546
379
Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale
https://margint.blog/2021/04/05/creating-software-at-scale/
5 years ago
424
151
Best practices for writing SQL queries
https://www.metabase.com/learn/building-analytics/sql-templates/sql-best-practices
403
330
Setting up Starlink
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/setting-starlink-spacexs-satellite-internet
378
336
Brave disables Chromium FLoC features
https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/8468
365
43
Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas
https://greaterdanorequalto.com/evaluating-modest-saas-business-ideas/
305
I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it
https://jerseyfonseca.com/blogs/wewatch
359
57
Ink 1.0 – Open-source scripting language for interactive narrative
https://www.inklestudios.com/2021/02/22/ink-version-1.html
346
290
Donation page "not compliant with Google Play Policies"
https://agateau.com/2021/google-does-not-want-you-to-tell-your-players-about-your-donation-page/
280
160
Don’t hire top talent; hire for weaknesses
https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2021/04/10/dont-hire-top-talent-hire-for-weaknesses/
259
81
Did you know you can put a whole game inside of a push notification
https://twitter.com/neilsardesai/status/1380649026186534913
241
17
Old Book Illustrations
https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/subjects/
225
119
Valve accused of ignoring existing RCE vulnerability in Source games for 2 years
https://twitter.com/the_secret_club/status/1380868759129296900
204
13
Compressing and enhancing hand-written notes (2016)
https://mzucker.github.io/2016/09/20/noteshrink.html
72
Towards the Science of Essential Decentralised Infrastructures (2020)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3428662.3429744
185
162
End of support for Firefox on Amazon devices
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-firefox-amazon-devices
179
110
ESP32-C6, a Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC
https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32_C6
177
58
A reading list for new engineering managers
https://jacobian.org/2018/may/2/engmanager-reading-list/
169
“Buy and Hold” No More: The Resurgence of Active Trading
https://a16z.com/2021/03/29/active-trading/
168
93
Larry Page's Comeback (2014)
https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-the-untold-story-2014-4
159
19
Free Python Books
https://github.com/pamoroso/free-python-books
154
64
Downloading files from S3 with multithreading and Boto3
https://emasquil.github.io/posts/multithreading-boto3/
152
38
TLS Mastery
https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#tls
144
245
Against Alcohol
https://fergus-mccullough.com/index.php/2021/04/09/against-alcohol/
143
49
NASA space copter ready for first Mars flight
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-nasa-space-copter-ready-mars.html
73
Et Tu, Procter and Gamble?
https://daringfireball.net/2021/04/et_tu_procter_gamble
142
75
Pihole-Antitelemetry
https://github.com/MoralCode/pihole-antitelemetry
137
The rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/09/sea-rice-eelgrass-marine-grain-chef-angel-leon-marsh-climate-crisis
136
33
Dream – Tidy Web Framework for OCaml and ReasonML
https://aantron.github.io/dream/
134
97
Why 11 days disappeared in 1752
https://www.augustachronicle.com/lifestyle/20190316/your-story-why-did-11-days-disappear-in-1752
52
A Ceph war story
https://michael-prokop.at/blog/2021/04/09/a-ceph-war-story/
Are you a lazy programmer?
https://www.lazyprogrammer.it/
133
22
Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ckjr9x214c
127
Watertight vector maps from raster images
https://mzucker.github.io/2018/05/14/maptrace.html
123
Court rules grocery store’s inaccessible website isn’t an ADA violation
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/appeals-court-rules-stores-dont-need-to-make-their-websites-accessible/
120
39
The TeX tuneup of 2021 [pdf]
https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-1/tb130knuth-tuneup21.pdf
115
80
PSD is not my favourite file format
https://b3n.org/psd-is-not-my-favourite-file-format/
113
84
The Kitten Programming Language
http://kittenlang.org/
112
183
Things I was asked to do while job hunting
https://www.kylenazario.com/2021/04/10/job-hunting-fun/
111
Linux kernel incorrect computation of branch displacements in BPF JIT compiler
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/08/1
109
24
I won’t review or write for Elsevier and other commercial scientific journals
https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/why-i-wont-review-or-write-for-elsevier-and-other-commercial-scientific-journals/
Show HN: Remove background from image using machine learning
https://removebackground.app
91
11
8-bit stack-machine emulated by 200 lines of C
https://twitter.com/hundredrabbits/status/1378188349144395788
89
27
The Product-Minded Software Engineer (2019)
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-product-minded-engineer/
44
Ahoyo – Build a single-page online presence
https://ahoyo.to
88
Limiting Work in Progress (2020)
https://truemped.github.io/posts/mgmt/limiting-wip/
108
Why was cycling not included in the ancient Olympics? (2004) [pdf]
https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/cyclops/olympics.pdf
85
What happens after a bank closes all of your credit cards?
https://chadscira.com/post/6071ebdf008c1f872800483d/What-happens-after-a-bank-closes-all-of-your-credit-cards-#
78
36
Police Data Accessibility Project
https://pdap.io/
76
103
Akon wants to run a Senegal city on cryptocurrency
https://qz.com/africa/1994122/akon-plans-to-run-a-senegal-city-on-akoin-cryptocurrency/
70
A far-right extremist allegedly plotted to blow up Amazon data centers
https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-extremist-allegedly-plotted-blow-up-amazon-data-centers/
66
20
Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed to No Earlier Than April 14
https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/291/mars-helicopter-flight-delayed-to-no-earlier-than-april-14/
60
NYC’s competitive slotcar racing scene (2019)
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/01/step-inside-nycs-competitive-slotcar-racing-scene/