3393
1127
My First Impressions of Web3
https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
4 years ago
1690
762
Tell HN: Salary data is for sale
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753
790
115
Drop a raindrop anywhere in the world and watch where it ends up
https://river-runner-global.samlearner.com/
692
257
Computers as I used to love them
https://tonsky.me/blog/syncthing/
521
321
A routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions
https://serpapi.com/blog/how-a-routine-gem-update-ended-up-charging/
489
537
Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda
https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-pentagon-and-cia-have-shaped-thousands-of-hollywood-movies-into-super-effective-propaganda/
417
104
A public letter to CloudFlare to fix their snoopy vendor
https://github.com/captn3m0/hello-cloudflare/blob/main/README.md
379
307
Intel completely disables AVX-512 on Alder Lake after all
https://www.igorslab.de/en/intel-deactivated-avx-512-on-alder-lake-but-fully-questionable-interpretation-of-efficiency-news-editorial/
373
178
A curated list of warez and piracy links
https://github.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy
221
Kagi: A Premium Search Engine
https://kagi.com/
360
327
5% of 666 Python repos had comma typo bugs (inc V8, TensorFlow and PyTorch)
https://codereviewdoctor.medium.com/5-of-666-python-repos-had-comma-typos-including-tensorflow-and-pytorch-sentry-and-v8-7bc3ad9a1bb7
354
254
Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29838908
344
198
Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20130128143144/http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/09/robert_redford_sidney_poitier_ben_kingsley_dan_aykroyd_what_it_was_like_shooting_the_movie_sneakers_.html
341
259
Vim prank: alias vim='vim -y'
https://learnbyexample.github.io/mini/vim-prank/
304
95
Show HN: I'm 15 and building a live quiz app for classrooms: Quickz
https://quickz.org/play
267
83
Open-sourcing the Sorbet VS Code Extension
https://sorbet.org/blog/2022/01/06/open-sourcing-sorbet-vscode
241
52
A circuit-level redesign of the Game Boy Advance
https://github.com/Zekfoo/AGZ
240
159
Ruling party figures say Poland has Pegasus spyware
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ruling-party-figures-say-poland-has-pegasus-spyware-2022-01-07/
220
32
Show HN: Minimator, a Minimalist Graphical Editor
https://minimator.app
219
276
It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to (2020)
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2020/03/its-not-what-programming-languages-do.html
145
Dangerous humid heat extremes occurring decades before expected (2020)
https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2621/Dangerous-humid-heat-extremes-occurring-decades-before-expected
211
29
Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220106-00/?p=106122
194
179
Gas Pump Golf
https://gaspumpgolf.github.io/
193
70
Nvidia tool generates full 3D models from a single still image
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2021/04/16/gan-research-knight-rider-ai-omniverse/
188
78
Tech CEO pleads to wire fraud in IP address scheme
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/11/tech-ceo-pleads-to-wire-fraud-in-ip-address-scheme/
184
66
Unidentified PC DOS 1.1 Boot Sector Junk Identified
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/unidentified-pc-dos-1-1-boot-sector-junk-identified/
182
74
Toshiba T1100 – the laptop that was named a milestone of electronic engineering
https://medium.com/geekculture/toshiba-t1100-why-a-laptop-without-a-hard-drive-was-named-an-ieee-milestone-of-electronic-574a8f71b5ec
278
Judge orders FDA to hasten FOIA release of Pfizer vaccine docs
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/paramount-importance-judge-orders-fda-hasten-release-pfizer-vaccine-docs-2022-01-07/
170
33
My work routine: plan, do, learn loops
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/my-admittedly-hardcore-work-routine-whats-yours-1fb500959f
168
82
Why “process substitution” is a late feature in Unix shells
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ProcessSubstitutionWhyLate
166
213
Launch HN: Homestead (YC W20) – Lot-splitting to build new housing supply
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29844098
160
35
Sidney Poitier has died
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jan/07/sidney-poitier-in-the-heat-of-the-night-acting-pioneer-dies
150
49
Loopy Pro
https://loopypro.com/
148
My favorite liar (2009)
https://zenmoments.org/my-favorite-liar/
146
Sugar not so nice for your child’s brain development
https://news.uga.edu/sugar-not-so-nice-childs-brain-development/
140
102
Look How Big Is My Team
https://nicolasbustamante.substack.com/p/look-how-big-is-my-team
138
239
Urea prices increase 270% in 1 year
https://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=urea&months=60
128
67
Brian Kernighan's Home Page
https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/
Antenna Theory
https://www.antenna-theory.com/
123
143
Balcony solar panels – one-year results
https://medium.com/geekculture/balcony-solar-panels-one-year-results-176af4adaf5b
120
16
A K8s-based game where you seek out and destroy pods in a shootem' up style
https://github.com/Shogan/kube-chaos
119
89
Commodore 900: Unix-like workstation/server that was eclipsed by Amiga (2020)
https://vintagecomputer.ca/commodore-900/
113
147
Venmo, PayPal, Cash App must report payments of $600 or more to IRS
https://www.wftv.com/news/trending/venmo-paypal-cash-app-must-report-payments-600-or-more-irs/23M5KZQXHNAJFBKKYI6FFGSSXI/
112
A/B test improved your website's conversion rate? Not so fast
https://blog.alexandervolkmann.com/2022/01/05/conversion-rate-A-B-testing.html
109
71
Notes from the End of a Long Life
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/nyregion/ruth-willig-oldest-new-yorkers.html
108
69
Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia (2013)
https://www.pnas.org/content/110/21/8471
107
342
California Considers Doubling Its Taxes
https://taxfoundation.org/california-health-care-tax-proposal/
105
36
Celebrity fascination tied to lower intelligence
https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-021-00679-3
103
26
Random number generator updates for Linux 5.17
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
100
122
Fortran is easy to learn
https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2022/01/05/why-fortran-is-easy-to-learn/
99
Marak's GitHub account suspended after he erased his faker project
https://twitter.com/marak/status/1479200803948830724
Folly: An open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook
https://github.com/facebook/folly
94
Kazakh president gives shoot-to-kill order to quell protests
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/kazakh-president-says-constitutional-order-has-mostly-been-restored-2022-01-07/
11
Routing History of AS15562 (2017)
https://stat.ripe.net/widget/routing-history#w.resource=as15562&w.starttime=2017-01-15T00%3A00%3A00&w.endtime=2017-06-23T00%3A00%3A00&show=Maxmized
93
Key M1 Mac Engineer Departs Apple for Intel
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/01/06/m1-mac-engineer-departs-apple-intel/
87
9
UxPlay: AirPlay Unix mirroring server
https://github.com/antimof/UxPlay
86
27
Update on fire incident at ASML Berlin
https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2022/update-fire-incident-at-asml-berlin
Google home speakers are about to get slightly worse because Sonos sued and won
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/6/22871304/google-home-speaker-group-volume-control-changes-sonos-patent-decision
5
BumbleBee: Run and distribute eBPF programs using OCI images
https://github.com/solo-io/bumblebee
73
30
Why aren't the most useful Mac apps on the App Store?
https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/apps-outside-app-store/
12
In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm (2014) [pdf]
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/papers/raft-extended.pdf
72
Study: 1960 ramjet design for interstellar travel—a sci-fi staple—is unfeasible
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/study-1960-ramjet-design-for-interstellar-travel-a-sci-fi-staple-is-unfeasible/
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