We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PJu2HhKsyTEJMxS9a/you-don-t-know-how-bad-most-things-are-nor-precisely-how
Lesswrong
You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad. — LessWrong
TL;DR: Your discernment in a subject often improves as you dedicate time and attention to that subject. The space of possible subjects is huge, so on…
Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase https://github.com/instantdb/instant
GitHub
GitHub - instantdb/instant: Instant is a modern Firebase. We make you productive by giving your frontend a real-time database.
Instant is a modern Firebase. We make you productive by giving your frontend a real-time database. - instantdb/instant
Adding 16 kb page size to Android https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2024/08/adding-16-kb-page-size-to-android.html
Android Developers Blog
Adding 16 KB Page Size to Android
Android 15 has been refactored to support using 16 KB page sizes, and file systems like EROFS and F2FS have been made compatible.
Show HN: Permify 1.0 – Open-source fine-grained authorization service https://github.com/Permify/permify
GitHub
GitHub - Permify/permify: An open-source authorization as a service inspired by Google Zanzibar, designed to build and manage fine…
An open-source authorization as a service inspired by Google Zanzibar, designed to build and manage fine-grained and scalable authorization systems for any application. — Permify is now part of Fus...
You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites https://lelouch.dev/blog/you-are-probably-not-dumb/
lelouch.dev
You Are NOT Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites
I always thought I was too dumb to understand math. During my school years, it was evident to me that for some kids math was easy, and for others like myself: painfully difficult.
Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing https://horovits.medium.com/lidl-is-taking-on-aws-the-age-of-eurocloud-b237258e3311
Medium
Lidl’s Cloud Gambit: Europe’s Shift to Sovereign Computing
Lidl is launching sovereign cloud computing in Europe. GDPR and data compliance is driving the EU to look for local alternatives.
Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor https://cprimozic.net/blog/fixing-a-bug-in-google-chrome/
Casey Primozic's Blog
Fixing a Bug in Google Chrome as a First-Time Contributor
A rundown of my experience finding and fixing a bug in the Chromium/Google Chrome browser - specifically in the devtools. It includes details about the bug itself as well as notes about what it was like working on the Chromium project as a first-time contributor.
Love them or hate them, this couple reign in Russian literature https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/26/books/larissa-volokhonsky-richard-pevear.html
NY Times
Love Them or Hate Them, This Couple Reign in Russian Literature
For Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, translating together extended naturally from their relationship as husband and wife. Now, it is their life’s work.
NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture https://www.nsa.gov/helpful-links/nsa-foia/declassification-transparency-initiatives/historical-releases/view/article/3880193/capt-grace-hopper-on-future-possibilities-data-hardware-software-and-people-1982/
National Security Agency/Central Security Service
Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software,
On August 26, 2024, the National Security Agency (NSA) released a digital copy of a videotaped lecture, "Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" that Rear Adm. Grace Hopper gave to
Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform https://hamel.dev/blog/posts/dokku/
Hamel's Blog - Hamel Husain
Dokku: my favorite personal serverless platform – Hamel’s Blog - Hamel Husain
Like Heroku, but you own it.
The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim https://www.classcentral.com/report/2u-edx-bankruptcy/
The Report by Class Central
Harvard and MIT's $800 Million Mistake: The Triple Failure of 2U, edX, and Axim Collaborative — Class Central
The future of Coursera's only credible alternative for universities rests in the hands of 2U's creditors.
Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team https://www.mono-project.com/
Diffusion models are real-time game engines https://gamengen.github.io
gamengen.github.io
Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines
Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch https://blog.hopefullyuseful.com/blog/advantage-air-ezone-tablet-diy-repair/
Hopefully Useful
Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
Forcing customers to replace an entire system just because the cheapest component failed might be really profitable, I have no idea… But I do know that it annoyed me enough to make me want to fix it myself. While I understand that what I do next is beyond…
Can solar costs keep shrinking? https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/can-solar-costs-keep-shrinking
Tomaspueyo
Can Solar Costs Keep Shrinking?
The costs of some parts of solar farms will drop to near zero. But some obstacles remain to make this energy cheaply available everywhere. As a result, the entire energy industry will change. What are those obstacles? How will the industry change?
Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users https://brave.com/blog/related-website-sets/
Brave
Chrome is Entrenching Third-Party Cookies For Some Sites In A Way That Will Predictably, Inevitably Mislead Users | Brave
Related Website Sets is a user-hostile weakening of the Web's privacy model, plainly designed to benefit websites and advertisers, to the detriment of user privacy.