August 2023 Archive
1921.
The World's Oldest Photograph (2022) (artandobject.com)
1922.
Risky Giant Steps Can Solve Optimization Problems Faster (quantamagazine.org)
1923.
Tourists Give Themselves Away by Looking Up. So Do Most Network Intruders (krebsonsecurity.com)
1924.
Female genital mutilation, leading cause of death in African countries (medicalxpress.com)
1925.
Template for Impactful Ideas (tidyfirst.substack.com)
1926.
How to Search on Encrypted Data (2013) (esl.cs.brown.edu)
1927.
Foxconn puts its empty buildings in Wisconsin up for sale (theverge.com)
1928.
India’s Chandrayaan-3 probe successfully lands on the lunar South Pole (theverge.com)
1929.
Scene Archetypes: The ones making Amiga 500 fun (datagubbe.se)
1930.
Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin listed as passenger on plane which crashed (theguardian.com)
1931.
Electric cars aren't affordable because America's workforce is underpaid (jalopnik.com)
1932.
Extras worry they'll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans (text.npr.org)
1933.
Concrete, asphalt and urban heat islands add to the misery of heat waves (reuters.com)
1934.
Toyota to restart Japan production on Wednesday after system failure (reuters.com)
1935.
How the Army tried and failed to build a bicycle corps (2020) (armytimes.com)
1936.
How to create a Qt 5 ARM/Intel universal binary for Mac (downtowndougbrown.com)
1937.
The persistence of prog rock (2017) (newyorker.com)
1938.
Show HN: Graphweaver – Instant GraphQL API on Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and More (github.com)
1939.
People in a genetic database have segments of DNA in common unexpectedly often (arstechnica.com)
1940.
Radio frequency hearing in humans and its effects (2003) (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
1941.
The AST Typing Problem (blog.ezyang.com)
1942.
PreTeXt: Write Once Read Anywhere Authoring and Publishing System (pretextbook.org)
1943.
How Tycho Brahe really died (2001) (ips-planetarium.org)
1944.
Grumpy Website (grumpy.website)
1945.
Entropy in Engineering Processes (logical.li)
1946.
Darling Progress Report Q2 2023 (blog.darlinghq.org)
1947.
The TextFX Project (textfx.withgoogle.com)
1948.
Walt Disney Pictures VFX Workers Move to Unionize (variety.com)
1949.
Since v4.20, Moq is harvesting email addresses (github.com)
1950.
Tesla’s $10k-Cheaper Model S, X Are Software Locked for Less Range: Report (thedrive.com)