741
262
Something weird is happening on Facebook
https://www.politicalorphans.com/something-weird-is-happening-on-facebook/
4 years ago
589
437
How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/project-management-in-tech
576
199
Prevent Google from mangling search result links when click/copying on Firefox
https://gist.github.com/radiantly/e1c7319214c77fa007f323fc56cd0239
474
288
Imgur Acquired by Medialab
https://imgur.com/gallery/We6yCM2
472
130
The Mom Test – How to talk to customers
https://sandro.volpee.de/the-mom-test-summary-validate-ideas
392
136
Show HN: Tidy Viewer – a cross-platform CSV pretty printer for viewer enjoyment
https://github.com/alexhallam/tv
★ 2.1k Rust MIT– 4 years ago
359
390
IMGZ – Paid image sharing
https://imgz.org
348
320
U.S. to open program to replace Huawei equipment in U.S. networks
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-open-program-replace-huawei-equipment-us-networks-2021-09-27/
335
235
I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2
https://operand.ca/2021/09/27/how_i_bricked_then_recovered_my_remarkable_2.html
296
622
Europe’s energy crisis is about to go global as gas prices soar
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-27/europe-s-energy-crisis-is-about-to-go-global-as-gas-prices-soar
268
119
Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (2013)
https://web.archive.org/web/20170603123809/http://www.tuicool.com:80/articles/7niyym
263
152
What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2020/10/what-john-von-neumann-really-did-at-los-alamos.html
254
137
Goldman Sachs, Ozy Media and a $40M conference call gone wrong
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/26/business/media/ozy-media-goldman-sachs.html
253
59
Telling the Bees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees
247
191
Domain-Driven Design
https://verraes.net/2021/09/what-is-domain-driven-design-ddd/
234
350
Lockdown, distance learning likely to increase social class achievement gap
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01212-7
231
103
Teaching a cheap ethernet switch new tricks (2019)
https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/dell-switch-hacking
223
151
New credit card rules in India: recurring card payments to be affected
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/banking/recurring-card-payments-to-be-affected-as-new-credit-debit-card-rules-kick-in-from-october-1/articleshow/86552869.cms
213
36
Show HN: SQLite Playground
https://sqlime.org/
208
293
Bitfinex just spent $23.7M in fees to make a single Ethereum transaction
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/118753/bitfinex-just-spent-23-7-million-in-fees-to-make-one-ethereum-transaction
43
On Solitude
https://eriktorenberg.substack.com/p/on-solitude
192
332
Pumps run dry at gas stations in Britain
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-gas-stations-are-running-dry-english-cities-retailers-association-says-2021-09-27/
70
‘Impossible’ particle discovery adds key piece to the strong force puzzle
https://www.quantamagazine.org/impossible-particle-discovery-adds-key-piece-to-the-strong-force-puzzle-20210927/
187
246
What does my engineering manager do all day?
https://parkjoon.medium.com/what-does-my-engineering-manager-do-all-day-ebdc37c45d8
186
Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
https://status.signal.org/
180
Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervision tools
https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/pausing-instagram-kids
112
Apple Disables FaceID if you change the screen yourself [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7P7Ytl7DGM
171
95
DoS attacks against my online game
https://hookrace.net/blog/dos-attacks-against-online-game/
170
What if Git worked with programming languages?
https://github.com/GavinMendelGleason/syntactic_versioning
★ 100 – 4 years ago
166
67
SQLite Archive Files (2018)
https://www.sqlite.org/sqlar.html
165
113
We deserve better than Confluence and Notion
https://blog.luap.info/we-deserve-better-than-confluence-and-notion.html
163
33
The traceroute hand is stealing your data
https://twitter.com/outoutxyz/status/1404411770534572032
158
6
ETH: $23M transaction fee sent to a miner
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x2c9931793876db33b1a9aad123ad4921dfb9cd5e59dbb78ce78f277759587115
156
86
Amazon Has to Disclose How Its Algorithms Judge Workers Per a New California Law
https://interestingengineering.com/amazon-has-to-disclose-how-its-algorithms-judge-workers-per-a-new-california-law
142
New work sheds light on the Etruscans, who may have founded Rome
https://www.science.org/content/article/they-may-have-founded-rome-then-vanished-work-sheds-light-mysterious-etruscans
132
63
3D Printing – High Security Key
https://github.com/feelsong/3d-printing-high-security-key
★ 147 OpenSCAD – 4 years ago
131
60
Lite XL: A lightweight text editor written in Lua
https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-xl
★ 6.1k Lua MIT– 4 years ago
128
120
AT&T says it has big problems. A T-Mobile salesman showed me how big
https://www.zdnet.com/article/at-t-says-it-has-big-problems-a-t-mobile-salesman-showed-me-how-big/
125
50
Pinball Fantasies assembly source code
https://github.com/historicalsource/pinballfantasies
★ 170 Assembly – 4 years ago
121
41
Procedurally generating a rounded box mesh
https://wwwtyro.net/2021/09/24/rounded-box.html
114
US military eyes prototype mobile nuclear reactor in Idaho
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-science-technology-business-us-department-of-defense-8e719afd9538b14cb8aa0c4031deb31b
116
108
Show HN: Tape It – iOS recording app for musicians
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28669373
109
55
China power crunch spreads, shutting factories and dimming growth outlook
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-power-crunch-begins-weigh-economic-outlook-2021-09-27/
106
Japan breaks world record for fastest internet speed
https://www.freethink.com/technology/fastest-internet-speed
100
JSON5 Data Interchange Format
https://json5.org/
98
28
Ask HN: Do you also alternate between super productive and slow days?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28672617
97
10
Spy on Python down to the Linux kernel level
https://p403n1x87.github.io/spy-on-python-down-to-the-linux-kernel-level.html
38
High-performance garbage collection for C++ V8 (2020)
https://v8.dev/blog/high-performance-cpp-gc
91
20
Laboratory Notebook Skills [pdf]
https://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/physics/students/labs/skills/notebookskills.pdf
90
24
Terfenol-D
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terfenol-D
It’s not easy to control police use of tech, even with a law
https://www.wired.com/story/hard-control-police-tech-law/
89
40
Does low cholesterol cause cognitive impairment? Part II
https://peterattiamd.com/does-low-cholesterol-cause-cognitive-impairment-part-ii/
87
15
We Put a Blockchain on Google Sheets
https://github.com/nalinbhardwaj/shiit-coin
★ 120 JavaScript MIT– 4 years ago
Migrating from App Engine to Google Kubernetes Engine
https://ipinfo.io/blog/app-engine-to-google-kubernetes-engine/
80
TikTok has reached 1B MAUs
https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-gb/1-billion-people-on-tiktok-uk
77
The cybernetics scare and the origins of the Internet (2009)
https://balticworlds.com/the-cybernetics-scare-and-the-origins-of-the-internet/
32
Intergalactic jump inspired by science-fiction movies
https://starrior.com
73
31
Cloud Run quietly swaps HOME env var in Docker
https://chanind.github.io/2021/09/27/cloud-run-home-env-change.html
21
Facebook Is a Hostile Foreign Power
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/facebook-authoritarian-hostile-foreign-power/620168/
72
How plastic can rust, sort of
https://dfarq.homeip.net/how-plastic-can-rust-sort-of/
71
37
Twitter launches Bitcoin tips, NFTs, recorded Spaces, creator fund and more
https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/23/twitter-accelerates-again-with-bitcoin-tips-nfts-recorded-spaces-creator-fund-and-more/
56
Heroku's Managed DB's have been down for 2+ hours
https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2361
68
IBM Logo Manual (1983)
https://archive.org/details/ibm_logo_manual
11
GnuCash 4.7
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/releases/tag/4.7
★ 4.2k C – 4 years ago
65
The digital death of collecting
https://kylechayka.substack.com/p/essay-the-digital-death-of-collecting
64
34
It's not your age that's slowing your metabolism, new research says
https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_6393a3cab16cabbe7bfa1e77505a6ef8
Benchmark results: Cassandra 4.0, 3.11, Scylla 4.4 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrA-Exd_qI4
61
49
Neuromorphic electronics based on copying and pasting the brain
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-021-00646-1
Is Competition for Losers?
https://rugpullindex.com/blog#IsCompetitionForLosers
