790
621
Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter
https://alexchesser.medium.com/career-advice-nobody-gave-me-never-ignore-a-recruiter-4474eac9556
3 years ago
745
438
Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30167865
729
636
Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
https://www.getcruise.com/news/welcome-riders/
679
206
Fetch API has landed into Node.js
https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/6ec225392675c92b102d3caad02ee3a157c9d1b7
575
210
The Casio employee behind the “Sleng Teng” riddim that revolutionized reggae
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g02027/
528
416
America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/01/31/americas-covid-job-saving-programme-gave-most-of-its-cash-to-the-rich
488
204
Framework Raises $18M Series A
https://frame.work/blog/frameworks-series-a-and-the-years-ahead
468
175
Nearly 1k mysterious strands revealed in Milky Way’s center
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/01/nearly-1000-mysterious-strands-revealed-in-milky-ways-center/
445
1055
Tesla to recall vehicles that may disobey stop signs
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-recalls-nearly-54000-us-vehicles-rolling-stop-software-feature-2022-02-01/
422
277
How to Mislead with Facts
https://consilienceproject.org/how-to-mislead-with-facts/
390
490
Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30162767
365
217
The McNamara fallacy: Measurement is not understanding
http://mcnamarafallacy.com/
362
220
MariaDB to go public at $672M valuation
https://mariadb.com/newsroom/press-releases/mariadb-corporation-ab-to-become-a-publicly-traded-company-via-combination-with-angel-pond-holdings-corporation/
356
89
Tell HN: Replace the X with a 5 in arXiv.org to display a paper in HTML
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30163308
352
105
WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser
https://leaningtech.com/webvm-server-less-x86-virtual-machines-in-the-browser/
309
85
A toy DNS resolver
https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/02/01/a-dns-resolver-in-80-lines-of-go/
306
238
The web starts on page four
https://christianheilmann.com/2021/12/20/the-web-starts-on-page-four/
299
215
Origin of the Bluetooth Name
https://www.bluetooth.com/about-us/bluetooth-origin/
292
122
You can now send replies from your Duck Addresses
https://duckduckgo.com/email/faq
338
Koenigsegg's Tiny Electric Motor Makes 335 HP and 443 LB-FT of Torque
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a38940998/koenigsegg-quark-electric-motor/
273
135
BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M
https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/01/31/blackberry-sells-mobile-patents-to-patent-troll-for-600m
271
88
Installing Every Arch Package
https://ta180m.exozy.me/posts/installing-every-arch-package/
269
900
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30164271
258
303
Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet
https://news.stv.tv/west-central/man-found-guilty-of-grossly-offensive-captain-tom-tweet
254
90
Push Notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support coming to iOS
https://firt.dev/ios-15.4b
250
130
Analysis of Magic Leap 2 at SPIE AR/VR/Mr 2022
https://kguttag.com/2022/01/31/magic-leap-2-at-spie-ar-vr-mr-2022/
244
61
Furiosa's Cat Feeder (2016)
https://blondihacks.com/furiosas-cat-feeder/
469
Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-01-31/europe-s-nuclear-power-plants-are-disappearing-just-as-energy-crisis-hits-hard
214
241
Why does my diet soda taste off? Aspartame hydrolysis
https://foodscienceinstitute.com/2022/01/31/why-does-my-diet-soda-taste-off/
196
24
How to Explain an Idea
https://www.markpollard.net/how-to-explain-an-idea/
182
181
Improving MIT’s written commitment to freedom of expression
https://freespeech.mit.edu/improving-mit%E2%80%99s-written-commitment-freedom-expression
174
104
Bottles – Run Windows software and games on Linux
https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles
169
Code colocation is king
https://koenvangilst.nl/blog/code-colocation-is-king
157
242
Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of modern software?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30160282
154
22
Predicting the tide with an analog computer made from Lego
http://pepijndevos.nl/2022/01/30/predicting-the-tide-with-an-analog-computer-made-from-lego.html
144
91
Tell HN: Unable to login to HN from Firefox, a Lovecraftian tale
https://andregarzia.com/2022/02/unable-to-login-to-hn-from-firefox-a-lovecraftian-tale.html
141
Multi-Account Containers Add-on on Mozilla VPN
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/mozilla-vpn/multi-account-containers-add-on-on-mozilla-vpn/
140
87
C2rust: Transpile C to Rust
https://c2rust.com/
138
Austrian DPA Ruling Against Google Paves the Way to EU-Based Cloud Services
https://www.infoq.com/news/2022/01/austrian-privacy-gdpr-google/
136
43
Fourth journalist killed in Mexico this year
https://www.axios.com/fourth-journalist-killed-mexico-january-2022-f71e872d-ddee-452e-9ed4-e7ba5c13a86e.html
134
152
Stablecoins: Growth potential and impact on banking
https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/ifdp/stablecoins-growth-potential-and-impact-on-banking.htm
129
31
Twitter stores original account names, dox vulnerability via Twitter Spaces
https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1488466979799265281
291
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30164269
126
30
Building a Cross-Platform Web and Mobile App from the Ground Up
https://ambrook.com/blog/building-a-cross-platform-web-and-mobile-app-from-the-ground-up
23
Python Tools for the Semantic Web, an Overview
https://github.com/pysemtec/semantic-python-overview
Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Results
https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=d72fc76
Swift and C++ interoperability workgroup announcement
https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-and-c-interoperability-workgroup-announcement/54998
114
Ask HN: Did I make a mistake jumping on the homestead bandwagon?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30161578
112
97
Review and meta-analysis of the effects of lockdowns on Covid-19 mortality [pdf]
https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf
Israel rolls out laser defense system
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-speeds-roll-out-laser-based-defence-systems-bennett-says-2022-02-01/
110
19
A Pixel's Color
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pq/color-and-hdr/-/blob/main/doc/pixels_color.md
109
5
The Economics of Data Businesses
https://pivotal.substack.com/p/economics-of-data-biz
103
17
Writing a printer driver in JavaScript
https://kubesail.com/blog/2022-02-01-printer-driver-in-javascript
102
34
A Transistor for Sound Points Toward Whole New Electronics
https://spectrum.ieee.org/topological-transistor-acoustic
98
Show HN: OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers
https://www.onemodel.app
Speeding up LXC container pull by up to 3x
https://databricks.com/blog/2022/01/26/creating-a-faster-tar-extractor.html
96
81
Most websites are implicitly designed with a short lifetime
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebsiteShortDesignLifetime?showcomments
95
173
The Problem with C (2020)
https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/c/
83
German gov plans software company's liability for damages caused by vulns
https://www.golem.de/sonstiges/zustimmung/auswahl.html?from=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.golem.de%2Fnews%2Fnancy-faeser-bundesregierung-plant-hersteller-haftung-fuer-software-maengel-2202-162832.html
42
The bureaucracy of hiking Hungary's Blue Trail
https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/13432/hungary-hiking-leisure-outdoors-bureaucracy-blue-trail
Ask HN: What do you do to jump start your brain in the morning?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30160348
A web app to generate valid QR codes with readable images
https://github.com/HughChen/qr_image
9
Vectorscan – portable fork of hyperscan – high-performance regex matching lib
https://github.com/VectorCamp/vectorscan
86
76
Show HN: Pesto, a Digital Workplace
https://pesto.app/
84
14
Tell HN: Nobody at Facebook has worked on Jest for years
https://github.com/facebook/jest/pull/11529
40
Trio of Rust Core Team members hit the road
https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/01/rust_core_team_departures/
How a PhD astrophysicist thinks about data
https://hex.tech/blog/friends-of-data/melodie-kao-1/
80
16
The Road to OCIv2 Images: What's Wrong with Tar? (2019)
https://www.cyphar.com/blog/post/20190121-ociv2-images-i-tar
77
82
Reality by Consensus
https://lockwood.dev/philosophy/2022/01/31/reality-by-consensus.html