August 2020 Archive
2671.
GNU tar blocking factor, blocks, records and checkpoints (finch.am)
2672.
Good vibrations: acoustic technologies in cars (physicsworld.com)
2673.
History of software engineering (en.wikipedia.org)
2674.
NPM Is Down (status.npmjs.org)
2675.
Sea of Nodes (2015) (darksi.de)
2676.
Alice in Wonderland and the theft of the public domain (drewdevault.com)
2677.
Show HN: Best-Books.dev, the best programming books, all in one place (best-books.dev)
2678.
We need a full investigation into Siri's surveillance campaign (theguardian.com)
2679.
Astrobotic's CubeRover program awarded $2M NASA contract (astrobotic.com)
2680.
2012 Is Bullshit; 2020 Is When We’ll Be in Trouble (2012) (vice.com)
2681.
Reverse Engineering Netgear's Auth to Extend My Meural (ma.rtin.so)
2682.
William English, who helped build the computer mouse, dies at 91 (nytimes.com)
2683.
Ask HN: Please upvote the “Who wants to be hired” thread too
2684.
Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a ‘Reliable’ Source (wired.com)
2685.
Dijkstra on Haskell (cs.utexas.edu)
2686.
Facebook Fires Employee Who Shared Proof of Right Wing Favoritism (sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com)
2687.
Apple says Epic is ‘putting the entire App Store model at risk’ (theverge.com)
2688.
How Tim Cook Made Apple His Own (wsj.com)
2689.
QAnon Was a Theory on a Message Board. Now It’s Headed to Congress (nytimes.com)
2690.
Free Expression of Professors and Its Prudential Limits (conversableeconomist.blogspot.com)
2691.
Iron law of wages (en.wikipedia.org)
2692.
Why Simon Sinek is fundamentally wrong about starting with “why” (monkhouseandcompany.com)
2693.
Cannonball Record Broken: 25 Hours, 39 Minutes from NYC to LA (roadandtrack.com)
2694.
IBM 5160 (forsure.dev)
2695.
Ask HN: What helps you push through?
2696.
Boeing publicises new name for 737 Max planes after crashes (theguardian.com)
2697.
Beyond Mantel: Historical novels (theguardian.com)
2698.
JavaScript Code Plays Google Dinosaur/T-Rex Game Automatically (edopedia.com)
2699.
Building AGI Using Language Models (leogao.dev)
2700.
Teen Has Filled the Scots Wikipedia with Thousands of Fake Translations (gizmodo.com)