September 2021 Archive
3151.
UFO Hunter and Harvard Geneticist: $15 Mil Effort to Resurrect Woolly Mammoths (vice.com)
3152.
Building an Alternative Ecosystem: Solus Project Abandons Move to GTK4 (joshuastrobl.com)
3153.
Listening to Satellites with My Raspberry Pi (healeycodes.com)
3154.
“Logic Alone, All Love Laid By”: Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon” (2019) (lareviewofbooks.org)
3155.
Mermaids and Tritons in the Age of Reason (publicdomainreview.org)
3156.
Renters now rule the suburbs in DC, Miami and Los Angeles (commercialobserver.com)
3157.
What Apple mouses and Braun shavers share (rubenerd.com)
3158.
America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack (asiatimes.com)
3159.
Texas passes social media 'de-platforming' law (bbc.com)
3160.
High-profile autism genetics project paused amid backlash (nature.com)
3161.
Ask HN: How do you make money on the side in tech?
3162.
During Banned Books Week, Readers Explore What It Means to Challenge Texts (npr.org)
3163.
Prevent duplicate cron job running (pankajtanwar.in)
3164.
Volvo to stop using leather in new cars by 2030 (cnbc.com)
3165.
Proof of Work is the only viable mechanism for decentralized state (lists.w3.org)
3166.
Biden to announce new vaccine mandates for federal workers and large employers (cnn.com)
3167.
Wealthy EU states treat Eastern Europe as a colony (unherd.com)
3168.
Tesla NDA warns ‘Self-Driving’ Beta Testers ‘People Want Tesla to Fail’ (vice.com)
3169.
Free (open source) is good. Free (cost) is bad? (lunduke.substack.com)
3170.
The city of Tall el-Hammam was destroyed by an airburst 3600 years ago (theconversation.com)
3171.
Lost perspective? Try this linguistic trick to reset your view (psyche.co)
3172.
“AI” demystified: a decompiler for “artificial neural networks” (tesio.it)
3173.
China Bans Effeminate Men from TV (npr.org)
3174.
Google employee program claims that America is a “system of white supremacy” (city-journal.org)
3175.
Non-Covid patients are paying a price as the delta variant overwhelms hospitals (propublica.org)
3176.
Big Tech’s not-so-secret plan to monopolize your home (washingtonpost.com)
3177.
The Melodies of Subways Around the World (nytimes.com)
3178.
Show HN: Get 70 Years of Historical Weather Data via API (oikolab.com)
3179.
Atari Logo Programming Language (1983) (atariwiki.org)
3180.
Meet Astro, a home robot (aboutamazon.com)