May 2021 Archive
5881.
How we built a codebase engineers love (asktia.com)
5882.
Insurance firm LEMONADE gets backlash for suggesting visual AI can detect fraud (twitter.com)
5883.
Poets in Myanmar Are Killed After the Coup (nytimes.com)
5884.
Severe Covid-19 in men linked to low testosterone levels (newatlas.com)
5885.
The time the United States blew up a passenger plane–and tried to cover it up (slate.com)
5886.
Chrome 91 breaks Ledger support of MetaMask (twitter.com)
5887.
Turmoil at the Freenode IRC Network (lwn.net)
5888.
German scientists say they can help improve vaccines to prevent blood clots (theguardian.com)
5889.
Seven Academics Who Didn’t Want to Make a Cent Are Now Worth Billions (forbes.com)
5890.
Best of Courier at Hackabull 2021: Speed Friender (courier.com)
5891.
Another River Runoff app: up and downstream for anywhere in the world (water.rdrn.me)
5892.
Active Learning Using Detectron2 (lightly.ai)
5893.
Anthropic raises $124M to build more reliable, general AI systems (anthropic.com)
5894.
US inflation accelerates – Biggest year-on-year rise since the 1990s (ft.com)
5895.
The Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory Is a Tale of Weaponized Uncertainty (wired.com)
5896.
The Safe, High-Return Trade Hiding in Plain Sight (wsj.com)
5897.
The Super Rich Are Choosing Singapore as the Safest Haven (bloomberg.com)
5898.
Blue Origin has switched New Glenn from aluminium-copper body to stainless steel (twitter.com)
5899.
Starlink Reviews Show the Limitations of Musk's Broadband Play (techdirt.com)
5900.
B.J. Thomas, who sang ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,’ dies at 78 (washingtonpost.com)
5901.
Future Shock (1970) (en.wikipedia.org)
5902.
What the Putin-Biden summit in Geneva is really about (gilbertdoctorow.com)
5903.
FAQ for Not Wearing a Mask (mcsweeneys.net)
5904.
IRC technology news from the second half of 2020 (ilmarilauhakangas.fi)
5905.
Why the next stage of capitalism is coming (bbc.com)
5906.
Ask HN: Do you think audio messages are hype?
5907.
Report finds disinterest in ethical,responsible use of AI among business leaders (zdnet.com)
5908.
Nestlé document says majority of its food portfolio is unhealthy (ft.com)
5909.
Alaska's first CSI takes on blood and burglaries in sub-zero weather (bbc.com)
5910.
Canada to regulate video on YouTube and social media 'assault' on free speech (nationalpost.com)