top 50% hacker news stories for 2021-11-21

Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)

https://zachholman.com/posts/only-90s-developers/

4 years ago

628 upvotes – 345 comments

The Stroad

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/10/30/the-stroad

4 years ago

552 upvotes – 339 comments

Wolves make roadways safer

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/22/e2023251118

4 years ago

500 upvotes – 242 comments

Upgrading the soldered-on RAM of a Dell XPS13 7390 laptop

https://gregdavill.github.io/posts/dell-xps13-ram-upgrade/

4 years ago

479 upvotes – 209 comments

Ask HN: What mental models do you use everyday?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29297594

4 years ago

383 upvotes – 276 comments

Writing is networking for introverts

https://byrnehobart.medium.com/writing-is-networking-for-introverts-5cac14ad4c77

4 years ago

335 upvotes – 89 comments

.NET 6 vs .NET 5 speedup

https://alexyakunin.medium.com/net-6-vs-net-5-up-to-40-speedup-ceca9112d298

4 years ago

331 upvotes – 238 comments

An introverts guide to increasing energy

https://ashleyjanssen.com/the-introverts-guide-to-increasing-energy/

4 years ago

315 upvotes – 143 comments

Tell HN: Amazon fraudulently canceling orders as returned items

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29294818

4 years ago

311 upvotes – 144 comments

Functorio

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2021/02/16/functorio/

4 years ago

304 upvotes – 74 comments

Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters

https://thehustle.co/why-thieves-love-to-steal-catalytic-converters/

4 years ago

286 upvotes – 711 comments

I moderate /r/kafka; people mistake it as a subreddit about kafka the product

https://twitter.com/LitAnscombe/status/1442683658951802882

4 years ago

262 upvotes – 218 comments

1-Line CSS Layouts

https://1linelayouts.glitch.me/

4 years ago

245 upvotes – 60 comments

Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29297229

4 years ago

215 upvotes – 129 comments

The Little Book of Rust Macros

https://danielkeep.github.io/tlborm/book/README.html

4 years ago

205 upvotes – 30 comments

The many gifts of awkward silence

https://jessicahagy.substack.com/p/the-many-gifts-of-awkward-silence

4 years ago

200 upvotes – 80 comments

Japanese Dome House

http://www.i-domehouse.com/about_dome_house/

4 years ago

188 upvotes – 160 comments

Adele gets Spotify to take shuffle button off all album pages

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59365019

4 years ago

182 upvotes – 216 comments

Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 57 comments

Don't soften feedback

https://larahogan.me/blog/dont-soften-feedback/

4 years ago

176 upvotes – 119 comments

Git ls-files is Faster Than Fd and Find

https://cj.rs//blog/git-ls-files-is-faster-than-fd-and-find/

4 years ago

156 upvotes – 75 comments

Rust programming for web developers, by a web developer

https://codeamigo.dev/lessons/161

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 32 comments

Arcane director of animation on how they did it

https://mashable.com/article/netflix-arcane-league-of-legends-animation

4 years ago

154 upvotes – 68 comments

What's next for language design? (2017)

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/253769.html#cutid1

4 years ago

151 upvotes – 123 comments

Campbell's Law: The dark side of metric fixation

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/campbells-law/

4 years ago

147 upvotes – 54 comments

I got nerd sniped into benchmarking legacy x86 instructions (2019)

https://www.acepace.net/2019-07-27-xlatb/

4 years ago

143 upvotes – 43 comments

Telnet BBS Guide

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

4 years ago

137 upvotes – 57 comments

The curious tale of a Nintendo UK Hotliner during the console war era

https://www.nintendolife.com/features/nintendo-hotliner-life-1990n93-manning-the-phones-during-the-console-wars

4 years ago

133 upvotes – 54 comments

Los Angeles is gearing up to ban wood-frame construction

https://www.pacificresearch.org/los-angeles-is-gearing-up-to-ban-wood-frame-construction-renters-will-soon-pay-the-price/

4 years ago

126 upvotes – 151 comments

My Favorite Math Problem

https://mapehe.github.io/math-problem/index.html

4 years ago

125 upvotes – 80 comments

Slitaz, A 50MB Lightweight Desktop Operating System

https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2021/11/discover-slitaz-50mb-lightweight-desktop-operating-system.html

4 years ago

123 upvotes – 84 comments

Dopamine Fasting: A Maladaptive Fad (2020)

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/dopamine-fasting-misunderstanding-science-spawns-a-maladaptive-fad-2020022618917

4 years ago

119 upvotes – 112 comments

Women of the sea: Korea’s oldest free divers

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-21/come-on-an-underwater-treasure-hunt-with-korean-haenyeo/100597018

4 years ago

115 upvotes – 27 comments

Native-like Navigation of Web apps

https://hezedu.github.io/history-navigation-vue/

4 years ago

114 upvotes – 72 comments

There are infinite worlds to explore

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/doorways/

4 years ago

113 upvotes – 32 comments

Explanations for the Havana Syndrome

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-3-best-explanations-for-havana.html

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 83 comments

Automa: A Chrome extension for automating the browser

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/automa/infppggnoaenmfagbfknfkancpbljcca

4 years ago

111 upvotes – 20 comments

Indiana University Compilers Course (2020)

https://iucompilercourse.github.io/IU-P423-P523-E313-E513-Fall-2020/

4 years ago

110 upvotes – 3 comments

Covid-19: stigmatising the unvaccinated is not justified

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02243-1/fulltext#%20

4 years ago

106 upvotes – 225 comments

Tiger Global: How to Win

https://www.readthegeneralist.com/briefing/tiger-global

4 years ago

99 upvotes – 24 comments

Sonic: A fast JSON serializing and deserializing library

https://github.com/bytedance/sonic

4 years ago

98 upvotes – 43 comments

Taking digital X-ray shots for cheap

https://hackaday.io/project/62710-taking-digital-xray-shots-for-cheap-300

4 years ago

97 upvotes – 27 comments

Wander (1974) – a lost mainframe game is found (2015)

https://ahopeful.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/wander-1974-a-lost-mainframe-game-is-found/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 32 comments

Neuro Evolution of Augmented Topologies

https://fev.al/posts/neat/

4 years ago

95 upvotes – 9 comments

Chrome breaks my website by hiding www in address bar

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29298426

4 years ago

93 upvotes – 60 comments

I Was Illegally Fired for Trying to Unionize Tesla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0aCuN1BFc

4 years ago

90 upvotes – 42 comments

Tracking Crucial Metrics of Earth's Global Warming

https://www.climatechangetracker.org/

4 years ago

89 upvotes – 68 comments

Ask HN: Why does cryptocurrency subjects on HN lack curious conversations?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29295313

4 years ago

85 upvotes – 267 comments

Alan Kay at UCLA (2016) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5L3EEWBJQw

4 years ago

82 upvotes – 14 comments

The Kessler Syndrome: Space junk in orbit

https://onezero.medium.com/get-ready-for-the-kessler-syndrome-to-wreck-outer-space-7f29cfe62c3e

4 years ago

79 upvotes – 45 comments

Analysis of the Cosmos 1408 Breakup

https://leolabs-space.medium.com/analysis-of-the-cosmos-1408-breakup-71b32de5641f

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 38 comments

Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups

https://645ventures.com/top-five-myths-about-billion-dollar-companies/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 22 comments

Tesla, electric SUVs get poor scores from Consumer Reports

https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/tesla-electric-suvs-get-poor-scores-consumer-reports-2021-11-18/

4 years ago

74 upvotes – 139 comments

Microservices Architecture on Google Cloud

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/microservices-architecture-google-cloud

4 years ago

70 upvotes – 47 comments

Symbolic Mathematics with Julia Language

https://juliasymbolics.org/

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 8 comments

Static Duck Typing in Python with Protocols

https://www.daan.fyi/writings/python-protocols

4 years ago

69 upvotes – 47 comments

Reframing Tech Debt

https://increment.com/planning/reframing-tech-debt/

4 years ago

68 upvotes – 57 comments
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