1235
177
Instagram ads Facebook won't show you
https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see
5 years ago
840
439
Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
https://cloudirregular.substack.com/p/please-fix-the-aws-free-tier-before
645
261
Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython
https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder
584
322
Efficiency Is the Enemy
https://fs.blog/2021/05/slack/
544
1021
On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
https://residentcontrarian.substack.com/p/on-incels-dead-bedrooms-and-the-hard
503
655
Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56972562
491
293
Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-successful-people-dont-multitask-dr-travis-bradberry/
450
239
Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar
https://boze.app
426
328
How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/amazon-apple-facebook-google-acquisitions/
418
51
Observable Plot
https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/introducing-observable-plot
377
87
uLisp
http://www.ulisp.com/
372
903
How Basecamp Blew Up
https://www.platformer.news/p/-how-basecamp-blew-up
330
282
Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56978344
329
314
First genetically modified mosquitoes released in the United States
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01186-6
320
235
Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)
https://wh0rd.ca/humor/text/Adequacy_org%20%20Is%20Your%20Son%20a%20Computer%20Hacker.htm
311
292
Berkshire Hathaway’s stock price is too high for Nasdaq computers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/berkshire-hathaways-stock-price-is-too-much-for-computers-11620168548
259
193
YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/youtube-is-now-building-its-own-video-transcoding-chips/
246
249
A CBP contract shows the risks in connecting your vehicle and your smartphone
https://theintercept.com/2021/05/03/car-surveillance-berla-msab-cbp/
233
151
I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020)
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/i-found-my-grandfathers-notes-20-years-after-he-died-here-s-what-i-learnt-b550a65069d7
201
86
Announcing Rome Tools, Inc.
https://rome.tools/blog/announcing-rome-tools-inc/
194
175
So you want to build a carbon capture company
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/so-you-want-to-build-a-carbon-capture-company/
40
Dell patches 12-year-old driver vulnerability impacting millions of PCs
https://labs.sentinelone.com/cve-2021-21551-hundreds-of-millions-of-dell-computers-at-risk-due-to-multiple-bios-driver-privilege-escalation-flaws/
Chiptunes on an ATtiny4 and the 3 Cent Micro
https://gir.st/chiptunes.html
188
53
Why I’ll never create modules for VCV Rack anymore–and what I’ll make instead
https://aria.dog/barks/why-i-will-never-create-modules-for-vcv-rack-anymore/
187
43
MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console
https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
181
66
Instant replay: Debugging C and C++ programs with rr
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/05/03/instant-replay-debugging-c-and-c-programs-with-rr/
90
Flipped an element in an old lens and got 'magic' bokeh (2018)
https://petapixel.com/2018/08/02/this-guy-flipped-an-element-in-an-old-lens-and-got-magic-bokeh/
174
31
Excalidraw+
https://blog.excalidraw.com/introducing-excalidraw-plus/
170
Linux Terminal Tools [pdf]
https://ketancmaheshwari.github.io/pdfs/LPT_LISA.pdf
163
27
An opinionated map of incremental and streaming systems
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/an-opinionated-map-of-incremental-and-streaming-systems
161
55
Branchless Coding in Go
https://mattnakama.com/blog/go-branchless-coding/
160
25
Seeing Like an SRE: Site Reliability Engineering as High Modernism
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/seeing-sre-site-reliability-engineering-high-modernism
154
164
The computers are getting better at writing
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-computers-are-getting-better-at-writing
145
49
Tracking “Dark Ships” with New Satellite Technology
https://gijn.org/2021/02/09/tracking-dark-ships-with-new-satellite-technology/
138
203
An NFT That Saves Lives
http://paulgraham.com/nft.html
135
52
Compose for Web
https://compose-web.ui.pages.jetbrains.team/
128
83
A sorceress’ kit was discovered in the ashes of Pompeii (2019)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sorceresss-kit-was-discovered-ashes-pompeii-180972907/
119
237
Lumber mania is sweeping North America
https://www.vox.com/22410713/lumber-prices-shortage
112
126
Teens, tech and mental health: Oxford study finds no link
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56970368
110
Just Say No to Paxos Overhead: Replacing Consensus with Network Ordering (2016)
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/li
166
Stadia’s VP and head of product leaves Google
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/stadias-vp-and-head-of-product-leaves-google/
17
Sail-pro – Simulation and modelling environment for virtual sailing
https://github.com/rururu/sail-pro
107
33
Kolmogorov Complexity: Extensions and Applications
https://blog.neotree.uber.space/posts/kolmogorov-complexity
104
46
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2021
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2021/
101
67
Google banned almost 120k spam developer accounts in 2020 for the play store
https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/how-we-fought-bad-apps-and-developers.html
97
42
Show HN: Easier, Free Webflow
https://aspect.app?source=yc
94
22
CGI with Awk on OpenBSD Httpd (2020)
https://box.matto.nl/cgi-with-awk-on-openbsd-httpd.html
Amazon had sales income of €44bn in Europe in 2020 but paid no corporation tax
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/04/amazon-sales-income-europe-corporation-tax-luxembourg
29
Nginx is now the most popular web server, overtaking Apache
https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/nginx_is_now_the_most_popular_web_server_overtaking_apache
A blood test may help the diagnosis and treatment of depression
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/05/03/a-blood-test-may-help-the-diagnosis-and-treatment-of-depression
88
56
Why a small handful of counties generates the bulk of US death sentences
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240401
45
Inside the all-hands meeting that led to a third of Basecamp employees quitting
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hands-meeting-employee-resignations-buyouts-implosion
The Autodidactic Universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03902
82
37
MNT Reform 2 DIY Kit Review
https://mauromorales.com/2021/04/30/mnt-reform-2-diy-kit-review/
79
68
Survival Capsule
http://survival-capsule.com/Home.html
78
21
Vulture: Find Dead Python Code
https://github.com/jendrikseipp/vulture
77
Draw Logos from Memory
https://neal.fun/logos-from-memory/
76
75
U.S. approves solar project in California desert
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-approves-massive-solar-project-california-desert-2021-05-03/
73
5
Polyglot Assembly – assembly code that runs on multiple architectures
https://vojtechkral.github.io/blag/polyglot-assembly/
72
Reddit Outage
https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/n65369gfkvk0
71
99
Why Working from Home Will Stick
https://www.nber.org/papers/w28731#fromrss
50
Tilting Trains and Technological Dead-Ends
https://pedestrianobservations.com/2021/04/22/tilting-trains-and-technological-dead-ends/
Linear Clock: Solar
https://jmw.name/projects/linear-clock/
70
7
Someone stole my videos and YouTube is terminating me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuF5k4QB_zg
69
No ID, no vaccines for Indonesia’s invisible people
https://restofworld.org/2021/indonesias-invisible-people-face-discrimination-and-sometimes-death-by-database/
Why A.I. Moonshots Miss
https://slate.com/technology/2021/05/artificial-intelligence-moonshots-usually-fail.html
