1464
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A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
https://madned.substack.com/p/a-teenagers-guide-to-avoiding-actual
4 years ago
1425
529
Welcome to Libera Chat
https://libera.chat/news/welcome-to-libera-chat
763
294
Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) to be retired on June 15, 2022
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/05/19/the-future-of-internet-explorer-on-windows-10-is-in-microsoft-edge/
725
782
Poor in Tech
http://megelison.com/poor-in-tech
631
229
Improving Firefox stability on Linux
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/05/improving-firefox-stability-on-linux/
613
296
Leaving Freenode for a new network
https://www.kline.sh
446
556
I am sick and tired of hearing tech companies complain about developer shortages
https://blog.usejournal.com/i-am-sick-and-tired-of-hearing-tech-companies-complain-about-a-developer-shortage-fd1f5aa536cc
411
151
Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]
https://fifty.user-interface.io/50_ui_tips.pdf
378
161
Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/05/apple-previews-powerful-software-updates-designed-for-people-with-disabilities/
375
98
Elixir 1.12
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/05/19/elixir-v1-12-0-released/
368
650
Crypto crash deepens, stocks slip
https://www.reuters.com/business/global-markets-wrapup-4-2021-05-19/
362
112
Squeezebox Keyboard
https://peterlyons.com/problog/2021/04/squeezebox-keyboard/
339
139
FTC and several states sue Frontier Communications regarding internet speeds
https://www.reuters.com/article/ftc-frontier-communications-speed/update-1-u-s-sues-frontier-communications-regarding-internet-speeds-filing-idUSL2N2N62E4
289
108
The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius
https://books.google.com/books/download/A_Synopsis_of_Elementary_Results_in_Pure.pdf?id=JLmCAAAAIAAJ&output=pdf
276
288
Coinbase outages
https://coinbase.com/
261
260
The Tether Ponzi Scheme
https://www.singlelunch.com/2021/05/19/the-tether-ponzi-scheme/
257
208
MUM: A new AI milestone for understanding information
https://blog.google/products/search/introducing-mum/
251
400
Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain
https://schlockchain.substack.com/p/no-real-world-ownership-is-not-a
243
66
China on Mars: Zhurong rover returns first pictures
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57172346
236
85
File Descriptor Limits
http://0pointer.net/blog/file-descriptor-limits.html
228
322
Tracking the San Francisco Tech Exodus
https://sfciti.org/sf-tech-exodus/
226
89
“Miss Shilling's Orifice” helped win the war (2020)
https://www.damninteresting.com/how-miss-shillings-orifice-helped-win-the-war/
225
158
Chrome testing RSS-powered ‘Follow’ button
https://9to5google.com/2021/05/19/chrome-follow-rss-feed/
223
63
Nikola Tesla invention from 100 years ago suddenly makes more sense today
https://www.cnet.com/news/nikola-tesla-invention-from-100-years-ago-suddenly-makes-more-sense-today/
222
283
How corporations buy and food made with prison labor
https://thecounter.org/how-corporations-buy-and-sell-food-made-with-prison-labor/
216
12
3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development
https://gamemath.com/
215
133
Building Self-Managed Teams: A Case Study from Riot Games
https://codingsans.com/blog/self-managed-teams
126
Security keys are now supported for SSH Git operations
https://github.blog/2021-05-10-security-keys-supported-ssh-git-operations/
212
269
YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see them in the future?
https://adguard.com/en/blog/youtube-ads-in-safari-explained.html
202
114
Commander X16
https://www.commanderx16.com/forum/index.php?/home/
197
Sharing learnings about our image cropping algorithm
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2021/sharing-learnings-about-our-image-cropping-algorithm.html
191
137
Ansible 4.0
https://groups.google.com/g/ansible-devel/c/AeF2En1RGI8
187
37
How to look at the stack with gdb
https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/05/17/how-to-look-at-the-stack-in-gdb/
185
54
Advice for young scientists and curious people in general
https://fs.blog/2021/05/advice-for-young-scientists/
184
325
The End of Retirement (2014)
https://harpers.org/archive/2014/08/the-end-of-retirement/
183
Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Conference
https://mashable.com/article/rsa-conference-cryptographers-panel-nfts.html
165
118
The Amish as a source of tech-savvy guidance
https://psyche.co/ideas/to-be-more-tech-savvy-borrow-these-strategies-from-the-amish
163
70
The Mental Benefits of Being Terrible at Something
https://www.outsideonline.com/2423015/80-20-rule-beginner-mastery-benefits
162
77
Ant parasites that prolong the life of their host
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/05/ant-tapeworm/618919/
138
The Array Cast – A podcast about the array programming languages
https://www.arraycast.com/
13
My Resignation from Freenode
https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_461
148
101
Nicholas Taleb's Amazon Reviews
https://www.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AHMHNR4MRTDLMBOOT6Q7LX2WP5YA/ref=cm_cr_dp_mb_gw_tr?ie=UTF8
143
44
A brief introduction to esoteric programming languages
https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/esolangs/
142
32
Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek (YC S19)
https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/05/19/next-generation-deploy-previews-plus-netlify-acquires-featurepeek/
140
55
Over the past 10 years, the LHC has found more than 50 new hadrons
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/59-new-hadrons-and-counting
Landlock merged in mainline for Linux 5.13
https://landlock.io/
First-Time Buyer Lorenz Curves (2020)
https://doodles.mountainmath.ca/blog/2020/09/28/first-time-buyer-lorenz-curves/
150
Material You – The next stage for Material Design
https://material.io/blog/announcing-material-you
130
94
IRCv3
https://ircv3.net/
129
166
Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/05/15/last-year-more-people-in-san-francisco-died-of-overdoses-than-of-covid-19
124
56
Show HN: One Way Dungeon – A game I've been developing in the last five months
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vaskivodev.onewaydungeon
106
What to do about GPU packages on PyPI?
https://discuss.python.org/t/what-to-do-about-gpus-and-the-built-distributions-that-support-them/7125
16
One Hundred Ideas for Computing
https://github.com/samsquire/ideas
136
Hetzner has banned crypto mining and Chia farming
https://twitter.com/Hetzner_Online/status/1394957824749457409
29
FemtoStar: Taking Aim for the Stars
https://www.pine64.org/2021/05/19/femtostar-taking-aim-for-the-stars/
107
87
Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists
https://nautil.us/blog/how-maxwells-demon-continues-to-startle-scientists
103
Robinhood’s big gamble
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/robinhoods-big-gamble
99
How to build a custom data connector in 2 hours
https://airbyte.io/connector-development-kit
91
5
Patricia’s Perfect Pull: A Crystal Grower’s Story
https://computerhistory.org/blog/patricias-perfect-pull/
34
A Gentle Introduction to Ted Nelson's ZigZag Structure (2002)
https://www.nongnu.org/gzz/gi/gi.html
Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than of Covid-19