617
195
A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop
https://pkolaczk.github.io/server-slower-than-a-laptop/
4 years ago
511
280
Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
https://cprimozic.net/blog/my-selfhosted-websites-architecture/
502
127
Update: iPhone Camera app did not replace person's head with a leaf
https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476951534160257026
392
277
How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API
https://danpetrov.xyz/programming/2021/12/30/telegram-google-translate.html
368
203
Reporter likely to be charged for using “view source” feature on web browser
https://boingboing.net/2021/12/30/reporter-likely-to-be-charged-for-using-view-source-feature-on-web-browser.html
363
219
Companies that had successful pivots
https://github.com/fikrikarim/companies-with-successful-pivot
346
144
Smartbolts
http://www.smartbolts.com/
319
224
Hospitals still not fully complying with federal price-disclosure rules
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospital-price-public-biden-11640882507
295
60
The Modern Guide to OAuth
https://fusionauth.io/learn/expert-advice/oauth/modern-guide-to-oauth/
290
62
My progress in porting Wine
https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-progress-in-porting-wine/11741
285
86
Thousands of coma patients may be conscious
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/comas-conscious-communicate/
282
130
If – A Poem by Rudyard Kipling
https://poets.org/poem/if
259
19
How Audio Fingerprinting Works
https://emysound.com/blog/open-source/2020/06/12/how-audio-fingerprinting-works.html
241
138
Yesterday the FBI signed its first public contract with Clearview AI
https://twitter.com/_jack_poulson/status/1476936000454680576
237
155
T-Mobile Actively Censoring Certain URLs [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-HE6_F3tMg
233
548
Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
https://continuations.com/post/671863718643105792/web3crypto-why-bother
230
157
Ask HN: How did you move on from past experiences?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29748113
228
A Guide to Twitter
https://tasshin.com/blog/a-guide-to-twitter/
227
275
Belgian scientific base in Antarctica engulfed by Covid despite strict measures
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium-all-news/199687/belgian-scientific-base-in-antarctica-engulfed-by-covid-19-despite-strict-measures
225
Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746344
The Price of Discipline
https://perell.com/essay/the-price-of-discipline/
188
21
Betty White has died
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/betty-white-dies/2021/12/31/628e2326-d610-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html
185
52
PortableGL: An implementation of OpenGL 3.x-ish in clean C
https://github.com/rswinkle/PortableGL
169
8
Eurorack CPU
https://github.com/katef/eurorack-cpu
167
126
Safest mushrooms to forage and eat
https://www.fieldandstream.com/story/survival/safest-mushrooms-to-forage-and-eat/
79
Coding error at Santander Bank put millions into random accounts on Christmas
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/31/santander-accidentally-put-millions-into-random-accounts-on-christmas-day.html
153
92
How Y Combinator Changed the World
https://www.wired.com/story/how-y-combinator-changed-the-world/
140
Unicode Normalization Forms: When ö ≠ ö
https://blog.opencore.ch/posts/unicode-normalization-forms/
149
148
You shouldn't parse the output of ls(1)
https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs
141
207
Why Brahmins lead Western firms but rarely Indian ones
https://www.economist.com/asia/2022/01/01/why-brahmins-lead-western-firms-but-rarely-indian-ones
134
Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2022?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236
159
United States IPv6 adoption over 50%
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption
125
137
Some sanity for C and C++ development on Windows
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2021/12/30/
119
30
Betty White Dies at 99
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-betty-white-dead-age-99-tv-icon-20211231-o2zcyf56yrdvvhvwrceinqqwgi-story.html
117
Show HN: Browser based deep fakes in pure JavaScript
https://filter.mot.omg.lol
115
120
Predict 3D position of flying bugs and pest to shoot down them with a laser
https://www.naro.go.jp/english/laboratory/nipp/press/3d/index.html
110
267
Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/germany-shuts-down-half-of-its-remaining-nuclear-plants/article38080285.ece
Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter
https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
107
17
Recovering a PostgreSQL database after a hard drive failure
https://sambhav.saggis.com/en/blog/recovering-postgresql-hard-drive-fail
102
16
MicroWeb DOS web browser – for 8088 systems
https://github.com/jhhoward/MicroWeb
98
23
Truly Headless Draw.io Exports
https://fasterthanli.me/series/dont-shell-out/part-1
96
145
Ask HN: Nerds of HN, did you overcome loneliness?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29748257
95
Stupid Patterns
https://darshit.dev/posts/stupid-patterns/
32
Circuit Design and Applied Optimization (Part 1)
https://stefanabikaram.com/writing/circuit-design-and-applied-optimization/
94
United, Spirit offer higher pay to on board staff during January
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spirit-airlines-triple-flight-attendant-pay-through-jan-4-union-2021-12-31/
90
42
How to help a friend who lost their home in a fire (2020)
https://www.sonomamag.com/how-to-help-a-friend-who-lost-their-home-in-a-fire/
152
Is Bluetooth holding back Apple's AirPods? We asked the man who made them
https://www.whathifi.com/features/is-bluetooth-holding-back-apples-airpods-we-asked-the-man-who-made-them
89
13
Fortification, Part V: The Age of Industrial Firepower
https://acoup.blog/2021/12/31/collections-fortification-part-v-the-age-of-industrial-firepower/
88
24
Astronomers uncover largest group of rogue planets yet
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/12/211222153104.htm
36
2021 in Database Startups: Gold Rush
https://unum.cloud/post/2021-12-31-dbms-startups/
4
Building Generative Glitch Art Tools
https://adamfuhrer.com/building-generative-glitch-art-tools
84
Python module for parsing Apple Numbers .numbers files
https://github.com/masaccio/numbers-parser
83
18
Show HN: 8Bit Computers Book
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29745933
81
Deserializing JSON Fast (2020)
https://blog.datalust.co/deserializing-json-really-fast/
78
28
The Clojure Mindshare (2019)
https://www.groundedsage.dev/posts/the-clojure-mindshare/
75
Horrible insurance kerfuffle gone good
https://blog.plover.com/brain/insurance.html
72
Music now in the public domain from first January, 2022
https://routenote.com/blog/music-now-in-the-public-domain-from-1st-january-2022/
Two NFT copycats are fighting over which is the real fake Bored Ape Yacht Club
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/30/22860010/bored-ape-yacht-club-payc-phayc-copycat-nft
71
The governor of Missouri still doesn’t know how websites work
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/31/22861188/missouri-governor-mike-parson-hack-website-source-code
69
15
The rule to making your own game is that there are no rules
https://text.npr.org/1065160626
67
Docopt
http://docopt.org
66
Using Brave's “Private Window with Tor” could get you fired
https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/rsdg0r/til_pressing_altshiftn_in_brave_browser_will/