851
385
I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
https://tjcx.me/p/i-wasted-40k-on-a-fantastic-startup-idea
5 years ago
780
308
Software effort estimation is mostly fake research
http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2021/01/17/software-effort-estimation-is-mostly-fake-research/
730
458
HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/01/17/woe/
725
252
GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free
https://www.eleuther.ai/gpt-neo
590
352
Context switching costs more than we give it credit for
https://thinkingthrough.substack.com/p/context-switching-cost-more-than
539
396
We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college
https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/article238206754.html
447
374
Show HN: Compare prices that US hospitals charge patients, insurance companies
https://turquoise.health/
428
231
That XOR Trick (2020)
https://florian.github.io/xor-trick
420
906
Parler’s de-platforming shows the exceptional power of cloud providers
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/16/how-parler-deplatforming-shows-power-of-cloud-providers.html
406
75
Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation
https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/corneat-visions-first-patient-regains-sight-following-artificial-cornea-implantation-at-rabin-medical-center-ending-a-decade-of-blindness-301205312.html
380
138
Tech companies are profiling us from before birth
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/tech-companies-are-profiling-us-from-before-birth/
344
A bot that converts Reddit threads into ace attorney scenes
https://github.com/micah5/ace-attorney-reddit-bot
331
151
I made Deskreen, open source app to make any device a second screen for computer
https://www.deskreen.com
288
156
GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy
https://blog.benwinding.com/github-stale-bots/
278
300
Julia adoption keeps climbing
https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/01/13/julia-update-adoption-keeps-climbing-is-it-a-python-challenger/
264
553
TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England
https://hackaday.com/2021/01/18/tv-detector-vans-once-prowled-the-streets-of-england/
260
104
The embedded YouTube player told me what you were watching
https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/01/18/the-embedded-youtube-player-told-me-what-you-were-watching-and-more/
237
74
Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect
https://www.lambdabytes.io/posts/selearning/
223
58
Ballista: Distributed compute platform implemented in Rust using Apache Arrow
https://github.com/ballista-compute/ballista
220
101
Three reasons fungi are not plants
https://asm.org/Articles/2021/January/Three-Reasons-Fungi-Are-Not-Plants