1167
654
CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M is abandoned due to bugs
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-million-vaccine-data-vams-problems/
5 years ago
814
291
GitHub Should Start an App Store
https://www.ankshilp.com/time_for_github_app_store/
705
680
Why Robinhood disabled buys but not sells
https://stu2b50.dev/posts/why-robinhood-d3580b
704
121
NES.css – NES-Style CSS Framework
https://nostalgic-css.github.io/NES.css/
549
95
Cab Ride: Drive a train, forever, through a dreamlike land
https://powersaurus.itch.io/cab-ride
414
196
How to Turn an IKEA Coffee Table into a DIY Server Rack
https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
371
142
The MIT License, Line by Line
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/09/21/MIT-License-Line-by-Line.html
359
298
Naked shorting: The curious incident of the shares that didn't exist (2005)
https://www.euromoney.com/article/b1320xkhl0443w/naked-shorting-the-curious-incident-of-the-shares-that-didnt-exist
329
99
Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS mesh communicator
https://meshtastic.letstalkthis.com/
320
386
Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/hedge-fund-melvin-sustains-53-loss-after-reddit-onslaught/
284
226
Why I still Lisp
https://mendhekar.medium.com/why-i-still-lisp-and-you-should-too-18a2ae36bd8
203
105
Bedrock Linux – a meta Linux distribution
https://bedrocklinux.org/
202
161
TeaVM: Build Fast, Modern Web Apps in Java
http://teavm.org/
188
50
RV64X: A Free, open-source GPU for RISC-V
https://www.eetimes.com/rv64x-a-free-open-source-gpu-for-risc-v/
179
210
Drawbacks of P2P and a defense of Signal
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10216-the-hidden-drawbacks-of-p2p-and-a-defense-of-signal
19
A Collector of Math and Physics Surprises
https://www.quantamagazine.org/tadashi-tokieda-collects-math-and-physics-surprises-20181127/
174
Math Inspector: A Visual Programming Environment for Scientific Computing
https://mathinspector.com/
61
Launch HN: LayerCI (YC S20) - Staging servers that act like (and replace) CI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25979941
71
RFC 8959: The “secret-token” URI Scheme
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8959.txt
168
108
WhatsApp and the Domestication of Users
https://seirdy.one/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users.html
60
NumPy 1.20
https://numpy.org/doc/1.20/release/1.20.0-notes.html
167
59
Rome in 3D
https://relivehistoryin3d.com/projects/rome-in-3d/
166
31
Building a personal data warehouse in Snowflake for fun and no profit
https://www.thomasdziedzic0.com/blog/building-a-personal-data-warehouse-in-snowflake-for-fun-and-no-profit
163
32
How does Clang 2.7 hold up in 2021?
https://gist.github.com/zeux/3ce4fcc3a43072b4315abde95319ecb6
160
164
Visa May Add Cryptocurrencies to Its Payments Network, Says CEO
https://www.coindesk.com/visa-may-add-cryptocurrencies-to-its-payments-network-says-ceo
156
130
Chrome 89 Beta: advanced hardware interactions, web sharing on desktop
https://blog.chromium.org/2021/01/chrome-89-beta-advanced-hardware.html
152
177
Studying the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production
https://privpapers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3762886
148
126
Food Grammar: Unspoken rules of cuisine
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/do-italians-eat-spaghetti-and-meatballs
58
ZX Spectrum Next: The Evolution of the Speccy
https://www.specnext.com/about/
141
25
Black Bart – The Buried TV Sequel to Blazing Saddles
https://reprobatepress.com/2021/01/30/black-bart-the-buried-tv-sequel-to-blazing-saddles/
137
47
Show HN: Alsa_rnnoise – RNNoise-based noise removal plugin for ALSA
https://sr.ht/~arsen/alsa_rnnoise/
134
52
Iran's blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/29/irans-blogfather-facebook-instagram-and-twitter-are-killing-the-web
124
Many use cases don’t require Kafka (2019)
https://vicki.substack.com/p/you-dont-need-kafka
131
104
Chronicles of a Bubble Tea Addict
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/chronicles-of-a-bubble-tea-addict
113
‘Meme stock’ rally rescues AMC theaters from $600M debt
https://www.polygon.com/movies/2021/1/29/22256360/amc-stock-price-reddit-rally-robinhood-debt-conversion
45
Crun: Fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers
https://github.com/containers/crun
118
33
An Oral History of Disney's 'The Emperor's New Groove'
https://www.vulture.com/article/an-oral-history-of-disney-the-emperors-new-groove.html
109
17
Fastfloat – C++ library 4x faster than strtod
https://github.com/fastfloat/fast_float
72
MDMA Solo (2020) [pdf]
https://ia902906.us.archive.org/5/items/mdmasolo/MDMA%20solo.pdf
103
5
Build your own X, a collection of tutorials (Search engine, Neural Net, etc.)
https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x
44
US, Argentina agree to exchange country-by-country reports on multinationals
https://mnetax.com/us-argentina-agree-to-exchange-country-by-country-reports-of-large-multinational-42276
98
28
Access to vocational education can boost income over the long term
https://voxeu.org/article/access-vocational-education-can-boost-income-over-long-term
67
Why GNU/Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon (2005)
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html
93
Google union in turmoil following global alliance announcement
https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/30/22256577/alphabet-workers-union-turmoil-global-alliance-announcement-google-cwa
90
Respect Your Power Users
https://tedium.co/2021/01/27/power-users-history/
Null characters in Postgres: workarounds aren’t good enough
https://www.commandprompt.com/blog/null-characters-workarounds-arent-good-enough/
70
Ouroboros: A Provably Secure Proof-of-Stake Blockchain Protocol [pdf] (2019)
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/889.pdf
89
24
Phantom Malware: Conceal malicious actions by imitating user activity
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9186656#8866
81
239
The Virus Changed. Now We Must ‘Get to Zero’ or Face Catastrophe
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/01/28/Virus-Changed-Get-To-Zero-Face-Catastrophe/
79
18
FM Reception with the GNU Radio Companion
https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/fm-reception-with-the-gnu-radio-companion
76
30
James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere
https://www.publicbooks.org/james-baldwin-here-and-elsewhere/
Meshtastic: Open-source, off-grid, hiking, climbing, GPS mesh communicator