August 2020 Archive
1651.
Announcement of LibreOffice 7.0 (blog.documentfoundation.org)
1652.
Charlie Kaufman’s Defense of Film (newrepublic.com)
1653.
Web History: Browsers (css-tricks.com)
1654.
The Node Is Nonsense: Better ways to measure progress than Moore's law [pdf] (gwern.net)
1655.
Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat – The White House (whitehouse.gov)
1656.
Robots that can walk are now striding to market (economist.com)
1657.
Short on Money, Cities Around the World Try Making Their Own (bloomberg.com)
1658.
An interesting mistake with Go's context package (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1659.
rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc (jmmv.dev)
1660.
Ask HN: Geopolitical forums similar to HN?
1661.
Belarus president: “Until you kill me, there will be no other elections” (news.sky.com)
1662.
Kindergarten Quantum Mechanics (arxiv.org)
1663.
Microsoft Open Source (opensource.microsoft.com)
1664.
A T Cell Army against SARS-CoV-2 (hellovirology.com)
1665.
Launch HN: Liyfe Clinic (YC S20) – Telemedicine for breast cancer
1666.
Named Tensors (nlp.seas.harvard.edu)
1667.
What programmers need to know about encodings and charsets (2011) (kunststube.net)
1668.
Show HN: Tunshell – Remote shell into ephemeral environments behind NAT/firewall (github.com)
1669.
RPCS3 Inside Look: A Deep-Dive into Hardware and Performance Scaling (rpcs3.net)
1670.
Google 'accidentally' left Google Home devices recording your every word (theregister.com)
1671.
Investigating the Milk, MIT's Historic Dairy Product (2015) (alum.mit.edu)
1672.
US DHS seized $2B from travelers between 2000-2016 (washingtonpost.com)
1673.
How to Run Turing Machines on Encrypted Data [pdf] (eprint.iacr.org)
1674.
Lawmakers Ask California DMV How It Makes $50M a Year Selling Drivers' Data (vice.com)
1675.
The QAnon Conspiracy Theory: A Security Threat in the Making? (ctc.usma.edu)
1676.
I tried to use WordPress with GitHub Pages (melissadu.com)
1677.
Serverless: I'm a Big Kid Now (simplethread.com)
1678.
Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Uncertain Biological Basis of Morality (2013) (theatlantic.com)
1679.
This Is What Your Unsolicited Advice Sounds Like (newyorker.com)
1680.
Apple announces Apple Music radio (apple.com)