1222
670
“Play-to-Earn” and Bullshit Jobs
https://paulbutler.org/2021/play-to-earn-and-bullshit-jobs/
3 years ago
887
226
Prince of Persia in JavaScript
https://princejs.com/
644
533
Alexa suggests lethal challenge to child
https://twitter.com/klivdahl/status/1475220450598924297
606
460
Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects
https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html
580
251
Tools to Download Netflix / Disney / Apple TV Content
https://github.com/widevinedump
559
316
LastPass users warned their master passwords are compromised
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-users-warned-their-master-passwords-are-compromised/
403
130
Lessons from my PhD
https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/lessonsfrommyphd.html
382
176
Help HN: Stripe shutting us down with 48 hours notice on a holiday skeleton crew
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29712023
360
152
Japan's Paper Culture
https://www.jetpens.com/blog/Japan-s-Paper-Culture/pt/998
329
216
Gobolinux : Redefining Linux filesystem hierarchy
https://gobolinux.org/
307
268
The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140906214521/https://plus.google.com/+IanHickson/posts/iPmatxBYuj2
277
132
How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught
https://fs.blog/how-to-think/
266
261
Ask HN: How to find a job in 2021 if I dislike remote?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29711622
253
201
Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums (2015)
http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/index.html
244
45
How I Build
http://pketh.org/how-i-build.html
241
119
Show HN: A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go
https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy
144
GnuPG used to ask for your support to help protect online privacy
https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html
240
217
Should you contribute open data to OpenStreetMap?
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/re-maps-public-service.html
227
22
Grok {Shan, Shui}*: Advent of understanding the generative art
https://zverok.github.io/blog/2021-12-28-grok-shan-shui.html
207
No one is certain what Roman bronze dodecahedrons were used for (2018)
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/514246/are-roman-dodecahedrons-worlds-most-mysterious-artifact
196
135
A Zimbabwean archaeologist reimagines the story of an African civilisation
https://www.economist.com/interactives/christmas-specials/2021/12/18/great-zimbabwe-archaeology
194
51
Game engines as an art form
https://medium.com/@hajimehoshi/game-engines-as-an-art-form-f66c835c0a92
190
18
Rust: Experimental real-time global illumination renderer
https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/kajiya
188
112
Ask HN: How does my Instagram keep getting compromised?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29715989
185
110
FBI document shows what data can be obtained from encrypted messaging apps
https://therecord.media/fbi-document-shows-what-data-can-be-obtained-from-encrypted-messaging-apps/
70
Finding a Creature in Ethereum's Dark Forest
https://bertcmiller.com/2021/12/28/glimpse_nonce_reuse.html
178
171
‘Hard’ skills from PhDs remain relevant beyond academia
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03756-0
170
29
System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale systems
https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer
163
64
Mocking Bird – Realtime Voice Clone for Chinese
https://github.com/babysor/MockingBird
161
The American dream is on life support in the Bay Area
https://hariraghavan.com/0090c2645d2f4cbda95cc6cdbeec46e3
160
74
Tardigrades walk like insects 500k times their size
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/nifty-biomechanics-of-adorable-water-bears-lumbering-gait-may-inspire-microrobots/
157
153
Every DoorDash employee, from engineers to CEO, will make deliveries
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/28/business/doordash-all-employees-delivery/index.html
156
100
Is It Time for the JavaScript Temporal API?
https://blog.openreplay.com/is-it-time-for-the-javascript-temporal-api/
154
338
Want to be an actuary? Odds are, you’ll fail the test
https://www.wsj.com/articles/actuary-credential-test-exam-bad-odds-11640706082
145
It’s cheaper to stop emitting now than to pull carbon from the air later
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/staying-below-2-c-warming-costs-less-than-overshooting-and-correcting/
150
Some Apple engineers rewarded up to $180k in stock bonuses as incentive to stay
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/28/apple-engineers-stock-bonus/
222
Features of a dream programming language
https://dev.to/redbar0n/features-of-a-dream-programming-language-cio
134
41
LuaTeX Comes of Age (2017)
https://lwn.net/Articles/731581/
128
68
Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2000) [pdf]
http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf
122
31
Swarm consensus [pdf]
http://replicated.cc/files/schmebulock.pdf
61
Mind-expanding books
https://github.com/hackerkid/Mind-Expanding-Books