December 2020 Archive
3001.
I think GPT-3's private beta distribution strategy widens economic inequality (twitter.com)
3002.
Samsung Galaxy S II, released in 2011, has an unofficial port of Android 11 (forum.xda-developers.com)
3003.
ImageNet trained CNNs are biased towards recognising textures rather than shapes (openreview.net)
3004.
FBI and Europol Shut Down 'Bulletproof' VPN Service That Helped Criminals (torrentfreak.com)
3005.
UK approves Pfizer vaccine for rollout next week (thevibes.com)
3006.
Continuing our journey to bring instant experiences to the whole web (blog.chromium.org)
3007.
Google Waives $1.5B DeepMind Loan as AI Costs Mount (bloomberg.com)
3008.
Microsoft president sounds alarm on ‘ongoing’ SolarWinds hack (theverge.com)
3009.
“This Is How Black People Get Killed”: Doctor in Video Before Covid Death (ndtv.com)
3010.
PHP8, from a Security Point of View (dustri.org)
3011.
Rust makes cross compilation child's play (marcoieni.com)
3012.
An introduction to property-based testing with QuickCheck (jesper.sikanda.be)
3013.
CD Projekt Is Adjusting Cyberpunk 2077's 'Distracting' Amount of Dildos (kotaku.com)
3014.
Just Culture: Standardizing Fire Service Accountability (firehouse.com)
3015.
Tell HN: Merry Christmas
3016.
Chinese economy to overtake US 'by 2028' due to Covid (bbc.co.uk)
3017.
CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream (blog.centos.org)
3018.
Pentagon Imposed Emergency Shutdown of Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (twitter.com)
3019.
Israeli spy firm suspected of accessing global telecoms (theguardian.com)
3020.
A call to revolutionize the workplace – by working less (washingtonpost.com)
3021.
YouTube’s Copyright Filter Is Crushing Video Critique–and It’s Getting Worse (gizmodo.com)
3022.
An Assange confidant in the sights of the CIA (golem.de)
3023.
Ask HN: Where is the “Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2020)” post?
3024.
Chuck Yeager Has Died (twitter.com)
3025.
A message from the FSF president (fsf.org)
3026.
QNX 1.2 Virtualized (virtuallyfun.com)
3027.
The day I woke up to find my industry had vanished (cnn.com)
3028.
Fgh, a CLI to automate the lifecycle and organization of your cloned repos (github.com)
3029.
Precursor – What’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway? (crowdsupply.com)
3030.
N95 Masks' Efficiency Can Be Restored with Electricity (spectrum.ieee.org)