July 2021 Archive
1681.
Tech workers swore off the Bay Area, now they’re coming back (nytimes.com)
1682.
Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever (larrysanger.org)
1683.
What Made Early Humans Smart (nautil.us)
1684.
The impossible dream of the nuclear-powered 1958 Ford Nucleon (thedrive.com)
1685.
A new air-conditioning system manages without nasty gases (economist.com)
1686.
London’s Crossrail Is a $21B Test of Virtual Modeling (2016) (spectrum.ieee.org)
1687.
Amazon ending IE11 support on Management Console and Documentation (aws.amazon.com)
1688.
Oregon Trail Generation (en.wikipedia.org)
1689.
Bash function names can be almost anything (blog.dnmfarrell.com)
1690.
Could miniature forests help air-condition cities? (economist.com)
1691.
AI voice actors sound more human than ever–and are ready to hire (technologyreview.com)
1692.
Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance (2013) (wired.com)
1693.
Ask HN: How do you deal with information addiction?
1694.
Europe floods: At least 120 dead and hundreds unaccounted for (bbc.com)
1695.
Cloud-Native Database Systems (2021) (cs.purdue.edu)
1696.
Runbooks for better incident management (ashpatel.substack.com)
1697.
Learning Squeak (2019) (wiki.squeak.org)
1698.
The stock market speaks: How Dr. Alchian learned to build the bomb (2014) (sciencedirect.com)
1699.
REvil ransomware executes supply chain attack via malicious Kaseya update (therecord.media)
1700.
Product validation frameworks are mostly useless without taste (commoncog.com)
1701.
Staff Engineer Guide (staffeng.com)
1702.
Ghana’s anti-LGBT+ bill seeks 10-year jail term for activists (africafeeds.com)
1703.
Young, Dumb, and Broke: Why Outdoorsy Types Suck at Money (outsideonline.com)
1704.
Ethereum dev Virgil Griffith back in jail after checking $1M Coinbase account (protos.com)
1705.
Could a four-day working week become the norm? (economist.com)
1706.
Full-time minimum wage workers can't afford rent anywhere in the US (cnbc.com)
1707.
GitHub’s AI Copilot Might Get You Sued If You Use It (medium.com)
1708.
Fire breaks out at Tesla Big Battery (theage.com.au)
1709.
San Francisco recorded a 753 percent rise in car burglaries compared to May 2020 (sfchronicle.com)
1710.
Canadian inferno: northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models (theguardian.com)