May 2021 Archive
3721.
Possibly the earliest video game – from 1917 (reddit.com)
3722.
Taking ML to production with Rust: a 25x speedup (2019) (lpalmieri.com)
3723.
Exploring ZooKeeper-Less Kafka (morling.dev)
3724.
Merlin's Owl (2003) (laphamsquarterly.org)
3725.
Non-Blocking Schema Changes (planetscale.com)
3726.
Quicktype: Convert JSON into typesafe code in any language (quicktype.io)
3727.
Show HN: We spidered the web to compile Top 100 remote jobs and 35K+ jobs listed (remotists.com)
3728.
Firehose of Falsehood (en.wikipedia.org)
3729.
A false facial recognition match sent this innocent Black man to jail (edition.cnn.com)
3730.
More than half of millennials with student debt say their loans weren’t worth it (cnbc.com)
3731.
Migrating from Python to Kotlin for Our Back End Services (doordash.engineering)
3732.
The Reason Wood Prices Are Completely Out of Control (slate.com)
3733.
Welcome to the Terrible World of Prescription-Only Apps (astralcodexten.substack.com)
3734.
SpaceX reveals concrete details about Starship's first orbital test flight (teslarati.com)
3735.
Show HN: Create your own Chrome Extensions (with basic JavaScript skills) (chrome.google.com)
3736.
Much of the open source world is critically underfunded yet critically important (theregister.com)
3737.
DeepMind Tried and Failed To Win AI Autonomy from Google (wsj.com)
3738.
The Complex Path to Quantum Resistance (queue.acm.org)
3739.
Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency Review (theguardian.com)
3740.
Facebook will no longer remove claims that Covid-19 was man-made (edition.cnn.com)
3741.
Digital forensics experts prone to bias, study shows (theguardian.com)
3742.
Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 (youtube.com)
3743.
Court accidentally opens Epic vs. Apple dial-in line to all speakers (pcgamer.com)
3744.
Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson (1992) [pdf] (lost-contact.mit.edu)
3745.
Epstein had connections to a number of top Microsoft executives (thedailybeast.com)
3746.
Every Doge Has Its Day (doomberg.substack.com)
3747.
High-Quality Deep Fake audio and video with only 40 seconds sample training time (youtube.com)
3748.
Dark-Matter Storm Is Speeding Toward Our Solar System (dailygalaxy.com)
3749.
Show HN: A curated collection of pretty places on the Moon (lunasights.jatan.space)
3750.
New Developments Lower Rents in Surrounding Neighborhoods, Study Says (planetizen.com)