740
182
I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house
https://twitter.com/LukeBerndt/status/1484916000139194375
4 years ago
600
612
On Leaving Facebook
https://frantic.im/leaving-facebook/
468
240
WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-90-wordpress-themes-plugins-backdoored-in-supply-chain-attack/
350
213
Ask HN: What's Up with Google?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30031672
317
200
How E Ink developed full-color e-paper
https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-e-ink-developed-full-color-epaper
302
127
Amazon activist’s firing deemed illegal by labor board officials
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-21/amazon-activist-s-firing-deemed-illegal-by-labor-board-officials
292
241
Why skyscrapers are so short
https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-skyscrapers-are-so-short/
269
94
Shell’s carbon capture plant is emitting more than it’s capturing
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kb43x/shell-quest-carbon-capture-plant-alberta
268
237
Many clothing donations end up in African landfills
https://expmag.com/2022/01/what-fast-fashion-costs-the-world/
251
154
Ant mill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill
227
147
Linux on a 486SX
https://ocawesome101.github.io/486-linux.html
225
290
Myths about cooking steak that need to go away (2013)
https://www.seriouseats.com/old-wives-tales-about-cooking-steak
214
124
ImageGlass added malware with this commit
https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/commit/97c716cf1ad23535b7b6840ba189270e440e742e
206
196
The case for a modern language
https://jeang3nie.codeberg.page/case-for-modern-language-pt1/
184
174
The control group is out of control (2014)
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-out-of-control/
172
71
Bell Labs Org Chart (1980)
https://neil.computer/notes/bell-labs-org-chart/
165
381
Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron storm'
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/ireland-set-rapidly-drop-almost-all-covid-19-restrictions-2022-01-21/
164
199
Ask HN: Is it just me or do 99% of SWE jobs offers seem completely pointless?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30038145
158
‘Farms are failing’ as fertilizer prices drive up cost of food
https://www.wsj.com/articles/farms-are-failing-as-fertilizer-prices-drive-up-cost-of-food-11642770182
157
48
Zombocom is a well of deep wisdom (2021)
https://expmag.com/2021/09/the-internets-most-useless-website-is-a-well-of-deep-wisdom/
156
121
In rare cases, coronavirus vaccines may cause Long Covid–like symptoms
https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-cases-coronavirus-vaccines-may-cause-long-covid-symptoms
155
101
Diving into BoardGameGeek
https://jvanelteren.github.io/blog/2022/01/19/boardgames.html
83
New genetic study confirms that alcohol is a direct cause of cancer
https://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/new-genetic-study-confirms-that-alcohol-is-a-direct-cause-of-cancer
153
I'm making a Typescript type-checker in Rust
https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/tyty
152
93
WSL with CUDA support
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30033690
139
36
MoonBounce: The dark side of UEFI firmware
https://securelist.com/moonbounce-the-dark-side-of-uefi-firmware/105468/
136
133
Today in the U.S. we are in the fourth superbubble of the last hundred years
https://www.gmo.com/americas/research-library/let-the-wild-rumpus-begin/
52
Show HN: Hacker XP – Hacker News styled as a Windows XP Outlook email client
https://hackerxp.com/
130
125
Wisconsin Judge Prevents Nurses from Going to New Employer
https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2022/01/21/what-we-know-ascension-thedacare-court-battle-over-employees/6607417001/
129
100
Device wraps around hot surfaces, turns wasted heat to electricity
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/form-fit-device-wraps-around-hot-surfaces-turns-wasted-heat-electricity/
115
Industrial ammonia emits more CO2 than other chemical-making reactions (2019)
https://cen.acs.org/environment/green-chemistry/Industrial-ammonia-production-emits-CO2/97/i24
119
32
Diamond hauled from deep inside Earth holds never-before-seen mineral
https://www.livescience.com/new-mantle-mineral-found-in-diamond
117
96
Golang’s most important feature is invisible
https://blog.devgenius.io/golangs-most-important-feature-is-invisible-6be9c1e7249b?gi=21e47786496b
110
72
Keeping POWER relevant in the open source world
https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/saving-power/
106
35
Pydantic
https://github.com/samuelcolvin/pydantic
33
Click and Swap, our alternative to Drag and Drop
https://engineering.contentsquare.com/2021/click-and-swap-alternative-to-drag-and-drop/
20
Ethnographic research on Dynamicland
https://www.christophlabacher.com/notes/ethnographic-research-on-dynamicland
104
10
Strange DNA structures linked to cancer
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/strange-dna-structures-linked-to-cancer-69624
77
The Dangers of Dimethylmercury (2019)
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-dangers-of-dimethylmercury-/3010064.article
98
131
Uniqlo dangles $8.8M salaries to draw talent in Big Tech showdown
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Retail/Uniqlo-dangles-8.8m-salaries-to-draw-talent-in-Big-Tech-showdown
Why Ireland's housing bubble burst
https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/why-irelands-housing-bubble-burst/
40
Kedro – Creating reproducible, maintainable and modular data science code
https://github.com/kedro-org/kedro
91
23
Brian Eno: Another Green World
https://www.port-magazine.com/issue-29/brian-eno-another-green-world/
87
The Problem with NFTs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g
84
13
Automated departure messages at Symbolics
http://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2022/01/automated-departure-message.html
167
Ask HN: What to do instead of drinking alcohol?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30036551
26
Reflecting on a career in product management
https://newsletter.bringthedonuts.com/p/reflecting-on-a-career-in-product
Metal Detectorist Discovers One of England’s Earliest Gold Coins in a Farm Field
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/800-year-old-gold-penny-found-in-english-field-could-sell-for-half-a-million-180979420/
How trust undermines science
https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/how-trust-undermines-science/
81
Is compensation stagnation to blame for the great resignation?
https://tomtunguz.com/employee_expense_inflation_2021/
11
Going Online Like it’s 1979: The Atari 800
https://www.auvik.com/franklyit/blog/atari-800-online/
78
Mapping my walks with OSRM and Rust
https://blog.dend.ro/mapping-my-walks-osrm-rust/
75
12
OSS authors:“We need to understand your mitigation plans for this vulnerability”
https://twitter.com/bagder/status/1484672924036616195
73
55
Kobo unveils Sideload Mode to their e-readers
https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/kobo-unveils-sideload-mode-to-their-e-readers
68
Bitcoin pyramid schemes wreak havoc on Brazil's 'New Egypt'
https://apnews.com/article/cryptocurrency-technology-business-brazil-bitcoin-2dc801e5e3aa477ce7983d84dc8a64bb
65
6
Lego Spectrometer (2017)
https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/12-13-2017/assembling-the-public-lab-lego-spectrometer
64
Distributed locking with Postgres advisory locks
https://rclayton.silvrback.com/distributed-locking-with-postgres-advisory-locks
60
Practical Pigment Mixing for Digital Painting
https://scrtwpns.com/mixbox/
A toast to all the rejects
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/01/celebrate-your-rejections-failures/621327/
59
42
Architect behind Googleplex now says it's 'dangerous' to work at posh offices
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/22/1073975824/architect-behind-googleplex-now-says-its-dangerous-to-work-at-such-a-posh-office
Show HN: Perspec – Scriptable desktop app to correct the perspective of images
https://github.com/feramhq/Perspec
57
Inflation is wiping out pay increases for most Americans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/01/22/wages-inflation/
27
LineageOS
https://lineageos.org/
54
RPG Paper Maker
https://github.com/RPG-Paper-Maker/RPG-Paper-Maker
C++ Frequently Questioned Answers (2009)
https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
28
Ask HN: Besides a job or freelancing, how would you make money with coding?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30035081
