1031
747
The metaverse is bullshit
https://outline.com/DUdr8Y
4 years ago
531
205
Taking apart the 2010 Fisher Price re-released Music Box Record Player
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1454230585933631488
507
834
U.S. house prices are rising exponentially faster than income
https://www.realestatewitch.com/house-price-to-income-ratio-2021/
453
405
Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's (1991)
https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_workweek.html
427
112
Firefox 94 to start using EGL on Linux
https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2021/10/30/switching-the-linux-graphics-stack-from-glx-to-egl/
374
151
Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU performance boost
https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/10/27/raspberry-pi-4-achieves-vulkan-1-1-conformance-gets-up-to-60-gpu-performance-boost/
358
196
Fundamentals of Piano Practice
https://fundamentals-of-piano-practice.readthedocs.io/
323
75
Show HN: SectorLISP now fits in one sector
https://justine.lol/sectorlisp/
305
160
Async Ruby
https://brunosutic.com/blog/async-ruby
281
141
Programmers’ emotions
https://blog.sidebits.tech/programmers-emotions/
273
97
How to help a programming student get unstuck
https://offbyone.us/posts/how-to-help-a-student-get-unstuck/
261
131
The metaverse is already here, it's called the internet
https://canolcer.com/post/metaverse-is-already-here/
256
110
OpenWorm
https://github.com/openworm
226
134
This resume got me an interview
https://old.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/qhg5jo/this_resume_got_me_an_interview/
123
Google DNS at 010.010.010.010
https://010.010.010.010/
187
92
Roku releases IDK to allow consumers to develop applications for their Roku
https://blog.roku.com/developer/2021/10/26/idk
180
99
First confirmed hatchings of two California condor chicks from unfertilized eggs
https://stories.sandiegozoo.org/2021/10/28/san-diego-zoo-wildlife-alliance-conservation-scientists-report-first-confirmed-hatchings-of-two-california-condor-chicks-from-unfertilized-eggs/
179
161
How will MIDI 2.0 change music? (2020)
https://qz.com/1788828/how-will-midi-2-0-change-music/
148
macOS has become more reliable
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/10/29/how-macos-is-more-reliable-and-doesnt-need-reinstalling/
170
39
Tao: Facebook’s distributed data store for the social graph
https://www.micahlerner.com/2021/10/13/tao-facebooks-distributed-data-store-for-the-social-graph.html
153
50
Pentium on a 386 Motherboard
https://dependency-injection.com/pentium-on-a-386-motherboard/
149
118
Prague's Brutalist Buildings
https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/13210/best-brutalist-buildings-in-prague-czech-republic-socialist-modernist-architecture
320
Ask HN: If the Internet were redesigned today, what changes would you make?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29053266
82
Simple Code, High Performance [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge3aKEmZcqY
130
147
Ad Astra: The coming battle over space
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/11/ad-astra-the-coming-battle-over-space/
126
104
Edward Snowden on corporate media hiring surveillance state operatives and liars
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1454542964470996999
121
111
An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor
https://louwrentius.com/an-ode-to-the-10000-rpm-western-digital-velociraptor.html
120
133
US Robotics 56k Modems
https://www.usr.com/products/56k-dialup-modem/
107
12
Lidar reveals hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial centers
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/lidar-reveals-hundreds-of-long-lost-maya-and-olmec-ceremonial-centers/
105
62
The metaverse is not bullshit
https://primoh.net/no-the-metaverse-is-not-bs/
101
16
Rare, ancient Maya canoe found in Yucatan
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/rare-ancient-maya-canoe-found-mexicos-yucatan-2021-10-30/
100
74
Young people are leaving their jobs in record numbers and not going back
https://time.com/6111245/young-workers-quitting/
41
Study: Better sleep habits lead to better college grades (2019)
https://news.mit.edu/2019/better-sleep-better-grades-1001
Navy failures destroyed the Bonhomme Richard
https://gcaptain.com/fire-fire-fire-how-navy-failures-destroyed-the-uss-bonhomme-richard/
93
10
Aurora Forecast
https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast
29
Universal Android Debloater
https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater
91
38
Biometric and behavioural mass surveillance in EU Member States
https://www.greens-efa.eu/biometricsurveillance/
86
35
Vimconf 2021 – Oct 29, 30
https://www.vimconf.live/
80
77
My students never knew’: the lecturer who lived in a tent
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/oct/30/my-students-never-knew-the-lecturer-who-lived-in-a-tent
26
Ceefax from an old Raspberry Pi
http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2021/10/ceefax-from-an-old-raspberry-pi/
76
17
The first report of asexual reproduction in California condors
https://apnews.com/article/science-lifestyle-environment-and-nature-california-san-diego-681720b1602ab1a93792c7c1f68a9c54
Show HN: Running a simple local HTTP server in a web page
https://github.com/EtherDream/http-server-online
65
The Roll-Out of Windows 11 Is the Perfect Time to Decide to Switch to Linux
https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/windows-11-roll-out.html/
68
5
Beyond inductive datatypes: exploring Self types
https://github.com/kind-lang/Kind/blob/master/blog/1-beyond-inductive-datatypes.md
Raspberry Pi 4 achieves Vulkan 1.1 conformance, gets GPU performance boost