September 2019 Archive
5701.
When Blockbuster could have bought Netflix for $50M, but didn't (vanityfair.com)
5702.
The “New Energy Economy”: An Exercise in Magical Thinking (manhattan-institute.org)
5703.
Perl in Python (wildfish.com)
5704.
Linux Toolbox by Julia Evans Published by NoStarch (twitter.com)
5705.
Procella: Unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube (ai.google)
5706.
Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone (John C. Dvorak, 2007) (marketwatch.com)
5707.
Jeff Bezos almost bought Netflix for $15M (fastcompany.com)
5708.
Steam should let users resell games, French court rules (rockpapershotgun.com)
5709.
Eu Guidelines on Ethics in Artificial Intelligence: Context and Implementation [pdf] (europarl.europa.eu)
5710.
U.S. navy confirms UFO videos from Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge are real (globalnews.ca)
5711.
Show HN: Interactive Gravity Simulator in WebGL (matttt.github.io)
5712.
Boeing 737 Max disaster: management vs. engineers (newrepublic.com)
5713.
Craftsmanship–The Alternative to the 4 Hour Work Week (techcrunch.com)
5714.
Writing Linux Kernel Modules in Safe Rust – Geoffrey Thomas and Alex Gaynor (youtube.com)
5715.
Deep Learning for Programmers (GPU, CPU) WIP Clojure Book 0.9.0 (aiprobook.com)
5716.
Asteroid that narrowly missed Earth ‘slipped through the net’ (independent.co.uk)
5717.
Swift 5.1 Released (swift.org)
5718.
IBM sues Zillow, accuses real estate giant of building features using IBM tech (geekwire.com)
5719.
Huawei unveils its own open-source software ecosystem (straitstimes.com)
5720.
Announcing Oracle Cloud Free Tier (blogs.oracle.com)
5721.
Oracle Cloud offering two unlimited free compute instances and databases (oracle.com)
5722.
My kids love Tiktok and FaceApp. Should I care? (medium.com)
5723.
The Galaxy Fold is still extremely fragile, and Samsung knows it (theverge.com)
5724.
Yvette Borup Andrews: Photographing Central Asia (2018) (publicdomainreview.org)
5725.
Ask HN: What are your favorite proofs in computer science?
5726.
Other good examples of lightweight, character-based interfaces like HN's?
5727.
Gas mileage is measured in square meters (what-if.xkcd.com)
5728.
Environmental apocalypse predictions have failed for half a century (washingtonexaminer.com)
5729.
Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’ (theguardian.com)
5730.
WHO accuses Tanzania of withholding information about suspected Ebola cases (washingtonpost.com)