848
518
Why is it hard to buy things that work well?
https://danluu.com/nothing-works/
4 years ago
701
493
Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668137
609
465
Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/mbbs-student-bluetooth-cheating-bhopal-b2021217.html
537
283
On Being Indispensable
https://www.sofuckingagile.com/blog/on-being-indispensable
499
504
Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-is-testing-ads-in-the-windows-11-file-explorer/
447
79
RP2040 Doom
https://kilograham.github.io/rp2040-doom/
434
211
Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants – lawsuit
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/google-hijacked-millions-of-customers-and-orders-from-restaurants-lawsuit-says/
424
256
Launch HN: Living Carbon (YC W20) – Trees that capture and store more carbon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30672841
417
370
Spending more on retaining developers reduces the cost of hiring developers
https://blog.devgenius.io/keeping-developers-will-be-the-priority-in-great-developer-resignation-next-stage-9dfcdb6e75a4?gi=8d799e51c800
390
297
New WebKit features in Safari 15.4
https://webkit.org/blog/12445/new-webkit-features-in-safari-15-4/
369
279
Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/updates-to-google-clouds-infrastructure-pricing
349
377
Firefox removed Yandex search option
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1759009
314
243
Ask HN: I'm So Lonely
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668506
291
154
Ask HN: My Google account was hacked, Google says they can't help
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30677471
117
My Pinephone Setup
https://hamblingreen.gitlab.io/2022/03/02/my-pinephone-setup.html
289
123
System – A resource that aims to explain how everything in the world is related
https://www.system.com
257
75
Introduction to K-Means Clustering
https://www.pinecone.io/learn/k-means-clustering/
247
94
Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A comparison of browser code editors (2021)
https://blog.replit.com/code-editors
235
177
Why I Prefer Makefiles over Package.json Scripts
https://spin.atomicobject.com/2021/03/22/makefiles-vs-package-json-scripts/
223
67
Putin’s State Media News Is Interrupted: ‘They’re Lying to You’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-14/putin-s-state-media-news-is-interrupted-they-re-lying-to-you
220
85
How on earth I became an entrepreneur
https://www.deepsouthventures.com/how-on-earth/
217
38
Show HN: I built an open-source web hosting platform for static sites
https://github.com/symkat/MarkdownSite
216
50
Solito – React Native and Next.js unified
https://solito.dev/
214
107
Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello
https://artemis.sh/2022/03/14/propolis-oxide-at-home-pt1.html
36
Show HN: Instantly create a GitHub repository to take screenshots of a web page
https://simonwillison.net/2022/Mar/14/shot-scraper-template/
209
61
Photo captures space station crossing the moon
https://mashable.com/article/space-station-moon-transit-photo
204
361
Amazon moves employees out of downtown Seattle office due to crime
https://www.geekwire.com/2022/amazon-moves-employees-out-of-downtown-seattle-office-due-to-crime/
199
248
Apple M1 Ultra Meanings and Consequences
https://mondaynote.com/apple-m1-ultra-meanings-and-consequences-fc32616f4a66
196
93
The walk signs in Crystal City, VA are just repeating “Change Password”
https://twitter.com/JosephPolitano/status/1503131005389099011
188
23
Visualizing black holes with general relativistic ray tracing
https://blog.seanholloway.com/2022/03/13/visualizing-black-holes-with-general-relativistic-ray-tracing/
180
327
Ask HN: How can I prepare for hard economic times?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30670110
178
42
Real-Time Coherent 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video
https://zju3dv.github.io/neuralrecon/
170
92
PEP 594 – Removing dead batteries from the standard library
https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/
163
245
XVideos: The porn empire next door
https://netzpolitik.org/2022/xvideos-the-porn-empire-next-door/
162
iPhone lidar with applications for the geosciences
https://opentopography.org/blog/iphone-lidar-applications-geosciences
157
129
Some discouraging anecdotes on how services handle account deletions
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/account-deletions-2021.html
149
52
Podman can transfer container images without a registry
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-transfer-container-images-without-registry
148
17
Offpunk 1.0: Offline Gemini/Gopher/Web Browsing
https://tildegit.org/ploum/AV-98-offline
40
Levels of Technical Leadership
https://dr-knz.net/levels-of-technical-leadership.html
147
34
Catalog of Design Patterns (2017)
https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/catalog
143
Antarctic sea ice hits lowest minimum on record
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00550-4
141
150
Ask HN: How can scam callers fake a mobile phone number?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30673009
140
118
Google Is Holding All Your Old Free G Suite Accounts Hostage
https://nationworldnews.com/google-is-holding-all-your-old-free-g-suite-accounts-hostage/
133
9
Writing a device driver for Unix V6
https://mveg.es/posts/writing-a-device-driver-for-unix-v6/
131
When or If
https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2022/03/14/if-or-when/
130
161
Diary of a first-time on-call engineer
https://thenewstack.io/diary-of-a-first-time-on-call-engineer/
112
Ketamine for the acute treatment of severe suicidal ideation
https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj-2021-067194
183
USDA announces plans to support innovative American-made fertilizer
https://www.morningagclips.com/usda-announces-plans-to-support-innovative-american-made-fertilizer/
116
Celebrate tiny learning milestones
https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/03/13/celebrate-tiny-learning-milestones/
111
4
Physics in Clojure: Elliptical Paths
https://twitter.com/sritchie/status/1503220063264026629
109
Kids don't need tools for kids
http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=meta5
103
13
Open Source Compositing Software for VFX and Motion Graphics
https://natrongithub.github.io/
98
27
Pi Formulas, Algorithms and Computations (2009)
https://bellard.org/pi/
53
Argentine family comes home after 22-year drive around the world
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/argentine-family-comes-home-22-183147817.html
96
22
Secrets to Great API Design (2019)
https://www.nylas.com/blog/secrets-to-great-api-design/
95
91
Make a Fair Coin from a Biased Coin (2018)
https://www.xarg.org/2018/01/make-a-fair-coin-from-a-biased-coin/
7
Contributing to complex projects
https://mitchellh.com/writing/contributing-to-complex-projects
108
Strava abruptly ends 3rd party data sync to Apple Health
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/03/strava-abruptly-ends-3rd-party-data-push-to-apple-health.html
OpenHAB – vendor and tech agnostic open source automation software for your home
https://www.openhab.org/
219
The curious case of Russia's missing Air Force
https://www.economist.com/interactive/2022/03/08/curious-case-russias-missing-air-force
90
45
Show HN: Serve your saved articles to a Kindle
https://github.com/edgartaor/kindleServer
87
Launch HN: Lifecast (YC W22) – 3D video for VR
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30675861
“Posting it to you is secure, as it's illegal to open someone else's mail.”
https://twitter.com/virginmedia/status/1162756227132198914
86
37
Show HN: Smort.io – Edit, annotate and share articles easily
https://www.smort.io/
18
In birdsong, scientists find some parallels with human speech
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/do-birds-have-language-180979629/
83
3
Tiny galaxies reveal secrets of supermassive black holes
https://www.quantamagazine.org/tiny-galaxies-reveal-secrets-of-supermassive-black-holes-20220314/
A flexible, lightweight, spin-lock barrier
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/03/13/
82
ThinkComposer. Flowcharts, Concept Maps, Mind Maps, Diagrams and Models
http://www.thinkcomposer.com/
80
White Castle wants to install robot cooks in 100 new locations
https://misorobotics.com/newsroom/white-castle-expands-partnership-with-miso-robotics-to-install-flippy-2-in-100-new-locations/
Graphite – open-source raster and vector 2D graphics editor written in Rust
https://graphite.rs
78
What were humans doing in the Yukon 24,000 years ago?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-were-humans-doing-in-the-yukon-24000-years-ago-180979714/
21
Programming Languages and Learning
https://quorumlanguage.com/evidence.html
5
20 terabytes: Anonymous Germany hijacks data from Rosneft Germany
https://anonleaks.net/en/2022/anonymous-germany/20-terabytes-anonymous-germany-hijacks-data-from-rosneft-germany/
77
32
The Lightherder and the God Machine
https://www.thelightherder.com/
Mapping and Seizing the Oligarchs' Assets
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2022/03/mapping-oligarchs-assets.html
Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now
http://karpathy.github.io/2022/03/14/lecun1989/
Three CISOs walk into a startup
https://www.lastweekasavciso.com/p/three-cisos-walk-into-a-startup
72
India considers buying discounted Russian oil, commodities
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-considers-buying-discounted-russian-oil-commodities-officials-say-2022-03-14/
70
The undercover special agent who busted a dangerous biker gang
https://www.thedrive.com/news/44721/meet-the-undercover-special-agent-who-busted-a-dangerous-biker-gang
Gemini is a new internet protocol
https://admin.flounder.online/gemini.gmi
66
101
The Godfather almost never happened
https://trungphan.substack.com/p/the-godfather-almost-never-happened
65
46
Beautiful Technical Debt
https://abdullin.com/beautiful-tech-debt/
