1337
970
Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961560
6 years ago
540
274
No nuances, just buggy code (was: related to Spinlock implementation)
https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpostid=189723
428
433
Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961214
365
175
Cutting Google out of your life (2019)
https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle
★ 8.5k – 6 years ago
347
201
Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler
https://parceljs.org/
336
166
How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886)
https://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2738/
292
123
Oracle copied Amazon’s API – was that copyright infringement?
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/oracle-copied-amazons-api-was-that-copyright-infringement/
289
142
Television viewing and cognitive decline in older age
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39354-4
271
153
Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression
https://www.archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/
265
76
Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice
https://danluu.com/algorithms-interviews/
262
173
Survey of scientists sheds light on reproducibility crisis (2016)
https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970
260
189
A former Egyptian engineer found the secret to building a big gas-station chain
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/station-master-how-an-engineer-from-egypt-built-one-of-the-biggest-gas-station-chains-in-the-northwest/
232
151
Anti-patterns and malpractices in modern software development (2015)
https://web.archive.org/web/20160308032127/https://medium.com/@bryanedds/living-in-the-age-of-software-fuckery-8859f81ca877
205
119
A Guide to WebAuthn
https://webauthn.guide/
200
45
Your cyberpunk games are dangerous (2015)
https://boingboing.net/2015/05/08/your-cyberpunk-games-are-dange.html
199
147
Ask HN: What landing page do you love?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21962712
187
99
Show HN: Terrastruct – A Diagramming Tool for Systems
https://terrastruct.com/
170
126
Chime – A Go Editor for macOS
https://www.chimehq.com/
165
79
Lisp Symbolics Macivory 3 with loaded software
https://twitter.com/rainerjoswig/status/1213484071952752640
158
86
Fascia encases tissues and organs and may have widespread effects (2019)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/everywhere-in-your-body-is-tissue-called-fascia-scientists-are-unlocking-its-secrets/2019/01/25/e0414e3e-f4e0-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html
69
Social perception bias might be an emergent property of our social networks
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/its-the-network-stupid-study-offers-fresh-insight-into-why-were-so-divided/
Deceased GOP Strategist's Daughter Makes Files Public
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/05/785672201/deceased-gop-strategists-daughter-makes-files-public-that-republicans-wanted-sea
75
KeePassXC 2.5.2
https://keepassxc.org/blog/2020-01-04-2.5.2-released/
148
64
Machine Learning Can't Handle Long-Term Time-Series Data
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N594EF44CZD2aGkSh/machine-learning-can-t-understand-long-term-time-series-data
145
38
How Billion Dollar Marketplaces Are Built
https://www.nfx.com/post/billion-dollar-marketplace-thumbtack
143
35
The Polygons of Another World: IBM PC
http://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons_PC_DOS/index.html
62
Rolling Stones tracks posted briefly on YouTube in attempt to extend copyright
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/03/mystery-of-rolling-stones-tracks-posted-briefly-on-youtube
139
13
Papyrus, a Rust REPL
https://github.com/kurtlawrence/papyrus
★ 441 Rust MIT– 6 years ago
135
54
Japanese Grammar in EBNF notation
https://learnjapanese.best/2020/01/04/japanese-grammar-in-ebnf-notation/
130
68
Intel Has PCIe 4.0 Optane SSDs Ready, but Nothing to Plug Them Into
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-has-pcie-40-optane-ssds-ready-but-nothing-to-plug-them-in-to
125
53
Bruce Perens: Invasion of the Ethical Licenses (2019)
https://perens.com/2019/10/12/invasion-of-the-ethical-licenses/
120
14
Actix Web: Optimization Amongst Optimizations
https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/008-actix
117
43
Clojure: `every-pred` and `some-fn`
https://lambdaisland.com/blog/2019-12-03-advent-of-parens-3-some-fn-every-pred
100
26
ONiO.zero: ultra-low-power wireless MCU using energy harvesting technology
https://www.onio.com/technology.html
98
Performance variation in ‘identical’ processors
http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2020/01/05/performance-variation-in-2386-identical-processors/
40
Masterminds of Programming: Chuck Moore (2009)
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/masterminds-of-programming/9780596801670/ch04.html
97
133
Amazon has long ruled the cloud – now it must fend off rivals
https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-has-long-ruled-the-cloud-now-it-must-fend-off-rivals-11578114008
96
16
A History of Silicon Valley
https://www.scaruffi.com/svhistory/silicon.html
93
Writing a Chip-8 Emulator with Rust and WebAssembly (2017)
https://blog.scottlogic.com/2017/12/13/chip8-emulator-webassembly-rust.html
90
Bio-coal: A renewable and producible fuel from lignocellulosic biomass
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/1/eaay0748
88
22
Native American tribe insulates itself from CA blackouts with microgrid utility
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/01/01/amid-shut-off-woes-beacon-energy/
83
140
The famous Peter Thiel interview question
https://blog.safegraph.com/why-the-famous-peter-thiel-interview-question-is-so-predictive-46ede01392c8
81
106
NHS gets £40M to cut login times on its IT systems
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/04/nhs-gets-40m-to-cut-login-times-on-its-it-systems
80
33
Haute Baroque Capitalism (2017)
https://subpixel.space/entries/haute-baroque-capitalism/
111
Whatever happened to the noble art of the manly weep?
https://aeon.co/essays/whatever-happened-to-the-noble-art-of-the-manly-weep