By JW | Mon, 10/17/2022 - 02:42

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