2023-03-26

Cool

• Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• Silicon Valley elites are afraid. History says they should be

• Panera Bread will use your palm print for membership verification and payment.

• I Started a Shitstorm or Contemporary Journalism Is Embarrassing | Filthy Dreams

• Shoppers Say Goodwill, Salvation Army Pricey as Thrifting Becomes Cool

Obit

• Jacob Ziv has died (the Z in LZ compression)

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Researcher Questions the Idea That Media Can Easily Change People Minds

• The World Will Regret Its Retreat from Economic Globalization

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• Functional Neurological Disorder Emerges After COVID Infection, Vaccines.

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Agatha Christie novels reworked to remove potentially offensive language

• What’s ‘digital blackface?’ And why is it wrong when White people use it?

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Half of Black High School Students in the Bay Area Can Barely Read

  • HN comments

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in GPT-4 | Maksud Ibrahimov

TechSuck

• Comparing Hobby PCB Vendors

  • HN comments

• Docker

  • HN comments

• Loudmouth DJI Drones Tell Everyone Where You Are

• Arduino UNO R4 is a giant leap forward for an open source community of millions | Arduino Blog

Crypto con games

• Bitcoin is a solution looking for a problem

• Celebs in Class-Action Suit Alleging Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT Fraud

• Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia

Economicon / Business / Finance

• How Options-Hedging Turbocharged Oil Volatility

• Ford will lose $3B on electric vehicles in 2023

• Ford's "Blue Oval City" Aims To Open In 2025, Produce 500,000 Next Gen Electric Trucks A Year | ZeroHedge

• Analysis: Push for bank rescues clashes with Washington realities

• Money market funds swell by over $273B as investors pull deposits from banks

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• BREAKING: FAA Nominee Phil Washington Withdraws His Nomination

• The fight over the debt ceiling could sink the economy. This is how we got here

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across the U.S.

  • HN comments

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• U.S. Weapons Stockpile Disaster Limiting Our Ability To Deter China In Taiwan

World

• Lebanon in confusion as daylight savings dispute deepens divisions

• UK: Nitrous oxide: Possession of laughing gas to be criminal offence

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Putin says Russia will station tactical nukes in Belarus

• The Yuan Is an Unlikely Winner from Russia’s Growing Isolation

• A Defense of the Ukrainian Defense of Bakhmut

• Russia seeks 400k more recruits as latest Ukraine push stalls

• The Man Who Leaked The Pentagon Papers Is Scared

Health / Medicine

• Two more dead as patients report horrifying details of eye drop outbreak

• Live free and die'? The sad state of U.S. life expectancy

• Colorectal cancer is rising among younger adults

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Horrific Tornadoes Hit Mississippi, at Least 23 Dead, Many Injured, Massive Damage for Miles – RedState

  • "Unfathomable Devastation": At Least 23 Dead After Tornado Tears Through Mississippi

• The Malthusians Are Back

• EU was set to ban internal combustion engine cars. Then Germany changed its mind

• How Meat and Fossil Fuel Producers Watered Down the Latest IPCC Report