top 20 hacker news stories for 2021-10-17

Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

https://obsidian.md/

4 years ago

624 upvotes – 353 comments

Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/100-things-every-web-developer-should-know/

4 years ago

615 upvotes – 420 comments

Roger Hui has died

http://jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2021-October/059091.html

4 years ago

563 upvotes – 44 comments

HTTP is obsolete – it's time for the distributed, permanent web (2015)

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNhFJjGcMPqpuYfxL62VVB9528NXqDNMFXiqN5bgFYiZ1/its-time-for-the-permanent-web.html

4 years ago

510 upvotes – 325 comments

L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source

https://l0phtcrack.gitlab.io/

4 years ago

439 upvotes – 142 comments

It's been 42 years since 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' answered the ultimate question

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/17/1046593657/its-been-42-years-since-the-hitchhikers-guide-answered-the-ultimate-question

4 years ago

418 upvotes – 131 comments

Web Browser Engineering

https://browser.engineering/

4 years ago

409 upvotes – 63 comments

NixOS on Framework Laptop

http://kvark.github.io/linux/framework/2021/10/17/framework-nixos.html

4 years ago

358 upvotes – 245 comments

Python stands to lose its GIL, and gain a lot of speed

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3637073/python-stands-to-lose-its-gil-and-gain-a-lot-of-speed.html

4 years ago

343 upvotes – 345 comments

Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the seeking of a playing video

https://plopdown.video/blog/netflix-open-web-failure

4 years ago

319 upvotes – 195 comments

Why not “Why not WireGuard?” (2020)

https://tailscale.com/blog/why-not-why-not-wireguard/

4 years ago

256 upvotes – 101 comments

Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux

https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq

4 years ago

252 upvotes – 127 comments

A framework for grading your performance on programming interview problems

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gy9cmPwNhZvola7kqnfY3DElk7PYrz2ARpaCODTp8Go/edit

4 years ago

251 upvotes – 232 comments

An underwater mystery on Canada's coast

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211013-an-underwater-mystery-on-canadas-coast

4 years ago

228 upvotes – 66 comments

Alan Kay on the context and catalysts of personal computing

https://www.notion.so/blog/alan-kay

4 years ago

222 upvotes – 32 comments

The booming business of knitting together the world’s electricity grids

https://www.economist.com/business/2021/10/16/the-booming-business-of-knitting-together-the-worlds-electricity-grids

4 years ago

213 upvotes – 272 comments

Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, remember everything you do

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22725894/facebook-augmented-reality-ar-glasses-ai-systems-ego4d-research

4 years ago

189 upvotes – 131 comments

Go: Don't Change the Libraries in 1.18

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/48918

4 years ago

183 upvotes – 122 comments

Firecracker MicroVMs

https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask a Librarian

https://ask.loc.gov/

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 34 comments
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