1075
141
CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/make-beautiful-gradients/
4 years ago
785
890
I think I know why you can't hire engineers right now
https://cushychicken.github.io/why-you-cant-hire-engineers/
679
600
Is the madness ever going to end?
https://unixsheikh.com/articles/is-the-madness-ever-going-to-end.html
508
368
Firefox 96
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/96.0/releasenotes/
470
414
Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022
https://www.surgehq.ai/blog/is-google-search-deteriorating-measuring-search-quality-in-2022
461
213
Make the “semantic web” web 3.0 again – with the help of SQLite
https://ansiwave.net/blog/semantic-web.html
432
298
The optional chaining operator, “modern” browsers, and my mom
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/a-web-for-all/
411
260
Nothing like this will be built again (2002)
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/rants/nothing-like-this-will-be-buil.html
405
629
Google says iMessage is too powerful
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/after-ruining-android-messaging-google-says-imessage-is-too-powerful/
383
217
LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage
https://alternativeto.net/news/2022/1/lastpass-seemingly-deliberately-holding-users-password-data-hostage-alongside-new-pricing-plans/
355
175
Dear sir, you have built a compiler
https://rachitnigam.com/post/you-have-built-a-compiler/
348
245
The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieval-habit-of-biphasic-sleep
340
281
Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?
https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-digital-color-sludge
333
150
Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29888599
314
203
Embrace slow productivity
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/its-time-to-embrace-slow-productivity
309
49
Dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Parquet, etc.
https://datastation.multiprocess.io/blog/2022-01-11-dsq.html
303
119
The WebSocket Handbook
https://ably.com/blog/introducing-the-websocket-handbook
352
Djokovic's PCR test was manipulated?
https://twitter.com/zerforschung/status/1480924205352996870
302
306
PHP in 2022
https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2022
296
215
Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty to keep slots
https://www.airlive.net/lufthansa-group-confirmed-that-18000-flights-had-been-flown-empty-to-keep-airport-slots/
294
364
Intel removes Xinjiang references from shareholder letter
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/intel-deletes-reference-to-xinjiang-after-backlash-in-china
282
238
Yesterday, US grounded all planes on the west coast for ten minutes
https://kion546.com/money/cnn-business-consumer/2022/01/11/us-grounded-planes-after-norad-alerted-a-north-korean-missile-launch-official-says-2/
276
335
NASA says Webb’s excess fuel likely to extend its lifetime expectations
https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2021/12/29/nasa-says-webbs-excess-fuel-likely-to-extend-its-lifetime-expectations/
129
UltraRAM: 'Universal Memory' That Brings RAM-Like Speed to Non-Volatile Storage
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ultraram-implemented-in-silicon-for-first-time
232
212
Asian Boss planted deep blue YouTuber and pretended he was a 'man on the street'
https://laorencha.blogspot.com/2022/01/yes-asian-boss-planted-deep-blue.html
231
99
Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution
https://www.quantamagazine.org/eulers-243-year-old-impossible-puzzle-gets-a-quantum-solution-20220110/
218
Google doesn't want to pay Sonos for technology it copied
https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/google-is-intentionally-making-its-products-worse-for-users-reason-might-surprise-you.html
209
173
PCI-Sig Releases 256GBps PCIe 6.0 X16 Spec
https://www.servethehome.com/pci-sig-releases-256gbps-pcie-6-0-x16-spec/
197
30
Problem solving strategies in a graduate real analysis course (2010)
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/245a-problem-solving-strategies/
193
107
Microsoft posts its own teardown and repair video for the Surface Laptop SE
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/microsoft-posts-its-own-teardown-and-repair-video-for-the-surface-laptop-se/
192
90
Annotated equations for increased readability and understanding of papers
https://twitter.com/sibinmohan/status/1480583840858996743
179
311
The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/the-matrix-resurrections-estimated-to-lose-warner-bros-100-million/
177
60
Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/why-are-hyperlinks-blue-revisited/
176
136
Tell HN: GitHub no longer supporting unauthenticated `git://`
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29891656
167
19
How we built a VS Code Extension with Rust, WebAssembly, and TypeScript
https://www.osohq.com/post/building-vs-code-extension-with-rust-wasm-typescript
161
159
Ask HN: Why is software quality always decreasing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29896815
160
180
The Righteousness Fix
https://www.orionmagazine.org/article/the-righteousness-fix/
152
84
Monumental Record: the lives of the workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/monumental-record
117
On Learning Smalltalk
https://blog.robsayers.com/on-learning-smalltalk
149
64
BioNTech-InstaDeep Early Warning System to Detect High-Risk SARS-CoV-2 Variants
https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-and-instadeep-developed-and-successfully-tested-early/
146
194
“Modern” C++ Lamentations (2018)
https://aras-p.info/blog/2018/12/28/Modern-C-Lamentations/
3
Private Equity Firm Amassing Data on America’s Children
https://themarkup.org/machine-learning/2022/01/11/this-private-equity-firm-is-amassing-companies-that-collect-data-on-americas-children
140
105
Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one tool
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29892134
27
Indian threat actor Patchwork APT caught in its own web
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-intelligence/2022/01/patchwork-apt-caught-in-its-own-web/
139
46
How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers
https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/01/11/how-to-find-a-domain-s-authoritative-nameserver/
134
43
New SysJoker Backdoor Targets Windows, Linux, and macOS
https://www.intezer.com/blog/malware-analysis/new-backdoor-sysjoker/
131
What Defcon Sounds Like: Skyking Emergency Action Messages (2016)
https://specialcollections.radio/This-Is-What-DEFCON-Sounds-Like-Skyking-Emergency-Action-Messages
115
Milton Friedman’s Interest Rate Fallacy
https://maroonmacro.substack.com/p/issue-38-milton-friedmans-interest
113
Jevons Paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
110
285
U.S. Justice Department forming unit to counter domestic terrorism
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-justice-department-forming-unit-counter-domestic-terrorism-2022-01-11/
104
23
RFC8890 – The Internet Is for End Users
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8890
100
191
Charge, Baby, Charge for Parking
https://www.econlib.org/charge-baby-charge/
34
Minecraft mod that runs RISC-V Linux
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/oc2?t=kCSXxSMmvEldLgPycfMRkg&s=09
98
53
A small guide for naming stuff in front-end code
https://blog.frankmtaylor.com/2021/10/21/a-small-guide-for-naming-stuff-in-front-end-code/
97
2
Erlang/OTP Profiling: Fprof
https://medium.com/erlang-battleground/erlang-otp-profiling-fprof-b3a1b92e43e3
95
25
Microtargeting as Information Warfare [pdf]
https://cyberdefensereview.army.mil/Portals/6/Documents/2021_winter_cdr/04_CDR_V6N1_Dawson.pdf
94
New documents reveal early beliefs that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered
https://technofog.substack.com/p/new-documents-reveal-early-beliefs
93
42
Ask HN: Has Gmail spam blocking taken a sudden nosedive?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29894548
92
39
Show HN: Threeboard – a full-size mechanical USB keyboard with only three keys
https://github.com/taylorconor/threeboard
91
Edina Minnesota latest suburb to roll out homeowner surveillance camera program
https://www.startribune.com/edina-latest-suburb-to-roll-out-homeowner-surveillance-camera-program/600132122/
11
The Art of Lisp and Writing
https://dreamsongs.com/ArtOfLisp.html
8
Another new record in self-cleaning Turing machines
https://nickdrozd.github.io/2022/01/10/another-self-cleaning-turing-machine.html
Reading a Pacific navigator’s mysterious map may require a shift in perspective
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/society/2021/reading-pacific-navigators-mysterious-map
82
67
Solving Wordle with Z3
https://typon.github.io/wordle.html
80
Strengthening our efforts against the spread of non-consensual intimate images
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/12/strengthening-efforts-against-spread-of-non-consensual-intimate-images/
77
37
Show HN: Processing 24 hours of video in ten minutes
https://sievedata.com/
70
16
Common Lisp: Macroexpand-time branching
https://mov.im/?blog/phoe%40movim.eu/f76c3cd8-8d55-409a-9827-c1b345e8e3ad
Dsq: Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Parquet, etc.
