1130
513
Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI
4 years ago
876
66
Curves and Surfaces
https://ciechanow.ski/curves-and-surfaces/
811
315
Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89
https://www.brown.edu/academics/physics/news/2021/11/brown-physics-student-manfred-steiner-earns-phd-age-89
804
230
Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-the-key-to-gradual-automation/
589
458
Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/zillow-to-stop-flipping-homes-for-good-as-it-stands-to-lose-more-than-550-million-will-lay-off-a-quarter-of-staff-11635885027
567
364
The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft
https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-metaverse-is-already-here-its-minecraft-99c89ed8ba2
512
505
Trump’s new social media platform found using Mastodon code
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/10/trumps-new-social-media-platform-found-using-mastodon-code/
510
303
People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency
https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3318/research-people-prefer-friendliness-trustworthiness-in-teammates-over-skill-competency
451
403
Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if internal drive failed
https://bombich.com/blog/2021/05/19/beyond-bootable-backups-adapting-recovery-strategies-evolving-platform
428
285
Backblaze IPO
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001462056/000119312521316078/d62601ds1a.htm
377
245
Suspected head of $21B crime syndicate may be world’s most innovative drug lord
https://torontolife.com/city/this-man-is-the-jeff-bezos-of-the-international-drug-trade/
375
44
An opinionated guide on how to reverse engineer software
https://margin.re/media/an-opinionated-guide-on-how-to-reverse-engineer-software-part-1.aspx
72
Core scheduling lands in Linux 5.14
https://lwn.net/Articles/861251/
358
322
Firefox 94
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/94.0/releasenotes/
342
220
Zoom adding advertisements to the free tier of its service
https://blog.zoom.us/zoom-continued-access-for-basic-users-with-advertising-program/
317
187
What is the inverse of a vector?
https://mattferraro.dev/posts/geometric-algebra
304
70
Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator
https://www.poor.dev/terminal-anatomy/
301
616
Zillow seeks to sell 7k homes for $2.8B after flipping halt
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-01/zillow-selling-7-000-homes-for-2-8-billion-after-flipping-halt
291
166
Stop spending so much time being trolled by billionaire corps
https://lemire.me/blog/2021/11/02/stop-spending-so-much-time-being-trolled-by-billionaire-corporations/
111
SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop (2019)
https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/sparcbook3000st-the-coolest-90s-laptop/
271
298
Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29079096
265
186
Facebook plans to shut down its facial recognition system
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/02/technology/facebook-facial-recognition.html
179
Fedora 35
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/
227
492
When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/08/when-foundation-gets-the-blockbuster-treatment-isaac-asimovs-vision-gets-lost-sci-fi
217
77
Show HN: Motor Admin – No-code admin panel
https://www.getmotoradmin.com
213
30
Toxiproxy is a framework for simulating network conditions
https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy
210
109
Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
https://youglish.com/
196
103
Mysorean Rockets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysorean_rockets
192
24
ct.css – Take a look inside your <head>
https://github.com/csswizardry/ct
138
How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight
https://medium.com/@timothy_downs/how-many-requests-can-be-served-per-second-from-one-square-meter-of-sunlight-675db9d0c819
182
37
Apache Traffic Server
https://trafficserver.apache.org/
118
How to Read “Gilgamesh” (2019)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/10/14/how-to-read-gilgamesh
178
75
DevUtils: Offline Toolbox for Developers
https://devutils.app/
173
Show HN: Privacy-first, minimal, fast blogging/newsletter platform
https://papyrus.so/
157
Bringing back Cartoon Modern, a rare animation artbook
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/our-treat-to-you
56
Trie in JavaScript: The data structure behind autocomplete
https://stackfull.dev/trie-in-javascript-the-data-structure-behind-autocomplete
153
Meadowlark, a DAW written in Rust
https://github.com/MeadowlarkDAW/Meadowlark
152
98
Leaving Debian
https://corecursive.com/leaving-debian/
149
The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) in 2021
https://raymii.org/s/blog/The_Common_Desktop_Environment_CDE_is_still_developed_in_2021.html
142
189
The story behind Flexport founder's supply chain tweets
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/real-story-behind-tech-founders-225037288.html
141
191
Microsoft Edge GA on Linux
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2021/11/02/edge-ignite-nov-2021/
139
198
A U.S. submarine struck an underwater mountain last month, the Navy says
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051422572/navy-submarine-nuclear-collision-south-china-sea
57
High-fidelity remote communication
https://olivierlacan.com/posts/high-fidelity-remote-communication/
137
145
Tesla opens charging network to other EVs for the first time
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-opens-charging-network-other-evs-netherlands-2021-11-01/
134
51
Raft Consensus Protocol
https://www.consul.io/docs/architecture/consensus
133
The growing complexity of modern software systems
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
132
101
SSH alternatives for mobile, low-latency or unreliable connections
https://console.dev/articles/ssh-alternatives-for-mobile-low-latency-unreliable-connections/
127
82
Facebook Makes Us Know Too Much About Each Other
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/01/opinion/facebook-social-media-problems.html
123
165
New research highlights the damage caused by processed food
https://www.levelshealth.com/blog/new-research-highlights-the-damage-caused-by-processed-food
121
Microsoft Loop brings back Google Wave?
https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/02/microsoft-launches-google-wave/
119
28
The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx (2012)
https://aosabook.org/en/nginx.html
115
New 5D Storage to Offer 10,000x the Density of Blu-ray
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/5d-storage-optical-data-cube
34
Justice sues to block Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon and Schuster
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-block-penguin-random-house-s-acquisition-rival-publisher-simon
108
38
Ada implementation of an X Window System Server (1989)
https://sci-hub.se/10.1145/74261.74264
106
Ask HN: How do you security-audit external software using NPM packages?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29078836
104
81
Covid-19: Researcher blows the whistle on Pfizer vaccine trial data integrity
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
53
U.S. Recession Probabilities September 2021: 44%
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RECPROUSM156N
97
26
The history of Unix's confusing set of low-level ways to allocate memory (2018)
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/SbrkVersusMmap
93
The welfare effects of eviction policies
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/11/the-welfare-effects-of-eviction-policies.html
88
122
Bitcoin Is a Ponzi Scheme
https://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2020-12-31-bitcoin-ponzi.html
87
Energy, and How to Get It
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/08/energy-and-how-to-get-it
85
25
Ammonia sparks unexpected, exotic lightning on Jupiter
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/08/ammonia-sparks-unexpected-exotic-lightning-jupiter
83
Betting Against Bitcoin
https://paulbutler.org/2021/betting-against-bitcoin/
58
IPv4 addresses are silly, inet_aton(3) doubly so
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/inet_aton.html
27
Show HN: Open-source, self-hosted data management app and internal tool builder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29081054
79
29
Facebook will let Kazakhstan government directly flag content it deems harmful
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-facebook-will-let-kazakhstan-government-directly-flag-content-the/
78
10
Mullvad VPN Introducing WireGuard over TCP and IPv6
https://mullvad.net/de/blog/2021/11/1/introducing-wireguard-over-tcp-and-ipv6/
68
Launch HN: Typedream (YC W20) – WYSIWYG website builder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29084309
11
The Pioneer PX-V7: MSX over All?
https://nicole.express/2021/palcom-ntsc-edition.html
76
120
John Deere boosts pay, retirement benefits in new offer to striking UAW
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/money/business/2021/10/31/john-deere-boosts-pay-retirement-benefits-new-offer-striking-uaw-labor-union-united-auto-workers/6225314001/
8
How Learning Works: Components, Systems, Loops
https://romandesign.co/how-learning-works-components-systems-and-loops/
On “Trojan Source” Attacks
https://research.swtch.com/trojan