986
398
What I Worked On
http://paulgraham.com/worked.html
5 years ago
737
336
“User Engagement” Is Code for “Addiction”
https://craigwritescode.medium.com/user-engagement-is-code-for-addiction-a2f50d36d7ac
697
193
Functorio
https://bartoszmilewski.com/2021/02/16/functorio/.
617
1042
What went wrong with the Texas power grid?
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/Wholesale-power-prices-spiking-across-Texas-15951684.php
569
416
Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56069472
542
342
Many small queries are efficient in SQLite
https://sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html
502
376
'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-20-minute-commute-puts-you-at-risk-of-unacceptably-high-levels-of-carcinogens
499
120
Building Rich Terminal Dashboards
https://www.willmcgugan.com/blog/tech/post/building-rich-terminal-dashboards/
402
214
Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 Follow-Up]
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/#
400
111
Kanban board in one HTML using localstorage
https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard
Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/arranging-invisible-icons-in-quadratic-time/
370
136
Windows Refund Day (1999)
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/#:~:text=For%20those%20who%20hadn%27t,with%20the%20machine%20they%20bought
368
93
Show HN: Endgame – An AWS Pentesting tool to backdoor or expose AWS resources
https://github.com/salesforce/endgame
360
414
Changes to LastPass Free
https://blog.lastpass.com/2021/02/changes-to-lastpass-free/
320
166
Why Is Esbuild Fast?
https://esbuild.github.io/faq/#why-is-esbuild-fast
300
105
NASA's Perseverance rover will attempt to land on Mars this week
https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/aerospace/robotic-exploration/nasa-perseverance-rover-landing-on-mars-overview
293
143
Go 1.16 Release Notes
https://golang.org/doc/go1.16
275
98
How They SRE
https://github.com/upgundecha/howtheysre
116
An anniversary for great justice: Remembering “All Your Base” 20 years later
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/get-ready-to-feel-old-the-all-your-base-music-video-turns-20-today/
260
805
Bitcoin surpasses $50K as major companies jump into crypto
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/16/bitcoin-btc-price-hits-50000-for-the-first-time.html
241
23
16 bytes of Python that compile to 32 terabytes of bytecode (2016)
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/69415/4270
238
191
Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism (1995) [pdf]
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism.pdf
235
90
Malware in open-source web extensions
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/846272/37d25507fa3e9cd3/
231
97
Clubhouse Bio Generator
https://perchance.org/owh9gelu4t
220
172
TikTok hit with consumer law breaches complaints across Europe
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-eu/tiktok-hit-with-consumer-law-breaches-complaints-across-europe-idUSKBN2AG0S8
205
222
Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python
https://medium.com/workpath-thewaywework/learning-ruby-2-things-i-like-2-things-i-miss-from-python-6f60af8ed16c
180
217
“Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers
https://reason.com/2021/02/15/what-the-new-york-times-hit-piece-on-slate-star-codex-says-about-media-gatekeeping/
142
New Report Shows Cops Used Ring Cameras to Monitor Black Lives Matter Protests
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/new-eff-report-shows-cops-used-ring-cameras-monitor-black-lives-matter-protests
164
73
Pine64 Unveils Quartz64 SBC
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/02/16/pine64-unveils-quartz64-sbc-powered-by-rockchip-rk3566-soc/
154
171
Jacquard by Google
https://atap.google.com/jacquard/
145
36
US Presidential Election $25k Database Bounty Review
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-02-15-election-bounty-review/
84
The Database Inside Your Codebase
https://feifan.blog/posts/the-database-inside-your-codebase
144
127
Organizations Using the D Language
https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html
91
Python Pattern Matching
https://github.com/gvanrossum/patma/blob/master/README.md
68
Behold z, the unsung jewel that rethinks shell navigation
https://aymericbeaumet.com/behold-z-the-unsung-jewel-that-rethinks-shell-navigation
133
40
The Simtel.net MS-DOS Collection
http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/msdos/index-msdos.html
128
137
AirPods as a Platform
https://julian.digital/2020/04/19/airpods-as-a-platform/
125
47
Launch HN: June (YC W21) – Two-click analytics reports on top of Segment data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26155327
124
67
FPGA NTP Server
https://research.wand.net.nz/hardware/ntp.php
109
65
Comma.ai, self-driving cars and indefinite optimism
https://mleverything.substack.com/p/commaai-flying-cars-and-indefinite
219
Bitcoin’s Overnight Collapse Probability Is About 50%
http://www.tr0lly.com/bitcoin/bitcoins-overnight-collapse-probability-is-about-50/
34
Il Maestro: Federico Fellini and the lost magic of cinema
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/03/il-maestro-federico-fellini-martin-scorsese/
95
75
Ask HN: Does anyone find it strange that sport is part of daily news?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26153670
92
Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (2017)
https://www.hillelwayne.com/uncle-bob/
The VT-69 portable data terminal
http://violence.works
54
Managing Staff-Plus Engineers (2020)
https://lethain.com/managing-staff-plus-engineers/
89
61
Nigeria's Central Bank has prohibited banks from processing cryptocurrencies
https://twitter.com/DocumentingBTC/status/1357679262908694529
86
71
Front-of-the-Front-End and Back-of-the-Front-End Web Development
https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/front-of-the-front-end-and-back-of-the-front-end-web-development/
85
33
Minimally Invasive (and More Accurate) Analytics: GoAccess and Athena/SQL
https://brandur.org/minimal-analytics
45
The most important part of modern government is database management
https://twitter.com/rcolvile/status/1361673425140543490
Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python