Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, October 21, 2024

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We’re forking Flutter. This is why - Comments (flutterfoundation.dev - Hacker News)

Finger-worn, camera-toting mouse ring turns desktops into touchpads - Tired of running out of mousing room on your… (New Atlas - Ben Coxworth)

Apple iMac M4 - Apple has officially kicked off its fall 2024 Mac… (uncrate.com - Uncrate)

Apple introduces new iMac supercharged by M4 - Comments (Apple Newsroom (台灣) - Hacker News)

The iMac gets an M4 refresh for faster Apple Intelligence - Apple’s new iMac is here. The 2024 model hasn’t… (Engadget - Will Shanklin)

Politics in the Pulpit - Here we are, just eight days away from the… (The Reformed Journal Blog - Brian Keepers)

Kevin’s Puzzles at Home Season 8, Episode 9 (Meta): When Kevins Collide - PREVIOUS EPISODESIntroduction (what these puzzles… (A Cleverly-Titled Logic Puzzle Blog - Grant Fikes (noreply@blogger.com))

Tropical Update - GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) October 28, 2024 -… (WOODTV.com - Bill Steffen)

How Jeff Bezos, who bought the Washington Post in 2013 and a DC mansion in 2016, never made a splash in the capital, visiting only on occasion for glitzy events (New York Times) - New York Times: How Jeff Bezos, who bought the… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

Sci-fi books that you may never have heard of, but definitely should read - Comments (Shepherd - Hacker News)

This AI system makes human tutors better at teaching children math - The US has a major problem with education… (MIT Technology Review - Rhiannon Williams)

‘We’ve baked sustainability into our creative process’: a day in the life of packaging designer Dane Whitehurst - Burgopak’s creative director discusses what the… (Creative Bloq - Creative Bloq)

On Good Software Engineers - Comments (candost.blog - Hacker News)

Musk said there’s a “chance” HW3 systems, now in millions of Teslas, do “not achieve the safety level” for unsupervised FSD and mentioned free upgrades from HW3 (Fred Lambert/Electrek) - Fred Lambert / Electrek: Musk said there’s a… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

Apple may tap into a beloved retro design for its smart home display - Apple’s rumored smart home display may look a lot… (Engadget - Cheyenne MacDonald)

Platform Strategy and Its Discontents: The web is losing. A comeback is possible - Comments (Infrequently Noted - Hacker News)

Foldable e-scooter for last-mile travel within city limits is a futureproof nano mobility solution - Foldable e-scooter for last-mile travel within… (Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News - Gaurav Sood)

Nintendo Switch 2 could launch before November 5th, says a reliable source - Nintendo Switch 2 could launch before November… (Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News - Sarang Sheth)

School is Not Enough: Learning is a consequence of doing - Comments (simonsarris.com - Hacker News)

Cissp Cheatsheet - Comments (reddit - Hacker News)

A look at Factorio, a strategy video game that is a cult hit among tech workers with ~4M copies sold over eight years, as it releases its first expansion pack (Financial Times) - Financial Times: A look at Factorio, a strategy… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

Man spent $2 million to find new largest prime number - M136279841 is over 41 million digits. (missouri.edu - Andrew Paul)

Miracle powder sucks CO2 out of the air ‘like nothing else out there’ - Researchers at the University of California,… (New Atlas - Abhimanyu Ghoshal)

Nvidia dethrones Apple as the most valuable company - Comments (Markets Insider - Hacker News)

Brain-computer interface company Science Corporation says its retinal implant, which has a 2mm chip, let some blind people read, play cards, and recognize faces (Emily Mullin/Wired) - Emily Mullin / Wired: Brain-computer interface… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

California Discourages Schools from Offering Advanced Middle School Math - Comments (Reason.com - Hacker News)

The 11 Best Gifts for Grown-Ups That Don’t Wanna Grow Up - There’s always at least one adult-kid in the… (New York Times - Mari Uyehara)

Apple reportedly tested a blood glucose monitoring app - Apple is reportedly still working on glucose… (Engadget - Will Shanklin)

Apple updates its beta testing service Testflight with redesigned invites and more - Apple’s beta testing service Testflight just got… (Engadget - Lawrence Bonk)

Geico repatriates work from the cloud, continues ambitious infra overhaul - Comments (The Stack - Hacker News)

The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ with Up to 26 Tops - Comments (Raspberry Pi - Hacker News)

McDonald’s restaurants can finally repair their own McFlurry machines - There are days where it feels like nothing will… (Engadget - Danny Gallagher)

Fraudsters steal 22 tonnes of high-value cheddar - Comments (BBC - Hacker News)

Why creation is a better model than evolution? – Part II - By Curt Blattman of Bible Apologetics Another… (Creation Today - Impacting Our World with the Creation Message - Guest Author)

Battleships Logic Puzzle - Comments (lukerissacher.com - Hacker News)

A look at the dispute between Arm and Qualcomm, whose relationship soured after Qualcomm became one of the main opponents to Nvidia’s attempted Arm acquisition (Richard Waters/Financial Times) - Richard Waters / Financial Times: A look at the… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

Flox, a better alternative to Dev Containers - Comments (Medium - Hacker News)

Copilot Workspace Does Web App in Minutes, No Coding Required - Here’s a taste of our no-coding future, thanks to… (Visual Studio Magazine - Features)

Notion previews Mail, an email client that uses AI to organize, archive, or draft emails and handle scheduling and follow-ups, saying it is “coming soon” (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) - Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Notion… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

How higher education is reimagining student experiences with Azure OpenAI Service - Imagine a future where every student has a… (microsoft.com - Andy Beatman and Justin Rose)

Microsoft named a Leader in 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Strategic Cloud Platform Services - We are honored to again be recognized by Gartner®… (microsoft.com - Omar Khan)

Official Raspberry Pi NVMe SSD Review - Comments (bret.dk - Hacker News)

Meta debuts “quantized” versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models, designed to run on low-powered devices and developed in collaboration with Qualcomm and MediaTek (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) - Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Meta debuts… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

iOS 18.2 has a child safety feature that can blur nude content and report it to Apple - In iOS 18.2, Apple is adding a new feature that… (Engadget - Will Shanklin)

Tim Burton: Beetlejuice director says the internet makes him feel depressed - The director was speaking to BBC News ahead of a… (BBC News Afrique - Charlotte Gallagher & Leisha Chi-Santorelli, Culture reporters)

Data viz project that maps all earthquakes by magnitude - Comments (concord.org - Hacker News)

Apple makes its Private Cloud Compute Virtual Research Environment publicly available for researchers, adds bounties for Private Cloud Compute vulnerabilities (Juli Clover/MacRumors) - Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple makes its… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

What Funny Wildlife Photos Can Teach Us About Life - If you have ever gone out with a camera to try… (Rohit Bhargava - Rohit Bhargava)

Goldfish Crackers Have a New Name (for a Little While) - Why, though? Why? (Lifehacker - Allie Chanthorn Reinmann)

React Native – New Architecture is here - Comments (reactnative.dev - Hacker News)

Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule - Comments (Ars Technica - Hacker News)

Goodreads’ co-founder Otis Chandler launches Smashing, an AI-powered app that aims to create a community around web content and has an AI Questions feature (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Goodreads’ co-founder… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

Ozempic linked to lower Alzheimer’s risk in people with Type 2 diabetes - Comments (NBC News - Hacker News)

TUTORIAL: How to Paint an October Sunset in Watercolor - October is a time of year with spectacular… (Doodlewash® - Sandra Strait)

Jesus Christ. - The post Jesus Christ. appeared first on Indexed. (Indexed - Jessica Hagy)

Billboards in SF call attention to tech companies free-loading off open source - Comments (gazetteer.co - Hacker News)

Apple teases new Macs in a ‘week of announcements’ that starts Monday - Apple is planning a “week of announcements”… (Engadget - Kris Holt)

Apple SVP Greg Joswiak says “we have an exciting week of announcements ahead, starting on Monday morning”; rumors suggest new M4-powered Macs (Jay Peters/The Verge) - Jay Peters / The Verge: Apple SVP Greg Joswiak… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

Wednesday Worship with Nathan Knight - The Institute on Religion and Democracy hosted… (Juicy Ecumenism - Sarah Stewart)

The Best Swedish Dishcloth - In 2016, a Bounty paper towel life-cycle… (New York Times - Ellen Airhart)

She Was Arrested for Praying in Her Head - Comments (https://www.thefp.com/ - Hacker News)

Aesthetic speaker concept adds decorative value to your home entertainment setup - Aesthetic speaker concept adds decorative value… (Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News - JC Torres)

Developing with Docker - Comments (danielquinn.org - Hacker News)

JetBrains Rider is now free for non-commercial use - Comments (JetBrains - Hacker News)

The Biden administration issues the first-ever National Security Memorandum on AI, detailing how the Pentagon and intel agencies should use and protect AI (David E. Sanger/New York Times) - David E. Sanger / New York Times: The Biden… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

13 Things You Didn’t Know About Halloween - I want you to be as knowledgeable as possible… (Lifehacker - Stephen Johnson)

Owning a Mystery - We own up to the mystery by holding our insights… (The Reformed Journal Blog - Meg Jenista)

Israel’s Secret Stealth Drone - Comments (The War Zone - Hacker News)

Claude Sonnet 3.5 hands-on: the AI understood a basic game and its mechanics, had a strategy, was willing to revise it based on learning, but fragilities remain (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing) - Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: Claude Sonnet… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

Smart ceiling fan concept takes its design cues from a customizable smartphone - Smart ceiling fan concept takes its design cues… (Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News - JC Torres)

Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free - 37signals saved nearly $2 million in its first… (theregister.com - Hacker News)

Malcolm Gladwell Holds His Ideas Loosely. He Thinks You Should, Too - Comments (New York Times - Hacker News)

What the Best Leadership Teams Do Right - And where many others go wrong. (Harvard Business Review - Eric Hansen)

The Real Reasons Employees Quit — and How to Retain Them - A conversation with Ethan Bernstein and Michael… (Harvard Business Review - HBR.org)

Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio - Netflix’s gaming arm is best known for its indie… (Engadget - Steve Dent)

Top 10 Portable Gadgets For A Convenient Life On The Go For Techies - Top 10 Portable Gadgets For A Convenient Life On… (Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News - Srishti Mitra)

The Thought Experiments That Fray the Fabric of Space-Time - Comments (Quanta Magazine - Hacker News)

The Biden admin unveils proposed rules for restricting the transfer of US citizens’ sensitive data, including biometric and genomic info, to adversarial nations (Suzanne Smalley/The Record) - Suzanne Smalley / The Record: The Biden admin… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

Sam’s Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy - Comments (Bloomberg.com - Hacker News)

A Can’t-Go-Wrong Gift - In this The Gift, we’re going out on a limb… (New York Times - Sofia Sokolove)

Microsoft Discovered a Major Security Flaw With Safari on Mac - Hackers can potentially access your webcam,… (Lifehacker - Jake Peterson)

Big browsers are about to throw a wrench in your ad-free paradise - Comments (theregister.com - Hacker News)

World Series, Stanford Psychologist Dies, and Oldest Paper Boy - Good morning. It’s Monday, Oct. ( - 1440 Daily Digest)

Software Engineer Titles Have Almost Lost All Their Meaning - Comments (trevorlasn.com - Hacker News)

Immersive Video Production Tips - Have you ever wondered if what you see in “real… (Mike Swanson’s Blog - mswanson)

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