August 2022 Archive
1411.
How we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years (tomblomfield.com)
1412.
Why were medieval monks so susceptible to intestinal worms? (smithsonianmag.com)
1413.
Ask HN: Longevity for your parents, what to do?
1414.
These are not photos: landscapes created by new AI (petapixel.com)
1415.
In two centuries, the labor to produce a kilogram of grain was reduced by 99.7% (twitter.com)
1416.
PINE64 has let its community down (drewdevault.com)
1417.
Launch HN: AccessOwl (YC S22) – Automating SaaS Provisioning and Permissioning
1418.
DALL-E + GPT-3 = ♥ (medium.com)
1419.
Unicode Utilities: Confusables (util.unicode.org)
1420.
Another Path to Intelligence (nautil.us)
1421.
Nip2: A spreadsheet-like GUI for the libvips image processing library (github.com)
1422.
OpenStax: Free and Flexible Textbooks and Resources (openstax.org)
1423.
Moving “The Swift Programming Language” Book to Open Source (forums.swift.org)
1424.
US Government to make all research it funds open access on publication (arstechnica.com)
1425.
In Supreme Court brief, Yale and peers defend use of race in admissions (news.yale.edu)
1426.
Mercedes and Ferrari’s edge in the electric car age: high-end axial motors (bloomberg.com)
1427.
Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (dell.com)
1428.
The Big Bang didn't happen: What do the James Webb images show? (iai.tv)
1429.
Launch HN: Nimbus (YC W22) – Cloud dev environments for teams
1430.
Simplicity of IRC (susam.net)
1431.
The Four Dirty C-Words of the Internet (pauljun.me)
1432.
Supabase Series B (supabase.com)
1433.
The SQL query engine Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) recaps a decade of innovation (trino.io)
1434.
The Essence of Programming (2021) (gingerbill.org)
1435.
I wish I could organize my thoughts (drewdevault.com)
1436.
Why Is a British Baroness Drafting California Censorship Laws? (techdirt.com)
1437.
Hocus focus: how magicians made a fortune on Facebook (economist.com)
1438.
Play MSDOS Oregon Trail 1990 on archive.org (archive.org)
1439.
How to learn hard things in tech (technicallychallenged.substack.com)
1440.
How to offer effective free trials (upollo.ai)