1284
594
Please put units in names
https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2022/03/20/please-put-units-in-names
4 years ago
489
360
Two-minute battery changes push India’s delivery riders to switch to e-scooters
https://theprint.in/tech/two-minute-battery-changes-push-indias-delivery-riders-to-switch-to-e-scooters/881609/
330
CSS's !important was added because of laws about font size for some text
https://twitter.com/stevenpemberton/status/1505839184287870981
462
315
Sumerian dog jokes, or the difficulty of translating dead languages
https://twitter.com/LinManuelRwanda/status/1505646738627088389
390
421
Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30750710
335
275
OneWeb will resume satellite launches with SpaceX as the launch provider
https://oneweb.net/resources/oneweb-resume-satellite-launches-through-agreement-spacex
326
133
Why Don't You Use
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2022-03-19/why-dont-you-use.html
310
106
Vuescan – Software support for 6500 abandoned scanners
https://www.hamrick.com/
309
109
Plain Text Sports
https://plaintextsports.com/
304
316
Microservices: Why Are We Doing This?
https://michaeldehaan.substack.com/p/microservices-why-are-we-doing-this
296
236
Librem 5: First Impressions
https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/librem5-first-impressions.html
287
150
Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM
https://q3k.org/lanai.html
283
187
Hooks Considered Harmful
https://labs.factorialhr.com/posts/hooks-considered-harmful
272
111
US Justice Department accuses Google of hiding business communications
https://www.axios.com/justice-department-google-hiding-business-communications-fc8b02d4-876d-421c-aac1-e8a06a8be0b0.html
253
Ask HN: Is Apple down?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30756636
234
141
Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30752540
233
90
What data do the Google Dialer and Messages apps on Android send to Google? [pdf]
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf
217
24
Overtone is live programmable music and visualization
https://overtone.github.io/
210
53
React Arborist – A full-featured tree component for React
https://github.com/brimdata/react-arborist
206
110
The Code Review Pyramid
https://www.morling.dev/blog/the-code-review-pyramid/
196
365
Tell HN: Did you know you can negotiate price on many things?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30748959
186
299
Have iPhone cameras become too smart?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/have-iphone-cameras-become-too-smart
173
107
Literate programming is much more than just commenting code
https://justinmeiners.github.io/literate-programming/
171
229
3,599,040,600 € wired by Germany to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine
https://stopgas.org/en/
168
70
Results of 500 MicroSD Benchmarks on SBCs
https://bret.dk/best-raspberry-pi-micro-sd-cards/
154
130
VRoom A high end RISC-V implementation
https://moonbaseotago.github.io/about/
147
74
On Tolkien and Orwell
https://www.darcymoore.net/2022/03/19/on-tolkien-and-orwell/
Using a tiny HC32L110 ARM chip
https://spritesmods.com/?art=hc32l110&page=1
132
118
Launch HN: Spoken (YC S21) – Better furniture shopping
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30757421
207
The hunt for Nigerians who can change into cats
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60749496
128
71
How to Pay Professional Maintainers
https://words.filippo.io/pay-maintainers/
136
The Great Steepening
https://fedguy.com/the-great-steepening/
116
92
Headlines compared: Polish newspapers from 1939 and news websites from 2022
https://www.sewerynszwarocki.pl/those-who-cannot-learn-from-history-are-doomed-to-repeat-it/
115
35
The GömböC: An object that shouldn't exist (2014)
https://plus.maths.org/content/gomboc-object-barely-exists
114
6
Mac Studio: Those aren't SSDs. Those are raw storage modules
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1506022589357260801
113
30
My Notes on the Lean Startup
https://www.kevinslin.com/notes/1da94030-c045-4002-8de0-67d35e6eee74/
11
Aggregating away the signal in your data
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/03/03/stop-aggregating-away-the-signal-in-your-data/
China Eastern flight MU5735 crashes, 132 people were on board
https://www.ifn.news/posts/china-eastern-flight-mu5735-crashes-near-wuzhou/
12
LTrack: Stealthy Tracking of Mobile Phones in LTE
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/kotuliak
23
The Apple-1's unusual MOS clock driver chip
https://www.righto.com/2022/03/inside-apple-1s-unusual-mos-clock.html
247
Automating cookie consent and GDPR violation detection
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/bollinger
209
Vitalik Buterin is worried about crypto's future
https://time.com/6158182/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-profile/
The quest to make a 'contagious' animal vaccine
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-controversial-quest-to-make-a-contagious-vaccine
103
82
Scientists may have solved Stephen Hawking's black hole paradox
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-scientists-stephen-hawking-black-hole.html
101
78
Wasmer and Trademarks
https://wasmer.io/posts/wasmer-and-trademarks
97
29
Researcher uses 379-year-old algorithm to crack crypto keys found in the wild
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/researcher-uses-600-year-old-algorithm-to-crack-crypto-keys-found-in-the-wild/
95
U.S. Senators Introduce SMART Copyright Act to Combat Piracy
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-senators-introduce-smart-copyright-act-to-combat-piracy-220321/
Hit with hard times, American bakers turned to tomato soup
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-tomato-soup-cake
89
9
Cross-Compiling Rust for RISC-V
https://danielmangum.com/posts/risc-v-bytes-rust-cross-compilation/
88
45
Shabdle: Wordle in Hindi
https://kach.github.io/shabdle/
86
Calgarians detail life with an electricity load limiter
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/utility-bills-electricity-limiters-calgary-1.6388949
120
A contrarian take on working long hours
https://allisonpickens.substack.com/p/a-contrarian-take-on-working-long
18
Ask HN: Book Recommendation for macOS Development
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30753584
85
46
What is mathematical thinking? (2012)
http://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/2012/08/what-is-mathematical-thinking.html
79
Victims of Vimeo
https://ae.studio/blog/victims-of-vimeo
83
176
Ask HN: I got into MIT. Should I go?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30752396
Introducing Arc: Outliers Wanted
https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/sequoia-arc-outliers-wanted/
81
Scientists say they can read nearly the whole genome of an IVF-created embryo
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-say-they-can-read-nearly-whole-genome-ivf-created-embryo
75
A Moscow court has banned Facebook and Instagram as “extremist” organizations
https://twitter.com/MoscowTimes/status/1505914095274450949
Rejection Therapy (2011)
https://www.lincolnquirk.com/rationality/bootcamp/2011/06/10/rationality_bootcamp_rejection1.html
67
39
A microcontroller board with a camera, mic, and Coral Edge TPU
https://coral.ai/products/dev-board-micro
66
56
Crash: China Eastern B738 near Guangzhou on Mar 21st 2022
https://avherald.com/h?article=4f64be2f
10
Magnetism helps electrons vanish in high-temp superconductors
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/03/magnetism-helps-electrons-vanish-high-temp-superconductors
65
Russians Are Racing to Download Wikipedia Before It Gets Banned
https://slate.com/technology/2022/03/russia-wikipedia-download-kiwix.html
64
7
Parsing Expressions by Recursive Descent (1999)
https://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/exp_parsing.htm
62
20
Body Ritual Among the Nacirema (1956) [pdf]
https://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTheNacirema.pdf
59
5
Penny wise and cloud foolish
https://danielcompton.net/2022/03/21/penny-wise-cloud-foolish
58
Technology’s Impact on Morality
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/4/259390-technologys-impact-on-morality/fulltext
34
Show HN: Search Domain and Username in the same place
https://getsocialdomain.com
55
124
Bad Economics
https://bostonreview.net/articles/bad-economics/
