August 2021 Archive
1921.
The Dead Mac Scrolls (1992) (archive.org)
1922.
A Proposal for the Dartmouth Research Project on Artificial Intelligence (1955) (www-formal.stanford.edu)
1923.
Alf 2: Collision Detection Is Hard, Blog Posts Are Harder (nicole.express)
1924.
5G from Space: An Overview of 3GPP Non-Terrestrial Networks (arxiv.org)
1925.
The Strong Law of Small Numbers (1988) [pdf] (maa.org)
1926.
VisiData – open-source data multitool (visidata.org)
1927.
Snowdrop OS – a homebrew operating system from scratch, in assembly language (sebastianmihai.com)
1928.
Database internals are becoming less important than developer experience (planetscale.com)
1929.
Buoyant wants to solve middle-mile delivery with cargo airships (techcrunch.com)
1930.
Ask HN: Is there a recruiter email blocklist somewhere?
1931.
Ask HN: How many of you are quitting over return to office?
1932.
Bashly – Create beautiful bash scripts from simple YAML configuration (github.com)
1933.
Breaking down a ripple animation in JavaScript (bryanbraun.com)
1934.
Firefox follows Chrome and prepares to block insecure downloads (therecord.media)
1935.
The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server (2012) (satsignal.eu)
1936.
Allegations against Aubrey de Grey (celinehh.com)
1937.
The Education of Melvyn Bragg (newyorker.com)
1938.
Dancoland (alexdanco.com)
1939.
Lumen – Self-hosted Lisp for Lua and JavaScript (github.com)
1940.
Ford targeted older salaried employees during 2019 layoffs (wsws.org)
1941.
Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity (theverge.com)
1942.
End to end text to speech system using gruut and onnx, 50 voices, 9 languages (github.com)
1943.
I’m an ICU Doctor and I Can't Believe What Unvaccinated Patients Are Saying (huffpost.com)
1944.
Ask HN: How did web development become so bizarrely complex?
1945.
Kaitiakitanga Māori Data Sovereignty Licences (taiuru.maori.nz)
1946.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016) (github.com)
1947.
Scientists urged Wisconsin to limit its wolf kill. It didn’t go well (sciencemag.org)
1948.
Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products (mixpanel.com)
1949.
Planning for Servers in 2022 and Beyond (servethehome.com)
1950.
A tweet cost him his doctorate: the extent of China’s influence on Swiss Unis (nzz.ch)