August 2024 Archive
2911.
Google's former CEO on why the company was caught off guard by OpenAI (theverge.com)
2912.
Ask HN: Could true randomness come from sparkles from light reflecting the sea?
2913.
Apple's new Safari feature removes distracting items from websites (techcrunch.com)
2914.
Japan's Leader, Fumio Kishida, Will Step Down (nytimes.com)
2915.
Weird People (maraoz.com)
2916.
More people than ever are eating alone at restaurants (cnn.com)
2917.
Cell-Free Bioactive Scaffold Supports Cartilage Regeneration-Large Animal Joints (genengnews.com)
2918.
Fobos SDR: High-Quality Radio for Hobbyists, Researchers and Professionals (hackster.io)
2919.
CVE-2024-40798 – an app may be able to read Safari's browsing history (nvd.nist.gov)
2920.
SpaceX's new direct-to-cell Starlink satellites are brighter than the originals (space.com)
2921.
User-defined Order in SQL (2018) (begriffs.com)
2922.
Woman tired of her mail getting stolen used an Apple AirTag to catch the thieves (cnn.com)
2923.
Behind AWS S3's Scale (highscalability.com)
2924.
In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival's board with mercury (arstechnica.com)
2925.
The world is relying on a flawed psychological test to fight racism (2017) (qz.com)
2926.
Fair Source licensing is the worst thing to happen to open source-definitely ma (2016) (web.archive.org)
2927.
The shortest, strangest engineering interview I've ever done (bluepnume.medium.com)
2928.
U.S. Wealth Inequality [video] (youtube.com)
2929.
Sam Altman Is Battling with Governments over Your Eyes (wsj.com)
2930.
A Kubernetes Query Language (cyphernet.es)
2931.
Schedule Email API (resend.com)
2932.
Scientists Discovered a Way to Make Your Batteries Survive Way Longer (petapixel.com)
2933.
Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techcrunch.com)
2934.
Programming with Punch Cards [pdf] (web.archive.org)
2935.
The Curse of Knowledge (nesslabs.com)
2936.
Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes (aws.amazon.com)
2937.
Super Micro: Fresh Evidence of Accounting Manipulation, etc. (hindenburgresearch.com)
2938.
Verisign under fire for increasing .com prices each and every year it can (theregister.com)
2939.
A Postgres Alternative to Kafka (sequinstream.com)
2940.
Revolutionary Quantum Compass Could Soon Make GPS-Free Navigation a Reality (scitechdaily.com)