Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36096/airline-pilots-landing-at-lax-report-a-guy-in-jetpack-flying-alongside-them-on
The Drive
Airline Pilots Landing At LAX Report A Guy In Jetpack Flying Alongside Them
Even in an era in which congress wants to openly investigate UFOs, a dude flying alongside an airliner over Los Angeles in a jetpack is still bonkers
Most-favorited Hacker News posts https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/hacker-favourites-analysis
Observable
Most favorited Hacker News posts of all time
The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. The list skews toward innovative learning resources and tech career tips, but there is a little of everything. Data was scraped 2020-09-1 from the public favourites lists. This is…
Unix Wars (2000) https://www.livinginternet.com/i/iw_unix_war.htm
Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/02/court-rules-nsa-phone-snooping-illegal-407727
POLITICO
Court rules NSA phone snooping illegal — after 7-year delay
But the controversial phone metadata program played little role in the terror-fundraising case at issue, the long-awaited ruling says.
What is the purpose of issuing laws/regulations without penalty? (2017) https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/26724/what-is-the-purpose-of-issuing-laws-regulations-without-penalty
Politics Stack Exchange
What is the purpose of issuing laws/regulations without penalty?
At the beginning of November, Romanian government approved significant fiscal changes:
The Government passed the highly criticized measure of transferring
most social contributions from the
The Government passed the highly criticized measure of transferring
most social contributions from the
Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island https://grumpygamer.com/thirty_years_ago
Grumpy Gamer
30 years ago today...
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers https://uspirg.org/blogs/blog/usp/right-repair-could-help-address-critical-shortage-school-computers#new_tab
U.S. PIRG Education Fund
The Right to Repair could help address a critical shortage in school computers
Buying a refurbished computer can save money and cut waste. It might also be a key strategy in addressing the digital divide
Relativty – An open-source VR headset https://www.relativty.com/
Implement BeamAsm – A JIT for Erlang/OTP https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/2745
GitHub
Implement BeamAsm - a JIT for Erlang/OTP by garazdawi · Pull Request #2745 · erlang/otp
This PR introduces BeamAsm, a JIT compiler for the Erlang VM.
Implementation
BeamAsm provides load-time conversion of Erlang beam instructions into native code on x86-64. This allows the loader to ...
Implementation
BeamAsm provides load-time conversion of Erlang beam instructions into native code on x86-64. This allows the loader to ...
Security by obscurity is underrated https://utkusen.com/blog/security-by-obscurity-is-underrated.html
Utkusen
Security by Obscurity is Underrated
🔥 This article widely discussed at Hackernews and Reddit
In the information security field, we have developed lots of thoughts that can’t be discussed (or rarely discussed):
Never roll your own crypto
Always use TLS
Security…
In the information security field, we have developed lots of thoughts that can’t be discussed (or rarely discussed):
Never roll your own crypto
Always use TLS
Security…
Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-to-acquire-arm-for-40-billion-creating-worlds-premier-computing-company-for-the-age-of-ai
NVIDIA Newsroom
NVIDIA to Acquire Arm for $40 Billion, Creating World’s Premier Computing Company for the Age of AI
NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. today announced a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund in a transaction valued at $40 billion.
We now consider Moment.js to be a legacy project in maintenance mode https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/
When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram
mango.pdf.zone
When you browse Instagram and find former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number
Do not get arrested challenge 2020
This electrical transmission tower has a problem https://twitter.com/tubetimeus/status/1306359385656946688
X (formerly Twitter)
Tube Time on 🟦☁ (@TubeTimeUS) on X
this electrical transmission tower has a little problem. can you spot it? actually, it's not a small problem--it cost us 16.65 *billion* dollars and caused the deaths of 85 people.
FreeCAD: A free and open source multiplatform 3D parametric modeler https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD
GitHub
GitHub - FreeCAD/FreeCAD: Official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.
Official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler. - FreeCAD/FreeCAD
The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017) https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691462?journalCode=jacr
Journal of the Association for Consumer Research
Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity | Journal of the Association for Consumer…
Abstract Our smartphones enable—and encourage—constant connection to information, entertainment, and each other. They put the world at our fingertips, and rarely leave our sides. Although these devices have immense potential to improve welfare, their persistent…