1453
1237
Is that ship still stuck?
https://istheshipstillstuck.com/
4 years ago
1345
696
All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
https://brianschrader.com/archive/why-all-my-servers-have-an-8gb-empty-file/
986
354
SQLite is not a toy database
https://antonz.org/sqlite-is-not-a-toy-database/
729
408
RIP Google Reader
https://www.ripgooglereader.com/
585
219
Phones and apps reduce your ability to focus even when they don’t distract you
https://blog.rize.io/blog/phones-and-apps-reduce-your-ability-to-focus-even-when-they-dont-distract-you
511
562
Do you really want Linux phones
https://blog.brixit.nl/do-you-really-want-linux-phones/
410
214
Julia 1.6 Highlights
https://julialang.org/blog/2021/03/julia-1.6-highlights/
381
83
Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code
https://bart.degoe.de/building-a-full-text-search-engine-150-lines-of-code/
375
104
Show HN: I built a VS Code Theme Creator – easily make VS Code themes in browser
https://themes.vscode.one
332
68
Rust 1.51
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/03/25/Rust-1.51.0.html
329
141
OpenSSL Security Advisory
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210325.txt
317
76
Lawyers used sheepskin as anti-fraud device for hundreds of years
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-lawyers-sheepskin-anti-fraud-device-hundreds.html
282
190
Funds for Open Source
https://blog.opencollective.com/funds-for-open-source/
278
109
Steve Jobs Interview in 1981 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbfejwP1d3c
260
162
Fossil Chat
https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/chat.md
245
92
CoScreen: Screen Sharing for Engineers
https://www.coscreen.co/
225
Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancient code (2019)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/calc-exe-is-now-open-source-theres-surprising-depth-in-its-ancient-code/
111
Emacs 27.2
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2021-03/msg00008.html
230
65
Socat – A utility for data transfer between two addresses (2018)
https://copyconstruct.medium.com/socat-29453e9fc8a6
209
Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_sucks
208
Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds with one weird trick
https://blog.can.ac/2021/03/22/speculating-x86-64-isa-with-one-weird-trick/
202
256
20-Minute Neighborhoods
https://theconversation.com/people-love-the-idea-of-20-minute-neighbourhoods-so-why-isnt-it-top-of-the-agenda-131193
33
1982: The Hobbit
https://if50.substack.com/p/1982-the-hobbit
185
28
Julia and the satellite Amazonia-1 (2020)
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-and-the-satellite-amazonia-1/57541
183
A “Better C” Benchmark
https://zserge.com/posts/better-c-benchmark/
172
13
Egg: E-Graphs Good
https://egraphs-good.github.io/
161
The bank effect and the big boat blocking the Suez
https://www.ft.com/content/171c92ec-0a44-4dc5-acab-81ee2620d3c1
157
74
DeaDBeeF – A modular audio player for Unix-like systems
https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/
156
46
Self-compassion is not self-indulgence
https://psyche.co/ideas/self-compassion-is-not-self-indulgence-heres-how-to-try-it
153
New Alan Turing £50 note design is revealed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56503741
22
TinaCMS: A toolkit for building visual editing into your site
https://github.com/tinacms/tinacms
146
96
1993: CGI Scripts and Early Server-Side Web Programming
https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/1993-cgi-scripts-and-early-server-side-web-programming/
143
84
RoadPony is a new way to support musicians by crowdsourcing concerts
http://www.roadpony.com
140
194
Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to 'work anywhere'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56510574
137
97
Wkhtmltopdf: Command line tools to render HTML into PDF
https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
135
45
Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman – Inside Clojure (2009) [video]
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Expert-to-Expert-Rich-Hickey-and-Brian-Beckman-Inside-Clojure
131
130
Gödel's Loophole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_Loophole
129
Amazon Just Cut Off Warehouse Workers from a Companywide Directory
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2021/03/25/56109515/amazon-just-cut-off-companywide-communication-for-its-warehouse-workers
119
64
Bad Apple on an Apple //e: playing video on a stock 1 MHz Apple II [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4faogRMOL4
8
Ethernet and IP Networking 101
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/computer-networking-101/
118
Amdahl's Law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
138
At Home with Down Syndrome (2008)
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/at-home-with-down-syndrome
117
After a remote year, tech’s shadow workforce barely hangs on
https://www.wired.com/story/after-remote-year-tech-shadow-workforce-barely-hangs-on/
115
Comparing H.265 (HEVC) and H265 video file size
https://janstechtalk.blogspot.com/2021/03/comparing-h265-hevc-and-h265-video-file.html
107
25
The Joy of Condensed Matter
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2021/03/24/the-joy-of-condensed-matter/
106
OAuth Attack Vectors
https://portswigger.net/research/hidden-oauth-attack-vectors
49
Show HN: WebAssembly and ffmpeg = Quick clip, overlay, resize and GIF-ize videos
https://vidds.co/free-video-converter/
114
More big investors shun Deliveroo over workers' rights
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56515498
100
59
The algorithms that make Instacart roll
https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-intelligence/machine-learning/the-algorithms-that-make-instacart-roll
98
55
Programming quotes
https://www.ronaldsvilcins.com/2020/12/10/programming-quotes/
72
FSL: A programming language to make complex finite state machines easy to create
https://fsl.tools/
93
79
Honest Microservices
https://danielbmarkham.com/honest-microservices/
19
The Pastry A.I. That Learned to Fight Cancer
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-pastry-ai-that-learned-to-fight-cancer
91
78
Red Hat statement about RMS’s return to the Free Software Foundation board
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-statement-about-richard-stallmans-return-free-software-foundation-board
85
Netlify Status – CDN Issues
https://www.netlifystatus.com/incidents/r2nqshvznvyj
89
14
Yocto/GL: C++ Libraries for Data-Driven Physically-Based Graphics
https://github.com/xelatihy/yocto-gl
88
Real World Examples of GPT-3 Plain Language Root Cause Summaries
https://www.zebrium.com/blog/real-world-examples-of-gpt-3-plain-language-root-cause-summaries-zebrium
82
4
Lenovo liable for 20000€ in damages for refusing a 42€ Windows refund
https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210302-01.fr.html
62
Science relies on constructive criticism. How to keep it useful and respectful
https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2021/03/science-relies-constructive-criticism-here-s-how-keep-it-useful-and-respectful
80
61
Talented People Frequently Don’t Rise to the Top
https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/Sx6SBmyut73u6atgB/the-best-frequently-don-t-rise-to-the-top
113
Polycloud: S3-compatible object storage
https://crowdstorage.com/products/polycloud/
Show HN: WebAssembly and ffmpeg = Quick clip, overlay, resize and GIF-ize videos
