One man's quest to restore the first-ever Air Force One https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-air-force-one
Atlas Obscura
One Man’s Quest to Restore the First-Ever Air Force One
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plane is starting to look like itself again.
PyScript: An open source platform for Python in the browser https://pyscript.net/
Pyscript.net
PyScript is a platform for Python in the browser.
Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers https://frankforce.com/space-huggers-how-i-made-a-game-in-13-kilobytes/
Killed By A Pixel
Crafting a 13KB Game: The Story of Space Huggers
One of my favorite game jams is the legendary Js13kGames competition, where participants have one month to make a web browser game that fits in a 13 kilobyte zip file. To put that into perspective,…
A Texas "moth man" photographed 550 species in his own yard https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/curtis-eckerman-photographer-moth-man/
Texas Monthly
More Than 4,000 Moth Species Flit Across Texas. One Scientist Photographed 550 in His Yard.
Small, obscure moths are Curtis Eckerman’s favorites: “I love seeing the little jewels that you can’t normally see.”
Increasing Retention Without Increasing Study Time [pdf] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED505647.pdf
Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
GitHub
GitHub - magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely
get things from one computer to another, safely. Contribute to magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole development by creating an account on GitHub.
Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out https://www.csoonline.com/article/3480918/design-flaw-has-microsoft-authenticator-overwriting-mfa-accounts-locking-users-out.html
CSO Online
Design flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
Microsoft stands out from the authenticator crowd by annihilating accounts when new accounts are introduced via QR code. Despite user complaints for years, no fix has been issued, leaving IT experts wondering, ‘Why would you pick Microsoft?’
Mpv – A free, open-source, and cross-platform media player https://mpv.io/
How the OCaml type checker works (2022) https://okmij.org/ftp/ML/generalization.html
okmij.org
Efficient and Insightful Generalization
A short guide on OCaml type checker, describing the surprisingly elegant algorithm for generalization, which generalizes to first-class polymorphism, MLF and local types. Polymorphism and regions have much in common.
Dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML and CSV https://github.com/TomWright/dasel
GitHub
GitHub - TomWright/dasel: Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML, INI, HCL and CSV files with a single tool. Also…
Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML, INI, HCL and CSV files with a single tool. Also available as a go mod. - TomWright/dasel
UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/17/uk-launches-its-first-earth-imaging-military-satellite
the Guardian
UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite
Satellite named Tyche to support armed forces operations as well as monitor natural disasters and impact of climate change
Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules https://reason.com/2024/08/16/police-cannot-seize-property-indefinitely-after-an-arrest-federal-court-rules/
Reason
Police Cannot Seize Property Indefinitely After an Arrest, Federal Court Rules
Many courts have ruled that law enforcement can hold your property for as long as they want. D.C.’s high court decided that’s unconstitutional.
The Expert Mind [pdf] (2006) https://personal.utdallas.edu/~otoole/CGS2301_S09/15_expert.pdf
Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue https://github.com/janbjorge/PgQueuer
GitHub
GitHub - janbjorge/pgqueuer: PgQueuer is a Python library leveraging PostgreSQL for efficient job queuing.
PgQueuer is a Python library leveraging PostgreSQL for efficient job queuing. - janbjorge/pgqueuer
The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-power-plants-in-the-cloud/
Bert Hubert's writings
The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud - Bert Hubert's writings
Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM (Dutch), Euractiv, Victor Gevers). And this wasn’t the first time something like this has happened either (PV Magazine).
As usual, huge thanks are due to the many…
As usual, huge thanks are due to the many…
Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping https://github.com/srcbookdev/srcbook
GitHub
GitHub - srcbookdev/srcbook: TypeScript-centric app development platform: notebook and AI app builder
TypeScript-centric app development platform: notebook and AI app builder - srcbookdev/srcbook
The U.S. Navy's $100M checkbox (2019) https://adrian3.com/blog/2019/2019-09-28-The-US-Navys-100-million-dollar-checkbox.php
Toasts are bad UX https://maxschmitt.me/posts/toasts-bad-ux
Max Schmitt
Toasts are Bad UX