1678
575
Goodbye, Clean Code
https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/
6 years ago
698
727
Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22018946
498
115
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
419
274
Medications that change who we are
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-that-change-who-we-are
378
170
Why I Quit Using Google
https://www.kylepiira.com/2020/01/09/why-i-quit-google/
357
81
HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience
https://www.twilio.com/blog/html-attributes-two-factor-authentication-autocomplete
350
231
A Man Who’s Spending $1B to Own Every Pop Song
https://marker.medium.com/the-man-whos-spending-1-billion-to-own-every-pop-song-75df0024155b
189
A billion medical images are exposed online
https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/10/medical-images-exposed-pacs/
321
295
Haters
http://paulgraham.com/fh.html
301
74
How to make roguelike games in Rust
http://bfnightly.bracketproductions.com/rustbook/
281
286
Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names like ‘Dick’ and ‘Cummings’
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/19/21030601/lyft-algorithm-block-names-inappropriate-obscene
247
335
OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200109141600
245
84
A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math
https://kary.us/nota/
238
122
Pijul: a distributed version control system, written in Rust (2019)
https://nest.pijul.com/pijul_org/pijul
227
255
We’re approaching the limits of computer power – we need new programmers
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/11/we-are-approaching-the-limits-of-computer-power-we-need-new-programmers-n-ow
222
Scientists Use Recycled Sewage Water to Grow 500-Acre Forest in the Desert
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/using-sewage-water-to-grow-trees-in-egyptian-desert/
208
116
OpenWrt 19.07
https://openwrt.org/releases/19.07/notes-19.07.0
198
159
Blake3 is 10 times faster than SHA-2
https://nextjournal.com/mk/BLAKE3
188
83
Day of week of procedure and 30 day mortality for elective surgery (2013)
https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2424
149
90
A game theorist breaks down the effects of inequality
http://nautil.us/issue/79/catalysts/how-the-rich-imperil-cooperation
131
49
R7RS versus R6RS (2018)
https://weinholt.se/articles/r7rs-vs-r6rs/
121
61
ChrysaLisp
https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp
142
Ukrainian plane was 'unintentionally' shot down, Iran state TV says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-jetliner-unintentionally-shot-down-1.5423608
18
Autonomous Rust Unikernels in Google Cloud
https://nanovms.com/dev/tutorials/autonomous-rust-unikernels-in-gcloud
120
156
Paris syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
117
36
US government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/android/2020/01/united-states-government-funded-phones-come-pre-installed-with-unremovable-malware/
9
Zeta: Functional Neural Networks in Ocaml
https://github.com/liaopeiyuan/zeta
112
37
FBI Surveillance Vendor Threatens to Sue Tech Reporters for Crime of Journalism
https://gizmodo.com/fbi-surveillance-vendor-threatens-to-sue-tech-reporters-1840913576
Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext
108
21
Weird and Innovative Chips (2007)
http://www.cpushack.com/CPU/cpu7.html
106
50
Browser Games Aren't an Easy Target
http://jakob.space/blog/browser-games-aren-t-an-easy-target.html
103
77
Paging Dr. Google: How the Tech Giant Is Laying Claim to Health Data
https://www.wsj.com/articles/paging-dr-google-how-the-tech-giant-is-laying-claim-to-health-data-11578719700
99
41
Raw WebGPU
https://alain.xyz/blog/raw-webgpu
95
47
Amazon takes a swipe at Honey, PayPal’s $4B acquisition
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/amazon-takes-a-swipe-at-paypals-4-billion-acquisition/
33
Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism (2008)
https://blog.codinghorror.com/paul-grahams-participatory-narcissism/
93
150
Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Billion-Dollar-Mistake-Tony-Hoare/
89
29
Show HN: Algoviz, Interactive a* Pathfinding Visualization
https://algoviz.njanjo.com/
88
15
Study Confirms Climate Models Are Getting Future Warming Projections Right
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-models-are-getting-future-warming-projections-right/
Ukrainian plane was 'unintentionally' shot down, Iran state TV says