May 2020 Archive
1681.
Uber lays off 3700 employees via Zoom (dailymail.co.uk)
1682.
Tesla employees who don’t return to work could lose unemployment benefits (techcrunch.com)
1683.
JetBlue Funded a Stanford Study That Said the Coronavirus Wasn’t That Deadly (buzzfeednews.com)
1684.
Typing 共匪 (communist bandit) in YouTube comments will automatically be deleted (twitter.com)
1685.
Sod – An Embedded Computer Vision and Machine Learning Tiny C Library (sod.pixlab.io)
1686.
Show HN: Rssfs – An RSS reader written as a file system (github.com)
1687.
Embedding Objective-Smalltalk (blog.metaobject.com)
1688.
Latency in Asynchronous Python (nullprogram.com)
1689.
Travels with John Conway, in 258 Septillion Dimensions (nytimes.com)
1690.
Accretor Cellular Automata (2018) (softologyblog.wordpress.com)
1691.
PC games are fighting a new surge of cheaters and hackers (theverge.com)
1692.
The Trolley Problem Problem (aeon.co)
1693.
Policymakers must consider the harms of pandemic policies, not just benefits (bostonreview.net)
1694.
The Third Age of JavaScript (swyx.io)
1695.
Rosetta: The Engine Behind Cray’s Slingshot Exascale-Era Interconnect (fuse.wikichip.org)
1696.
How Payments Providers Screw You (2015) (jackkinsella.ie)
1697.
Arm is offering early-stage startups free access to its chip designs (techcrunch.com)
1698.
Lighting controlled by a OralB Bluetooth toothbrush (twitter.com)
1699.
Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenue at Twitter (internetofthieves.org)
1700.
The Mount St. Helens Eruption Was the Volcanic Warning We Needed (nytimes.com)
1701.
Join Chrome Extension in Jeopardy – Google Won’t Tell Me Why – Tasker and Join (joaoapps.com)
1702.
Rules for Writers (locusmag.com)
1703.
Fuzzing: On the Exponential Cost of Vulnerability Discovery [pdf] (mboehme.github.io)
1704.
If landlords get wiped out, Wall Street wins, not renters (bloomberg.com)
1705.
Show HN: Raspberry Pi garage door opener (github.com)
1706.
Death of the Office (1843magazine.com)
1707.
America’s Havana: Thousands Say “Ciao” to San Francisco (city-journal.org)
1708.
Junk-Bond Sellers Desperate for Funding Swallow Yields over 10% (bloomberg.com)
1709.
Research on the benefits of “weak ties” – connecting with casual acquaintances (hbr.org)
1710.
Making game engines is a waste of time – I probably won’t stop making them (benwiser.com)