865
231
Ask HN: How to learn sales?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24601579
5 years ago
436
272
Stop Asking Me to “Sign Up” (2014)
https://www.gkogan.co/blog/stop-asking-me-to-sign-up/
399
122
A Short Story for Engineers
https://userweb.cs.txstate.edu/~br02/cs1428/ShortStoryForEngineers.htm
373
182
How to properly manage SSH keys for server access
https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-to-properly-manage-ssh-keys-for-server-access/
319
127
Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code
https://pastebin.com/PTLeWhc2
294
60
LEd: Open-Source 2D Level Editor
https://deepnight.net/tools/led-2d-level-editor/
283
316
WSL Getting GUI Support
https://twitter.com/craigaloewen/status/1308452901266751488
281
71
Ora2Pg – Oracle to PostgreSQL database schema converter
https://www.ora2pg.com/
259
192
Boeing cuts flight training pilots, will outsource jobs overseas
https://www.thestand.org/2020/09/boeing-cuts-flight-training-pilots-will-outsource-jobs-overseas/
253
87
Social-media platforms are destroying evidence of war crimes
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/09/26/social-media-platforms-are-destroying-evidence-of-war-crimes
246
549
Tesla’s Nemesis in China Is a Tiny $5k Electric Car from GM
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/tesla-s-nemesis-in-china-is-a-tiny-5-000-electric-car-from-gm
234
97
Towards Principled Reactive UI
https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/druid/2020/09/25/principled-reactive-ui.html
202
On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project
https://w3c.studio24.net/updates/on-not-choosing-wordpress/
201
118
Password-cracking theory against Assange unravels at extradition trial
https://dissenter.substack.com/p/prosecutors-password-cracking-conspiracy
194
107
eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Story of a Stalking Scandal
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/26/technology/ebay-cockroaches-stalking-scandal.html
186
121
RISC-V: What’s Missing and Who’s Competing
https://semiengineering.com/risc-v-whats-missing-and-whos-competing/
171
98
Update on YouTube copyright dispute over guitar tutorials [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F63x345mCA
170
76
Let's talk about safety of Pinephone
https://xnux.eu/log/#017
6 years ago
167
258
The IRS Sets a Trap for Cryptocurrency Tax Cheats
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-irs-sets-a-trap-for-cryptocurrency-tax-cheats-11601026202
165
55
The bridges portrayed on Euro banknotes aren't fictional anymore
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/euro-banknote-bridges
156
178
Would it be possible to detect an industrial civilization in geological record?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748
155
180
Daniel Ek commits to investing €1B in European ”moonshots”
https://sifted.eu/articles/spotifys-daniel-1bn-moonshots/
148
115
Microsoft had a secret Windows XP theme that made it look like a Mac
https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/25/21456525/microsoft-windows-xp-theme-mac-aqua
143
52
Debian 10.6
https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200926
The fresh smell of ransomed coffee
https://decoded.avast.io/martinhron/the-fresh-smell-of-ransomed-coffee/
133
31
All you need is λ, part one: booleans
https://antitypical.com/posts/2020-03-29-all-you-need-is-lambda-1-booleans/
261
What Is Math?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-math-180975882/
125
63
James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and Computing History [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT__Nrr3PNI
162
Last Phase of the Desktop Wars?
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8764
117
23
The first appearance of a real computer in a comic book
http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/computerComics/index.html
110
39
Landemy – Futuristic sounds for work
https://landemy.netlify.app/
108
8
Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World’s Oldest Libraries (2017)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-lost-languages-found-manuscripts-egyptian-monastery-180964698/
59
Ask HN: I am “trapped” in a senior engineering role, how can I escape?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24598261
106
78
Randomized Living
https://maxhawkins.me/work/randomized_living
105
11
Reverse engineering a Hit Clip (2013)
https://ch00ftech.com/2013/12/31/reverse-engineering-a-hit-clip/
101
74
DM41x: a modern take on the HP-41CX
https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm41x
99
35
LibreOffice 7.1
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.1
93
19
Show HN: Fully Open-Sourced Online MIDI Editor
https://signal.vercel.app/
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums 2003 vs. 2012 vs. 2020
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QguM-JM3LAJuZlnmY8aN0MutBJrZAzDs3aWZWTtF1WU/
92
41
ESP32 based old clock controller, with NTP sync
https://smallhacks.wordpress.com/2020/09/26/esp32-based-old-clock-controller-with-ntp-sync/
91
29
The Art of Automation
https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/the-art-of-automation/
86
AI Democratization in the Era of GPT-3
https://thegradient.pub/ai-democratization-in-the-era-of-gpt-3/
84
A Tale of Two Libcs
https://drewdevault.com/2020/09/25/2020-09-25-A-story-of-two-libcs.html
83
7
My Hacking Adventures with Safari Reader Mode
https://payatu.com/blog/nikhil-mittal/my-hacking-adventures-with-safari-reader-mode
80
61
Show HN: Rentify – Create an online rental store
https://rentify.store
77
18
Pikchr – PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation
https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md
62
Newfound brain structure explains why some birds are so smart
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/newfound-brain-structure-explains-why-some-birds-are-so-smart-and-maybe-even-self-aware
75
25
Catalina VM
https://www.bit-101.com/blog/2020/09/catalina-vm/
72
6
Open Source Foundation for Application Security
https://owasp.org/
Algorithm Helps New York Decide Who Goes Free Before Trial
https://www.wsj.com/articles/algorithm-helps-new-york-decide-who-goes-free-before-trial-11600610400
