1017
707
All public GitHub code was used in training Copilot
https://twitter.com/NoraDotCodes/status/1412741339771461635
5 years ago
818
577
We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
https://caretaker.com/blog/we-replaced-rental-brokers-with-software-and-filled-200-vacant-apartments
607
89
Building a data team at a mid-stage startup
https://erikbern.com/2021/07/07/the-data-team-a-short-story.html
582
191
The Greatest Regex Trick Ever (2014)
http://rexegg.com/regex-best-trick.html
549
212
Google Internal Comics
https://goomics.net/
501
386
Juul bought an entire issue of a scholarly journal
https://prospect.org/health/juul-taking-academic-corruption-to-new-level/
417
210
Compiling Rust is NP-hard
https://niedzejkob.p4.team/rust-np/
354
233
Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zealand to work remotely
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-exec-reportedly-working-remote-after-opposing-it-for-staff-2021-7
326
207
List of Special Elevator Modes
https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_elevator_special_modes
325
68
What does 100% mean in CSS? (2020)
https://wattenberger.com/blog/css-percents
321
250
EU draft exempts private jets, cargo from jet fuel tax
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2231434-eu-draft-exempts-private-jets-cargo-from-jet-fuel-tax
297
61
Difftastic: Syntax-aware structured diff tool
https://github.com/wilfred/difftastic
284
120
A better business model for video folks
https://streambus.com/
262
224
Sports Owners Use Their Teams to Avoid Millions in Taxes
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-billionaire-playbook-how-sports-owners-use-their-teams-to-avoid-millions-in-taxes
255
166
Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN1djPMooVY&t=0s
254
335
California exodus is a myth, UC research project finds
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/California-exodus-is-just-a-myth-massive-UC-16301134.php
249
261
You need Software Developers to believe in your project (2020)
https://iism.org/article/you-need-software-developers-to-believe-in-your-project-45
231
333
Mozilla rolls out DoH to Canadian users of Firefox
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/firefox-by-default-dns-over-https-rollout-in-canada/
229
164
Functools – The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python
https://martinheinz.dev/blog/52
226
119
Apple's camera design choices from the iPhone 6S Plus to the 12 Pro Max [pdf]
https://www.systemplus.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/SPR21553_Camera-Module-Comparison-Vol.-2-iPhone-Evolution_Sample.pdf
221
157
A phone the FBI sold to criminals
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7b4gg/anom-phone-arcaneos-fbi-backdoor
213
92
Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds
https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/08/cancer-death-rates-2021/
121
How JavaScript Works: deep dive into call, apply, and bind
https://blog.sessionstack.com/how-javascript-works-deep-dive-into-call-apply-and-bind-415f6729c902
156
China’s gene giant harvests data from millions of women worldwide
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-china-bgi-dna/
202
39
Hoard-of-bitfonts: bitmap fonts from disused operating systems
https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts
193
70
Sub-zero water splitting marks a new dawn for solar hydrogen production
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/sub-zero-water-splitting-marks-a-new-dawn-for-solar-hydrogen-production/4013887.article
“Cat Person” and Me
https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/07/cat-person-kristen-roupenian-viral-story-about-me.html
189
232
Video tutorials now on PeerTube
https://solvespace.com/forum.pl?action=viewthread&parent=3756&tt=1625649760
182
155
A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight (2016)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01356
180
52
The Cookbook and Home Economics Collection
https://archive.org/details/cbk?&sort=-downloads&page=1
178
201
Twitter begins hiring to comply with India’s new rules
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/twitter-appoints-india-interim-compliance-exec-fill-other-jobs-soon-2021-07-08/
171
183
China urges its people to struggle. Some say no
https://www.economist.com/china/2021/07/03/china-urges-its-people-to-struggle-some-say-no
170
110
I made a mistake with Terraform and Azure made it worse
https://www.craigstuntz.com/posts/2021-07-08-how-i-made-a-giant-mistake-with-terraform.html
168
67
Birds are dying in the United States and no one knows why
https://www.dw.com/en/birds-are-dying-in-the-united-states-and-no-one-knows-why/a-58163063
167
149
Why geothermal isn't ubiquitous and how it might get that way
https://austinvernon.eth.link/blog/geothermal.html
148
Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/angampora-sri-lanka-martial-art
145
105
TimeTrack Raspberry Pi
https://city-of-bloomington.github.io/timetrack/
36
Inside a 20-Watt Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier from Apollo
http://www.righto.com/2021/07/inside-20-watt-traveling-wave-tube.html
142
43
EleutherAI One Year Retrospective
https://blog.eleuther.ai/year-one/
138
218
US-Canada heatwave 'virtually impossible' without warming
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57751918
134
80
The historical significance of DEC and the PDP-7, -8, -11 and VAX
https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/81341.html
133
27
Rust GCC back end was officially accepted into the compiler
https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-team/issues/442
83
CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to guest WiFi
http://coffeeshopwifi.com/
123
26
Phorge: A community-maintained fork of Phabricator
https://we.phorge.it/source/phorge/
31
Show HN: A simple lazy Python calculation engine, with spreadsheet demo
https://github.com/bsdz/calcengine
122
87
The life of a private tutor (2020)
https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/10/09/first-class-flights-chauffeurs-and-bribery-the-secret-life-of-a-private-tutor
117
13
BGP in a Nutshell
https://www.bodunhu.com/blog/posts/bgp-in-a-nutshell/
116
115
Launch HN: Hera (YC S21) – macOS app to prepare, join and take notes in meetings
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27771091
7
Rules of Storytelling for Fundraising
https://www.nfx.com/post/23-rules-storytelling-fundraising/
108
45
We Built a C++ Rendering Engine for the Web
https://opendesign.dev/blog/the-story-of-open-design
103
38
Reconstructing Roman Industrial Engineering
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/reconstructing-roman-industrial-engineering/
102
107
pfSense CE 2.5.2
https://www.servethehome.com/pfsense-ce-2-5-2-released-with-updates/
100
59
Out of Africa's midlife crisis
https://razib.substack.com/p/out-of-africas-midlife-crisis
99
More than 30 states sue Google over 'extravagant' fees in Play store
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/07/1013934643/more-than-30-states-sue-google-over-extravagant-fees-in-google-play-store
94
Understanding REvil: The Ransomware Gang Behind the Kaseya Attack
https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/revil-threat-actors/
81
People may one day drill for copper as they now drill for oil
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/07/07/people-may-one-day-drill-for-copper-as-they-now-drill-for-oil
37
Google's “court jester” quits, releases 14 years of previously-internal comics
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/google-cartoonist-manu-cornet-quits-company-after-14-years-2021-7
91
Libre-SoC 180nm Power ISA v3.0 ASIC Submitted to IMEC MPW
https://openpowerfoundation.org/libre-soc-180nm-power-isa-asic-submitted-to-imec-for-fabrication/
82
58
Tenacity: Floss Audacity Fork
https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity
62
Analysts corroborate rumors that upcoming MacBook Pro will ditch the Touch Bar
https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/07/touch-bar-macbook-pro-rumors-canceled/
Cellphone radiation is harmful, but few want to believe it: researcher
https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/research-highlights/moskowitz-cellphone-radiation-is-harmful-but-few-want-to-believe-it/