February 2021 Archive
2611.
Brave Browser leaks your Tor / Onion service requests through DNS (ramble.pw)
2612.
Ask HN: Works of fiction that have inspired you to solve programming problems?
2613.
Why scientists want to kill Pablo Escobar's hippos (bbc.co.uk)
2614.
Analysis: Carmakers wake up to new pecking order as chip crunch intensifies (reuters.com)
2615.
Deepfakes of Tom Cruise show the technology's threat to society is real (inputmag.com)
2616.
Show HN: AI-powered image search that beats Google without captions or keywords (evertrove.co)
2617.
“Slack transcodes some files you upload, including removing byte order marks ” (twitter.com)
2618.
Salesforce will provide new ways for employees to work, including WFH forever (businessinsider.com)
2619.
I Know What You Bought at Chipotle for $9.81 by Solving a Linear Inverse Problem (dl.acm.org)
2620.
Citibank can't get back $500M it wired by mistake, judge rules (cnn.com)
2621.
Excellent archive of Watcom C/C++ CD-ROMs on Archive.org (2018) (virtuallyfun.com)
2622.
Show HN: Rails N+1 queries auto-detection with zero false negatives (github.com)
2623.
California law would give wronged workers a way out of NDAs (protocol.com)
2624.
Egypt unearths 'oldest' mass-production brewery (phys.org)
2625.
Announcing Skittish (waxy.org)
2626.
Windows 7 restarts on Swiss national TV evening news [video] (youtube.com)
2627.
We increased the data limits of our Free Plan by 100x. Here’s why (mixpanel.com)
2628.
Show HN: Florodoro – A pomodoro timer that grows procedurally generated plants (github.com)
2629.
Trading in Atoms for Bits (cabinetmagazine.org)
2630.
People are leaving S.F. USPS data shows where they went (sfchronicle.com)
2631.
Trussed – a new Rust framework for security chips that could replace JavaCard (trussed.dev)
2632.
Three thylacines (Tasmanian wolves) have apparently been photographed alive (twitter.com)
2633.
Ultrasound triggers brain's waste disposal system in Alzheimer's patients (newatlas.com)
2634.
Loan Apps Weaponise Your Data to Make You Pay (vice.com)
2635.
Booting the IBM 1401: How a 1959 punch-card computer loads a program (righto.com)
2636.
Reasoning about Taxes (billdietrich.me)
2637.
Reading Candidates’ GitHub Profiles (ayende.com)
2638.
Ask HN: Buy the M1 MacBook Pro or Wait for M2?
2639.
Who are the culture heroes of today? (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2640.
The Atrocious Robert Clive (guernicamag.com)