August 2020 Archive
811.
OCaml Workshop 2020 Online Conference is live now (discuss.ocaml.org)
812.
MicroStrategy Adopts Bitcoin as Primary Treasury Reserve Asset (ir.microstrategy.com)
813.
Sci-fi story coauthored by GPT-3, including in-character human/AI chats (jamesyu.org)
814.
“Zombie cicadas” infected with mind-controlling fungus return to West Virginia (cbsnews.com)
815.
Impact of Go AI on the professional Go world (medium.com)
816.
Nuclear Reactor Development History (whatisnuclear.com)
817.
A collection of books, talks, and papers on security engineering (github.com)
818.
A Swedish doctor's perspective on Covid (sebastianrushworth.com)
819.
Boom Supersonic hopes to test-fly its supersonic plane in 2021 (engadget.com)
820.
The physics of why hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold water (smithsonianmag.com)
821.
Office Drama on macOS (objective-see.com)
822.
J Notation as a Tool of Thought (hillelwayne.com)
823.
‘AeroNabs’ – Inhalable Protection Against Covid-19 (ucsf.edu)
824.
Scribd acquires SlideShare from LinkedIn (techcrunch.com)
825.
Awesome-sysadmin: A curated list of amazingly open source sysadmin resources (github.com)
826.
US home construction surges 22.6%, third monthly increase (abcnews.go.com)
827.
Show HN: A platform for beginners to learn programming in Python (github.com)
828.
Lenovo’s Fedora-Powered ThinkPad P53 Is Everything I Want in a Linux Laptop (forbes.com)
829.
A look at the J language: the fine line between genius and insanity (2012) (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
830.
Design Tip: Never Use Black (2012) (ianstormtaylor.com)
831.
Knuth versus Email (1999) (www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
832.
What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project (dylanwilson.net)
833.
Ask HN: How do you overcome decision fatigue in software development?
834.
We are a spectrum of jobs, not just one (rachelbythebay.com)
835.
Roblox is a MUD: The history of MUDs, virtual worlds and MMORPGs (medium.com)
836.
Lord of the Manor: a medieval city builder game (lordofthemanor.io)
837.
Take Gitlab to the command line with GLab, an open-source Gitlab CLI tool (github.com)
838.
New Relic changes business model, open-sources agents and instrumentation (thenewstack.io)
839.
How the 8086 processor handles power and clock internally (righto.com)
840.
People slept on grass beds 200k years ago (arstechnica.com)