Sunday, 24 January 2021
Applications of Deep Neural Networks v2 [pdf]
(arxiv.org) DiscussNeed advice or assistance for son who is in prison
(mathoverflow.net) Discuss18.7 Million Americans Vaccinated
(covidvaxcount.live) DiscussKrita 4.4.2 Released
(krita.org) DiscussPapercraft Models of Computers
(rockybergen.com) DiscussUniversal basic income doesn’t impact worker productivity
(academictimes.com) DiscussWhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update
(theguardian.com) DiscussHacking Habit Development with iOS Shortcuts
(kylewill.blog) DiscussThe computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (1997)
(catonmat.net) DiscussThe RustyHermit Unikernel
(rust-osdev.com) DiscussMilitary intelligence buys location data instead of getting warrants
(arstechnica.com) DiscussSan Francisco is one of CA’s most conservative cities – when it comes to housing
(sfchronicle.com) DiscussProof of X
(julian.digital) DiscussJapanese companies fight for share of EUV chip technology sector
(asia.nikkei.com) DiscussOur infrastructure is being built based on past climate data
(vice.com) DiscussWaymo CEO dismisses Tesla self-driving plan: “This is not how it works”
(arstechnica.com) DiscussI wouldn't invest in open-source companies, even though I ran one
(linkedin.com) DiscussA new newsletter on database engines, streaming systems, query planning
(scattered-thoughts.net) DiscussShow HN: CVservant: CV Creator for Academic Types
(CVservant.com) DiscussOur experience with the Fediverse, and why we left
(infosec-handbook.eu) DiscussExperienced well-being rises with income, even above $75,000 per year
(pnas.org) DiscussSolar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA
(weforum.org) DiscussRacket Compiler and Runtime Status
(blog.racket-lang.org) DiscussSpaceX: World record number of satellites launched
(bbc.co.uk) DiscussGhost cities and abandoned areas with a declining population
(theguardian.com) DiscussTokyo public schools will stop forcing students to dye their hair black
(japantoday.com) DiscussDelta Chat – decentralized chat via email
(delta.chat) DiscussShow HN: Sokyokuban, a puzzle game in a non-Euclidian world
(sokyokuban.com) DiscussCzech trainers teach dogs to sniff out Covid: 95-percent success rate
(france24.com) DiscussA 10B Pixel Scan of Vermeer’s Masterpiece
(micro-pano.com) DiscussHush: Noiseless Browsing for Safari
(daringfireball.net) DiscussOxford pledged to donate rights to their Covid Vaccine, then sold them to pharma
(khn.org) DiscussLack of sleep, stress can lead to symptoms resembling concussion
(news.osu.edu) DiscussMouSTer Brings USB to Retro Computers
(hackaday.com) DiscussBaffling Brexit rules threaten export chaos
(theguardian.com) DiscussIncomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS
(wiki.csswg.org) DiscussIn southeastern Colorado, robots disarm WWII-era chemical weapons (2017)
(arstechnica.com) DiscussTurning desalination waste into a useful resource
(news.mit.edu) DiscussMagnetic waves explain mystery of Sun's outer layer
(phys.org) DiscussIntroduction: User's Guide to Empire (1991)
(empire.cx) DiscussWelcome to Metropica, a Supposed City of the Future (2019)
(vice.com) DiscussMove to EU to avoid Brexit costs, firms told
(theguardian.com) DiscussInterview with Christine Darden – NASA engineer who’s a mathematician at heart
(quantamagazine.org) DiscussIn California, a journey to the end of the road: the Salton Sea
(ft.com) DiscussGodiva Chocolates to close all 128 North American stores due to Covid pandemic
(abc13.com) DiscussSoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to Nvidia is hitting antitrust wall around the world
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Saturday, 23 January 2021
42 (YC W14) Is Hiring a Software Engineer (Remote) – TypeScript or Python/Spark
(jobs.42.engineering) DiscussJeff Bezos and Amazon do not want their workers voting by mail on unionization
(outkick.com) DiscussShow HN: Full text search Project Gutenberg (60m paragraphs)
(gutensearch.com) DiscussFirst portrait of mysterious Denisovans drawn from DNA (2019)
(nature.com) DiscussThe Origin of Names (2015)
(web.pdx.edu) DiscussVisual Sentence Composer for Japanese
(japanesecomplete.com) DiscussPip has dropped support for Python 2
(pip.pypa.io) DiscussCurve.fi is hiring Python (Vyper) dev and QA (py.test). Math knowledge is and+
(curve.fi) DiscussWhitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again
(pagely.com) DiscussOverweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
(thetimes.co.uk) DiscussForever chemicals are widespread in U.S. drinking water
(scientificamerican.com) DiscussSoftware engineering topics I changed my mind on
(chriskiehl.com) DiscussHow long does a bottle of wine last after it is opened?
(vinography.com) DiscussFAA Files Reveal a Surprising Threat to Airline Safety: US Military's GPS Tests
(spectrum.ieee.org) DiscussFor the First Time in 200 Years, a New Blue Pigment Is Up for Sale
(smithsonianmag.com) DiscussCryptocurreny crime is way ahead of regulators and law enforcement
(fnlondon.com) DiscussSite.js: Small Web construction set
(sitejs.org) DiscussPartial List of Software Patents (1992)
(textfiles.com) DiscussGoogle has turned off access to sync features for Chromium
(bodhi.fedoraproject.org) DiscussMalware found on laptops given out by government
(bbc.com) DiscussShow HN: Filmulator – a streamlined, open-source raw photo editor
(filmulator.org) DiscussAsk HN: Is low level progarmming job more satisfying?
(news.ycombinator.com) DiscussDrScheme in Space
(parentheticallyspeaking.org) DiscussI bought 200 Raspberry Pi Model B’s and I’m going to fix them
(blog.jmdawson.co.uk) DiscussInternet disrupted in Russia amid opposition protests
(netblocks.org) DiscussMicrosoft Opens Up Old Win32 APIs to C# and Rust
(visualstudiomagazine.com) DiscussWhy am I wasting time on EndBASIC?
(jmmv.dev) DiscussThe team shaking up climate models
(csmonitor.com) DiscussImplementing Raft's Leader Election in Rust
(laurocaetano.com) DiscussShow HN: Traindown – A language to help athletes express their training
(traindown.com) DiscussFlattery-Driven Open-Source
(ppinera.es) DiscussEmails a browser extension developer gets from scammers
(sponsor.ajay.app) DiscussVisualAge for Java 1.0 – Let the Future Begin (1997)
(tug.ca) DiscussYou can get banned from Facebook – permanently. This is how
(elliott.org) DiscussTell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months
(news.ycombinator.com) DiscussTRS-80: a TRS-80 running a custom Associated Press ROM
(wayne.lorentz.me) DiscussThe Boston Globe’s Fresh Start Initiative
(bostonglobe.com) DiscussFirecracker: Start a VM in less than a second
(jvns.ca) DiscussTwitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation
(scientificamerican.com) DiscussGlenn Greenwald: ‘Journalists Are Authoritarians’
(reason.com) DiscussWhy Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]
(nbloom.people.stanford.edu) DiscussRollerball Pens of 2021
(unsharpen.com) DiscussFBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol
(wusa9.com) DiscussCache Management Lessons Learned
(symas.com) DiscussHow to teach technical concepts with cartoons
(jvns.ca) DiscussTeleguard: Swiss Made Safe Messaging
(teleguard.com) DiscussGoing to the Moon Was Easy Compared to 100UL
(avweb.com) DiscussMicrosoft same-day reversal on Xbox Live Gold price doubling
(windowscentral.com) DiscussBuild a salary with GitHub Sponsors
(onlysponsors.dev) DiscussIrma: Open-source, attribute based credentials
(irma.app) DiscussBut how, exactly, do databases use mmap?
(brunocalza.me) DiscussPlease don't say just hello in chat
(nohello.net) DiscussFoundations Built for a General Theory of Neural Networks (2019)
(quantamagazine.org) DiscussThe International Tempest over the World’s Most Famous Teapot
(thewalrus.ca) DiscussJava 1.0 Turns 25
(infoq.com) DiscussShow HN: Supercharge.dev – Accelerated Development in React/Next.js
(supercharge.dev) DiscussThe Muse (YC W12) Is Hiring a Senior Product Designer
(themuse.com) DiscussChemotherapy with light; only one injection required
(eurekalert.org) DiscussItaly Blocks Users on TikTok After 10-Year-Old Girl Died in a Blackout Challenge
(relayvibes.co) DiscussCould giant SPACs be next?
(techcrunch.com) DiscussOpen Positions
(freebsdfoundation.org) DiscussRaspberry Pi as x2go “thin” client
(multi-seat.com) DiscussFacebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them
(lincoln.metacannon.net) DiscussJavaSoft ships Java 1.0 (1996)
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Friday, 22 January 2021
Rolling Stone seeks 'thought leaders' willing to pay $2k to write for them
(theguardian.com) DiscussIs it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD? (2015)
(unix.stackexchange.com) DiscussRaycast (YC W20) Is Hiring to Make Developers More Productive (Remote, UTC ± 3h)
(raycast.com) DiscussGandi – We Under DDoS
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