Bert Sutherland Has Died https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Sutherland
Wikipedia
Bert Sutherland
American computer scientist
Larry Tesler Has Died https://gizmodo.com/larry-tessler-modeless-computing-advocate-has-passed-1841787408
Gizmodo
The Computer Scientist Responsible for Cut, Copy, and Paste, Has Passed Away
The advent of the personal computer wasn’t just about making these powerful machines available to everyone, it was also about making them accessible and usable, even for those lacking a computer science degree. Larry Tesler, who passed away on Monday, might…
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech? https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-hydrogen-boron-fusion-clean-energy/
New Atlas
Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech
"We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century," says the director of an Australian company that claims its hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion times better than…
More bosses give four-day workweek a try https://www.npr.org/2020/02/21/807133509/enjoy-the-extra-day-off-more-bosses-give-4-day-workweek-a-try
Does memory leak? (1995) https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ada/E9bNCvDQ12k/1tezW24ZxdAJ
Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions https://grep.app
Mathematics for the Adventurous Self-Learner https://www.neilwithdata.com/mathematics-self-learner
Neilwithdata
Mathematics for the adventurous self-learner | Neil Sainsbury
Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2020/02/25/the-facts-mozillas-dns-over-https-doh/
Open Policy & Advocacy
The Facts: Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs (DoH)
The current insecure DNS system leaves billions of people around the world vulnerable because the data about where they go on the internet is unencrypted. We’ve set out to change ...
Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-releases-28-million-images-public-domain-180974263/
Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain
The launch of a new open access platform ushers in a new era of accessibility for the Institution
Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates https://letsencrypt.org/2020/02/27/one-billion-certs.html
letsencrypt.org
Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
We issued our billionth certificate on February 27, 2020. We’re going to use this big round number as an opportunity to reflect on what has changed for us, and for the Internet, leading up to this event. In particular, we want to talk about what has happened…
Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications https://www.geoffreylitt.com/wildcard/salon2020/
Geoffreylitt
Wildcard: Spreadsheet-Driven Customization of Web Applications
Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects http://profithunt.co
Freeman Dyson Has Died https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/science/freeman-dyson-dead.html
NY Times
Freeman Dyson, Math Genius Turned Technological Visionary, Dies at 96
After an early breakthrough on light and matter, he became a writer who challenged climate science and pondered space exploration and nuclear warfare.
A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools https://acrossapp.com/blog/how-a-2-person-startup-already-uses-28-other-tools
Across
How a 2 person startup already uses 28 other tools
At Across, we wanted to see how many other technology companies and service providers we use on a regular basis. The answer was way more than we thought. For a seed stage 2 person startup, we already use 28 different tools regularly totaling $227 / month…
SETI@home shuts down after 21 years https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/seti-home-search-for-alien-life-project-shuts-down-after-21-years/
BleepingComputer
SETI@home Search for Alien Life Project Shuts Down After 21 Years
SETI@home has announced that they will no longer be distributing new work to clients starting on March 31st as they have enough data and want to focus on completing their back-end analysis of the data.
Spot the Drowning Child (2015) http://spotthedrowningchild.com/#
Spotthedrowningchild
Spot The Drowning Child
Can you spot the drowning child in this crowded wave pool? An interactive public service announcement. To the untrained eye, drowning can look just like swimming. The Instinctive Drowning Response is frequently missed, even by people nearby.