Gooooooood morning, Clan!!! Hey, this is not a test, this is a tech roundup. Time to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ.
AI, bots and robots
- The Universe Is a Machine That Keeps Learning, Scientists Say
- Vectors are over, hashes are the future of AI
- Alexander von Humboldt: the first Solarpunk
- The iPhone of Robotics: The killer product of robotics is hidden in plain sight
- Exercise is neuroprotective, in part via Irisin (hormone released from FNDC5)
- An Outsider’s Tour of Reinforcement Learning
- CLIPort: What and Where Pathways for Robotic Manipulation
- What the Robot Saw
- Learning to Superoptimize real-world programs
- Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone encoding problem
Blockchain and decentralization
- Bitcoin Miners Eye Nuclear Power as Environmental Criticism Mounts
- We Put a Blockchain on Google Sheets
- 81 of the Top 100 Public Companies are using blockchain technology
- Twitter launches Bitcoin tips, NFTs, recorded Spaces, creator fund and more
- Bitfinex just spent $23.7M in fees to make a single Ethereum transaction
- Response to ‘Call for Review: Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0’
- Kraken Security Labs Identifies Vulnerabilities in Commonly Used Bitcoin ATM
- Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateways: Unlocking the Web3 Metaverse
- Coinbase Breach Notification
Woman computer scientist of the week
Cloud and architecture
- Abusing AWS Lambda to make an Aussie search engine
- Wonk is a tool for combining a set of AWS policy files into smaller sets
- Cloud Run Quietly Swaps Home Env Var in Docker
- Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era
- Consumers and Curators: Browsing and Voting Patterns on Reddit
- Cloudflare R2 Storage: Rapid and Reliable Object Storage, Minus the Egress Fees
- AWS launches ARM-powered Lambdas
- A bit of math around Cloudflare’s R2 pricing model
- AWS Cloud Control API, a Uniform API to Access AWS and Third-Party Services
- Lightning Network Flaws
Development and languages
- Paint.NET 4.3 is now available
- Essay: The Digital Death of Collecting
- Full CRUD for ASP.NET Core app in just 10 minutes
- Light computes any desired linear transform without a digital processor
- A notable JavaScript developer shamelessly copied one of my most downloaded nod
- Getting Started with GitHub Actions with Python
- COVIDSafe: Australia’s digital contact tracing failure
- MPLG – Matplotlib GUI, design plots visually and export as Python code
- The Subtext 10 Programming Language
- Semantic Git Commit Messages
- What if Git worked with Programming Languages?
- Art of Assembly Language Programming and HLA by Randall Hyde
- Python behind the scenes #13: the GIL and its effects on Python multithreading
- Explore your JavaScript dependencies with Lighthouse Treemap
- Mariana Trench: Security-Focused Static Analysis for Android and Java
- Programming in Forth on Commodore 64
- JSXGraph: Dynamic Mathematics with JavaScript
- Writing Python Extensions in Assembly
- Footnotes now supported in GitHub Markdown
- Demo of a WAM Prolog Implementation in Python
- Archivematica: Open-source digital preservation system
Quote of the week
Comparing a computer language to a human language is like comparing an operating system kernel to a popcorn kernel.
— kryptkpr
Enterprises
- Google Arts and Culture: Indonesian Spices
- Interview: Vox calls progress studies “one of the more intriguing intellectual
- San Francisco raises Tesla ‘self-driving’ safety concerns as public test nears
- Physiognomic Artificial Intelligence
- Twitter seeking input as it explores Filter and Limit controls on tweets
- Amazon Has to Disclose How Its Algorithms Judge Workers Per a New California Law
- Skoltech scientists use supercomputer to probe limit of Google quantum processor
- Migrating from App Engine to Google Kubernetes Engine
- Google Is Appealing a $5B Antitrust Fine in the EU
- False Pro-China Accounts Invade Twitter in the UK
- Google and Facebook, I am facilitating packet filtering to block your tracking
- Everyone gets a rootkit (Weakness in Microsoft WPBT)
- Tesla Sues for Defamation over Social Media Posts
- My Wife Was Dying of Brain Cancer. My Boss at Amazon Told Me to Perform or Quit
- Artificial Intelligence Completed Beethoven’s Unfinished Tenth Symphony
- See HN, Twitter discussions and posts mentioning the page you are on
- Stripe launched 10 years ago today
- People are spending $3 for an app to get rid of Google AMP
- ‘Google’ is most searched word on Bing
- Google Is Scrapping Its Plan to Offer Bank Accounts to Users
- Google Drops Plan to Offer Bank Accounts
- Twitter disallows liking, commenting, or retweeting “Misleading” tweets
- Internet Archive’s 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist
Other news
- Fedora Workstation: Our Vision for Linux Desktop
- Spy on Python down to the Linux kernel level
- Simula One: an office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux
- When listeners pay close attention to stories, their heart rates synchronize
- Linux Achieves 5.1M IOPS Per-Core with AMD Zen 3 and Intel Optane
- Major Quantum Computing Strategy Suffers Serious Setbacks
- Things Unlearned
- US Published National Debt: $28T. The Truth: $146T. Each Taxpayer’s Share: $951k
- Banking-Crisis Interventions, 1257-2019
- Coast Guard’s first Black woman pilot helped give the next one her wings
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