1139
252
Wish HN: Happy Holidays
https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHWrq360NcGbw?cp=e30.
3 years ago
664
510
Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/EmailServersNoLongerPractical
615
314
Entire website in a single HTML file
https://css-tricks.com/a-whole-website-in-a-single-html-file/
580
188
All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258531455220609025
515
631
Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29668228
440
349
ADHD Accommodations Guide
https://adhdatwork.add.org/adhd-accommodation-guide/
438
114
Misbrands
https://github.com/mkrl/misbrands
352
277
Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29673707
339
70
Average color of each country (using satellite imagery)
https://eox.at/2021/08/average-colors-of-the-world/
323
250
The Google home page is 500K
https://pagespeed.web.dev/report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com%2F
284
103
JavaScript for Impatient Programmers
https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/toc.html
264
89
Great engineering teams focus on milestones instead of projects
https://www.rubick.com/milestones-not-projects/
261
156
Goddamn AWS seems to be down again 4th time this month alone
https://downdetector.in/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
251
184
Exiled from the Metaverse before it even started: Facebook bans are for life
https://www.brian.jp/2021/12/24/exiled-from-the-metaverse-before-it-even-started-the-dangers-of-relying-on-facebook/
247
21
Penrose: From mathematical notation to beautiful diagrams
https://penrose.ink/siggraph20.html
243
214
Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel
https://unum.cloud/post/2021-12-21-macbook/
242
108
Tesla Light Show xLights Guide
https://github.com/teslamotors/light-show
239
LaTeX Cookbook – Collection of LaTeX Recipes
https://latex-cookbook.net/
236
90
A man who accidentally started an assassin hiring website
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/dec/17/bob-innes-rent-a-hitman-assassin-services-website
232
171
Georgia teacher read the fine print and won $13K (2019)
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.5045331/this-georgia-teacher-read-the-fine-print-and-won-13k-1.5045342
217
52
Joan Didion has died
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/books/joan-didion-dead.html
216
230
The Sucker Complex
https://itsjoeco.substack.com/p/the-sucker-complex
181
Webb flies Ariane 5: watch the launch live on 25 December
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_flies_Ariane_5_watch_the_launch_live
195
35
Scuttlebutt Protocol Guide
https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
193
Best practices for writing code comments
https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/23/best-practices-for-writing-code-comments/
190
60
Japanese university finds Alzheimer's drug effective in treating ALS in mice
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/12/f4b3d06d9d0a-breaking-news-japans-yamagata-univ-says-it-has-found-drug-effective-in-treating-als.html
182
197
Running IntelliJ Idea with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal
https://mustafaakin.dev/posts/2021-12-08-running-intellij-idea-with-jdk17-for-better-render-performance/
173
78
CSS Zen Garden: A demonstration of what can be achieved through CSS-based design
http://www.csszengarden.com/
172
27
Street Fighter II, Spin when you can't
https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_spin/index.html
170
16
Plant Root System Drawings
https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/search
164
266
Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immunity after Covid
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-021-01089-8
163
Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?
https://gavinhoward.com/2021/12/is-it-even-worth-working-on-foss-anymore/
154
88
Building Remote Teams for Startups
https://vadimkravcenko.com/en/how-to-build-remote-teams-properly/
153
74
Ansiwave BBS, a modern BBS with ANSI art and MIDI music
https://ansiwave.net/
151
110
Attrs – the Python library everyone needs (2016)
https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2016/08/attrs.html
150
64
Subsea Cable to Connect Asia, Europe, and North America Through the Arctic
https://www.cinia.fi/en/blog/blog/cinias-subsea-cable-to-connect-asia-europe-and-north-america-through-the-arctic-in-2025
143
300
Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building so many staircases?
https://slate.com/business/2021/12/staircases-floor-plan-twitter-housing-apartments.html
28
KiCad 6.0.0
https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/tree/6.0.0
132
13
Alibaba researchers went rogue and disclosed Log4j now CCP is making Alibaba pay
https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/1474275566572347393
130
48
Control as Liability
https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/05/09/control_as_liability.html
125
Internet Sacred Text Archive
https://sacred-texts.com/
116
196
Turkey's Financial Crisis
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-63-turkeys-financial-crisis
112
49
Walking the World: Bucharest
https://intellectualinting.substack.com/p/walking-the-world-bucharest
107
84
YouTube is testing people now?
https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/rioyyj/youtube_is_testing_people_now_what_is_the_point/
105
122
Tesla bows to pressure, stops allowing drivers to play video games while driving
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/23/tesla-vehicles-video-games-driving
104
68
Advent of Code Surveys: Results
https://jeroenheijmans.github.io/advent-of-code-surveys/
102
118
The leader who's standing up to China
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/taiwan-china-tsai/
14
Introduction to the Sam Text Editor
https://blog.matthewdmiller.net/introduction-to-the-sam-text-editor
94
39
How the Jesuits Charted the World
https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/jesuit/
92
3
Apple's App Store broke competition laws, Dutch watchdog says
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apples-app-store-broke-competition-laws-dutch-watchdog-says-2021-12-24/
91
201
Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29675397
80
Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2021?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29674609
24
London Beer Flood of 1814
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood
Russian court fines Alphabet's Google 7.2 bln roubles
https://www.reuters.com/technology/russian-court-fines-alphabets-google-72-bln-roubles-2021-12-24/
Systemd 250 Released
https://lwn.net/Articles/879739/
87
33
Sensor Network Technology in Vinge’s a Deepness in the Sky
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/255
79
List of 4,248 open source programming languages
https://codelani.com/lists/languages.html
133
DoorDash will require all employees to deliver goods
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/doordash-will-require-all-workers-to-deliver-goods-or-perform-other-gigs-and-some-of-them-arent-happy-11640300491
77
A Man from the Future – John von Neumann’s nuclear vision
https://www.ft.com/content/8dc791a2-bde4-4f1f-a928-bde11d67aee5
76
How the KGB Caught America's 'Volkswagen Spy'
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kgb-american-spy-captured-volkswagen/31621210.html
72
Trisquel GNU/Linux
https://trisquel.info/
When do people learn languages? (2002)
https://www.zompist.com/whylang.html
67
55
Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet?
https://www.protocol.com/matt-mullenweg
Robin Hanson Discusses the Karnataka Health Insurance Experiment
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/12/karnataka-hospital-insurance-experiment.html
30
Cal 9 1752
https://susam.in/maze/cal-9-1752.html
31
Legal Drafting and Computer Programming
https://davidallengreen.com/2021/09/legal-drafting-and-computer-programming-a-post-in-memory-of-sir-clive-sinclair/
63
On subversion and dissolution of opposition movements
https://inspiratron.org/blog/2021/12/24/on-subversion-and-dissolution-of-opposition-movements/
61
51
Tesla owner blows up his Model S with dynamite over $22,000 battery replacement
https://electrek.co/2021/12/23/tesla-owner-blows-up-model-s-dynamite-battery-replacement/
19
Dutch watchdog finds Apple app store payment rules anti-competitive – sources
https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-dutch-watchdog-finds-apple-app-store-payment-rules-anti-competitive-2021-10-07/
59
Bangle.io – A fully local serverless Notion alternative
https://github.com/bangle-io/bangle-io
10
AI Research Trends:Sort ArXiv papers by its popularity on social media sites
https://mavenlin.github.io/ai_research_trends/
6
Crisp: Critical Path Analysis for Microservice Architectures
https://eng.uber.com/crisp-critical-path-analysis-for-microservice-architectures/
0
Quanta of the Third Kind
https://inference-review.com/article/quanta-of-the-third-kind
TSMC Hiring for AZ plant includes 12-18 month training in Taiwan
https://tsmccareers.com/entry-level-engineer-training/
50
81
Ask HN: Have you had Covid? How bad was it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29669290
4
Statistical Imaginaries: An ode to responsible data science
https://zephoria.substack.com/p/statistical-imaginaries
45
85
Unbuffered I/O Can Make Your Rust Programs Much Slower
https://era.co/blog/unbuffered-io-slows-rust-programs
9
To Craunch the Marmoset (2016)
https://sesquiotic.com/2016/05/02/to-craunch-the-marmoset/
40
2
Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-WiNXH6hI
5
Suppressing duplicate requests in web services
https://tkareine.org/articles/suppressing-duplicate-requests-in-web-services.html
Dutch Security Researcher Receives Award for Hacking Dutch Tax Authority
https://twitter.com/SchizoDuckie/status/1474087696247279626
The sweet sea monster of Portuguese Christmas
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lampreia-de-ovos-egg-lamprey-christmas
38
34
Review of “Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29678113
37
1
Analysis: When China's leading paper ignores Xi, all bets are off
https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/China-up-close/Analysis-When-China-s-leading-paper-ignores-Xi-all-bets-are-off
Did fentanyl overdose become top cause of death for adults aged 18-45 in the US?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fentanyl-overdose-death/
Manhattan judge orders someone released from Rikers for 8th Amendment violation
https://twitter.com/shaneferro/status/1474167000666624005
36
A hundred things I learned working on the react team
https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1470613731071696896
8
Pi-hole FTL v5.12, Web v5.9 and Core v5.7 released
https://pi-hole.net/2021/12/22/pi-hole-ftl-v5-12-web-v5-9-and-core-v5-7-released/
Show HN: Retire 35
https://retire35.com/
Riskbrew – discover and prepare for the brewing financial storm
https://www.riskbrew.com/
32
Darktable 3.8.0 Released
https://www.darktable.org/2021/12/darktable-3.8.0-released/
Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
41
Ask HN: Have you been in a team that did “daily standups” asynchronously?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29677684
26
Making 1000 HTTP requests per second in Python
https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/async-python-http?ref=hn
11
Apple workers staging Walkout December 24th
https://twitter.com/AppleLaborers/status/1474119772384096271
29
Human geneticists curb use of the term ‘race’ in their papers
https://www.science.org/content/article/human-geneticists-curb-use-term-race-their-papers