August 2021 Archive
5761.
Rodney Brooks: Intelligence Without Representation (1987) [pdf] (people.csail.mit.edu)
5762.
Oregon declares state of emergency as another ‘extreme heatwave’ looms (theguardian.com)
5763.
EC2 Boot Time Benchmarking (daemonology.net)
5764.
Zero-Knowledge Proofs 4 Private Web Attestation with Cross/Multi-Vendor Hardware (blog.cloudflare.com)
5765.
Lessons We Learned Adding Dark Mode to WorkOS (workos.com)
5766.
Reddit is now valued at more than $10B (theverge.com)
5767.
How the Far Right Exploded on Steam and Discord (wired.com)
5768.
Why Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothing (2019) (features.propublica.org)
5769.
China's Busiest Ports Closes Container Shipments Due to Covid (freightwaves.com)
5770.
Infection-enhancing SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, potential risk for mass vaccination? (journalofinfection.com)
5771.
Why the Medallion Fund Is the Greatest Money-Making Machine of All Time (ofdollarsanddata.com)
5772.
I Recreated Hey.com in Gmail (dramsch.net)
5773.
Blindness, Schizophrenia, and Autism (astralcodexten.substack.com)
5774.
American Information Exchange (en.wikipedia.org)
5775.
Engineers make critical advance in quantum computer design (phys.org)
5776.
Massachusetts Startup Hopes to Move a Step Closer to Commercial Fusion (nytimes.com)
5777.
Ask HN: Do you have use cases for an open source clone of Google Slicer?
5778.
Thinking of the Children (maxhodak.com)
5779.
Ravi, a Lua Dialect (medium.com)
5780.
Pine64 announces PineNote 60hz eInk reader with quartz64 CPU (youtube.com)
5781.
Attackers use Morse code, other encryption methods in evasive phishing campaign (microsoft.com)
5782.
Cnnfyi.com (2000) (cnn.com)
5783.
Rails will remove Webpack by default (world.hey.com)
5784.
Apple, CSAM scanning and you (sevarg.net)
5785.
Inexpensive anti-depressant could be best Covid treatment yet, trial finds (nationalpost.com)
5786.
Twitter's new font: What's wrong with Chirp, and why users hate it (slate.com)
5787.
Taliban Leaders Used Twitter and WhatsApp to Help Capture Kabul (freebeacon.com)
5788.
Twitter Finds Leader for ‘Decentralized’ Social Media Project Bluesky (bloomberg.com)
5789.
The warped world of incel extremists (theconversation.com)
5790.
Chinese Media Says Afghanistan a Lesson for Taiwan on How U.S. Abandons Allies (newsweek.com)