August 2021 Archive
2941.
Inverted Totalitarianism (en.wikipedia.org)
2942.
The race to give nuclear fusion a role in the climate emergency (theguardian.com)
2943.
Show HN: Whole-fleet continuous profiler for C/C++/Rust/Go/JVM/Python/Ruby/PHP (prodfiler.com)
2944.
Show HN: Zig monthly: iOS support, tutorials, tree-sitter, and more (zigmonthly.org)
2945.
Benjamin Banneker’s Broods of Cicadas (historytoday.com)
2946.
Cloudflare thwarts 17.2M rps DDoS attack – the largest ever reported (blog.cloudflare.com)
2947.
PG&E power line suspected in Dixie fire was set to be buried underground (latimes.com)
2948.
US unleashes B-52s in bid to stem Taliban advance (thetimes.co.uk)
2949.
Is Britain becoming more meritocratic than America? (economist.com)
2950.
Ask HN: How can I, a programmer, help with the fight against climate change?
2951.
Difference between DevOps, SecOps and DevSecOps (five9sclub.substack.com)
2952.
A Framework for the Metaverse (matthewball.vc)
2953.
Don't call it 'outsourcing': Hiring employees globally is getting easier (axios.com)
2954.
Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf] (vidarholen.net)
2955.
Visually impaired Paralympian hit by self-driving bus (france24.com)
2956.
Miami Launches 'MiamiCoin' to Make Millions and Fund the Police (vice.com)
2957.
Children Are Lonelier Than Ever. Can Anything Be Done? (quillette.com)
2958.
China Is Totalitarian. Why Is That So Hard to Say? (foreignpolicy.com)
2959.
In 2012, 59% of British MPs Flunked Probability of Flipping Two Heads in a Row (unz.com)
2960.
The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America’s elderly (vox.com)
2961.
Ask HN: What is it like to work at Facebook in your 40s (or older)?
2962.
T-Mobile is definitely not trying to charge you $10 more (twitter.com)
2963.
The intriguing world of medieval Chinese ceramic pillows (medievalists.net)
2964.
Improving Responsiveness in Text Inputs (nolanlawson.com)
2965.
Wages are rising, but inflation may have given workers a 2% pay cut (cnbc.com)
2966.
Show HN: Domainy – Monitor domain names for availability
2967.
Amazon Drops ‘Draconian’ Policy on Making Games After Work Hours (bloomberg.com)
2968.
MIT's “Small ITS” Logo timesharing system (gunkies.org)
2969.
94% of Adults in England Have Covid-19 Antibodies (gizmodo.com)
2970.
It's been over a year since Uber laid off about 20% of its engineering org (twitter.com)