915
276
Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)
https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/kilcup.1/262/feynman.html?repostindays=413
4 years ago
684
388
Apple sued for terminating account with $25k worth of apps and videos
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/apple-faces-class-action-lawsuit-over-its-definition-of-the-word-buy/
656
586
Has UML died without anyone noticing?
https://garba.org/posts/2021/uml/
190
Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/S: How I Learned to Love Tail Calls in C
https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/04/21/musttail-efficient-interpreters.html
392
234
Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
373
295
Job descriptions should show a salary or salary range
https://sifted.eu/articles/job-advert-salary-range/
370
101
Rust Language Cheat Sheet
https://cheats.rs/
328
142
Internet down in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after beaver chews through fibre cable
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/beaver-internet-down-tumbler-ridge-1.6001594
313
70
Show HN: Verilog2factorio
https://github.com/Redcrafter/verilog2factorio/
301
148
How Facebook encodes videos
https://engineering.fb.com/2021/04/05/video-engineering/how-facebook-encodes-your-videos/
275
573
Amtrak's 2035 map has people talking about the future of U.S. train travel
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/06/984464351/as-biden-pushes-major-rail-investments-rail-amtraks-2035-map-has-people-talking?t=1619351947832
269
26
3D Game Shaders for Beginners
https://github.com/lettier/3d-game-shaders-for-beginners
264
376
Open letter from researchers involved in the “hypocrite commit” debacle
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK8KejpUVLxmqp026JY7x5GzHU2YJLPU8SzTZUNXU2OXC70ZQQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
246
51
Inside Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
https://petapixel.com/2021/04/24/exclusive-photos-inside-the-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant/
231
168
Cisco says computer chip shortage to last six months
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56847518
220
63
Show HN: MarkShow – Create Slideshows with Markdown
https://mark.show
214
115
Dynamic Programming vs. Divide-and-Conquer (2018)
https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2018/dynamic-programming-vs-divide-and-conquer/
210
76
The secret Thinkpad powerbutton code to bring dead laptops back to life (2007)
http://www.masnick.com/2007/09/07/the-secret-thinkpad-powerbutton-code-to-bring-dead-laptops-back-to-life/
193
71
Why do drum sets have descending toms?
https://www.lowvolumedrumming.org/descending-toms/
192
279
Tesla admits its Full Self-Driving technology is a Level 2 system
https://www.autoblog.com/2021/03/09/tesla-full-self-driving-level-2-sae
82
Orbit Tessellation developer diary for Kerbal Space Program 2
https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/dev-diaries/6509/
205
The more complex crypto seems, the higher the pyramid schemes can go
https://reallifemag.com/money-for-nothing/
189
255
Modern C++ Won't Save Us (2019)
https://alexgaynor.net/2019/apr/21/modern-c++-wont-save-us/
180
102
The Slander Industry
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/24/technology/online-slander-websites.html
174
42
A Product Engineer’s Guide to Platform Engineers (2019)
https://rinaarts.medium.com/stupid-baboons-stubborn-elephants-c33412541bb1
173
17
Foundations of Information
https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/books/foundations-of-information/#/
172
The knackerman: the toughest job in British farming
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/13/the-knacker-the-toughest-job-in-british-farming
Java for Everything (2014)
https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html
170
OpenAstroTracker: 3D printed, open source star tracker
https://openastrotech.com/
160
31
Show HN: hackernews_tui – A Terminal UI to browse Hacker News discussions
https://github.com/aome510/hackernews-TUI
150
119
The joys of creating Xcode project files
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-joys-of-creating-xcode-project-files.html
146
75
JavaScript for Data Science
http://js4ds.org/
139
37
Developers on what makes their games ‘hand-drawn’
https://www.polygon.com/interviews/22397934/indie-games-hand-drawn-artists-cozy-grove
136
106
Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26935838
134
47
The Couple Who Shagged in an MRI Machine for Science
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvgkzw/the-story-of-the-dutch-couple-ida-sabelis-pek-van-andel-sex-intercourse-mri-scanner-for-science
126
87
Starlink Ground Station Map
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1H1x8jZs8vfjy60TvKgpbYs_grargieVw&ll=58.741351768956484%2C-124.56503581249999&z=4
124
40
Heroku-style deployments with Docker and Git tags
https://ricardoanderegg.com/posts/git-push-deployments-docker-tags/
123
177
Paid in Full: an internet where every interaction is a financial transaction
https://reallifemag.com/paid-in-full/
120
34
Crypto miners are killing free CI
https://layerci.com/blog/crypto-miners-are-killing-free-ci/
14
Understanding SaaS Metrics
https://www.causal.app/saas-metrics
105
EU proposing to regulate the use of Bayesian estimation
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/04/22/eu-proposing-to-regulate-the-use-of-bayesian-estimation/
107
125
Ask HN: How to get back hacker's mentality and joy of coding
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930923
2
Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/04/evolving-reinforcement-learning.html
104
38
Libfive: Solid modeling (CAD) library/tools with Scheme/Python bindings and GUI
https://libfive.com/
103
94
Let's stop building APIs around a network hack (2017)
https://apisyouwonthate.com/blog/lets-stop-building-apis-around-a-network-hack
Ask HN: What are some good resources for a programmer to learn UI/UX design?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26932020
Swift on the Server (2020)
https://theswiftdev.com/swift-on-the-server-in-2020/
90
19
Álvaro de Campos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Álvaro_de_Campos
89
21
Simulation of Space Shuttle – STS 62 A Polar Express high altitude journey
https://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=38916
Launch Your App: Why We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It)
https://launchyourapp.meezeeworkouts.com/2021/03/why-we-dont-use-docker-we-dont-need-it.html
80
Ingenuity: NASA's Mars helicopter makes it three from three
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56882257
Internet down in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., after beaver chews through fibre cable