786
796
Proof of stake is incapable of producing a consensus
https://yanmaani.github.io/proof-of-stake-is-a-scam-and-the-people-promoting-it-are-scammers/
3 years ago
626
279
Books that changed my career as a software engineer
https://julianogtz.github.io/my-personal-blog/posts/five-books-that-changed-my-career-as-a-software-engineer/
510
89
Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/indian-academics-throw-weight-behind-sci-hub-and-libgen-in-landmark-case-51780
442
234
Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0GXWQDk0Q
368
230
Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people?
https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/is-watching-the-1984-ghostbusters-movie-killing-people-a-statistician-s-perspective
321
267
Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again
https://capiche.com/e/consumer-dev-tools-command-palette
308
132
The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by
https://theaviationgeekclub.com/story-behind-famed-sr-71-blackbird-super-low-knife-edge-pass/
288
57
Floating point visually explained (2017)
https://fabiensanglard.net/floating_point_visually_explained/
419
Why are German numbers backwards?
https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/5009/why-are-german-numbers-backwards
273
694
Update on Omicron
https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2021-update-on-omicron
271
65
The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered
https://www.righto.com/2021/11/reverse-engineering-yamaha-dx7_28.html
258
75
Show HN: 4K Desktop Wallpaper Generator
https://tanck.nl/wallpaper/
252
270
“The Pirate Bay can’t be stopped,” co-founder says
https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-cant-be-stopped-co-founder-says-211128/
244
188
Linus on Line Breaks (2020)
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/29/1038
370
I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/devops-on-call/
212
49
Open source Business intelligence platform made with Python
https://superset.apache.org/
206
97
GitHub Broken Download URLs
https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/8149
200
25
RSS-proxy: create an RSS/ATOM or JSON feed of almost any website
https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy
190
203
BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage
https://www.autoblog.com/2021/11/05/bmws-losing-touchscreen-functionality/
183
227
I returned my Remarkable2
https://offbyone.us/posts/remarkable/
170
41
McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge
https://doctorow.medium.com/mckinsey-taught-big-pharma-how-to-price-gouge-364dcc89f26e
169
32
Show HN: Life Simulation Written in Rust
https://joelthelion.github.io/life_web/demo/
165
Why don’t we just open the windows? Covid-19 prevention lost in translation
https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2895
164
181
Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after not purchasing US Constitution
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/26/1059413217/crypto-enthusiasts-want-to-buy-an-nba-team-after-failing-to-purchase-us-constitu
155
37
Show HN: Giving a 2D grid a 3D look – part 4
https://victorribeiro.com/random4/
153
93
How the ancient Romans managed their toilets
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-ancient-romans-went-to-the-bathroom-180979056/
152
Importance of muscle mass, strength and cardiorespiratory fitness for longevity
https://peterattiamd.com/ama27/
144
185
Omicron Update: Nov 27
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/omicron-update-nov-27
157
Australia to introduce new laws to force media platforms to unmask online trolls
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-introduce-new-laws-force-media-platforms-unmask-online-trolls-2021-11-28/
Calling Rust from Python using PyO3
http://saidvandeklundert.net/learn/2021-11-18-calling-rust-from-python-using-pyo3/
142
36
Z Library
https://z-lib.org/
133
43
Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language (2019)
https://colobot.info/
151
Web4 Should Run on LaTeX
https://www.cynicusrex.com/file/web4.html
127
How to Save a Ski Town
https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/how-to-save-a-ski-town-west-tourism-economy/
46
Lessons from a year of AI research
https://jetnew.notion.site/100-Lessons-from-1-Year-of-AI-Research-cf431d0f43764750acb83462de06979b
125
21
Venus on QEMU: Enabling the new virtual Vulkan driver
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2021/11/26/venus-on-qemu-enabling-new-virtual-vulkan-driver/
124
18
Legendary F1 team boss Sir Frank Williams dies, aged 79
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.breaking-legendary-f1-team-boss-sir-frank-williams-dies-aged-79.mCPM4nj5n62elIhFoPhtv.html
121
122
The truth about turbinates (and sinusitis)
https://westportfacialplasticsurgery.com/blog/turbinate/
118
27
A small Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K
https://github.com/udem-dlteam/ribbit
117
88
Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29371088
Ask HN: EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370922
109
16
Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning
https://blog.otoro.net/2021/11/18/attentionneuron/
105
276
Aphantasia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
101
80
Measuring Software Complexity: What Metrics to Use?
https://thevaluable.dev/complexity-metrics-software/
Schopenhauer: On Reading and Books
https://fs.blog/schopenhauer-on-reading/
33
A 41,500 year-old decorated ivory pendant from Stajnia Cave (Poland)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-01221-6
26
Generate Musical Accompaniment with R
https://flujoo.github.io/en/generate-accompaniment-progression/
96
Backpressure – the resisted flow of data through software
https://medium.com/@jayphelps/backpressure-explained-the-flow-of-data-through-software-2350b3e77ce7
92
53
Software development pushes us to get better as people
https://jessitron.com/2021/11/28/software-development-pushes-us-to-get-better-as-people/
Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience
https://www.sfgate.com/travel-column/article/Disneyland-is-a-price-gouge-16616134.php
90
23
How to parse EVE Online chat logs (in Common Lisp)
https://blog.michaeldresser.io/posts/2021-11-27_how-to-parse-eve-chat-log.html
Father Knox’s decalogue: the ten rules of Golden Age detective fiction
https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-murder-mystery-edition
56
A man who shoots at birds to keep them off a toxic pit [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtlPTE-UmY4
86
Show HN: A search engine that lets you refine your queries
https://www.occamm.com/
82
Show HN: Indiedevs.net – A place for indie game developers
https://indiedevs.net/
81
63
Ask HN: Have you noticed difficulty tapping links on HN on iOS lately?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373440
Ask HN: Jaded about the internet?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370894
54
The time complexity of the libc++ deque push_front implementation is O(log n)
https://1f604.blogspot.com/2021/11/the-libc-implementation-of-stl-deque.html