com)
1702.
What Colour are your bits? (2004) (ansuz.sooke.bc.ca)
1703.
Deleting your Facebook account forfeits Oculus VR games you already paid for (polygon.com)
1704.
Blockchain, the Solution for Almost Nothing (thecorrespondent.com)
1705.
2,000-Year-Old Nazca Line Featuring Lounging Cat Found in Peru (smithsonianmag.com)
1706.
I Met the Reclusive Georgia O’Keeffe (newyorker.com)
1707.
Uber sends political ads through push notifications
1708.
How to Write a Better Weblog (2002) (alistapart.com)
1709.
Taiwan academics told to identify as Chinese in journal (thetimes.co.uk)
1710.
Raymarching with Fennel and LÖVE (andreyorst.gitlab.io)