1450
202
Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19&p=1
4 years ago
755
727
Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientist-busts-myths-about-how-humans-burn-calories-and-why
699
186
Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts
https://medium.com/@amy_riveter/the-united-states-of-amazon-the-day-amazon-sent-the-fbi-to-take-my-familys-bank-accounts-b5172b4ddda3
580
107
Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets
https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core
525
287
Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads
https://twitter.com/louisnicholls_/status/1487179285177815047
400
424
Difficult situation on campus: traffic jam of food delivery robots
https://twitter.com/seanhecht/status/1493432613628825600
394
158
Ian Cutress leaves Anandtech
https://www.anandtech.com/show/17270/going-from-there-to-here-and-beyond
386
451
Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account during initial setup
https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/18/22940517/windows-11-pro-require-microsoft-account-internet-connection
381
201
Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/covid-testing-firm-selling-swabs-carrying-customers-dna-to-third-parties-301236/
324
145
Facebook Shadow Profiles [pdf]
https://www.cesifo.org/en/publikationen/2022/working-paper/facebook-shadow-profiles
310
307
Nix: An idea whose time has come
https://revelry.co/insights/development/nix-time/
284
44
Fred's ImageMagick Scripts
http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/index.php
259
65
Littlefs – A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
https://github.com/littlefs-project/littlefs
77
An example of why RSS is useful and important
https://tech.chrishardie.com/2022/rss-useful-important/
249
321
The Dubai Debt Trap
https://www.economist.com/1843/2021/12/15/the-dubai-debt-trap
241
282
Dad takes down town's internet by mistake to get his kids offline
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/dad-takes-down-towns-internet-by-mistake-to-get-his-kids-offline/
229
142
Plausibly deniable encryption (2020)
https://spacetime.dev/plausibly-deniable-encryption
227
120
The Day AppGet Died (2020)
https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/
217
143
LXC vs. Docker
https://earthly.dev/blog/lxc-vs-docker/
215
266
From macOS to FreeBSD
https://www.boucek.me/blog/from-mac-to-freebsd/
209
175
What I learned during my three days offline
https://www.raptitude.com/2022/02/what-i-learned-during-my-three-days-offline/
206
No one cares about your redesign
https://www.garbageday.email/p/no-one-cares-about-your-redesign
195
115
Skip: A programming language to skip the things you have already computed
http://skiplang.com/
188
134
New atomic clock loses only one second every 300B years
https://www.space.com/atomic-clock-one-second-300-billion-years
185
55
Spam accounts in 2022
https://www.joshbeckman.org/what-spam-accounts-look-like-in-2022/
184
58
Internals of Go's new fuzzing system
https://jayconrod.com/posts/123/internals-of-go-s-new-fuzzing-system
181
108
How the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel is being built [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf7C5DiEVpA
176
31
GStreamer 1.20: Embedded and WebRTC lead the way
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/gstreamer-120-embedded-webrtc-lead-the-way.html
What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings (2011)
https://kunststube.net/encoding/
172
57
We built a secret apartment in the mall (2007)
http://www.trummerkind.com/mall/What_Happened.html
169
Open-source online SVG path editor
https://github.com/Yqnn/svg-path-editor
167
74
Alarm raised after Microsoft wins data-encoding patent
https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/17/microsoft_ans_patent/
Dune: Spice Wars
https://www.dunegames.com/
155
21
Fullmoon – Redbean-based Lua web framework deployed as single file
https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon
152
88
Bringing Palm OS devices back online – A journey into vintage computing (2019)
https://medium.com/@jankammerath/bringing-palm-os-devices-back-online-a-journey-into-vintage-computing-1282d27406e9
148
66
Faster Python calculations with Numba
https://pythonspeed.com/articles/numba-faster-python/
53
Maximize value, not quantity
http://agileotter.blogspot.com/2022/02/maximize-value-not-quantity.html
179
“The president of MIT told me that tenure was not about research or merit.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1494369809538195456.html
132
413
Why We Banned Legos (2006)
https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/cover-story-why-we-banned-legos/
130
78
How we use Notion as a startup
https://www.kopa.co/blog/posts/how-we-use-notion-as-a-startup
196
Rethinking Levels, Promotions and Salaries
https://www.daily.co/blog/rethinking-levels-promotions-and-salaries/
125
161
The next best thing to OLED is getting cheaper
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/02/the-next-best-thing-to-oled-is-getting-cheaper/
123
36
Demodulation of the LTE uplink
https://destevez.net/2022/02/demodulation-of-the-lte-uplink/
118
Meta axes head of global community development embroiled in underage sex sting
https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/18/meta-axes-head-of-global-community-development-after-he-appears-on-video-in-underage-sex-sting/
111
47
Ask HN: Is there VC appetite for defense related startups?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30385479
109
40
Review of the evidence of sentience in molluscs and crustaceans [pdf]
https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/News-Assets/PDFs/2021/Sentience-in-Cephalopod-Molluscs-and-Decapod-Crustaceans-Final-Report-November-2021.pdf
104
23
2021 at OCamlPro
https://www.ocamlpro.com/blog/2022_01_31_2021_at_ocamlpro
139
What do you really get from IDE-driven development?
https://briandfoy.github.io/ide-driven-development/
103
25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer
https://www.init7.net/en/internet/fiber7/
100
135
Google lowered its salaries in North Carolina. Now workers are protesting
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/18/google-raleigh-hbcu-salary/
Against Pair Programming
https://matt-rickard.com/against-pair-programming/
92
292
Why are young people having so little sex? (2018)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/
The solved riddle of the Apple-1 serial number
https://www.apple1registry.com/en/serial.html
87
30
Kind of Bloop (2009)
https://kindofbloop.com
85
Study finds most unemployed young men have criminal records
https://phys.org/news/2022-02-unemployed-young-men-criminal.html
84
17
Accusations of 'greenwashing' by big oil companies are well-founded
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/16/1081119920/greenwashing-oil-companies
83
Some argue that synthetic data can make AI systems better
https://spectrum.ieee.org/synthetic-data-ai
82
62
Amazon suspends Black Lives Matter from its charity platform
https://nypost.com/2022/02/17/amazon-suspends-black-lives-matter-from-its-charity-platform/
9
Amazon Co-Owns Deportation Airline Implicated in Alleged Torture of Immigrants
https://theintercept.com/2022/02/17/amazon-ice-deportation-flights-omni/
79
0
Radar Interference Tracker: New Tool to Locate Active Military Radar Systems
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2022/02/11/radar-interference-tracker-a-new-open-source-tool-to-locate-active-military-radar-systems/
EU draft proposes identity requirement for cryptocurrency transactions
https://www.trendingtopics.eu/eu-wants-to-completely-ban-anonymous-payments-with-crypto-assets/
