EU antitrust: Apple shouldn't use privacy and security to stave off competition https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/02/eu-antitrust-head-warns-against-apple-using-privacy-security-to-stave-off-competition
AppleInsider
Apple shouldn't use privacy & security to stave off competition, EU antitrust head warns
Responding to comments made by Apple CEO Tim Cook in June, European Union competition chief Margrethe Vestager said that Apple shouldn't use privacy and security concerns to stifle competition on the App Store.
Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C (2017) https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/
Let’s Build a Simple Database
How Does a Database Work?
Writing a sqlite clone from scratch in C
Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns https://github.com/jdhayford/acid-tabs-extension
GitHub
GitHub - jdhayford/acid-tabs-extension: Chrome extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns
Chrome extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns - GitHub - jdhayford/acid-tabs-extension: Chrome extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns
Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time? https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-the-pirate-queen-of-scientific-publishing-in-real-trouble-this-time
The future is in symmetrical, high-speed internet speeds https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/future-symmetrical-high-speed-internet-speeds
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Future Is in Symmetrical, High-Speed Internet Speeds
Congress is about to make critical decisions about the future of internet access and speed in the United States. It has a potentially once-in-a-lifetime amount of funding to spend on broadband
Bypassing macOS TCC user privacy protections by accident and design https://labs.sentinelone.com/bypassing-macos-tcc-user-privacy-protections-by-accident-and-design/
SentinelOne
Bypassing macOS TCC User Privacy Protections By Accident and Design - SentinelLabs
TCC is meant to protect user data from unauthorized access, but design flaws mean users and malware can bypass TCC, even by accident.
Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust and WebAssembly https://cprimozic.net/blog/speeding-up-webcola-with-webassembly/
Casey Primozic's Blog
Speeding Up the Webcola Graph Viz Library with Rust + WebAssembly
PID Controller for controlling the number of servers in a data-center https://gist.github.com/pushpendre/359706010c20bc1d18123510749f5da5
Gist
PID Controller for controlling the number of servers in a data-center. This notebook accompanies the video https://youtu.be/pKuVUmpYkLk
PID Controller for controlling the number of servers in a data-center. This notebook accompanies the video https://youtu.be/pKuVUmpYkLk - pid_control_servers.ipynb
Stockfish 14 https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2021/stockfish-14/
Lessons from 20 years of hype cycles (2016) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/8-lessons-from-20-years-hype-cycles-michael-mullany
Linkedin
8 Lessons from 20 Years of Hype Cycles
As a VC at Icon Ventures and a twenty year veteran of productizing and marketing high tech for VMware, Netscape and others, I've always been fascinated by how new technologies emerge and come to market. One of the major artifacts that tries to capture the…
The Powder Toy https://github.com/The-Powder-Toy/The-Powder-Toy
GitHub
GitHub - The-Powder-Toy/The-Powder-Toy: Written in C++ and using SDL, The Powder Toy is a desktop version of the classic 'falling…
Written in C++ and using SDL, The Powder Toy is a desktop version of the classic 'falling sand' physics sandbox, it simulates air pressure and velocity as well as heat. - The-Powder...
A forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast (2015) https://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/05/medieval-new-england-black-sea.html
www.caitlingreen.org
The medieval 'New England': a forgotten Anglo-Saxon colony on the north-eastern Black Sea coast
Although the name 'New England' is now firmly associated with the east coast of America, this is not the first place to be called that. In t...
Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987) https://pessimistsarchive.substack.com/p/1d7a427e-5028-470d-906d-6c3f9980d1de
Substack
STUDENTS FLEE FIELD AS COMPUTER 'FAD FADES'
The Bismarck Tribune, Bismarck, North Dakota - 20 Jan 1987, Tue • Page 9
The Good and the Limitations of Github Copilot https://blog.hrithwik.me/the-good-and-the-limitations-of-github-copilot
Product validation frameworks are mostly useless without taste https://commoncog.com/blog/product-validation-taste/
Commoncog
Product Validation Frameworks are Useless Without Taste
Product validation frameworks often describe processes without talking about taste. Here's why this is almost always a bad idea.
Mental Poker [pdf] https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/SRA81.pdf
FINRA Orders Record Financial Penalties Against Robinhood https://www.finra.org/media-center/newsreleases/2021/finra-orders-record-financial-penalties-against-robinhood-financial
Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm (2017) https://jeremykun.com/2017/02/27/the-reasonable-effectiveness-of-the-multiplicative-weights-update-algorithm/
Math ∩ Programming
The Reasonable Effectiveness of the Multiplicative Weights Update Algorithm
papad Hard to believe Sanjeev Arora and his coauthors consider it “a basic tool [that should be] taught to all algorithms students together with divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, and random sampling.” Christos Papadimitriou calls it “so hard to believe…