1859
777
Willingness to look stupid
https://danluu.com/look-stupid/
4 years ago
695
432
Beyond Smart
http://paulgraham.com/smart.html
578
217
Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/21/fed-to-ban-policymakers-from-owning-individual-stocks-restrict-trading-following-controversy.html
509
283
California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-21/california-tried-to-save-the-nation-from-the-misery-of-tax-filing-then-intuit-stepped-in
465
169
We Just Gave $155k to Open Source Maintainers
https://blog.sentry.io/2021/10/21/we-just-gave-154-999-dollars-and-89-cents-to-open-source-maintainers/
439
525
Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found security flaw in state site
https://missouriindependent.com/2021/10/21/parson-doubles-down-on-push-to-prosecute-reporter-who-found-security-flaw-in-state-site/
389
104
Rust 1.56.0 and Rust 2021
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/10/21/Rust-1.56.0.html
344
158
Alibaba Open Source XuanTie RISC-V Cores, Introduces In-House Armv9 Server Chip
https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/6413/alibaba-open-source-xuantie-risc-v-cores-introduces-in-house-armv9-server-chip/
341
139
Forget Twitter Threads; Write a Blog Post Instead
https://kevq.uk/forget-twitter-threads-write-a-blog-post-instead/
338
74
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi has died
https://twitter.com/sbkaufman/status/1450946151352471553
324
148
Mastodon: AGPLv3 FOSS social network server
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
315
274
Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and plastic
https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(21)00465-3
302
231
Decreasing service fees on subscriptions to 15%
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/10/evolving-business-model.html
287
125
Yamaha DX7 Technical Analysis
https://ajxs.me/blog/Yamaha_DX7_Technical_Analysis.html
258
276
Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer
https://theconversation.com/online-abuse-banning-anonymous-social-media-accounts-is-not-the-answer-170224
254
62
Facebook kept its own oversight board in the dark on program for VIP users
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/21/tech/facebook-cross-check-oversight-board/index.html
251
175
Comparing ClickHouse to PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB for time-series data
https://blog.timescale.com/blog/what-is-clickhouse-how-does-it-compare-to-postgresql-and-timescaledb-and-how-does-it-perform-for-time-series-data/
243
394
Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with YouTube
https://www.axios.com/roku-youtube-tv-google-unable-to-strike-deal-de879a12-079b-4329-a27f-5692c19bea2c.html
201
Goto (2007)
https://beej.us/guide/bgc/html/split/goto.html
223
118
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says
https://spectrum.ieee.org/stop-calling-everything-ai-machinelearning-pioneer-says
210
40
Adopting Erlang
https://adoptingerlang.org
209
41
An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10756
203
78
Show HN: vGPU and SR-IOV on consumer GPUs
https://arccompute.com/blog/libvfio-commodity-gpu-multiplexing/
184
51
Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing
https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484272169
180
99
Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion
https://www.potion.so/
160
143
People who jump to conclusions show other kinds of thinking errors
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-who-jump-to-conclusions-show-other-kinds-of-thinking-errors/
159
242
Banks, gangsters and the strange resurgence of cash
https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/10/18/billions-of-banknotes-are-missing-why-does-nobody-care
149
88
Launch HN: Rainforest QA (YC S12) – No-Code UI Test Automation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28947689
144
122
What do people want in a co-founder?
https://blog.ycombinator.com/what-do-people-want-in-a-co-founder/
33
The communications systems at the US Central Command headquarters
https://www.electrospaces.net/2021/04/the-communications-equipment-at-us.html
79
Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08318
137
282
Greater than 99% consensus on human caused climate change in the literature
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2966
133
157
Uber and Lyft don't save money, time, or the planet
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-10-20/taxi-uber-lyft-rideshare-cost
130
Goggles: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web [pdf]
https://brave.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/goggles.pdf
121
105
Dutch forensic lab says it has decoded Tesla's driving data
https://www.reuters.com/article/autos-tesla-netherlands-data-idUSKBN2HB1D3
89
FlixMobility Acquires Greyhound to Expand U.S. Intercity Bus Services
https://corporate.flixbus.com/flixmobility-acquires-greyhound-to-expand-us-intercity-bus-services/
117
193
How can we break our addiction to contempt?
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/arthur-brooks/
48
Composability in Julia: Implementing Deep Equilibrium Models via Neural ODEs
https://julialang.org/blog/2021/10/DEQ/
114
91
Original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick
https://lithub.com/check-out-the-original-1851-reviews-of-moby-dick/
34
How to get useful answers to your questions
https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/10/21/how-to-get-useful-answers-to-your-questions/
112
182
BYD has reportedly received 10 GWh of orders from Tesla for LFP batteries
https://pushevs.com/2021/10/21/byd-has-reportedly-received-10-gwh-of-orders-from-tesla-for-lfp-batteries/
India Counting Down to 1B Doses
https://www.cowin.gov.in/
111
36
Not Belonging to the World: Hannah Arendt Holds Firm
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/not-belonging-world
30
Recoll: A desktop full-text search tool
https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
109
63
Apple sends DMCA takedown for IP address
https://twitter.com/RayRedacted/status/1450712865552412675
27
Building the Brex API
https://building.brex.com/building-the-brex-api-52dcb26cacc8?gi=a8b7e7a3a9bc
101
Worldcoin
https://worldcoin.org/
102
46
Machu Picchu was built over major fault zones (2019)
https://www.science.org/content/article/machu-picchu-was-built-over-major-fault-zones-now-researchers-think-they-know-why
57
GitHub degraded performance – resolved
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/m78sypncxsdw
11
Triumph at Saturn [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY-hQJ5pMd4
23
OWASP top 10 change visualization from 2004 to now
https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/7574790/
95
New 16-inch MBP with M1 Max to feature High Power Mode for intensive workloads
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/21/new-macbook-pros-high-power-mode/
92
103
'Speed friending' events
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-21/finding-friends-as-an-adult-through-friend-request-events/100551648
1
YouTube will be removed from Roku as of December 9th – existing users unaffected
https://9to5google.com/2021/10/21/youtube-will-be-removed-from-roku-as-of-december-9-existing-users-unaffected/
68
Let’s Talk about PAKE (2018)
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/10/19/lets-talk-about-pake/
54
Unconventional Sorting Algorithms
https://codingkaiser.blog/2021/10/20/most-bizzare-sorting-algorithms-you-will-ever-see/
Cloudflare’s Pace of Innovation
https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-secret-to-cloudflare-pace-of-innovation/
85
64
Polyglot programming and the benefits of mastering several languages
https://www.stxnext.com/blog/polyglot-programming/
14
YouTube is hiding comments mentioning “OpenStreetMap”
https://vimeo.com/637512956
83
28
North and West Africa: Interpol report on human trafficking for organ removal
https://www.interpol.int/News-and-Events/News/2021/North-and-West-Africa-INTERPOL-report-highlights-human-trafficking-for-organ-removal
21
The Uselessness of Useful Knowledge
https://www.quantamagazine.org/science-has-entered-a-new-era-of-alchemy-good-20211020/
80
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin wants to scan eyeballs in exchange for crypto
https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/21/sam-altmans-worldcoin-wants-to-scan-every-humans-eyeball-and-give-them-crypto-in-exchange/
60
ISO3103 Tea Preparation [pdf]
https://www.sis.se/api/document/preview/80019001/
Cannabis and Male Fertility: A Systematic Review
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30916627/
135
Tesla is outrunning the supply chain crunch
https://www.axios.com/tesla-income-supply-chain-chip-shortage-13de2644-704d-426f-a510-f667de93f1da.html
71
Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD
https://klarasystems.com/articles/explaining-top1-on-freebsd/