1041
320
What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?
https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/1165493206441779200
6 years ago
849
294
Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer
https://neilkakkar.com/things-I-learnt-from-a-senior-dev.html
502
312
Banned C standard library functions in Git source code
https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h
492
458
From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love
https://shooting-unicorns.com/battlestation/from-mac-to-linux-the-setup-ive-grown-to-love
402
211
Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are double that of Intel
http://apollo.backplane.com/2019-Zen2Missive.html
401
84
Write your own Excel in F# (2018)
http://tomasp.net/blog/2018/write-your-own-excel/
298
57
QEMU VM Escape
https://blog.bi0s.in/2019/08/24/Pwn/VM-Escape/2019-07-29-qemu-vm-escape-cve-2019-14378/
282
86
Using Backblaze B2 and Cloudflare Workers for free image hosting
https://blog.jross.me/free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-b2-and-cloudflare-workers/
276
Rabbit Holes: The Secret to Technical Expertise
http://blog.bityard.net/articles/2019/August/rabbit-holes-the-secret-to-technical-expertise.html
256
357
Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/23/20830057/amazon-audible-speech-to-text-feature-lawsuit-major-book-publishers
250
41
Salsify – A New Architecture for Real-time Internet Video
https://snr.stanford.edu/salsify/
213
266
Elon Musk Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCity
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/how-elon-musk-gambled-tesla-to-save-solarcity
198
20
Intel and Rust: The Future of Systems Programming [video]
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l9hM0h6IQDo
192
69
Douglas Adams was right–knowledge without understanding is meaningless
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/24/douglas-adams-was-right-knowledge-without-understanding-is-meaningless
189
44
A Buddhist monk confronts Japan's suicide culture (2013)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/06/24/last-call-3
188
215
Ask HN: What are you learning in 2019?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20793590
187
162
The flawed three-cueing system for teaching reading
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
180
191
Why didn't the Romans contribute much to mathematics?
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/cuu8rc/why_didnt_the_romans_contribute_much_to/
174
150
I Took a Pay Cut for a More Meaningful Job
https://www.fastcompany.com/90308995/i-took-a-huge-paycut-for-a-more-meaningful-job
167
71
The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013)
https://joshldavis.com/2013/05/20/the-path-to-dijkstras-handwriting/
Douglas Adams was right–knowledge without understanding is meaningless