841
472
Do you really need Redis? How to get away with just PostgreSQL
https://spin.atomicobject.com/2021/02/04/redis-postgresql/
5 years ago
548
70
The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable
https://twitter.com/Andrew_Taylor/status/1403709080737390592
532
238
How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014)
https://gizmodo.com/how-fighter-jets-lock-on-and-how-the-targets-know-1644871272
412
237
Win at Risk by using systems thinking
https://thesystemisdown.substack.com/p/how-to-win-at-risk-every-time-by
338
123
Taildrop was kind of easy
https://tailscale.com/blog/2021-06-taildrop-was-easy/
288
453
Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27482397
286
119
Programmer's Resignation from 1985
https://pastes.glitchwrks.com/L88HFhJs
278
99
Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015)
https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
276
The Modern Mathematics of Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04026
250
98
Show HN: LANDrop – A cross-platform AirDrop-like file transfer tool
https://landrop.app/
247
101
Python is 1.3x faster by just adjusting some compiling options for libpython
https://bugs.python.org/issue38980?fbclid=IwAR0cyfahpBywNzbqLCpcfwatOaU6W8UQp7LgVu8KZ8hDc-wKLjLE7wjOs7g
241
103
MS Paint IDE
https://ms-paint-i.de/
74
SSH quoting
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/ssh-quoting.html
224
32
Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018)
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/
222
69
NymphCast – Open-source Chromecast Alternative
https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast/
213
64
Lisbon has shared dissident info with repressive regimes for years
https://www.politico.eu/article/lisbon-portugal-dissidents-personal-data-repressive-regimes/
203
139
Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at CERN
https://newatlas.com/physics/charm-meson-particle-matter-antimatter/
198
94
Burnout from an Organizational Perspective
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/burnout_from_an_organizational_perspective
192
Containers are tents
https://increment.com/containers/containers-vs-vms/
180
61
D3 7.0
https://github.com/d3/d3/releases/tag/v7.0.0
176
125
A few thoughts on Fuchsia security
https://blog.cr0.org/2021/06/a-few-thoughts-on-fuchsia-security.html
170
48
A popular household fern may be the first known eusocial plant
http://blog.pnas.org/2021/06/a-popular-household-fern-may-be-the-first-known-eusocial-plant/
147
27
Subatomic particle seen changing to antiparticle and back for the first time
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-06-08-subatomic-particle-seen-changing-antiparticle-and-back-first-time
129
41
Reverse Engineering Bumble’s API (2020)
https://blog.securityevaluators.com/reverse-engineering-bumbles-api-a2a0d39b3a87
44
Refinement Culture (2020)
https://paulskallas.substack.com/p/refinement-culture
57
BuzzFeed News Has Won Its First Pulitzer Prize
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/pulitzer-prize-buzzfeed-news-won-china-detention-camps
121
Translating Quake 3 into Rust (2020)
https://immunant.com/blog/2020/01/quake3/
116
31
My first Z80 assembly language program
https://nanochess.org/notebook.html
33
The PsychDOS Desktop Environment
https://psychoslinux.gitlab.io/DOS/INDEX.HTM
107
78
Diabetes Drug Metformin Reduces All-Cause Mortality and Diseases of Aging (2017)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28802803/
96
Hilton's 1967 plan for a space hotel
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/hilton-hotel-on-moon-scn-cmd/index.html
95
30
The Rise and Fall of Planet Hollywood
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a36439327/planet-hollywood-origin-story-history-interview/
92
299
The Electrification of Everything
https://www.wsj.com/articles/electrification-of-everything-11620843173
91
29
Making invisible glue code first-class
https://blog.metaobject.com/2021/06/glue-dark-matter-of-software.html?m=1
90
12
1992: Silverwolf
https://if50.substack.com/p/1992-silverwolf
50
Beware of Tight Feedback Loops (2020)
https://brianlui.dog/2020/05/10/beware-of-tight-feedback-loops/
89
58
Lesser Known Terminal Editors
https://codeberg.org/CoopCoding/Lesser-Known-Terminal-Editors
85
Open Source and Mental Health
https://www.redox-os.org/news/open-source-mental-health/
80
Scientists find second ‘short sleep’ gene (2019)
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/08/415261/after-10-year-search-scientists-find-second-short-sleep-gene
82
Multicore OCaml: May 2021
https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-may-2021/7990
79
22
Glue: The Dark Matter of Software
https://blog.metaobject.com/2021/06/glue-dark-matter-of-software.html
23
VW says data breach at vendor impacted 3.3M people in North America
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/vw-says-data-breach-vendor-impacted-33-million-people-north-america-2021-06-11/
76
39
Supernumerary Robotic Limbs
http://darbelofflab.mit.edu/robotics-research/supernumerary-robotic-limbs-srl/
71
Silent Data Corruptions at Scale
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2021/06/silent-data-corruptions-at-scale.html
13
The Fixed Point: Laziness, Recursion and Fixed Points in Haskell
https://rebeccaskinner.net/posts/2021-06-09-getting-to-the-fixed-point.html
Etymology of the Word “Lord”
https://www.etymonline.com/word/lord
68
8
The SO_LINGER page, or: why is my TCP not reliable (2009)
https://blog.netherlabs.nl/articles/2009/01/18/the-ultimate-so_linger-page-or-why-is-my-tcp-not-reliable
88
Everyone Has JavaScript, Right?
https://kryogenix.org/code/browser/everyonehasjs.html
67
51
California homeowners made more money in equity than workers made in income
https://twitter.com/samdman95/status/1403466439688790016
