August 2020 Archive
2431.
Show HN: Tableau-like Data Visualization library (free), powered by WebAssembly (muzejs.org)
2432.
Apple cuts off Wordpress app to get a cut of domain sales (reviewgeek.com)
2433.
Silicon Valley investor tries to create 'microschool' in yard, backlash ensues (sfgate.com)
2434.
The Humble Brilliance of Italy’s Moka Coffee Pot (2018) (atlasobscura.com)
2435.
How A Cheese Goes Extinct (newyorker.com)
2436.
Babylonian Mathematics (2003) [pdf] (math.tamu.edu)
2437.
Big Sur: “Warning: PHP is not recommended” (twitter.com)
2438.
Silicon Valley Has a Caste Discrimination Problem (vice.com)
2439.
The Last of the Hedgehogs: René Girard (lareviewofbooks.org)
2440.
Gone Phishing (restofworld.org)
2441.
radEventListener: Client-side Framework Performance (css-tricks.com)
2442.
Loot boxes in online games and their effect on consumers [pdf] (europarl.europa.eu)
2443.
Xkcd: 26-Second Pulse (xkcd.com)
2444.
FAQs regarding Scots Wikipedia controversy (meta.wikimedia.org)
2445.
Show HN: Armeria 1.0.0 released – Your go-to microservice framework (armeria.dev)
2446.
Stone structures in Saudi Arabia may be among oldest monuments in world (livescience.com)
2447.
Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC (abovethecrowd.com)
2448.
Another 1.006M Americans filed new unemployment claims last week (finance.yahoo.com)
2449.
BespokeSynth: Software Modular Synth (github.com)
2450.
China is now blocking all language editions of Wikipedia (2019) (ooni.org)
2451.
Uber Turned a Promising Bikeshare Company into Literal Garbage (vice.com)
2452.
Chinese hackers have pillaged Taiwan’s semiconductor industry (arstechnica.com)
2453.
Make Billionaires Pay Act (cnbc.com)
2454.
Science Fiction Books I’ve Read (2018) (fortelabs.co)
2455.
Three quarters of people in the UK now do at least some online grocery shopping (bbc.co.uk)
2456.
Case-Insensitive Ext4 (lwn.net)
2457.
Ask HN: Should one buy Intel-based Macs now?
2458.
Buckingham Palace art collection to go on gallery display for the first time (theguardian.com)
2459.
Venture capital firms to include “diversity riders” in term sheets (axios.com)
2460.
Google offers to help others with the tricky ethics of AI (arstechnica.com)