2024 Archive
5161.
How China turns members of its diaspora into spies (economist.com)
5162.
Sierra was captured, then killed, by an accounting fraud (2020) (vice.com)
5163.
Financial systems take a holiday (bitsaboutmoney.com)
5164.
Judge acquits Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey on most counts (reason.com)
5165.
Binance built a 100PB log service with Quickwit (quickwit.io)
5166.
New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search (blog.google)
5167.
Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood (theconversation.com)
5168.
Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop (sharedrop.io)
5169.
Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use and possible “pranking” among pachyderms (science.org)
5170.
Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died by Suicide, Order Autopsy (sfist.com)
5171.
FLUX1.1 [pro] – New SotA text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs (replicate.com)
5172.
Long Covid brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels in the brain (sciencenews.org)
5173.
Farewell Pandas, and thanks for all the fish (ibis-project.org)
5174.
Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content (alfy.blog)
5175.
Facebook incorrectly reports personal blog to DigitalOcean for phishing (social.lol)
5176.
The Curse of Monkey Island (filfre.net)
5177.
Libyear (libyear.com)
5178.
Armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective (arstechnica.com)
5179.
Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language (xorvoid.com)
5180.
On finishing projects (alexreichert.com)
5181.
Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines (theguardian.com)
5182.
SimSig: Railway Signalling Simulations (simsig.co.uk)
5183.
MikroPhone: A privacy enhanced, simple and featured RISC-V mobile phone (mikrophone.net)
5184.
Tk9.0: CGo-free, cross platform GUI toolkit for Go (pkg.go.dev)
5185.
I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months (shadesofgreaves.substack.com)
5186.
World Server Throwing Championship (cloudfest.com)
5187.
Making a Postgres query 1k times faster (mattermost.com)
5188.
Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR (ai.meta.com)
5189.
Show HN: Super Snowflake Maker (supersnowflakemaker.com)
5190.
Web Design Museum (webdesignmuseum.org)