699
226
Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown and GitHub
https://github.com/foambubble/foam
6 years ago
627
133
Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper
https://www.wolfgangfaust.com/project/paper-hn/
447
145
Finishing a side project
https://hugozap.com/posts/how-to-finish-your-side-project/
433
144
Godot 4.0 gets SDF based real-time global illumination
https://godotengine.org/article/godot-40-gets-sdf-based-real-time-global-illumination
398
86
Make educated wireless router/AP upgrade decisions
https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html
347
90
Why Does DARPA Work?
https://benjaminreinhardt.com/wddw
307
250
Life is 90% of my use cases for org-mode
http://stormrider.io/ninety-pct.html
298
232
How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue
https://www.sankalpjonna.com/posts/our-aws-bill-is-2-of-revenue-heres-how-we-did-it
242
50
Console, the vital tool that Apple abandoned
https://eclecticlight.co/2020/06/14/last-week-on-my-mac-console-the-vital-tool-that-apple-abandoned/
234
55
Show HN: Promnesia – an attempt to fix broken web history
https://beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.html
215
59
Implementing the Exponential Function
https://www.pseudorandom.com/implementing-exp
214
40
Taking Up Animation as a Hobby
http://yosefk.com/blog/a-better-future-animated-post.html
203
363
Chromium and Mozilla to enforce 1 year validity for TLS certificates
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/ae4d6809912f8171b23f6aa43c6a4e8e627de784
187
119
Linux Kernel Is Still Seeing Driver Work for the Macintosh II
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=2020-Linux-Macintosh-II-ADB
179
268
Viewpoint: 'I feel like I was accidentally hired'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53180073
162
114
Was Acorn's RISC OS an under-appreciated pearl of OS design?
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/72192.html
161
33
Better Geometry Through Graph Theory (2018)
http://ideolalia.com/2018/08/28/artifex.html
159
194
The CDC lost control of the coronavirus pandemic, then the agency disappeared
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/cdc-coronavirus-containment-redfield
135
Software should be designed to last
https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-software-should-be-designed
154
35
Guide to Linux System Calls (2016)
https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2016/04/05/the-definitive-guide-to-linux-system-calls/
151
Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation
https://twobithistory.org/2020/06/28/rest.html
146
225
The World Doesn’t Need a New Gigantic Particle Collider
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-doesnt-need-a-new-gigantic-particle-collider
142
The chicken first crossed the road in Southeast Asia, landmark gene study finds
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/chicken-first-crossed-road-southeast-asia-landmark-gene-study-finds
140
121
Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23668626
125
79
Speeding up function calls with lru_cache in Python
https://hackeregg.github.io/2020/06/03/Speeding-up-function-calls-with-just-one-line-in-Python.html
124
99
Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View
https://medium.learningbyshipping.com/apples-relentless-strategy-and-execution-7544a76aa26
123
82
On “White Fragility”
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility
117
62
A primer on the cruel, tacit laws of type-level programming in Haskell
https://www.aymannadeem.com/haskell/2020/05/15/Kindness-for-Mean-Girls.html
113
66
WebTransport API
https://wicg.github.io/web-transport/
108
52
Facebook content policies tweaked over time to accommodate POTUS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/28/facebook-zuckerberg-trump-hate/
102
70
Shale pioneer Chesapeake Energy files for bankruptcy
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chesapeake-enrgy-bankruptcy/shale-pioneer-chesapeake-energy-files-for-bankruptcy-idUSKBN23Z0SS
97
43
A visual chronicle of Tokyo’s disappearing jazz bars (2016)
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/tokyo-jazz-joints-visual-chronicle/
USPS sells nearly $20B worth of money orders a year
https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/check_postalmosprocqtr.htm
94
Apple Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying on Millions of iPhone Users
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/06/26/warning-apple-suddenly-catches-tiktok-secretly-spying-on-millions-of-iphone-users/
91
81
Many Covid Patients Have Terrifying Hallucinations and Delirium
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/health/coronavirus-delirium-hallucinations.html
56
Mysterious meme gets Tech Twitter to clamor for invite to app that doesn't exist
https://www.businessinsider.com/it-is-what-it-is-eyemoutheye-emoji-mystery-app-twitter-2020-6
34
Every character has a story: U+213a (rotated Q) (2005)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060909235709/http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/01/10/349769.aspx
85
Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South (2015)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/
89
Higher Ed: Enough Already
https://www.profgalloway.com/higher-ed-enough-already
84
39
Adventures in booting Linux on Raspberry Pi 4
https://blog.mostlypointless.dev/posts/net-boot-rpi/
83
Wanted: Console Text Editor for Windows
https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2018/02/15/wanted-console-text-editor-for-windows/
64
Deep Learning – The “Why” Question (2018)
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/10/13/deep-learning-the-why-question/
72
38
Crispr gene editing in human embryos wreaks chromosomal mayhem
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01906-4