Pdftool.org: modify pdfs offline in the browser - https://www.pdftool.org

Paul Brodeur, journalist who exposed asbestos hazards, dies at 92 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/08/10/paul-brodeur-dead/

You Won’t Believe This One Weird CPU Instruction (2019) - https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/

The video call revolution is dead - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/12/23828781/video-call-chat-revolution-dead-zoom-google-meet-apps

The Deepest Submarine Rescue (2021) - https://www.newsweek.com/extraordinary-story-world-deepest-submarine-rescue-1598186

Paying consumer debts is basically optional in the United States - https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/12/do-not-pay/

Dallas Has a Problem with ‘Zombie’ Astroturf Groups - https://www.texasobserver.org/dallas-has-a-problem-with-zombie-astroturf-groups/

Show HN: Broken Bear, the AI teddy bear that loves your broken self - https://brokenbear.com/

Texas could get a bullet train between Houston and Dallas - https://www.popsci.com/technology/amtrak-bullet-train-texas/

YouTube-dl main site now blocked due to German court ruling - https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/15g0nnd/youtubedl_main_site_now_blocked_due_to_german/

Illegal raids contribute to death of newspaper co-owner - https://www.marionrecord.com/direct/updated_illegal_raids_contribute_to_death_of_newspaper_co_owner+5447raid+555044415445443a20496c6c6567616c20726169647320636f6e7472696275746520746f206465617468206f66206e657773706170657220636f2d6f776e6572

Symmetry in Chaos - http://paulbourke.net/fractals/symmetryinchaos/

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agonizing Pain [pdf] - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake-papers/painless-conjugate-gradient.pdf

Former VP Claims Salesforce Lied About Software Capabilities: 'It Was All a Lie' - https://www.businessinsider.com/former-vp-claims-salesforce-lied-customer-data-platform-software-capabilities-2023-8

Record Labels File $412M Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Internet Archive - https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/record-labels-sue-internet-archive-412-million-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-1234806058/

OpenAI may go bankrupt by 2024, AI bot costs company $700k every day - https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/openai-may-go-bankrupt-by-2024-chatgpt-costs-company-700000-dollars-every-day-12986012.html

Cancel Zoning If we want to fix the housing-affordability crisis zoning must go - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/zoning-housing-affordability-nimby-parking-houston/661289/

Microsoft Docker Development Container Templates - https://github.com/devcontainers/templates

What Should You Do with an Oil Fortune? - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/14/what-should-you-do-with-an-oil-fortune

New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros – Teardown and Repair Assessment [video] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Hwb5xvBn8