864
325
An oral history of Bank Python
https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html
4 years ago
839
266
HashiCorp – S1
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1720671/000119312521319849/d205906ds1.htm
738
267
Why is Excalidraw so good?
https://offbyone.us/posts/why-is-excalidraw-so-good/
568
348
Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sweden-stockholm-school-app-open-source
485
549
Our self imposed scarcity of nice places
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2021/11/3/our-self-imposed-scarcity-of-nice-places
471
112
Timeline of the Human Condition
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~cpd/history.html
467
195
Finishing my first game while working full-time
https://jasont.co/finishing-games/
326
118
Happy birthday Vim (2020)
https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/bQtQSHTK1sg
319
281
Never update anything
https://blog.kronis.dev/articles/never-update-anything
312
169
Gitlab servers are being exploited in DDoS attacks
https://therecord.media/gitlab-servers-are-being-exploited-in-ddos-attacks-in-excess-of-1-tbps/
269
92
Space Station 14 – Open-source remake of Space Station 13
https://spacestation14.io/
265
110
Launch HN: Jitsu (YC S20) – Open-Source Segment Alternative
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106082
224
122
GPD Pocket 3 – Handheld PC with KVM and RS-232
https://gpd.hk/gpdpocket3
222
66
Show HN: Initiative.sh, an in-browser command line for D&D
https://initiative.sh/
221
26
How to learn compilers: LLVM Edition
https://lowlevelbits.org/how-to-learn-compilers-llvm-edition/
220
413
Making Emacs Popular Again (2020)
https://lwn.net/Articles/819452/
219
232
M1 Pro First Impressions: Core Management and CPU Performance
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/11/04/m1-pro-first-impressions-2-core-management-and-cpu-performance/
218
Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms
https://howtomarketagame.com/2021/11/01/dont-build-your-castle-in-other-peoples-kingdoms/
216
362
Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a barn burner
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/intels-alder-lake-big-little-cpu-design-tested-its-a-barn-burner/
205
190
I introduced my 5-year-old and 2-year-old to startx and xmonad (2012)
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/7562-i-introduced-my-5-year-old-and-2-year-old-to-startx-and-xmonad-theyre-delighted
306
LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/
196
103
Fuck.com (1997)
http://www.links.net/webpub/fuck.com.html
187
21
Linux x86 program start up – How the heck do we get to main()? (2011)
http://dbp-consulting.com/tutorials/debugging/linuxProgramStartup.html
183
143
Chinese athlete accuses former top Communist Party official of sexual assault
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/11/03/1051873031/chinese-tennis-athlete-accuses-former-top-communist-party-official-of-sexual-ass
172
Goodbye CSS Modules, Hello TailwindCSS
https://www.polytomic.com/blog-posts/goodbye-css-modules-hello-tailwindcss
170
I was terrified of an eyeball injection
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/eyeball-fright.html
168
70
Baking bread using 4,500 year old yeast from Ancient Egyptian pottery (2019)
https://twitter.com/SeamusBlackley/status/1158264819503419392
167
159
Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)
https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2019/no-not-just-time-speeds-get-older/
158
111
Metabook
https://metabook.fyi/
157
82
Space Companies at Y Combinator
https://spacedotbiz.substack.com/p/y-combinator
154
126
The “Ultimate” ThinkPad (2020)
https://calbryant.uk/blog/the-ultimate-thinkpad/#working-boot-splash-image-done
151
179
Angular 13
https://blog.angular.io/angular-v13-is-now-available-cce66f7bc296?gi=978215207a39
39
Fascine Mattresses: Basketry Gone Wild
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/11/fascine-mattresses-basketry-gone-wild.html
136
147
World food prices reach new peak since July 2011
https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/
131
Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging (2019)
https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1550-4131%2819%2930429-2
130
29
Clerk: Local-First Notebooks for Clojure
https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk
127
44
Can't Get You Out of My Head
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Get_You_Out_of_My_Head_(TV_series)
182
Genshin Impact made more money in its first year than any other game
https://gamerant.com/genshin-impact-made-more-money-in-its-first-year-than-any-other-game/
123
181
Why is Delta so infectious? New tool spotlights little-noticed mutation
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-delta-so-infectious-new-lab-tool-spotlights-little-noticed-mutation-speeds-viral-spread
149
What memory model should Rust use?
https://paulmck.livejournal.com/66175.html
59
The surprising subtleties of zeroing a register (2012)
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/12/29/the-surprising-subtleties-of-zeroing-a-register/
32
Examining interactions between narcissistic leaders and anxious followers
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24490
57
After a part of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back
https://nautil.us/issue/20/creativity/brain-damage-saved-his-music
98
Notes on privacy and data collection of Matrix.org (2019)
https://gitlab.com/libremonde-org/papers/research/privacy-matrix.org/-/blob/master/part1/README.md
101
25
ProtonMail demanded private user data, because someone wrote about them badly
https://twitter.com/brokep/status/1453765410122354698
81
What happens to used electric car batteries?
https://www.wired.com/story/cars-going-electric-what-happens-used-batteries/
99
77
Coconut: Simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming
http://coconut-lang.org/
161
DeFi and the “digital asset” felony hidden in the infrastructure bill
https://www.decential.io/features/defi-and-the-digital-asset-felony-hidden-in-the-infrastructure-bill
97
255
Charlie Munger defends windowless dorm rooms for California students
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-tuesday-edition-1.6234150/billionaire-defends-windowless-dorm-rooms-for-california-students-1.6234462
94
129
Apple, its control over the iPhone, and the internet
https://www.matthewball.vc/all/applemetaverse
93
51
Leipzig: A walk around a city reborn
https://literaryreview.co.uk/bach-bombs-books
91
5
Hierarchical transformers are more efficient language models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13711
86
4
Designs from Kimono Pattern Books (ca. 1902)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unkindo-kimono-designs/
The Magnavox Odyssey was the first commercial home video game console
https://voxodyssey.com/magnavox-odyssey
54
The Pentagon’s view of climate change and the risks of state collapse
https://futureoflife.org/2021/07/30/michael-klare-on-the-pentagons-view-of-climate-change-and-the-risks-of-state-collapse/
83
A Haskell memory leak in way too much detail with Cachegrind
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2021-11-04-haskell-profiling-cachegrind/
72
Truth about ProtonMail
https://encryp.ch/blog/truth-about-protonmail/
80
145
Why does anyone use Angular in production?
http://blog.worldmaker.net/2021/06/26/angular/
76
75
Combating disinformation with humility
https://praveshkoirala.com/2021/11/03/combating-disinformation-with-humility/
22
Isomorphic Labs: Reimagining drug discovery with an AI-first approach
https://www.isomorphiclabs.com/blog
73
2
HashiCorp S1
https://sec.report/Document/0001193125-21-319849/
69
6
An Embedded USB Device Stack in Ada
https://blog.adacore.com/an-embedded-usb-device-stack-in-ada
Ask HN: What are some technically inspiring movies, TV shows or documentaries?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106967
27
The HP Way: Dave Packard on How to Operate a Company (2016)
https://fs.blog/the-hp-way-david-packard/
64
58
The Gunpowder Plot
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/why-has-gunpowder-plot-been-remembered-centuries
63
34
Astronomers want NASA to build a giant space telescope to peer at alien Earths
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/04/1052153703/astronomers-want-nasa-to-build-a-giant-space-telescope-to-peer-at-alien-earths
Designing a MIPS CPU in Hardcaml
https://ceramichacker.com/blog/1-1x-hardcaml-mips-intro-what-and-why
60
33
The Posthuman Dog
https://aeon.co/essays/who-could-dogs-become-without-humans-in-their-lives
89
Ask HN: What is the best privacy-focused video doorbell?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106393
67
Ask HN: What kind of projects make a junior candidate stand out from the rest?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29108881
Language is The Scaffold of The Mind (2019)
https://nautil.us/issue/76/language/language-is-the-scaffold-of-the-mind
APL Since 1978 [video]
https://www.pldi21.org/prerecorded_hopl.2.html
55
On autoloading
https://erock.io/2021/11/01/on-autoloading.html
41
HN post inspired me to quit my job and found my own startup
https://writeaswell.com/articles/?p=write-as-well
LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom