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sock··on [dead]
John's tweet: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1284523595348299777

> Someone noticed that when you have hundreds / thousands of cores in a supercomputer, the individual utilization boxes in Task Manager start to look like pixels. People started making pictures by doing different amounts of work on specific processors.

It escalated quickly.

sock··on Why are we 'milking' crabs for a coronavirus vaccine?
This isn't specifically for coronavirus, from wikipedia

> Amebocytes from the blood of L. polyphemus are used to make Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), which is used for the detection of bacterial endotoxins in medical applications.

There's a nice video here on it (3:22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgQZWSlLBnA

sock··on Typing Practice for Programmers
Nice! It seems to block pasting though, which makes sense to prevent cheating, but maybe you could implement custom handlers attached to cmd+c/v that allow access to a cleared-on-load clipboard?
sock··on Britain launches $625m Eat Out scheme to boost spending at restaurants and pubs
> For the month of August, the scheme will entitle diners to a 50% discount of up to 10 pounds per head on their meal, finance minister Rishi Sunak said.
sock··on Show HN: A privacy-first browser for Android with ZERO permissions
Does background running require permission? (I don't have an android phone to check)
sock··on The dark future for the world’s greatest violin-makers
It's an article about covid-19
sock··on Google confirms experiment to remove full address from URL bar in Chrome
> "We think this is an important problem area to explore because phishing and other forms of social engineering are still rampant on the web"

Yet this will make it even easier to phish within a domain, eg instagram/youtube?

sock··on Ask HN: Is there a way to find why I am being shown certain ads?
Some (most?) ad networks will let you see a list of topics they think you're interested in. They can be quite hilariously wrong sometimes though.
sock··on The US Air Force is turning old F-16s into pilotless AI-powered fighters UK
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23461276 (no comments though) https://www.engadget.com/the-air-force-will-pit-an-autonomou...
sock··on Ask HN: Will good tech times come again?
I sort of think the opposite; the tools available now are much better and you can often design something to fit within the free tiers of various cloud operators and still scale to 100k users, and in personal experience small projects can get a good amount of use(rs) compared to the time to make them. Most projects don't though, and projects I've put a lot of time can just be ignored, so I tend to stick to just what I enjoy, and everything else is a plus. The centralization to towards facebook/twitter/youtube for discovered is a shame though.
sock··on Pokemon Theme in Windows Task Manager
Here's the original on youtube if anyone wants it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtjvn19GorM