556
219
Don’t be spooky
https://therealadam.com/2021/11/01/dont-be-spooky/
4 years ago
388
165
AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-Led Initiatives
https://wptavern.com/amp-has-irreparably-damaged-publishers-trust-in-google-led-initiatives
365
169
An Epic future for SPJ
https://discourse.haskell.org/t/an-epic-future-for-spj/3573
362
199
An intact slave's room found in Pompeii's ruins
http://pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/the-room-of-the-slaves-the-latest-discovery-at-civita-giuliana/
340
264
Ask HN: Whatever happened to Wolfram Alpha?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29131931
324
161
Micro – a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
https://micro-editor.github.io/
286
232
Ask HN: How were video games from the 90s so efficient?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29127098
266
288
Elite Underproduction
https://troynikov.io/elite-underproduction/
248
249
Apple’s New Screen Repair Trap
https://www.ifixit.com/News/54829/apples-new-screen-repair-trap-could-change-the-repair-industry-forever
245
Why Tokyo Works
https://metropolisjapan.com/why-tokyo-works/
242
Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple
https://www.fastcompany.com/90693444/jony-ives-first-major-design-since-leaving-apple-isnt-what-youd-expect
239
118
It‘s been 9 years since Valve rolled out the Steam Linux beta
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Linux-9-Years-Since-Beta
236
Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work
https://briananglin.me/posts/spending-5k-to-learn-how-database-indexes-work/
148
A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-10-31/Opinion
218
111
Hundreds of ancient Maya sites hidden under Mexico reveal a mysterious blueprint
https://www.sciencealert.com/hundreds-of-ancient-maya-sites-hidden-under-mexico-reveal-a-mysterious-blueprint
205
121
The Goiânia Accident (1987)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
144
Raspberry Pi Colocation
https://pi-colocation.com
197
287
Swedish government agencies say energy-intensive crypto mining should be banned
https://www.fi.se/en/published/presentations/2021/crypto-assets-are-a-threat-to-the-climate-transition--energy-intensive-mining-should-be-banned/
191
Big Tech Coding Interview Framework – Pt 1. Inspect
https://fangprep.substack.com/p/the-coding-interview-pt-1-inspect
188
82
DirectX 12 applications no longer working on 4th gen Intel processor graphics
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000057520/graphics/graphics-for-4th-generation-intel-processors.html
187
90
We need more boutique search engines
https://sariazout.mirror.xyz/7gSSTJ96SEyvXeljymglO3zN4H6DCgVnrNZq8_2NX1A
186
45
Deno Deploy Demo: a multi-datacenter chat, client+server in 23 lines of TS
https://dash.deno.com/playground/mini-ws-chat
182
143
Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust
https://old.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/qnvrou/will_pop_os_ever_do_an_officially_kde_flavor_or/hjji8hh/
178
217
Nitrogen fertilizer shortage threatens to cut global crop yields – CF Industries
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nitrogen-fertilizer-shortage-threatens-cut-global-crop-yields-cf-industries-2021-11-04/
166
OKRs vs. KPIs: understanding measurements for your SaaS business
https://userpilot.com/blog/okrs-vs-kpis/
105
Goodbye, MIT
https://www.city-journal.org/mit-caves-to-wokeness
162
The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (2013)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-tomato-was-feared-in-europe-for-more-than-200-years-863735/
154
56
Racket v8.3
https://blog.racket-lang.org/2021/11/racket-v8-3.html
153
41
Ichi.city
https://ichi.city/
149
49
Setting up Gmail in Doom Emacs using mbsync and mu4e
https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/setting-up-gmail-in-doom-emacs-using-mbsync-and-mu4e/
145
70
What’s harder to find than microchips? The equipment that makes them
https://www.wsj.com/articles/manufacturing-microchips-the-equipment-that-makes-them-11636149507
140
159
Against Discord Channels
https://becca.ooo/discord
136
207
American trains need more than railfan nostalgia
https://www.slowboring.com/p/amtrak-review
135
58
Keyoxide: A privacy-friendly platform to establish your decentralized identity
https://codeberg.org/keyoxide/keyoxide-web/src/branch/main/content/about.md
130
61
When Radiohead sampled Paul Lansky (2000)
http://paul.mycpanel.princeton.edu/radiohead.ml.html
129
96
Ask HN: Connect to the Internet the old way during next Ethiopian lockdown?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29129133
128
Some new BMWs won't have touchscreens thanks to chip shortage
https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/5/22765709/bmw-chip-shortage-touchscreen-car-suv-manufacturing
120
42
What collective narcissism does to society
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/11/group-narcissism/620632/
85
Why can DRM crash some games on 12th gen Intel core processors?
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000088259/processors/intel-core-processors.html
104
Mandate is hereby stayed pending further action by this court [pdf]
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unpub/21/21-60845.0.pdf
106
Windows 11 upgrade tool that bypasses Microsoft´s requirements
https://github.com/coofcookie/Windows11Upgrade
102
Parents built a school app. Then the city called the cops
https://www.wired.com/story/sweden-stockholm-school-app-open-source/
100
44
The fastest object diff library in JavaScript
https://github.com/AsyncBanana/microdiff
99
47
Why nuclear fusion yields more energy than fission
https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae534.cfm
27
A Close Look at a Spinlock
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/2173
98
39
Const Generics in Rust
https://nora.codes/post/its-time-to-get-hyped-about-const-generics-in-rust/
0
Godot Engine – Godot 3.4 is released with major features and UX polish
https://godotengine.org/article/godot-3-4-is-released
94
15
Cellular Automata in F#
https://isthisit.nz/posts/2020/cellular-automata-in-fsharp/
93
25
SpaceX shut down part of Dishy's API
https://tysonpower.de/blog/spacex-shutdown-part-of-dishys-api-because-of-me-and-others
91
29
Making a game to memorize facts about every country
https://carltheperson.com/posts/geo-memorizer/
84
293
Interview with Charlie Munger on Controversial UCSB Dorm
https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15378-exclusive-interview-with-billionaire-charlie-munger-on-controversial-ucsb-dorm
78
28
Show HN: How does JAX allocate memory on a TPU? An interactive C++ walkthrough
https://gist.github.com/shawwn/0e524d4a7a5d8fb152a86616559cc02a
16
A comprehensive guide to ‘go generate’
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/a-comprehensive-guide-to-go-generate/
ASCII Paint
http://ascii.alienmelon.com/
74
19
Reflecting on the Shake Build System
http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2021/09/reflecting-on-shake-build-system.html
73
33
Ask HN: Where would you start looking for development clients?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29129148
72
20
Microcontroller VGA Interface Projects
http://tinyvga.com/
LaTeX Input for Impatient Scholars
https://karthinks.com/software/latex-input-for-impatient-scholars/
68
64
Class 1 / Class 2 Problems
https://kk.org/thetechnium/class-1-class-2-problems/
6
FLENG, a concurrent logic programming language
http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/fleng/fleng.html
115
How profitable was/is tobacco?
https://genehoots.substack.com/p/how-profitable-wasis-tobacco