1278
496
Reddit’s disrespectful design
https://ognjen.io/reddits-disrespectful-design/
5 years ago
939
144
I spent 5 years writing my own operating system
https://github.com/halfer53/winix
709
498
Reviews of Android TV launcher after Google added ads to the homescreen
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.tvlauncher&showAllReviews=true
609
245
YouTube takes down Xinjiang videos, forcing rights group to seek alternative
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-youtube-takes-down-xinjiang-videos-forces-rights-group-seek-2021-06-25/
600
234
CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating broad array of diseases
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/06/26/1009817539/he-inherited-a-devastating-disease-a-crispr-gene-editing-breakthrough-stopped-it
572
304
Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment
https://stundin.is/grein/13627/key-witness-in-assange-case-admits-to-lies-in-indictment/
478
480
So you want to build a house more efficiently
https://austinvernon.eth.link/blog/construction.html
419
267
The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media
https://restofworld.org/2021/palestine-social-media-silence/2
412
203
Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/whatever-happened-to-ui-affordances/
389
270
Parse, Don't Validate (2019)
https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/
359
248
Functors and Monads for People Who Have Read Too Many “Tutorials”
http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2958
328
349
Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2
https://tomtalks.blog/2021/06/microsoft-teams-2-0-will-use-half-the-memory-dropping-electron-for-edge-webview2/
297
26
Information Theory: A Tutorial Introduction
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05968
280
130
Microsoft admits to signing rootkit malware in supply-chain fiasco
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-admits-to-signing-rootkit-malware-in-supply-chain-fiasco/
273
293
Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27644387
268
189
Some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity
https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/26/22550981/carl-bergstrom-joe-bak-coleman-biologists-ecologists-social-media-risk-humanity-research-academics
251
74
Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting (2015)
https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/
250
122
When it comes to Git history, less is more
https://brennan.io/2021/06/15/git-less-is-more/
237
31
The Book of Secret Knowledge
https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge
25
One bee has cloned itself millions of times over the past three decades
https://www.livescience.com/bee-creates-perfect-clone-army.html
223
246
Ask HN: Words of encouragement for someone lost in life?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27637759
208
132
Using Paper for Everyday Tasks
https://christine.website/blog/gtd-on-paper-2021-06-13
197
US Fed Official Calls Tether a ‘Challenge’ to Financial Stability
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/us-fed-official-calls-tether-a-challenge-to-financial-stability-2021-06-25
192
111
Cloudproxy – hide your scrapers IP behind the cloud
https://github.com/claffin/cloudproxy
75
I am Palestinian. Here’s how Israel silences us on social media
https://restofworld.org/2021/palestine-social-media-silence/
170
277
Why did we ever think a student's first programming language didn't matter?
https://m-cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/253393-why-did-we-ever-think-the-first-programming-language-didnt-matter/fulltext
169
181
Show HN: I’m an introvert – made an app to help maintain connections with people
http://cq.mtc.dev
159
124
Men are rapidly losing their close friends, poll finds
https://theweek.com/us/1001987/men-losing-close-friends
157
118
‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dragon-man-fossil-skull-may-represent-new-human-species-in-china
151
94
Immutability Changes Everything (2016)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2884038
148
60
Immutability is not enough (2016)
https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/six/immutability-is-not-enough
147
24
Play online chess with a real chess board
https://github.com/karayaman/Play-online-chess-with-real-chess-board
134
88
Cwtch: Decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging protocol
https://cwtch.im/
133
172
Why we don’t understand heavier-than-air flight
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2021/04/08/heres-why-we-dont-understand-heavier-than-air-flight/
34
Chris Avellone about why he “didn’t fight any of this”
https://chrisavellone.medium.com/its-come-to-this-chris-avellone-2fe5db836746
121
50
BLisp: A Statically Typed Lisp Like Language
https://ytakano.github.io/blisp/
112
11
I made Ben Eater's 8-bit breadboard computer Emulator in C++
https://github.com/0xhh/TinyE8
The school for sysadmins who can’t timesync good
https://libertysys.com.au/2016/09/the-school-for-sysadmins-who-cant-timesync-good-and-wanna-learn-to-do-other-stuff-good-too-part-1-the-problem-with-ntp/
104
80
Understanding thread stack sizes and how Alpine is different
https://ariadne.space/2021/06/25/understanding-thread-stack-sizes-and-how-alpine-is-different/
103
72
The slow rise of robots in the data center
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/caves-of-steel/
100
Quantum microscope can examine cells in unprecedented detail
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2280216-quantum-microscope-can-examine-cells-in-unprecedented-detail/
98
12
Surreal numbers (2014)
https://ianopolous.peergos.me/maths/surreal
22
Run fewer, better A/B tests
https://edoconti.medium.com/offline-policy-evaluation-run-fewer-better-a-b-tests-60ce8f93fa15
47
Nullfs: A virtual black hole file system that behaves like /dev/null
https://github.com/abbbi/nullfsvfs
93
91
Tax Planning 101: Buy, Borrow, Die
https://www.peoplestaxpage.org/buy-borrow-die
90
Focus vs Coordination
https://camhashemi.com/posts/focus-vs-coordination/
87
58
Garage Door Monitor
https://github.com/casspop/ohd
86
102
DUR: The Debian User Repository
https://dur.hunterwittenborn.com/