Wilfrid Voynich: Bookseller, Revolutionary, Cryptologist… Suspected Spy?
L: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/wilfrid-voynich-bookseller-revolutionary
Nintendo 64 Test Cart ROM
L: https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2023/07/nintendo-64-test-cart-rom/
The World Bakes Under Extreme Heat
L: https://www.wsj.com/articles/extreme-heat-waves-across-the-world-photos-7cc1544d
Vx32: Portable, efficient, safe user-space execution of untrusted x86 code
Recursive COW Pages in Userspace
Data Parallel, Task Parallel, and Agent Actor Architectures
L: https://bytewax.io/blog/data-parallel-task-parallel-and-agent-actor-architectures
Citus 12: Schema-based sharding for PostgreSQL
L: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2023/07/18/citus-12-schema-based-sharding-for-postgres/
Betterfox: User.js to harden Firefox and optimize privacy, security, and speed
Raven’s matrices
Linear Programming in Python (2023)
In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns (2021)
L: https://www.aier.org/article/in-the-asian-flu-of-1957-58-they-rejected-lockdowns/
Llama 2: an open-source LLM
Tiffin Tom: Fish, chips and a side of identity theft
L: https://paul.reviews/tiffin-tom-fish-chips-and-a-side-of-identity-theft/
AutoChain, lightweight and testable alternative to LangChain
CloudFront Is Having an Outage
Velt (YC W22) Is Hiring Engineer to Build a Better “CRDT”
L: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/velt/jobs/7W1w74l-founding-fullstack-engineer-crdts-us-only
17.1 Salesforce Towers worth of empty office space spread across SF
Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
L: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/refusing-to-teach-kids-math-will
‘Everyday Utopia’ Review: The Road to Nowhere
L: https://www.wsj.com/articles/everyday-utopia-review-the-road-to-nowhere-1ca3ceb3