2021 Archive
8971.
LSD, cargo shorts and the fall of a tech CEO (bloomberg.com)
8972.
Google no longer requires AMP, but the replacement might be worse (theregister.com)
8973.
Jet Li rejected The Matrix as he didn’t want his kung fu moves recorded (2018) (scmp.com)
8974.
What you can learn about medieval Europe if you focus on peasants (laphamsquarterly.org)
8975.
Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says (techcrunch.com)
8976.
Chamath Palihapitiya on Wallstreetbets [audio] (overcast.fm)
8977.
Amazon’s wage increase to $15 an hour also upped pay for non-Amazon workers (aboutamazon.com)
8978.
The time Pepsi got sued for a $33M fighter jet (thehustle.co)
8979.
Down the Golang Nil Rabbit Hole (blog.urth.org)
8980.
Julia and the Reincarnation of Lisp (2020) (arnuldondata.medium.com)
8981.
80% of my traffic is excluded from Google Analytics (twitter.com)
8982.
How prepared are we for the next giant solar flare? (forbes.com)
8983.
Cold Fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, U.S. Navy Researchers Reopen Case (spectrum.ieee.org)
8984.
Wirecutter strike and boycott Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday (twitter.com)
8985.
Are We Really Engineers? (hillelwayne.com)
8986.
Show HN: I built an intercom for my 6 yo to keep us connected during quarantine (chordata.cc)
8987.
Wezterm – A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer (github.com)
8988.
Unhook: Hide YouTube Recommendations (chrome.google.com)
8989.
Made in the USA: Socialism for the Rich. Capitalism for the Rest (nytimes.com)
8990.
Gopher – A 280B parameter language model (deepmind.com)
8991.
Archivists Are Preserving Capitol Hill Riot Livestreams Before They’re Deleted (vice.com)
8992.
Does Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Block Archive.is? (2019) (jarv.is)
8993.
Data scientists shouldn’t need to know Kubernetes (huyenchip.com)
8994.
Federal judges or their brokers traded stocks of litigants during cases (wsj.com)
8995.
Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves (artificialintelligence-news.com)
8996.
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats (backblaze.com)
8997.
Shitty Software Kills People (val.demar.in)
8998.
Lead exposure from routine consumption of coffee and tea from ceramic mugs (foodcontaminationjournal.biomedcentral.com)
8999.
Texas gov knew of natural gas shortages days before blackout, blamed wind anyway (arstechnica.com)
9000.
Linus Torvalds: “GitHub creates useless garbage merges” (lore.kernel.org)