May 2021 Archive
2551.
SpaceX aims for its 100th successful flight in a row TODAY with a Falcon 9 (dailymail.co.uk)
2552.
Former Netflix CTO convicted for taking bribes (engadget.com)
2553.
The Army's New Night-Vision Goggles Look Like Technology Stolen from Aliens (gizmodo.com)
2554.
QUIC Version 1 is live on Cloudflare (blog.cloudflare.com)
2555.
One year vesting schedules at Lyft (levels.fyi)
2556.
Make Light Trucks as Safe as Cars or Ban Them from Cities (treehugger.com)
2557.
One Year of Elixir: How It Compares to Ruby (boredhacking.com)
2558.
Google ‘Experiments’ with Bringing RSS Capabilities Back to Chrome (pxlnv.com)
2559.
If I fits I sits: An investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in cats (arstechnica.com)
2560.
The AskHistorians subreddit banned Holocaust deniers (2018) (slate.com)
2561.
Python Default Dict (docs.python.org)
2562.
Bitcoin rival Chia 'destroyed' hard disc supply chains, says its boss (newscientist.com)
2563.
What we lose when literary criticism ends (thewalrus.ca)
2564.
Ask HN: Can you share your experience when you bombed an interview badly?
2565.
Why rich parents have rich children (voxeu.org)
2566.
The Lives of Napoleon (historytoday.com)
2567.
Indian scientists flag virus mutations that could ‘evade immune response’ (reuters.com)
2568.
A fringe Japanese religion built a pro-Trump social media empire (restofworld.org)
2569.
The Transitory Nature of Content on the Internet (cheapskatesguide.org)
2570.
Tether Backed by 3.87% Cash (theblockcrypto.com)
2571.
Short Tutorial on Python's ChainMap (pythonsbyte.substack.com)
2572.
Vitalik Buterin's $1B crypto donation to India Covid Relief fund (etherscan.io)
2573.
ST3 Update now is ST4 (forum.sublimetext.com)
2574.
Show HN: I made a fun real-time visualization of Bitcoin network activity (bits.monospace.live)
2575.
When will your elevator arrive? Two physicists do the math (phys.org)
2576.
How I Shot This Lunar Eclipse Sequence in Camera, on Film (petapixel.com)
2577.
Private-equity firm revives zombie fossil-fuel power plant to mine Bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
2578.
Was a flying killer robot used in Libya? Quite possibly (thebulletin.org)
2579.
Network Realism: William Gibson and new forms of fiction (2010) (booktwo.org)
2580.
Omnimatte: Associating Objects and Their Effects in Video (omnimatte.github.io)