August 2023 Archive
1831.
The missing C++ smart pointer (blog.matthieud.me)
1832.
The Albanian town that TikTok emptied (codastory.com)
1833.
Amazon Pharmacy automates discounts to help insulin patients get pledged prices (reuters.com)
1834.
Classical music is for everyone (firstthings.com)
1835.
Migrating Netflix to GraphQL (netflixtechblog.com)
1836.
Life Has Several Exits (lopespm.com)
1837.
Who Was Duns Scotus? (aeon.co)
1838.
On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise (1996) [pdf] (harpers.org)
1839.
The worlds largest Online Toaster Exhibition (toastermuseum.com)
1840.
Why We'll Stay Remote (supabase.com)
1841.
DeepEval – Unit Testing for LLMs (github.com)
1842.
Noiszy: A browser plugin that creates meaningless web data – digital “noise.” (noiszy.com)
1843.
Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese (schneier.com)
1844.
Firefox users may import Chrome extensions now (ghacks.net)
1845.
Lines of code that changed everything (2019) (slate.com)
1846.
Air pollution greatest global threat to human health, says benchmark study (phys.org)
1847.
CSS Pattern: Fancy backgrounds with CSS gradients (css-pattern.com)
1848.
A case for dynamic scoring of high-skilled immigration (slowboring.com)
1849.
She paid husband's hospital bill. A year after his death, they wanted more money (text.npr.org)
1850.
Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile want to access your bank account (wsj.com)
1851.
Disney used to hate gambling. Now it’s doing a $2B sports betting deal (vox.com)
1852.
How might life migrate through the universe? (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
1853.
Move Back to Datacenters (rakkhi.substack.com)
1854.
Serial murders have dwindled, thanks to improved technology (nytimes.com)
1855.
Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company (2019) (sahillavingia.com)
1856.
Show HN: Strich – Barcode scanning for web apps (strich.io)
1857.
The Cost of Good Movies (soaringtwenties.substack.com)
1858.
IBM analog AI chip could give the Nvidia H100 a run for its money (techradar.com)
1859.
A Fire Upon The Deep By Vernor Vinge (1992) (archive.org)
1860.
Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users (gizmodo.com)