February 2021 Archive
1981.
68% of the top links on Facebook since September are in support of Donald Trump (businessofbusiness.com)
1982.
Facebook to restore news pages in Australia (bbc.com)
1983.
Dependency on rust removes support for a number of platforms (github.com)
1984.
When did “disturb” became the default mode?
1985.
Launch HN: Xix.ai (YC W17) – Securely authenticate in web apps by face
1986.
A Follow-Up to “Location-Based Pay” (blackshaw.substack.com)
1987.
Athenian Democracy in the Political Imagination (laphamsquarterly.org)
1988.
Blue Beads in the Tundra (news.uaf.edu)
1989.
A love letter to ISC bind (ungleich.ch)
1990.
Astronomer Avi Loeb Says Aliens Have Visited, and He’s Not Kidding (scientificamerican.com)
1991.
A Categorical Theory of Patches (2013) (arxiv.org)
1992.
Parable of the Butler: A science-fiction pioneer finds posthumous fame (harpers.org)
1993.
The Caltech Sweepstakes Caper (hoaxes.org)
1994.
Lean into Procrastination (jodent.io)
1995.
DALL-E Paper and Code (github.com)
1996.
I'm the Amazon Worker the Media Doesn't Want You to Meet (newsweek.com)
1997.
Show HN: TurnShift, I turned an Algolia internal scheduling tool into a SaaS (turnshift.app)
1998.
How to Record Great Sounding / High Quality Audio at Home (nickjanetakis.com)
1999.
Megastructures Superweapons and Global Architectures in Sci-Fi Computer Games (academia.edu)
2000.
Unfortunate things about performance reviews (rachelbythebay.com)
2001.
Show HN: Svgasm – SVG animation from single GIF using tracer (github.com)
2002.
One year on, Namecheap still fighting aborted .org takeover (domainincite.com)
2003.
Everything Is Buggy (hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)
2004.
Schools Are Abandoning Invasive Proctoring Software After Student Backlash (vice.com)
2005.
Daft Punk – Epilogue (youtube.com)
2006.
MicroStrategy Acquires Additional 19,452 Bitcoins for $1.026B (microstrategy.com)
2007.
Why Are So Many Romances Set in the Regency Period? (daily.jstor.org)
2008.
Training Makes Runners More Efficient, but Not Cyclists (2018) (outsideonline.com)
2009.
The trial of a child soldier who became a brutal rebel commander (narratively.com)
2010.
Implementing "defer" (c3.handmade.network)