1107
136
Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany
http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/2021/03/20/demoscene-accepted-as-unesco-cultural-heritage-in-germany/
4 years ago
466
258
Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore
https://lwgmnz.me/2021/03/20/nobody-designs-for-small-iphone-devices-anymore/
446
181
The Invention of a New Pasta Shape
https://kottke.org/21/03/the-invention-of-a-new-pasta-shape
443
134
Undocumented x86 instructions in Intel CPUs that can modify microcode
https://twitter.com/_markel___/status/1373059797155778562
402
156
Speeding up SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION
https://www.foxhound.systems/blog/sql-performance-with-union/
369
My self-study plan for electrical engineering
https://i-kh.net/2021/03/20/electrical-engineering-study-plan/
313
392
Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56452494
271
65
Learning Machine Learning for Game Development
http://ai.googleblog.com/2021/03/leveraging-machine-learning-for-game.html
249
187
I don't care about cookies
https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
248
73
How to Study Mathematics (2017)
https://www.math.uh.edu/~dblecher/pf2.html
222
176
Emacs is the 2D Command-line Interface
https://hongchao.me/cli-and-emacs/
212
164
Ask HN: How to build empathy?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26523816
203
104
In Praise of the Unambiguous Click Menu
https://css-tricks.com/in-praise-of-the-unambiguous-click-menu/
182
40
Georgian African American newspapers from 1886-1926 now available freely online
https://blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu/?p=7751%0A
170
141
CFTC Orders Coinbase Inc. To Pay $6.5M Penalty
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8369-21
93
Amazon S3 Object Lambda
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-s3-object-lambda-use-your-code-to-process-data-as-it-is-being-retrieved-from-s3/
163
79
Police warn students to avoid Sci-Hub
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-56462390
161
322
Safari is now probably the influential wild card browser for user privacy
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/SafariUserPrivacyWildcard
157
189
Tesla orders its first 8k-ton Cybertruck casting machine
https://www.teslaoracle.com/2021/03/20/tesla-orders-its-first-8000-ton-cybertruck-giga-casting-machine/
123
Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners, Recorded Chats
https://telegram.org/blog/voice-chats-on-steroids
153
Mouse plague grows to biblical proportions across eastern Australia
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/19/you-cant-escape-the-smell-mouse-plague-grows-to-biblical-proportions-across-eastern-australia
149
17
Dance Tonite
https://tonite.dance/
66
Cistercian Numerals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals#:~:text=The%20medieval%20Cistercian%20numerals,%20or,were%20introduced%20to%20northwestern%20Europe
148
95
AARD Code, or how Bill Gates finished off the competition
https://www.zapread.com/Post/Detail/7735/aard-code-or-how-bill-gates-finished-off-the-competition/
147
28
Skylab: The Myth of the Mutiny in Space
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-56346001
144
120
A SpaceX engineer's dark web insider trading sparks an SEC first
https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-dark-web-insider-trading/
143
72
My Dad Published Lolita
https://lithub.com/how-would-the-publishing-world-respond-to-lolita-today/
71
Cryptography behind the top cryptocurrencies
http://ethanfast.com/top-crypto.html
139
23
Infinite Nature: Perpetual View Generation of Natural Scenes from a Single Image
https://infinite-nature.github.io/
138
63
Identify a remarkable trait in anyone, then either copy or avoid it
https://knowledgeartist.org/article/identify-remarkable-trait-learn
132
24
A Guide to Writing Mathematics [pdf]
https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~amenta/w10/writingman.pdf
126
13
A working D compiler on OpenBSD
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210320.html
29
One-Shot Free-View Neural Talking-Head Synthesis for Video Conferencing
https://nvlabs.github.io/face-vid2vid/
116
15
Building My Own Yahoo Pipes
https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2021/03/20/1945
111
39
Continuous Typography
https://maxkoehler.com/posts/continuous-typography/
109
55
Japanese man leaves horrible job, gets horrible letter from the company
https://soranews24.com/2021/02/06/japanese-man-leaves-horrible-job-gets-even-more-shockingly-horrible-letter-from-the-company/
107
82
Whales in 19th century shared information about ship attacks
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/17/sperm-whales-in-19th-century-shared-ship-attack-information
105
Nowruz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz
101
34
AI and Drug Discovery: Attacking the Right Problems
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/03/19/ai-and-drug-discovery-attacking-the-right-problems
98
The Secret of Nanda Devi
https://rockandice.com/snowball/the-secret-of-nanda-devi/
The Complexity of a WW II P-47 Thunderbolt’s Powerplant (2015)
https://lynceans.org/all-posts/the-complexity-of-a-ww-ii-p-47-thunderbolts-powerplant/
38
Insect Has Gears in Its Legs (2013)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/this-insect-has-gears-in-its-legs
94
92
VUW Accidentally Wipes Desktop Computers
https://www.critic.co.nz/news/article/9182/vuw-accidentally-wipes-desktop-computers
SubX: A minimalist assembly language for a subset of the x86 ISA (2019)
https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/main/subx.md
91
33
Cherokee Numerals
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/sequoyah-and-the-almost-forgotten-history-of-cherokee-numerals/
74
Launch HN: Kanda (YC W21) – Let tradespeople offer finance to their customers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26523646
78
51
Glacial – Microcoded RISC-V core designed for low FPGA resource utilization
https://github.com/brouhaha/glacial
It’s getting harder for small studios to compete with big tech (2020)
https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/studio-moniker-digital-060520
37
ZPL: (Almost) C99 Powerkit
https://github.com/zpl-c/zpl
Telegram: Voice Chats 2.0:Channels, Millions of Listeners, Recorded Chats