1016
926
Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online
https://royalsociety.org/news/2022/01/scientific-misinformation-report/
4 years ago
906
584
A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
https://jenson.org/tesla/
638
810
Did I just lose half a million dollars?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/sfz4kw/did_i_just_lose_half_a_million_dollars_by_sending/
631
179
Show HN: Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire
https://fahrrad-tools.de/tire.html
429
453
Don't forget Microsoft
https://luttig.substack.com/p/dont-forget-microsoft
427
496
Ask HN: At a peak of my dev career, I hate my life
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30132560
389
645
GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts
https://rewis.io/urteile/urteil/lhm-20-01-2022-3-o-1749320/
283
155
John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)
https://rarecooking.com/2021/12/14/john-lockes-recipe-for-pancakes/
243
122
In defence of the boring web
https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2022/boring/
231
86
Hypercard Simulator
https://hypercardsimulator.com/
229
123
Beancount: Double-entry accounting from text files
https://github.com/beancount/beancount
228
110
If it were my home
http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/
214
339
U.S. companies are hiring Latin America’s tech talent
https://restofworld.org/2022/latin-america-startup-developer-scarcity/
205
88
One more small step toward the right to software repair
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/dec/28/vizio-update-1/
172
61
Midnight Commander Tips and Tricks
http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/MC/mc_tips.shtml
171
58
The case of the mysterious --help directory (2020)
https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2020/05/the-case-of-the-mysterious-help-directory.html
161
173
State of the Web: Static Site Generators
https://byteofdev.com/posts/static-site-generators/
84
Building single-page-apps with PostgREST
https://blog.polyglot.network/backend.sql-+-frontend.js-love
154
59
The Story of Maxis Software (1999)
https://web.archive.org/web/19991012021220/http://gamespot.com/features/maxis/index.html
151
160
Operation Warp Speed: A new model for industrial policy
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/05/inside-operation-warp-speed-a-new-model-for-industrial-policy/
146
74
Ask HN: Has anyone leveraged GDPR to overturn automated bans?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30138669
134
21
Hardy, Ramanujan and Taxi No. 1729
https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2022/01/30/hardy-ramanujan-and-taxi-no-1729/
127
65
Socrates on the blessing of being refuted
https://antigonejournal.com/2022/01/socrates-being-refuted/
56
RIP Stack Overflow Jobs
https://blog.tdwright.co.uk/2022/01/29/only-the-great-die-at-11-rip-stack-overflow-jobs/
112
94
When the algorithm is your boss
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/amazon-algorithm-human-resource-management-tech-worker-surveillance
107
98
SBCL: New in Version 2.2.1
http://www.sbcl.org/all-news.html?2.2.1#2.2.1
106
27
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules (1972) [pdf]
https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/edu/2ip30/references/criteria_for_modularization.pdf
125
Uninitialized memory: Unsafe Rust is too hard
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/1/30/unsafe-rust/
100
Reducing inequality can reverse political polarisation: study
https://www.thesaint.scot/post/university-study-finds-reducing-inequality-can-reverse-political-polarisation
99
36
Blueberry Earth or “what if the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries?“ (2018)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10553
97
19
Alexa whistleblower demands Amazon apology after being jailed and tortured
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/30/alexa-factory-whistleblower-i-was-tortured-and-jailed-now-amazon-should-apologise
23
Reducing the Size of Large PDFs
https://leancrew.com/all-this/2022/01/reducing-the-size-of-large-pdfs/
89
32
Embeddable, replicated and fault tolerant SQL engine based on Sqlite
https://github.com/canonical/dqlite
47
GoSTL: Algorithm and datastructure library for Go similar to C++ STL
https://github.com/liyue201/gostl
87
53
The Great Unconformity: Research points to glaciers being the culprit
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdzzb/a-billion-years-of-time-are-mysteriously-missing-scientists-think-they-know-why
15
Set up a website with Nim (2019)
https://ttj.dk/blog/2019/01/20/setup-a-website-with-nim
Autonomous battery-powered rail cars
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/01/moving-more-with-less-freight-startup-bets-on-autonomous-electric-rail-cars/
83
119
New engine could save internal combustion from the scrap heap
https://www.motor1.com/news/563664/new-omega-combustion-engine-design/
80
26
Linear O(N) sorting with Radix Sort (2000)
http://www.codercorner.com/RadixSortRevisited.htm
76
6
Learn by Wrapping
https://mikerourke.dev/blog/learn-by-wrapping/
136
I write about America’s health care system, and I got caught up in it
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/01/i-write-about-americas-absurd-health-care-system-then-i-got-caught-up-in-it.html
73
Autodocumenting Makefiles
https://daniel.feldroy.com/posts/autodocumenting-makefiles
71
159
America's Favorite Pickup Truck Goes Electric
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/31/americas-favorite-pickup-truck-goes-electric
70
33
Deep symbolic regression for recurrent sequences
http://recur-env.eba-rm3fchmn.us-east-2.elasticbeanstalk.com/
68
20
Apple removes Grindr from the Chinese app store
https://applecensorship.com/app-store-monitor/
67
3
Applying Offensive Reverse Engineering to Facebook Gameroom (2021)
https://spaceraccoon.dev/applying-offensive-reverse-engineering-to-facebook-gameroom
13
Tofuproxy – Web proxy, TLS terminator, X.509 TOFU manager, WARC/gemini browser
http://www.tofuproxy.stargrave.org/
30
Seattle Telecommunications History Museum
https://www.telcomhistory.org/connections-museum-seattle/
64
189
Would you take free land in rural America?
https://thehustle.co/would-you-take-free-land-in-rural-america/
63
196
Regarding the Neil Young–Joe Rogan Spotify Saga
https://daringfireball.net/2022/01/young_rogan_spotify_saga
60
Ulysses at 100: The Birth of the Modern
https://www.ft.com/content/609d5d0d-b666-4af8-af39-82ddaf5f28de
9
Windows 11 update changed default browser to Edge, Chrome search-engine to Bing
https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/sbgmab/last_windows_11_update_changed_default_browser_to/
