August 2024 Archive
1921.
Imitation Intelligence, my keynote for PyCon US 2024 (simonwillison.net)
1922.
Unmanned submarine discovers ice shelf mysteries, then disappears (scitechdaily.com)
1923.
Show HN: RoundtableJS – Open-source programmatic survey library (github.com)
1924.
Uv: Unified Python Packaging (astral.sh)
1925.
Tzero: Social Timeboxing for IRC Channels (github.com)
1926.
Every time you take a screenshot with Win+Shift+S, a zombie process is created (twitter.com)
1927.
Rust GPU Transitions to Community Ownership (rust-gpu.github.io)
1928.
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (raspberrypi.com)
1929.
MiniTorch – a DIY teaching library for machine learning engineers (minitorch.github.io)
1930.
One Million new Bluesky users in 3 days (bsky.app)
1931.
What if Germany had invested in nuclear power? (tandfonline.com)
1932.
Mini imported Japanese vehicles may soon be banned on Massachusetts roads (wgbh.org)
1933.
Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller (thehustle.co)
1934.
About the browser choice screen in the EU (developer.apple.com)
1935.
Big Macs and the Cost of Living Crisis (abc.net.au)
1936.
Windows Control Panel set for deprecation (theregister.com)
1937.
WelsonJS: Build a Windows app on the Windows built-in JavaScript engine (github.com)
1938.
Napkin math suggests Bitcoin will perish unless its mining incentives change (keydiscussions.com)
1939.
AI photo editing raises trust issues in photography (theverge.com)
1940.
Robot Dog with Gun Turret for Hunting Aerial Drones Being Tested by Army (twz.com)
1941.
A single server can go a long way these days (twitter.com)
1942.
I'm Back, Ruby on Rails (blog.wildcat.io)
1943.
Startup incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm (ft.com)
1944.
Lilygo T-Deck Plus is a $70 handheld with GPS, LoRa, and a BlackBerry keyboard (liliputing.com)
1945.
Engineers develop new two-dimensional, low-power- field-effect transistor (techxplore.com)
1946.
Are Geofence Warrants Headed for Extinction? (americanbar.org)
1947.
The Generational Transition to Programmable Cryptography (0xparc.org)
1948.
Nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of parasitism (2021) (royalsocietypublishing.org)
1949.
Germany names China as source of attack on government geospatial agency (theregister.com)
1950.
I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it (switowski.com)