STL: Monday, October 17, 2022
Events 📆
- Freezing temperatures expected Monday night in St. Louis – stltoday.com
- Grant’s Farm Halloween Nights are back again – FOX 2
- Check out the current fall foliage map in the St. Louis area – KSDK
- Photos: The Who "Hits Back!" at Enterprise Center – St. Louis Magazine
BuySTL 👜
- ‘The hard part is leaving this’: Sugaree Baking Company to close its doors at end of year – KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
- Non-kid friendly restaurants for parent date night? – r/StLouis
Neighborhoods 🏡
- Residents, volunteers come together to clean up St. Louis’ Hyde Park neighborhood – stltoday.com
- Dutchtown basketball court dedicated to family that changed the neighborhood – KSDK
STL99 😱
- Hyundai, Kia thefts 10 times higher in St. Louis City, County compared to last year – FOX 2
99MO 😱
- Incomes are too damn low in Kansas City – Kevin Drum
Pox Populi™ 🦠
- High demand for flu shots at SSM clinics and drive-thrus – FOX 2
- Illinois mask recommendations now include vaccinated individuals – FOX 2
DotGov 🏛
- Chaos Computer Club saves the German healthcare system 400M Euros – Hacker News
FedGov 🏛
- $101.2M of approved in funding for St. Louis area flood assistance – FOX 2
- Weber Shandwick provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, while staffing the CDC – Hacker News
History 🦕
- Thomas Hart Benton Speaks for the Railroad – History Happens Here
- Maplewood History: The Rise and Fall of the Maplewood K-Mart – 40 South News
- ‘Haunted’ Alton hotel featured on Ghost Adventures TV show – FOX 2
- SS Admiral – 1957 – r/StLouis
Sustainability ♻️
- ACT Test Scores Drop to Lowest Levels in More Than 30 Years – Hacker News
- Rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why – Hacker News
- Why there’s no such thing as a good billionaire – Hacker News
Infrastructure 🚽
- Tesla fires after hurricane raises alarm for Florida officials – Hacker News
- Why high speed rail hasn’t caught on – Hacker News
- The Moorish invention that tamed Spain’s mountains – Hacker News
WWW99 🕸
- Datacenter fire takes out South Korea’s top two web giants – The Register
- Pirate Sites That Rip-Off Other Pirate Sites’ Branding Are About to Regret It – TorrentFreak
- GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code – Hacker News
- Former WSJ reporter says law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage his career – Hacker News
- Elon Musk says SpaceX will keep paying for Ukraine’s access to Starlink – Engadget
- Sad Numbers for Facebook’s Horizon Worlds – Daring Fireball
DIY 🪓
- How to Carve a Pumpkin – HowStuffWorks
- Everything You Wanted to See About Restoring a 1956 Radio – Hackaday
- 1956 Philips 353A Bakelite Vacuum Tube Radio Repair and Restoration – Hacker News
- PETamentor2 Is Latest To Turn Bottles Into Filament – Hackaday
- Privacy respecting weather app for Android – Hacker News
- A Simple Stove, Built for Beans – Hackaday
- Ghidra: Software reverse engineering suite developed by NSA – Hacker News
- VS Code Org Mode – Hacker News
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- The Dead End – Hacker News
- Why Do People Find Leaf Blowers So Irritating? – HowStuffWorks
- Celebrating 50 years of the Unix Operating system (2018) – Hacker News
- Internet Archive to Honor Carl Malamud with 2022 Hero Award – Hacker News