896
204
Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website
https://gdcolon.com/🗿
4 years ago
725
271
Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale
https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1487228574608211969
500
288
Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is stable
https://pypi.org/project/black/
492
305
People don't work as much as they say
https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/people-dont-work-as-much-as-you-think
352
438
Phone is still the best way to order pizza
https://dan.bulwinkle.net/blog/phone-is-still-the-best-way-to-order-pizza/
331
106
Tell HN: Google doesn't work anymore for exact matches
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30130535
289
268
Despite the hype, iPhone security no match for NSO spyware (2021)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/07/19/apple-iphone-nso/
287
217
War Is a Racket (1933)
https://man.fas.org/smedley.htm
283
144
Tor Browser: a legacy of advancing private browsing innovation
https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-advancing-privacy-innovation/
274
114
Heartbreaking: 6509 PSUs Fail After a Brief 22 Years of Service
https://www.jumboframeinternet.com/post/1/
266
310
Reasons for servers to support IPv6
https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/01/29/reasons-for-servers-to-support-ipv6/
230
145
How FreeDOS Grew Up and Became a Modern DOS (2021)
https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/12250/how-freedos-grew-up-and-became-a-modern-dos/
228
74
Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer
https://github.com/rkkr/simple-keyboard/issues/333
226
151
USB Type-C finally shows up in power tools
https://www.xda-developers.com/usb-type-c-power-tools/
224
45
What is the inverse of a circle?
https://mattferraro.dev/posts/inverse-of-a-circle
223
80
Dennis Ritchie Home Page (2006)
https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/
219
Request bodies in GET requests
https://evertpot.com/get-request-bodies/
208
124
Treasury reconsiders IRS’s use of ID.me face recognition for web
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-28/treasury-weighing-id-me-alternatives-over-privacy-concerns
207
176
Chip shortages due to lack of investment in right fabs
https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/28/idc_chip_shortages/
192
121
How to avoid layout shifts caused by web fonts
https://simonhearne.com/2021/layout-shifts-webfonts/
187
98
An update on rust/coreutils
https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2022/01/29/an-update-on-rust-coreutils
178
191
Latin as she is spoke: How classicists tricked themselves (2019)
http://blogicarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/argumentum-ad-ignorantiam.html
174
27
Plant-based epoxy enables recyclable carbon fiber
https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2022/plant-based-epoxy-enables-recyclable-carbon-fiber-improves-economics-for-mass-market-electric-vehicles.html
169
72
Facebook page unpublished with no warning
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30122572
167
209
Over 10% of Tesla Model S EVs Fail Germany’s Strict Inspection After 3 Years
https://www.thedrive.com/news/44068/over-10-percent-of-tesla-model-s-evs-fail-germanys-strict-inspection-after-3-years
166
88
Turning back time with epigenetic clocks
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00077-8
163
58
YouTube-dl is under new management, will be happy to see new PRs
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30568
152
51
Controlling RGB LEDs with only powerlines: Anatomy of a Christmas light string
https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2022/01/23/controlling-rgb-leds-with-only-the-powerlines-anatomy-of-a-christmas-light-string/
49
A pure Go embedded SQL database
https://gitlab.com/cznic/ql
46
PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years (2019) [video]
https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/postgresql_fsync/
138
66
Tech debt gets worse before it gets better
https://jeremymikkola.com/posts/2022_01_29_tech_debt_gets_worse_before_it_gets_beffer.html
136
37
Choosing tools for Game Boy development
https://gbdev.io/guides/tools.html
158
One gemini battery nearly doubles Tesla Model S range
https://www.motortrend.com/news/one-gemini-battery-tesla-model-s-range-test/
133
61
The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate
https://acoup.blog/2020/05/01/collections-the-battle-of-helms-deep-part-i-bargaining-for-goods-at-helms-gate/
127
Dataset and Model for “I built a system to take photos of planes over my house”
https://universe.roboflow.com/skybot-cam/overhead-plane-detector
123
38
Procrastinate: PostgreSQL-Based Task Queue for Python
https://procrastinate.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html
155
How can you tell if the company youre interviewing with is rotten on the inside?
https://charity.wtf/2022/01/29/how-can-you-tell-if-the-company-youre-interviewing-with-is-rotten-on-the-inside/
117
“Y Combinator is not worth it”
https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1487500943511932941
The 'hidden resignation': employees are checked out
https://tidymails.com/business-insider/the-hidden-resignation-employees-are-checked-out-full-article/235949/
111
55
The 512KB Club
https://512kb.club/
108
36
Deep physical neural networks trained with backpropagation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04223-6
105
29
Writing Literate API Documentation in Emacs Org Mode
https://joseph8th.github.io/posts/wow-writing-literate-api-documentation-in-emacs-org-mode/
149
Ask HN: Alternate Email hosting to G Suite
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30128198
104
Malicious app on Google Play drops banking malware on users’ devices
https://blog.pradeo.com/vultur-malware-dropper-google-play
102
15
Tango: Create step-by-step documentation with screenshots
https://www.tango.us/
125
The Web3 Fraud
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/web3-fraud
99
139
In quieter corners DAOs are forging a new ecosystem for digital startups
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-promise-of-daos-the-latest-craze-in-crypto
146
The Pandemic Boom Goes Bust
https://therossreport.substack.com/p/the-pandemic-boom-goes-bust
34
Game performance optimization – A practical example from Industry Idle
https://ruoyusun.com/2022/01/28/game-pref.html
194
Citizen developers are rapidly becoming the vanguard of corporate digitisation
https://www.economist.com/business/2022/01/29/what-if-all-workers-wrote-software-not-just-the-geek-elite
95
17
Analog Television Simulation
https://substack.net/tv/#57
93
18
Si78c: Memory-accurate reimplementation of Space Invaders in C
https://github.com/loadzero/si78c
91
26
NFTs Are, Quite Simply, Bullshit
https://jacobinmag.com/2022/01/nfts-fallon-paris-hilton-bored-ape-digital-imagery-commodification
Rust extension traits, greppability and IDEs
https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2022/rust-extension-traits-greppability-and-ides/
69
COM+ Revisited
https://lowleveldesign.org/2022/01/17/com-revisited/
201
Whichever party is in power, policies tend to be similar
https://thomasprosser.substack.com/p/the-biggest-secret-in-political-science
87
53
Ask HN: Do people still use DeviantArt?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30124285
86
Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in protest against Spotify
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/29/1076670679/joni-mitchell-neil-young-protest-spotify-rogan-misinformation
85
High carbohydrate intake, not fat, was associated with higher risk of mortality (2017)
https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(17)32252-3/fulltext
82
A pipe operator for JavaScript: introduction and use cases
https://2ality.com/2022/01/pipe-operator.html
21
DBOS: A DBMS-oriented Operating System [pdf]
https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p21-skiadopoulos.pdf
78
40
‘Maus’ is an Amazon bestseller after Tennessee school ban
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/28/maus-amazon-bestseller-after-tennessee-school-ban.html
4
The Hidden Engineering Protecting Getty Art from Earthquakes
https://www.getty.edu/news/the-hidden-engineering-protecting-getty-art-from-earthquakes/
67
Libertarianism for Me, Authoritarianism for Thee
https://americancompass.org/the-commons/libertarianism-for-me-authoritarianism-for-thee/
65
7
A dynamic tutorial about a compiler in one JavaScript file (2016)
https://github.com/jamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler/blob/master/the-super-tiny-compiler.js
6
On Immersion
https://blog.laurel.world/on-immersion/
