January 2021 Archive
11491.
Rethinking Computer Architecture and OS Abstractions for Good and Evil [pdf] (iacoma.cs.uiuc.edu)
11492.
A Man Who Turned Credit-Card Points into an Empire (nytimes.com)
11493.
How American Universities Turned into Corporations (2014) (time.com)
11494.
Pain Relief for Doctors Labelling Data (eric-landau.medium.com)
11495.
The Obscure yet Powerful Tenant-Screening Industry Is Getting Some Scrutiny (themarkup.org)
11496.
Does Vitamin D combat Covid? (theguardian.com)
11497.
TreeCard a wooden bank card that plant trees (treecard.org)
11498.
Why are PowerPC and MIPS processors not as prominent as ARM and x86? (quora.com)
11499.
Can the Covid-19 Vaccine Beat the Proliferation of New Virus Mutations? (newyorker.com)
11500.
Mental Model Fundamentals (terrific-ear-2501.glideapp.io)
11501.
George Carruthers, Whose Telescopes Explored Space, Dies at 81 (nytimes.com)
11502.
Show HN: Switch Tracker – Extract Nintendo Switch Playtime Data (github.com)
11503.
Live World Vaccination Tracker (covidvax.live)
11504.
Why Big Companies Buy Small Ones (ezzeddinabdullah.com)
11505.
Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses (techcrunch.com)
11506.
ffsubsync – Automatically sync subtitles with video (github.com)
11507.
Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and VS Code (hanselman.com)
11508.
Why Twitter is completely wrong on handling fake news and misinformation (uxdesign.cc)
11509.
How Taiwan Semiconductor Came to Dominate the World [audio] (bloomberg.com)
11510.
The Joy of Deleting Code (rockandnull.com)
11511.
Perceived relations between Gemini, Gopher and HTTP (len.falken.ink)
11512.
Can you measure the speed of sound using the crowd at a Babymetal concert? (notion.so)
11513.
Am I Part of the Problem? (elizabethsampat.itch.io)
11514.
Startup vs. Side Project (albertkoz.medium.com)
11515.
Why iPhone is today’s Kodak Brownie Camera (om.co)
11516.
Opinion: Believe it or not, Bitcoin has become a good long-term investment (cnn.com)
11517.
DoItWithoutDues (doitwithoutdues.com)
11518.
The Underlay (underlay.mit.edu)
11519.
Kemtls: Post-quantum TLS without signatures (blog.cloudflare.com)
11520.
New results on Gödel incompleteness: talk this Monday at 19:00 UTC (jdh.hamkins.org)