December 2020 Archive
1771.
Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (aeon.co)
1772.
Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20sec at 100M degrees (phys.org)
1773.
The Covid-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony (hollywoodreporter.com)
1774.
Uber Eats avoids ruling on workers' status by settling with delivery rider (theguardian.com)
1775.
Concurrency: Implement withUnsafe[Throwing]Continuation (github.com)
1776.
Deprecating the __cfduid cookie (blog.cloudflare.com)
1777.
Half-Precision Floating-Point, Visualized (observablehq.com)
1778.
Progress Toward a Safer Psychedelic Drug to Treat Depression and Addiction (npr.org)
1779.
Asset forfeiture is just theft (pluralistic.net)
1780.
No Country for Old Developers (medium.com)
1781.
Larry David and the Game Theory of Anonymous Donations (nautil.us)
1782.
Peter Thiel Says Covid Marks 21st Century’s True Start (forbes.com)
1783.
Fuzzy logic rice cookers (2016) (fivethirtyeight.com)
1784.
My Journey to Finally Ditching Windows for Good (boilingsteam.com)
1785.
Bubblesort, rocksort, and cocktail-shaker sort (quuxplusone.github.io)
1786.
Teach Debugging (2014) (danluu.com)
1787.
Teardown: Identifying Apple M1's distinct circuit blocks (eetasia.com)
1788.
About those vector icons (2011) (pushing-pixels.org)
1789.
Nature's 'Brita Filter' Is Dying and Nobody Knows Why (2019) (wuwm.com)
1790.
Show HN: Haxon, CLI tooling to retrieve data from Axon police body cams (github.com)
1791.
Show HN: Deploy your own algo-trader in 5 minutes with 0 code (getquantbase.com)
1792.
What's the deal with openportstats.com? (isc.sans.edu)
1793.
Show HN: Twitch controls Minecraft (github.com)
1794.
The Famicube Project (androidarts.com)
1795.
Show HN: Building an E-Ink Calendar and a UI Toolkit along the way (rahulrav.com)
1796.
Shortformer: Better Language Modeling using Shorter Inputs [pdf] (ofir.io)
1797.
Code Review Best Practices – Lessons from the Trenches (blogboard.io)
1798.
Health Canada opens the door to psychedelic therapies [video] (citynews1130.com)
1799.
The Mystery of Mistletoe’s Missing Genes (abstractions.nautil.us)
1800.
Children choose to save dogs over humans, adults chose 1 human over 100 dogs (journals.sagepub.com)