1128
792
Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60312633
4 years ago
840
487
Starlink lost 40 satellites to a geomagnetic storm
https://www.spacex.com/updates/
729
537
Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station
https://www.kuow.org/stories/we-didn-t-mean-to-ruin-your-mazda-s-stereo
687
383
Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting?
https://community.zoom.com/t5/Meetings/Why-is-the-Zoom-app-listening-on-my-microphone-when-not-in-a/td-p/29019
673
650
Words known better by males than females, and vice versa
https://observablehq.com/@yurivish/words
574
1154
The data are clear: The boys are not all right
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/08/andrew-yang-boys-are-not-all-right/
482
165
Our User-Mode WireGuard Year
https://fly.io/blog/our-user-mode-wireguard-year/
474
355
TikTok shares your data more than any other app and it’s unclear where it goes
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/tiktok-shares-your-data-more-than-any-other-social-media-app-study.html
435
87
Open Textbook Initiative
https://aimath.org/textbooks/
431
96
Spinal implants allow paralysed people to walk, swim and cycle again
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/spinal-implants-allow-paralysed-people-to-walk-swim-and-cycle-again/21807596
424
372
The dangers of high status, low wage jobs
https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2022/02/07/the-dangers-of-high-status-low-wage-jobs/
399
344
Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weight to Wuhan theory
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/09/early-lab-grown-covid-virus-found-sample-lends-weight-wuhan/
394
317
Back-end languages are coming to the front-end
https://github.com/readme/featured/server-side-languages-for-front-end
362
88
Aspect-ratio is great
https://css-irl.info/aspect-ratio-is-great/
84
Show HN: Jless, a command-line JSON viewer
https://pauljuliusmartinez.github.io/
340
41
How PostgreSQL stores rows
https://ketansingh.me/posts/how-postgres-stores-rows/
333
180
Interview questions to ask your interviewer
https://daveceddia.com/interview-questions-to-ask-company/
290
78
ASCII art for semantic code commenting
https://asciiflow.com/#/
266
103
OpenSCAD 3D rendering just got an order of magnitude faster
https://ochafik.com/jekyll/update/2022/02/09/openscad-fast-csg-contibution.html
261
107
Surviving the front page of Hacker News on a 50 Mbps uplink
https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2022/02/09/hn-stats-analytics/
254
191
Ask HN: Does Anyone else working in a crypto company feel this is all a scam?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30268807
249
74
Open Salary and Equity Database
https://topstartups.io
233
76
So you want to build an embedded Linux system? (2020)
https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/
54
Show HN: PgCat, Postgres pooler with sharding, load balancing and failover
https://github.com/levkk/pgcat
225
Single dependency stacks
https://brandur.org/fragments/single-dependency-stacks
219
8
European researchers achieve fusion energy record
https://www.euro-fusion.org/news/2022/european-researchers-achieve-fusion-energy-record/
215
457
I changed my mind about advertising
https://thesample.ai/blog/advertising/
214
90
Simutrans – Transport Simulator
https://www.simutrans.com/en/
199
108
Are Product Hunt's featured products still online today?
https://www.scrapingbee.com/blog/producthunt-cemetery/
193
179
Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30270379
188
237
Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook
https://www.wired.com/story/how-telegram-became-anti-facebook/
67
I decided to build a nine-bit computer
https://madned.substack.com/p/holy-nonads-a-nine-bit-computer
160
On iPhone sideloading: it’s ok, I’m changing my mind
https://numericcitizen.me/2022/02/09/on-sideloading-on-iphone-its-ok-im-changing-my-mind/
159
83
My CEO’s rating on Glassdoor is so bad that all we are getting are shitty hires
https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/sofqaq/my_ceos_rating_on_glassdoor_is_so_bad_that_all_we/
149
45
Understanding LSM trees: What powers write-heavy databases (2020)
https://yetanotherdevblog.com/lsm/
142
105
Last call to voluntarily migrate Java accounts
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/last-call-voluntarily-migrate-java-accounts
137
BeyondCorp is dead, long live BeyondCorp
https://mayakaczorowski.com/blogs/beyondcorp-is-dead
134
82
Landing a new syscall, part 1: What is futex?
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2022/02/08/landing-a-new-syscall-part-what-is-futex/
133
Separating urine from sewage could mitigate some environmental problems
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00338-6
130
32
Sikorsky X-Wing (2013)
https://www.sikorskyarchives.com/X-WING.php
127
175
UK.gov to make adults give credit card details for access to Facebook or TikTok
https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/08/age_verification_for_social_media_ukgov_plans/
120
51
Grad school is worse for public health than STDs (2019)
https://www.benkuhn.net/grad/
117
49
Breaking 256-Bit Elliptic Curve Encryption with a Quantum Computer
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/02/breaking-245-bit-elliptic-curve-encryption-with-a-quantum-computer.html
112
21
Racket 8.4
https://blog.racket-lang.org/2022/02/racket-v8-4.html
111
161
Swisscom to discontinue MMS service
https://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/help/mobile/mms.html
15
Lisp in Production: an interview with the guys behind Nyxt Browser [video]
https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/gavin-freeborn-interview.org
101
Launch HN: Pelm (YC W22) – Plaid for Utilities
https://www.pelm.com/use-cases
19
A man who tried to redeem the world with logic (2015)
https://nautil.us/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic-2885/
100
129
Apple’s profit is always the priority–no matter the cost
https://www.macworld.com/article/613085/apples-app-store-policies-prove-that-money-is-the-top-priority.html
98
42
Somehow, Futurama Is Coming Back Again
https://gizmodo.com/futurama-revival-hulu-new-episodes-2023-1848509517
97
52
Valve’s Steam Deck wows reviewers: ‘The most innovative gaming PC in 20 years’
https://www.pcworld.com/article/612746/the-steam-deck-wows-players-in-its-first-hands-on-sessions.html
110
Get mock interviews now, pay when you find your next job
https://blog.interviewing.io/announcing-our-pay-later-program-dont-pay-for-mock-interviews-until-you-get-a-job/
94
73
Lessons from Learning Ada in 2021
https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/ada_outsiders_guide/
92
Collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge
https://www.ntsb.gov:443/investigations/Pages/HWY22MH003.aspx
86
138
Safari: Point to specific bugs and missing support that frustrate you
https://twitter.com/jensimmons/status/1491064075987873792
72
Show HN: Create your own prediction market in two minutes
https://manifold.markets