August 2023 Archive
8971.
Secret Recordings of Top German Physicists After the Hiroshima Nuking [pdf] (germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org)
8972.
Why I failed to pay my taxes (newsletter.werd.io)
8973.
Twitter Rebranding: Online Auction, Memorabilia, Art and More (bidspotter.com)
8974.
No evidence linking Facebook adoption and negative well-being: Oxford study (oii.ox.ac.uk)
8975.
CPython without a Global Interpreter Lock (lwn.net)
8976.
Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests (independent.co.uk)
8977.
Open Source Notion-Like Editor with Yoopta-Editor: Exten and Customizable (github.com)
8978.
Twitter Exec Defends Restoring Account That Shared Child Sex Abuse Material (forbes.com)
8979.
Radical Feminists “Working with the Right” (karadansky.substack.com)
8980.
Lebanon bans Barbie movie for “promoting homosexuality“ (cnn.com)
8981.
They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines–and Started a Cold War (wired.com)
8982.
Physicists Move One Step Closer to a Theoretical Showdown (nytimes.com)
8983.
Scientists at Fermilab close in on fifth force of nature (bbc.com)
8984.
Unix Is a Four Letter Word and Vi Is a Two Letter Abbreviation – Christopher C [pdf] (unix.t-a-y-l-o-r.com)
8985.
txtai 6.0: the all-in-one embeddings database (pypi.org)
8986.
Symmetric Properties (buttondown.email)
8987.
Statement Regarding Moq – .NET Foundation (dotnet.sitefinity.cloud)
8988.
Welcome to Sligoville: The Story of the Irish in Jamaica (irishtimes.com)
8989.
Why we created Hacker News (2007) (ycombinator.com)
8990.
Sundar Iyer's First Open Address: Co-Accused in Cisco Caste Discrimination Case [video] (youtube.com)
8991.
San Francisco Balks at Expanding Driverless Car Services on City’s Roads (nytimes.com)
8992.
Casey's novel(?) circle drawing algorithm (DDA variation) (computerenhance.com)
8993.
How to Become a Hacker (catb.org)
8994.
Cruise, Waymo get approval to expand driverless vehicles in San Francisco (wsj.com)
8995.
Musk: X Premium is now essentially free for accounts w over 5M views (twitter.com)
8996.
Hopes Dashed as LK-99 Confirmed Not to Be a Room-Temperature Superconductor (iflscience.com)
8997.
Upgrades at AMS-IX result in 85% power reduction (ams-ix.net)
8998.
Show HN: txtai: the all-in-one embeddings database - 6.0 released (colab.research.google.com)
8999.
Russia Will Launch Its First Mission to the Moon in Decades Tomorrow (vice.com)
9000.
The magic of Bell Labs [video] (youtube.com)