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Just Wanted to Say Thanks
https://github.com/compumike/hairpin-proxy/issues/5
5 years ago
609
247
California Public Utilities Commission fired director who exposed missing $200M
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451
222
SaaS We Happily Pay For
https://francescodilorenzo.com/saas-we-pay-for
418
389
2-Acre Vertical Farm Run by AI and Robots Out-Produces 720-Acre Flat Farm
https://www.intelligentliving.co/vertical-farm-out-produces-flat-farm/
366
83
How Complex Systems Fail (1998)
https://how.complexsystems.fail
353
139
API pagination design
https://solovyov.net/blog/2020/api-pagination-design/
337
152
Systems design explains the world: volume 1
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20201227
336
106
NumPy Illustrated: The Visual Guide to NumPy
https://medium.com/better-programming/numpy-illustrated-the-visual-guide-to-numpy-3b1d4976de1d
305
203
The Guy I Almost Was (1998)
http://www.electricsheepcomix.com/almostguy/
301
82
Upptime – GitHub-powered open-source uptime monitor and status page
https://upptime.js.org/
260
118
Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25553818
243
44
Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (2015)
https://deepmind.com/learning-resources/-introduction-reinforcement-learning-david-silver
239
121
Rotating Sails Help to Revive Wind-Powered Shipping
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rotating-sails-help-to-revive-wind-powered-shipping/
221
35
Remote Chaos Communication Congress – Streams
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/
113
Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles (2012)
http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2012-05-26-using-gnu-stow-to-manage-your-dotfiles.html
198
74
Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres (2018)
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres
190
96
Building my own HomeKit Thermostat
https://www.staycaffeinated.com/2020/12/27/building-my-own-homekit-thermostat-v1
166
14
A first look at Ghidra’s Debugger – Game Boy Advance Edition
https://wrongbaud.github.io/posts/ghidra-debugger/
161
26
Bash HTTP Monitoring Dashboard
https://raymii.org/s/software/Bash_HTTP_Monitoring_Dashboard.html
160
22
APIs All the Way Down
https://notboring.substack.com/p/apis-all-the-way-down
157
New Haskell Foundation to Foster Haskell Adoption, Raises 200k USD
https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/12/haskell-foundation-launched/
172
How a British Covid-19 vaccine went from pole position to troubled start
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine-sp-idUKKBN28Y0XU
144
21
Show HN: Archivy-HN – automatically save and download your upvoted HN posts
https://github.com/archivy/archivy-hn
143
60
90% of Waking Hours Spent Staring at Glowing Rectangles (2009)
https://www.theonion.com/report-90-of-waking-hours-spent-staring-at-glowing-re-1819570829
140
156
The future of electricity is local
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/12/27/the-future-of-electricity-is-local/
138
42
Types of Dark Patterns
https://darkpatterns.org/types-of-dark-pattern.html
137
33
Show HN: Stork: A customizable, WASM-powered full-text search plugin for the web
https://stork-search.net
135
200
FATCA Pushes “Accidental” Americans to Give Up US Citizenship
https://time.com/5922972/accidental-americans-fatca/
124
73
Physicists challenge Google’s ‘quantum advantage’
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03434-7
120
The Hyperbezier Pen Tool
https://www.cmyr.net/blog/hyperbezier.html
103
Unilever Says It Will Resume Advertising on Facebook
https://www.wsj.com/articles/unilever-says-it-will-resume-advertising-on-facebook-in-u-s-11608245092
110
53
Reddit suspended two people who use Dystopia, across three accounts
https://www.reddit.com/r/DystopiaForReddit/comments/kkv0d2/reddit_suspended_two_people_who_use_dystopia/
24
A Tiny Lispy Transpiler
https://github.com/LingDong-/wax
25
Show HN: Vas-quod – A minimal Linux container runtime written in Rust
https://github.com/flouthoc/vas-quod
105
58
The Internet Is Starting to Turn on MLMs - TikTok first major platform to ban
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/tiktok-bans-multilevel-marketing-mlm/617422/
100
6
Has Thomas Becket's treasured 'little book' been found?
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-55370722
99
68
What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t (2010)
https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-and-isnt/
We rebuilt Corewars and used it to teach Computer Science students in India
https://adinocap.com/blog/corewars-in-india/
97
A drone pilot was fined $182K by the FAA
https://www.dpreview.com/news/6343616131/how-one-drone-pilot-got-slapped-with-182-000-in-fines-from-the-faa
92
29
Computational Model Reveals How the Brain Manages Short-Term Memories
https://neurosciencenews.com/short-term-memory-model-17464/
90
129
Investors double down on stocks, pushing margin debt to record
https://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-double-down-on-stocks-pushing-margin-debt-to-record-11609077600
89
28
Volbx – Qt-based spreadsheet app for data manipulation
https://github.com/przemek83/volbx
88
11
Seasonal Spirals
https://observablehq.com/@yurivish/seasonal-spirals
86
A brief history of Elasticsearch (2014)
https://jaxenter.com/elasticsearch-founder-interview-112677.html
84
SeL4 Whitepaper [pdf]
https://sel4.systems/About/seL4-whitepaper.pdf
77
169
Central Bank Digital Currencies Are a Bad Idea
https://www.forgac.me/blog/2020/11/17/three-reasons-why-central-bank-digital-currencies-are-a-bad-idea
76
Voxon hologram volumetric display (2019)
https://newatlas.com/vr/voxon-photonics-3d-hologram-volumetric-displays/
Reddit suspended two people who use Dystopia, across three accounts