December 2021 Archive
2941.
Linux on modern, post 2018 Chromebooks with all drivers working (old.reddit.com)
2942.
Did Girolamo Mercuriale misdiagnose a plague in sixteenth-century Venice? (laphamsquarterly.org)
2943.
The Alchemy of Madness: Understanding a Seventeenth-Century “Brain Scan” (2015) (resobscura.blogspot.com)
2944.
Stochastic Bisection in Git (lwn.net)
2945.
Human geneticists curb use of the term ‘race’ in their papers (science.org)
2946.
“Imagine If Doctors Relied on Google as Much as Programmers Do” (codelab.farai.xyz)
2947.
Launch HN: Preflight (YC W19) – Better automated testing for web apps (preflight.com)
2948.
Scientists find a way to ‘catapult’ rockets into space like ‘slingshots’ (theswaddle.com)
2949.
Brazillian businessman built a giant perpetual engine (web.archive.org)
2950.
Show HN: I made a tool to improve Mission Control on macOS (fadel.io)
2951.
F1: Mercedes appeals Verstappen's win, contest safety car procedure in last lap (firstpost.com)
2952.
Brain surgeons and rocket scientists no brighter than the rest of us (theguardian.com)
2953.
Elon Musk’s Software Focus Helped Tesla Navigate Chip Shortage (wsj.com)
2954.
Met Museum Removes Sackler Name from Wing over Opioid Ties (nytimes.com)
2955.
The value of taxi medallions has plummeted 90% in NYC (twitter.com)
2956.
Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory (nytimes.com)
2957.
Programming languages and frameworks to learn in 2022
2958.
“We’re shipping to the US” – inside China’s synthetic opioid networks (2020) (npr.org)
2959.
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron has extensive but incomplete escape of Pfizer BNT162b2 (sigallab.net)
2960.
Best open source 3D printers 2021 (with links to designs) (3dsourced.com)
2961.
Ask HN: Dependency Graphs for Cloud Services?
2962.
KDE Wants to Fix Every Linus Tech Tips Complaint (openforeveryone.net)
2963.
Decapitation in Rats: Latency to Unconsciousness and the ‘Wave of Death’ (2011) (researchgate.net)
2964.
The Great (Fake) Child-Sex-Trafficking Epidemic (theatlantic.com)
2965.
Unmaking a Murderer (chicagomag.com)
2966.
TikTok ousts Google to become favourite online destination (bbc.com)
2967.
Twitter Is About to Get Way Worse (bariweiss.substack.com)
2968.
The Webb Space Telescope Will Rewrite Cosmic History. If It Works (quantamagazine.org)
2969.
Facebook claims its ‘fact-checks’ are ‘opinion’ (nypost.com)
2970.
The best starting word in Wordle (bert.org)