986
535
Poll: Where do you live?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378
3 years ago
902
737
Amazon Pip Horror Story
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hire-jiawei-wang_hi-linkedin-connections-i-am-ready-for-my-activity-6894943241523875840-tZ7C
734
441
For some searches the whole screen on Google is now ads
https://twitter.com/spakhm/status/1489480845979095040
576
480
Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
https://reviewbunny.app/blog/dont-make-me-think-or-why-i-switched-to-rails-from-javascript-spas
532
878
Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands
https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/04/apple-will-charge-27-commission-for-purchases-made-using-alternative-payment-systems-in-the-netherlands/
531
277
Why is LinkedIn so cringe?
https://trungphan.substack.com/p/why-is-linkedin-so-cringe
489
548
Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/02/03/how-apples-privacy-push-cost-meta-10bn
417
350
Satellite finds methane leaks from gas pipelines
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/03/1077392791/a-satellite-finds-massive-methane-leaks-from-gas-pipelines
415
145
A low-cost and shielding-free ultra-low-field brain MRI scanner
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27317-1
340
282
Go performance from version 1.2 to 1.18
https://benhoyt.com/writings/go-version-performance/
336
140
Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if they were native apps
https://github.com/casualsnek/cassowary
305
144
New Zealand's bid to become a dark sky nation
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220202-saving-the-night-sky-new-zealands-craziest-experiment-yet
275
52
Serenity OS: Interview
https://corecursive.com/serenity-os-with-andreas-kling/
252
229
What Was the Ted Talk?
https://www.thedriftmag.com/what-was-the-ted-talk/
237
148
Ask HN: What are some good tech magazines?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30206027
234
447
People don't want to run their own bank
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/02/people-dont-want-to-run-their-own-bank/
222
182
Rails is not written in Ruby
https://solnic.codes/2022/02/02/rails-is-not-written-in-ruby/
215
219
What I'd like to see in Go 2.0
https://www.sethvargo.com/what-id-like-to-see-in-go-2/
213
120
Uyghur kids detail abuse at China's boarding schools in Xinjiang
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/03/1073793823/china-uyghur-children-xinjiang-boarding-school
211
143
Protons are probably smaller than long thought
https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/020-2022
197
187
GTA 6 Confirmed
https://www.ign.com/articles/gta-6-confirmed
192
76
Biologist decided to disavow his own study
https://www.science.org/content/article/when-his-suspicions-went-unanswered-biologist-decided-disavow-his-own-study
190
101
Mergers ruin everything
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/mergers-ruin-everything
181
79
Where in the world are Trader Joe’s warehouses? (2015)
https://sburer.github.io/2015/06/02/Trader-Joes.html
158
189
The Big Mac index: Our interactive currency comparison tool
https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index
157
82
Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBook Pro (and failing)
https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/over-500nits-failed/
156
51
Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part V: the output circuitry
https://www.righto.com/2022/02/yamaha-dx7-chip-reverse-engineering.html
150
27
Aro: A C compiler written in Zig
https://github.com/Vexu/arocc
142
64
Deming's Red Bead Experiment (2002)
https://maaw.info/DemingsRedbeads.htm
136
14
The Infinite Loop That Wasn't (2020)
https://mgba.io/2020/01/25/infinite-loop-holy-grail/
135
31
1999 Repeal of Glass-Steagall was the worst deregulation enacted in US history
https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/sjqlj6/1999_repeal_of_glasssteagall_was_the_worst/
130
126
Long-term visa for remote workers
https://work.iceland.is/working/icelands-remote-work-long-term-visa/
125
61
My cheapskate commenting system
https://tdarb.org/poormans-comment-system/
119
85
Don't allow animated favicons (2001)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111373
114
57
Country Flags in SVG
https://flagicons.lipis.dev/
108
97
Highly virulent HIV variant found to be circulating in Europe for decades
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00317-x
106
43
Show HN: Angularis – like Tetris, but based on triangles
https://angularis.mondaybits.com/
104
36
Minnesota DOT Name-a-Snowplow Contest Announces Results
https://www.dot.state.mn.us/nameasnowplow/
100
44
Ask HN: Is there any tool for benchmarking responsiveness for Linux?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30209366
99
141
How the World Went from Post-Politics to Hyper-Politics
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/01/from-post-politics-to-hyper-politics
95
There Is a Much Larger Problem Than the Great Resignation
https://themakingofamillionaire.com/there-is-a-much-larger-problem-than-the-great-resignation-no-one-wants-to-talk-about-it-3922cf8aefd2
90
30
Precision in Technical Discussions
https://rtpg.co/2022/02/04/precision-in-technical-discussions.html
89
Gameboy Emulator in ARM Assembly
https://github.com/cottsay/arm_asm_emu
86
17
A Crash Course in Modern Hardware (2010)
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/click-crash-course-modern-hardware/
Burroughs B 5500 Infomration Processing System (1964) [pdf]
http://s3data.computerhistory.org/brochures/burroughs.b5500.1964.102646215.pdf
83
137
New research: natural gas appliances emit much more methane than realized
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00240-1
91
Play audio only on YouTube and save bandwidth
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/music-mode-for-youtube/abbpaepbpakcpipajigmlpnhlnbennna
2
It’s Back: Senators Want Earn IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages
https://www.eff.org/es/deeplinks/2022/02/its-back-senators-want-earn-it-bill-scan-all-online-messages
39
Australian mining billionaire files lawsuit against Facebook over scam ads
https://www.reuters.com/technology/australian-mining-billionaire-files-lawsuit-against-facebook-over-scam-ads-2022-02-03/
81
Meta might consider leaving Europe?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30207734
80
SpaceX engineers in Fiji for six months
https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/business/spacex-engineers-in-fiji-for-six-months/
74
28
A Computer Technique for Displaying N-Dimensional Hyperobjects (1967) [pdf]
http://reprints.gravitywaves.com/VIP/ViewExtraSpaceDims/Noll-1967_AComputerTechniqueForDisplayingNDimensionalHyperObjects.pdf
73
Twitter expands downvote test worldwide
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/4/22917511/twitter-downvotes-test-experiment-feature-relevant-replies
59
The case for and against analogies
https://dynomight.net/analogies/
72
42
That’s all folks, for me anyway – Canon Rumors will live on
https://www.canonrumors.com/thats-all-folks-for-me-anyway-canon-rumors-will-live-on/
69
38
Best F-Droid Apps
https://www.ikkaro.com/en/best-f-droid-apps/