February 2020 Archive
1261.
What Is the Point of Universal Basic Income? (perell.com)
1262.
Doing Western students' homework is big business in Kenya (pri.org)
1263.
DARPA Wants Millions to Design an Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger (thedrive.com)
1264.
Trunk Road Gritter Tracker (scotgov.maps.arcgis.com)
1265.
I found a loophole to prevent those pesky cookie notices (ma.ttias.be)
1266.
Ask HN: My web app was hacked today – Bad experiences and how to prevent them?
1267.
Hacked from a lightbulb (blog.checkpoint.com)
1268.
Thinking About Recursion (solipsys.co.uk)
1269.
The mystery of silphium, a lost Roman herb (2017) (bbc.com)
1270.
Astronomers want public funds for intelligent life search (bbc.co.uk)
1271.
The comfortable life is killing us (medium.com)
1272.
Singapore Airlines is using aeroponics to upgrade in-flight meals (qz.com)
1273.
Passionate kissing is not a human universal (2015) (hraf.yale.edu)
1274.
Twitter's community verification system will be a disaster (easydns.com)
1275.
Ask HN: Can we stop linking to paywalls?
1276.
What to know before you buy or install an Amazon Ring camera (eff.org)
1277.
Silicon Valley Abandons the Culture That Made It the Envy of the World (theatlantic.com)
1278.
“Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors (guzey.com)
1279.
StorePreviewer – See what your app will look like on the App Store (storepreviewer.com)
1280.
Soviet Calculators History (1998) (xnumber.com)
1281.
A new bill could punish web platforms for using end-to-end encryption (theverge.com)
1282.
AutoFlip: an open-source framework for intelligent video reframing (ai.googleblog.com)
1283.
The Economics of Maps [pdf] (pubs.aeaweb.org)
1284.
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)
1285.
LA’s new trains have not lessened the time spent stuck in traffic (economist.com)
1286.
Surf industry paradox: Surfing, by its nature, contradicts basic capitalism (beachgrit.com)
1287.
New iPhones might be forced to have a removable battery (techradar.com)
1288.
Google Plots Course to Overtake Cloud Rivals (wsj.com)
1289.
Fedora Muscian's Guide (docs.fedoraproject.org)
1290.
South Korean police impose curfew on late-night studying (2011) (content.time.com)