446
426
We deleted the production database by accident
https://keepthescore.co/blog/posts/deleting_the_production_database/
5 years ago
424
192
Welcome to the Old Internet Again
http://theoldnet.com/
406
299
ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50966676/why-do-arm-chips-have-an-instruction-with-javascript-in-the-name-fjcvtzs
403
188
Analyzing the Design of Unusual Japanese Butter Tableware
https://www.core77.com/posts/102355/Analyzing-the-Design-of-Unusual-Japanese-Butter-Tableware
390
82
Chaos Ink
https://dev.scottdarby.com/chaos-ink/
356
212
How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time
https://apoorvagovind.substack.com/p/how-to-waste-your-career-one-comfortable
324
184
How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer
https://medium.com/the-developers-journey/my-3-revenue-streams-as-a-developer-without-freelance-work-c5135dfa515d
283
69
Glow: Markdown reader for the terminal with a TUI and encrypted cloud stash
https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
264
300
Microsoft just force restarted my Windows PC again to install more unwanted apps
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520315/microsoft-install-office-pwa-web-app-without-permission-update-word-powerpoint-excel
245
51
An oil tanker with 60M gallons of oil aboard is currently sinking [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sXRU65-3eE
227
62
Ask HN: How to Become a Consultant?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24810399
208
395
The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html
204
219
Tesla cancels its ‘no questions asked’ 7-day return policy
https://electrek.co/2020/10/16/tesla-cancels-ballsy-no-question-asked-7-day-return-policy/
182
29
Lisp from Nothing
http://t3x.org/lfn/index.html
173
91
Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520634/facebook-reportedly-choked-traffic-mother-jones-zuckerberg
32
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (1992)
https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp
168
81
Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
166
66
XFS File-System with Linux 5.10 Punts Year 2038 Problem to the Year 2486
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XFS-Linux-5.10
162
120
Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71824-y
160
8
Lecture notes on RISC-V assembly
https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~smarz1/courses/ece356/notes/assembly/
151
2
Lessons from Bug Hunters Who've Found 400 Bugs in Popular DBMSs
https://pingcap.com/blog/lessons-from-tidb-no.-1-bug-hunters-who-have-found-over-400-bugs-in-popular-dbmss
149
104
Google Coral Dev Board mini SBC is now available for $100
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/17/buy-coral-dev-board-mini-sbc/
145
46
Using all-Apple Thunderbolt hardware to kill my MacBook
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/10/16/gameover/
143
40
Experimental evidence for compositional syntax in bird calls (2016)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4786783/
142
181
The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-15/top-statistician-u-s-census-is-being-sabotaged
141
134
Proton 5.13: A Massive Update
https://boilingsteam.com/proton-5-13-a-massive-update/
140
Together: New version of Jami (alternative to Zoom and Jitsi)
https://jami.net/together-the-new-version-of-jami-and-a-new-step-forward/
137
88
Sweden's new car carrier is the world's largest wind-powered vessel
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/oceanbird-wind-powered-car-carrier-spc-intl/index.html
136
239
'Near extinction' of influenza in NZ as numbers drop due to lockdown
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018767843/near-extinction-of-influenza-in-nz-as-numbers-drop-due-to-lockdown
63
Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24810950
126
50
iOS 14 USB tethering broken on Linux: looking for docs and contact at Apple
https://www.corsac.net/?rub=blog&post=1601
123
75
Interoperability Between Swift and C++
https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/main/docs/CppInteroperabilityManifesto.md
99
Baumol Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
119
36
Ask HN: How PostgreSQL source code is 3x shorter than MySQL's one?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24813239
103
60
The curious case of Romanian broadband
https://medium.com/cgo-benchmark/the-curious-case-of-romanian-broadband-c58291b2fcda
24
Thoughts on Conway's Law and the Software Stack (2019)
https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/thoughts-on-conways-law-and-the-software-stack/
Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line in Censorship
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/15/facebook-and-twitter-cross-a-line-far-more-dangerous-than-what-they-censor/
96
76
Banks help scammers with their bad UI
https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/how-banks-help-scammers-with-their-bad-ui/
92
72
Fighting for the right to repair your own stuff
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fighting-for-the-right-to-repair-your-own-stuff/
90
30
Easy-wg-quick – Creates WireGuard configuration for hub and peers with ease
https://github.com/burghardt/easy-wg-quick
222
Can Esperanto Make a Comeback? (2015)
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/13/413968033/esperanto-is-not-dead-can-the-universal-language-make-a-comeback
84
How to Clean Text Data at the Command Line
https://www.ezzeddinabdullah.com/posts/how-to-clean-text-data-at-the-command-line
39
Euclid – Scientific calculator for iOS/macOS
https://euclid.pr1mer.tech
80
Intel Core I7 1165G7 “Tiger Lake” Linux Performance with Dell XPS 13 9310
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-tigerlake-linux&num=1
15
Visualizing binaries with space-filling curves (2011)
http://corte.si/posts/visualisation/binvis/index.html
382
Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seroprevalence data [pdf]
https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf
71
What they don’t tell you about demand paging in school
https://offlinemark.com/2020/10/14/demand-paging/
44
Steps For Better Online Privacy
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/922262686/your-technology-is-tracking-you-take-these-steps-for-better-online-privacy
67
7
How to Read a Surface Weather Map
https://www.outsideonline.com/2414872/how-to-read-surface-weather-maps
Themed days, Timeboxing and why you should use them
https://www.jamalx31.com/post/themed-days-timeboxing-and-why-you-should-use-them
The Graphing Calculator Story (2004)
https://www.pacifict.com/Story/
23
Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” Network (2012)
http://tech.mattmillman.com/projects/10base5/
18
Algorand Consensus Protocol
https://developer.algorand.org/docs/algorand_consensus/
The 2020 census is being ‘sabotaged,’ says leading U.S. statistician