630
227
Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open/
4 years ago
586
298
Avoiding bot detection: How to scrape the web without getting blocked?
https://github.com/niespodd/browser-fingerprinting
526
267
It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is
https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/28/clintons-ghost/#cornucopia-concordance
491
79
CT Scan of a Pumpkin
http://randomfootage.homestead.com/pumpkinctscan.html
474
216
How learned helplessness happens in engineering teams
https://www.okayhq.com/blog/status-quo-is-so-hard-to-change-in-engineering-teams
441
144
Get started making music
https://learningmusic.ableton.com/
436
285
Bash functions are better than I thought
https://cuddly-octo-palm-tree.com/posts/2021-10-31-better-bash-functions/
318
48
Substantially more monarch butterflies have arrived in California to overwinter
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/far-more-monarch-butterflies-in-ca-this-year/
297
72
A completely-from-scratch hobby operating system
https://github.com/klange/toaruos
292
46
A developer's guide to programatically overcome fear of failure
https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/engineers-guide-on-the-importance-of-failure/
284
418
All Applications for Nuclear Energy at COP26 Rejected
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Message-Nuclear-must-be-represented-at-COP26,-says
275
202
Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29060798
255
81
Show HN: Use your iPhone's camera to see any photo on your wall
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/canvify/id1591755222
248
323
Truths about video game stories
https://bottomfeeder.substack.com/p/six-truths-about-video-game-stories
270
Oracle's JDK 17 – Free Again for Commercial Use
https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/10/oracle-jdk-free-again/
243
169
Roblox has been down for days and it’s not because of Chipotle
https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/30/22754107/roblox-down-outage-chipotle-server-issues-status
235
80
Repeat Yourself, a Lot
https://tomtunguz.com/why-you-should-repeat-yourself/
186
178
I Miss the Old Internet (2019)
http://misc-stuff.terraaeon.com/articles/miss-old-internet.html/
174
109
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative sunsetting science research platform meta.org
https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475
131
Covid-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34684596/
173
74
Sysexits – preferable exit codes for programs
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysexits
168
133
Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air (Revised, Community Edition)
https://climate.lifeitself.us/without-hot-air/
153
95
The most powerful MRI scanner in the world delivers its first images
https://www.cea.fr/english/Pages/News/premieres-images-irm-iseult-2021.aspx
147
78
Containers vs. pods – taking a deeper look
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/containers-vs-pods/
145
129
Attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks with AI, then talk back
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/are-we-on-the-verge-of-chatting-with-whales/
140
43
Live Not by Lies (1974)
https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies
139
231
Zillow has listed 93% of the hundreds of Phoenix homes it owns at a loss
https://www.businessinsider.com/zillow-offers-ibuyer-sell-phoenix-homes-at-a-loss-2021-10
136
57
Perfecting GLFW for Zig, and finding lurking undefined behavior that went unnot
https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/perfecting-glfw-for-zig-and-finding-undefined-behavior
134
44
Show HN: Sending and Receiving SMS via APRS (VHF Amateur Radio)
https://smsgte.org/ug-sending-messages/
Watermelons
https://seasonal.substack.com/p/watermelons
70
We are seeing continued DDoS attacks against our infrastructure
https://status.fastmail.com/
127
38
The strange path of accepting how your brain works
https://alexanderell.is/posts/limitations/
125
93
The Value of Nothing: Capital versus Growth
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/08/the-value-of-nothing-capital-versus-growth/
122
31
Curated list of userscripts
https://github.com/bvolpato/awesome-userscripts
111
56
Lumina Desktop Environment
https://lumina-desktop.org/
92
Which is not Posix
https://hynek.me/til/which-not-posix/
108
40
Encrypting Postgres Data at Rest in Kubernetes
https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/encrypting-postgres-data-at-rest-in-kubernetes
Death by Bureaucracy
https://www.wethecitizens.net/death-by-bureaucracy/
103
Unified Patent Court is more expensive and an SME killer
https://ffii.org/unified-patent-court-is-100x-more-expensive-and-an-sme-killer-europe-is-commiting-an-economic-suicide/
98
26
The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits (2014)
https://grantland.com/features/the-rise-of-nintendo-video-games-history/
30
A read query can write to disk: a Postgres story
https://www.mutuallyhuman.com/blog/how-a-read-query-can-write-to-disk-a-postgresql-story/
97
100
Ask HN: Will there ever be a vendor agnostic GPU interface?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29058681
94
8
Paper Grain in Origami
https://origami.kosmulski.org/blog/2021-10-31-paper-grain-in-origami
90
41
The Metaverse Is Bullshit
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-metaverse-is-bullshit/
Mind Grenade (2019)
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/MindGrenade/
88
67
The economics of pumpkin patches
https://thehustle.co/the-economics-of-pumpkin-patches/
83
The Benefits of Iframe Based Development
https://stakedy.com/long/the-hidden-benefits-of-iframe-based-development.html
141
Seeding oceans with volcanic ash could be new tool to tackle climate change
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/seeding-oceans-with-volcanic-ash-could-be-new-tool-to-tackle-climate-change/4012523.article
24
Pianoplayer: Automatic fingering generator for piano scores
https://github.com/marcomusy/pianoplayer
61
Ask HN: Been in the IT industry for 10 years with nothing to show for it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29056426
5
A Field Guide to Japanese Mojibake
https://www.dampfkraft.com/mojibake-field-guide.html
66
Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm
84
Against Dog Ownership (2020)
https://mattlakeman.org/2020/03/21/against-dog-ownership/