October 2024 Archive
511.
Universal optimality of Dijkstra via beyond-worst-case heaps (arxiv.org)
512.
The Japanese word ikigai refers to a passion that gives joy to life (2022) (japan.go.jp)
513.
Blue whale skeleton at New Bedford museum still oozing oil (wpri.com)
514.
Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove (nature.com)
515.
The Stallman Report (stallman-report.org)
516.
A Local-First Case Study (jakelazaroff.com)
517.
Do U.S. ports need more automation? (construction-physics.com)
518.
Wi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo Standard (spectrum.ieee.org)
519.
Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic (404media.co)
520.
Is the attack helicopter dead? (hushkit.net)
521.
UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius (bbc.co.uk)
522.
We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem (old.reddit.com)
523.
The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia (smithsonianmag.com)
524.
A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022) (phys.org)
525.
TSMC cuts off client after discovering chips sent to Huawei (bloomberg.com)
526.
Wasmer 5.0 (wasmer.io)
527.
The electrostatic world of insects (wired.com)
528.
Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store (frozenfractal.com)
529.
Don't let dicts spoil your code (roman.pt)
530.
Can logic programming be liberated from predicates and backtracking? [pdf] (www-ps.informatik.uni-kiel.de)
531.
S3 as a Git remote and LFS server (github.com)
532.
Warm Handoffs (luckymike.dev)
533.
Generative AI Scripting (microsoft.github.io)
534.
Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status (lwn.net)
535.
Mozilla fixes Firefox zero-day actively exploited in attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)
536.
Understanding how bureaucracy develops (dhruvmethi.substack.com)
537.
The 1/8th Sleep (near.blog)
538.
Writes and Write-Nots (paulgraham.com)
539.
OpenFeature – a vendor-agnostic, community-driven API for feature flagging (github.com)
540.
DeepSeek v2.5 – open-source LLM comparable to GPT-4, but 95% less expensive (deepseek.com)