Sunday, 07 March 2021
People Literally Don’t Know When to Shut Up – Or Keep Talking – Science Confirms
(scientificamerican.com) DiscussLord of the Ring(s): Side Channel Attacks on the CPU On-Chip Ring Interconnect
(arxiv.org) DiscussOnyx BOOX Nova3 Color, the first color ereader supports writing
(boox.com) DiscussGame Theory – Open Yale Courses
(oyc.yale.edu) DiscussTalking with your hands alters the perception of your words
(bigthink.com) DiscussModern action films fetishize the body, even as they desexualize it
(bloodknife.com) DiscussThe Six-Lesson Schoolteacher, by John Taylor Gatto (1991)
(cantrip.org) DiscussRemembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch
(text.npr.org) DiscussA Solution to the RWP for Exam 1 – Stealing Power (2006)
(users.physics.unc.edu) DiscussWhat Happens Inside a 100-Hop IPv6 Wireless Mesh Network?
(thingsquare.com) DiscussThe Kilobyte’s Gambit
(vole.wtf) DiscussUC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited negative impact (2020)
(dailybruin.com) DiscussSolugen (YC W17) is hiring a director of marketing
(workatastartup.com) DiscussReview: The Book of Why
(tachy.org) DiscussShow HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics
(counter.dev) DiscussPopular YouTubers who are building their own sites
(bbc.com) DiscussThe Wasting of the Evangelical Mind
(newyorker.com) DiscussQubes-Lite with KVM and Wayland
(roscidus.com) DiscussNeuroscience: Idle minds (2012)
(nature.com) DiscussSpirograph
(en.wikipedia.org) DiscussSwitzerland votes against electronic ID system provided by private companies
(swissinfo.ch) DiscussThe blissful political incorrectness of Soviet comedies
(thecritic.co.uk) DiscussDeliveroo to offer 50M pounds of stock to customers
(fidelity.com) DiscussLaunch HN: PingPong (YC W21) – Video messaging for remote teams
(news.ycombinator.com) DiscussI Bought a Business for $0
(every.to) DiscussReadMe (YC W15) Is Hiring a UI Engineer
(readme.com) DiscussHow to Get Better at Recursion
(notes.eatonphil.com) DiscussThe dark side of “eating lower on the food chain”
(peterturchin.com) Discuss“Design Patterns” Aren't (2002)
(perl.plover.com) DiscussFAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max
(seattletimes.com) DiscussUS Pipeline Caused Biggest Spill in Decades, We’re Just Hearing About It
(earther.gizmodo.com) DiscussDonate Unrestricted
(paulgraham.com) DiscussWhy winter exercise can be especially hard on the lungs
(cbc.ca) DiscussSomeone is hacking the hackers
(gizmodo.com) DiscussWe may soon have city-spanning 900 MHz mesh networks
(cheapskatesguide.org) DiscussRaspberry Pi for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser
(preprints.org) DiscussUnderstanding P-Values Through Simulations – An Interactive Visualization
(rpsychologist.com) DiscussShow HN: Freemium Alternative to Plaid in Europe
(nordigen.com) DiscussPlease support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web
(atodorov.me) DiscussShow HN: Buy My Side Project
(buymysideproject.com) DiscussChina’s Bitcoin miners flee Inner Mongolia ahead of crypto mining ban
(forkast.news) DiscussUbuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps
(omgubuntu.co.uk) DiscussPublii – CMS with SSG
(getpublii.com) DiscussIt Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All
(digest.bps.org.uk) DiscussBuild advanced automation at Volta Labs, Inc. (YC W19) as a software engineer
(workatastartup.com) DiscussDeep Work on the Rise
(beta.readng.co) DiscussFalsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)
(kalzumeus.com) DiscussLet's Encrypt's performance is currently degraded due to a DDoS attack
(letsencrypt.status.io) DiscussWhy I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
(kevinlynagh.com) Discuss
Saturday, 06 March 2021
The ZX81 Turns 40
(theregister.com) DiscussNotes from a Year of Building Keyboards
(kevinlynagh.com) DiscussThe Ergodicity Problem in Economics
(nature.com) DiscussImpraise (YC S14) Hiring Senior Product Designer
(impraise.recruitee.com) DiscussMy Custom Emacs Setup
(hristos.co) DiscussDivorce rate cut in half for couples who discussed relationship movies (2014)
(rochester.edu) Discuss507 Mechanical Movements (1868)
(507movements.com) DiscussStudy Shows Far-Right Misinformation Is Thriving on Facebook
(npr.org) DiscussBlogging Is Hard (2008)
(yosefk.com) DiscussDon’t use 7-segment displays (2011) [pdf]
(harold.thimbleby.net) DiscussISO Standard for Preparing Tea
(en.wikipedia.org) DiscussTransplant an organ? Why not an entire body?
(washingtonpost.com) DiscussNFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
(seths.blog) DiscussThe Math Behind Project Scheduling, Bug Tracking, and Triage (2017)
(apenwarr.ca) DiscussFunctioning iPhone returned to owner after six months at bottom of lake
(cbc.ca) DiscussDo Digital Platforms Reduce Moral Hazard? The Case of Uber and Taxis
(pubsonline.informs.org) DiscussBay Area drug kingpins lured low-level dealers, promising cheap rent (2020)
(eastbaytimes.com) DiscussCalifornians aren’t leaving the state en masse but are leaving San Francisco
(latimes.com) DiscussStarlogo TNG: The Next Generation (2009)
(web.mit.edu) DiscussCactus Comments: Federated web comments based on Matrix protocol
(cactus.chat) DiscussBuild Your Machine Today
(vention.io) DiscussYouTuber Builds Working 3D-Printed Turbojet Engine and Tests It in His Attic
(thedrive.com) DiscussAtmospheric Changes: On Meteorology and Camus
(thepointmag.com) DiscussLying to the Ghost in the Machine
(antipope.org) DiscussFFMPEG from Zero to Hero
(ffmpegfromzerotohero.com) DiscussContentFly (YC W21) Is Hiring Product Managers and Product Designers
(contentfly.com) DiscussDownload the Entire Wikimedia Database
(dumps.wikimedia.org) DiscussWordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
(sfwriter.com) DiscussShow HN: PrograMaker – Visual Programming Platform
(programaker.com) DiscussShow HN: I made a note-taking app for roleplaying games like D&D
(critical-notes.com) DiscussTesla has closed its forums to launch a social platform and fans are not happy
(techcrunch.com) DiscussA Brief History of Cryptocurrency as Payment (2020)
(bakkt.com) DiscussWhat Is RPN? Why Did/Does HP Use RPN? Learning RPN (1999)
(hpmuseum.org) DiscussBuilding a Discord Bot Using Discord.js
(smashingmagazine.com) DiscussCitus 10 brings columnar compression to Postgres
(citusdata.com) DiscussDos.Zone – interactive database of DOS games
(dos.zone) DiscussIBM Port-A-Punch: create punched card documents anywhere
(tedium.co) DiscussWhite House Warns After Microsoft Accuses China of Hacking Its Mail Server
(thenexthint.com) DiscussWhy was the Amiga Kickstart 1.x “Insert floppy” graphic so bad?
(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com) DiscussAnimated Engines
(animatedengines.com) DiscussThe bizarre beasts living in Romania's poison cave (2015)
(bbc.co.uk) DiscussCareRev (YC S16) Is Hiring Technical Project Managers
(news.ycombinator.com) DiscussVirtual Particles: What are they? (2011)
(profmattstrassler.com) DiscussAudio over Bluetooth: most detailed information about profiles and codecs (2019)
(habr.com) DiscussIan McEwan on Bach, Philip Roth and Living an Episodic Life (2019)
(lithub.com) DiscussShow HN: Lensflare – The Next Unsplash
(news.ycombinator.com) DiscussDelphi Method
(en.wikipedia.org) DiscussApple Confirms iMac Pro Will Be Discontinued, Recommends 27-Inch iMac
(macrumors.com) DiscussHere are the 'wrong' illustrations that got six Dr. Seuss books cancelled
(nationalpost.com) DiscussMilitary Unit Conducting Drone Strikes Bought Location Data from Ordinary Apps
(vice.com) DiscussShow HN: I built a service to share source code without signing up
(harigami.net) DiscussReflections on IDEA vs VS Code
(archive.vn) DiscussWhy must we hate the things teen girls love? (2018)
(mnn.com) DiscussAsk HN: Is abuse from supervisors as common in industry as in academia?
(news.ycombinator.com) DiscussCleaning Up Your Postgres Database
(blog.crunchydata.com) DiscussDwelling on Roads Not Taken Can Create Bumps at Work
(journals.aom.org) DiscussLaunch HN: Lunatic (YC W21) – An Erlang Inspired WebAssembly Platform
(news.ycombinator.com) DiscussSirum (YC W15) Is Hiring Software and QA Engineers with Pharmacy Experience
(news.ycombinator.com) DiscussHow the United States and Soviet Union embarked on a macabre surgical arms race
(atlasobscura.com) DiscussA truck driver uncovers secrets about the first nuclear bombs
(newyorker.com) DiscussAsk HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?
(news.ycombinator.com) DiscussTech posers of the Bauhaus
(orgonomyproductions.info) DiscussMultiple GRUB2 vulnerabilities – 2021/03/02 rou
(lists.gnu.org) DiscussThe Sad Story of the Centris
(512pixels.net) Discuss
Friday, 05 March 2021
Opvia (YC S20) Is Hiring Engineers in London to Enable Data Driven Biotechnology
(notion.so) DiscussA Second Conversation with Werner Vogels (Creation of Amazon S3)
(cacm.acm.org) DiscussZero Data App
(0data.app) DiscussDo Language Models Know How Heavy an Elephant Is?
(ai.stanford.edu) DiscussTROS: How IBM mainframes stored microcode in transformers (2019)
(righto.com) DiscussThe Toit Programming Language
(docs.toit.io) Discuss