August 2021 Archive
4801.
The little-known genius who helped make Pixar possible (wired.com)
4802.
How to walk across a parking lot (2011) (raptitude.com)
4803.
Ask HN: Let's talk about empathy towards others
4804.
Now, risks of further isolation are worse than Covid (hmbreview.com)
4805.
Square Agrees to Acquire Afterpay for $29B in All-Stock Deal (wsj.com)
4806.
Journalists receive death threats over reporting on China flooding (newsweek.com)
4807.
A Conversation Between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram (youtube.com)
4808.
Hubble Pi (magpi.raspberrypi.org)
4809.
Space station situation with Russian module misfire more serious than stated (space.com)
4810.
Bay Area counties mandate masks indoors for everyone because of delta variant (sfgate.com)
4811.
Spyware features found in Chinese state benefits app (therecord.media)
4812.
Shipping costs from China are going through the roof (cnx-software.com)
4813.
Pggen: A Golang ORM Alternative (medium.com)
4814.
Resist De Blasio’s Vaccine Passport – Reason.com (reason.com)
4815.
Resignations at Scientific Journal over Ethically Fraught China Genetics Papers (theintercept.com)
4816.
Apple promoting scam slime apps (twitter.com)
4817.
Adumbrations of Aducanumab (astralcodexten.substack.com)
4818.
Building Google Zanzibar from Scratch (osohq.com)
4819.
Live: Starship Prototype Ship 20 Being Stacked on Super Heavy [video] (youtube.com)
4820.
Casio AI-1000 Pocket Lisp Computer from 1989 (youtube.com)
4821.
The Big Money Behind the Big Lie (newyorker.com)
4822.
The Mypillow Guy Really Could Destroy Democracy (theatlantic.com)
4823.
9/11 families to President Biden: Don't come to our memorial events (nbcnews.com)
4824.
'Functionally useless': California privacy law's big reveal falls short (politico.com)
4825.
Buridan's Ass (en.wikipedia.org)
4826.
A timeline of Elon Musk’s bailout of SolarCity, informed by court transcripts (twitter.com)
4827.
Thousands of Patients Implanted with Heart Pumps the FDA Knew Could Be Dangerous (propublica.org)
4828.
Newline Guide to Creating React Libraries from Scratch (newline.co)
4829.
Biden Administration Expands Definition of Intolerable Covid 'Misinformation' (reason.com)
4830.
How the Poly Network hack worked (twitter.com)