- Now that Blockchain has revolutionized everything and we're sick of having so many Lamborghinis, [running elections is the next frontier](https://www.nasdaq.com/article/thailand-looks-at-blockchain-technology-for-elections-cm1079694), obviously. [What could go wrong](https://blog.coinbase.com/ethereum-classic-etc-is-currently-being-51-attacked-33be13ce32de).
- [A review of Red Ded Redemption 2 from an ... unexpected direction.](https://www.audubon.org/news/birding-its-1899-inside-blockbuster-american-west-video-game). See also the [hn thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18818014).
- [The trains are slow because they slowed down the trains (Part 28,627,991)](https://ny.curbed.com/2018/12/19/18146933/mta-new-york-subway-speed-limit-test-train).
- All of exixtence is [a black hole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_cosmology) [a hologram](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/information-in-the-holographic-univ/) [Cosmic RAID-5](https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-space-and-time-could-be-a-quantum-error-correcting-code-20190103/). ([The HN thread might help if you're lost like I am](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18817410)).
- How very Diamond Age: [Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people](https://soranews24.com/2018/11/29/cafe-opens-in-tokyo-staffed-by-robots-controlled-by-paralyzed-people/).
- [How very Snow Crash](https://github.com/divan/txqr).
- From the theres-always-something-to-optimize department: [how fast can you look up kewords when parsing SQL?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18879185)
- Will the owner of the [lost NMN Transporter](https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-018-0015-6) please pick up a white courtesy phone.
- Blah, blah, blah [fusion breakthrough](https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09260), blah blah.
- I cannot overstate how much I love stories about Eve politics. [They blew up a space station!](https://kotaku.com/the-year-long-undercover-plot-to-blow-up-eve-onlines-m-1831574442)
- You know what a SAT/SMT solver is but if you've never used one it can be hard to get your head around it. Have no fear, [a giant set of example problems and solutions](https://github.com/DennisYurichev/SAT_SMT_by_example) is here!
- Some Rust tidbits:
- [Understanding Rust Lifetimes](https://medium.com/nearprotocol/understanding-rust-lifetimes-e813bcd405fa).
- [UDP Game server in 150 lines](https://medium.com/@buterajay/game-server-in-150-lines-of-rust-ce1782199907).
- [A case study in Collections: BTreeMap](http://cglab.ca/~abeinges/blah/rust-btree-case/)