August 2020 Archive
9001.
Trump administration calls for broad ban on 'untrusted' Chinese apps like TikTok (cnet.com)
9002.
NBA Top Shot (avc.com)
9003.
Flume: Visual logic editor and runtime engine for JavaScript and more (flume.dev)
9004.
US offers $10M reward for hackers meddling in US elections (zdnet.com)
9005.
Using Variable Fonts other than text (v-fonts.com)
9006.
Programming as Tacit Knowledge (mbuffett.com)
9007.
content-visibility: the new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance (web.dev)
9008.
Air Canada announces workforce reduction of 20k employees, over 50% of workforce (kokpitherald.com)
9009.
MySQL Group Replication vs. PostgreSQL Bi-Directional Replication (youtu.be)
9010.
Web Cache Entanglement: Novel Pathways to Poisoning (portswigger.net)
9011.
The Legacy of the BBC Micro (2012) [pdf] (media.nesta.org.uk)
9012.
The Workforce Is About to Change Dramatically (theatlantic.com)
9013.
Estimating the energy of the Beirut Explosion using a wedding dress (twitter.com)
9014.
Keep out the bad apples: How to moderate a marketplace (twosided.substack.com)
9015.
DeepMind and Google Explore Hyperparameter Selection for Offline RL (syncedreview.com)
9016.
The structure of KDE, or how anarchy sometimes works (pointieststick.com)
9017.
Cromwell's Law (understandinguncertainty.org)
9018.
Amazon Clears FCC Hurdle to Satellite Network (jpmellojr.blogspot.com)
9019.
Covid-19 Is Raging. How Safe Is Your Backyard Party? (quantamagazine.org)
9020.
CNO neutrinos from the Sun are finally detected (syfy.com)
9021.
A thread of “advanced” React interview questions (twitter.com)
9022.
Formalizing and digitizing Africa's informal retail sector (iafrikan.com)
9023.
Ask HN: How did data digitization impact the automotive industry?
9024.
OnePlus is poisoning its phones with Facebook bloatware (androidpolice.com)
9025.
United Airlines Now Cleaning Flight Decks with UVC Lighting (kokpitherald.com)
9026.
Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm (nytimes.com)
9027.
Microsoft integrates Android apps into Windows 10 with new Your Phone update (theverge.com)
9028.
Debugging Python server memory leaks with the Fil profiler (pythonspeed.com)
9029.
Hit Registration in Valorant (playvalorant.com)
9030.
Why the blood-brain barrier is really a filter (scopeblog.stanford.edu)