October 2020 Archive
5161.
Soon anyone from any company can Slack you (theverge.com)
5162.
The eight-legged essay, said to have caused China's subsequent stagnation (en.wikipedia.org)
5163.
International statement: End-to-end encryption and public safety (gov.uk)
5164.
Popular Online Learning Platform Was Created by a Religious ‘Cult’ (onezero.medium.com)
5165.
What Probability Can’t Do (meaningness.com)
5166.
Starship Will Be Used to Deliver Weapons for DoD (observer.com)
5167.
To gauge the health of your team, try these unusual metrics (applied.economist.com)
5168.
Mixed Integer Programming for optimal risk mitigation strategy (vneuron.com)
5169.
Sanity, an API driven content platform, raises $9.3M from EV Williams (techcrunch.com)
5170.
Allegation on Biden Prompts Pushback From Social Media Companies (nytimes.com)
5171.
Show HN: Batchdist, a PyTorch package for batched computations of distances (github.com)
5172.
Facebook users may spread Russian propaganda less often when aware of its source (rand.org)
5173.
What's “good” code and does it matter? (ntietz.com)
5174.
A New Way of Thinking About Climate Change (theatlantic.com)
5175.
Stop asking “Why aren’t more Africans dying of Covid-19?” (bostonreview.net)
5176.
Mark Zuckerberg Learned Politics (wsj.com)
5177.
Social Media vs. the American Right (nationalreview.com)
5178.
Tesla’s seven-day return policy has been quietly removed (theverge.com)
5179.
Show HN: Visual that shows share price recovery is not uniform across sectors (trends.getdata.io)
5180.
Predictors of success in first year physics – experience not talent (aps.org)
5181.
Chinese military beefs up coastal forces for a possible invasion of Taiwan (scmp.com)
5182.
Software CEO Robert Brockman charged in $2B tax evasion case (cnn.com)
5183.
Show HN: Sell access to your GitHub repos with Gumroad (gumhub.m1guelpf.me)
5184.
Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding [video] (youtube.com)
5185.
Politics and the English Language (George Orwell, 1946) (archive.org)
5186.
NanoAdblocker and NanoDefender have been sold to unknown Turkish developers (github.com)
5187.
The pandemic is fueling digital repression worldwide (freedomhouse.org)
5188.
Major Retailers in Britain Say No to Glitter for Christmas (nytimes.com)
5189.
A man using dice to compose his music (classicfm.com)
5190.
Ask HN: What are you best tech predictions for the next 10 years?