790
793
Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-06/canada-to-ban-some-foreigners-from-buying-homes-as-prices-soar
4 years ago
768
364
The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-computers-used-to-do-3d-animation
685
461
What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-scoop-fast
600
452
I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-thought-i-would-have-accomplished-a-lot-more-today-and-also-by-the-time-i-was-thirty-five
590
388
I stopped advertising and nothing happened
https://theantistartup.com/i-stopped-advertising-everywhere-and-nothing-happened/
580
430
Tell HN: Recruiters are lying about remote positions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30945451
448
198
Show HN: Redditle.com – For those of us who add 'Reddit' to every Google search
https://redditle.com
407
224
The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020)
https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/apple-music-nullbytes.html
98
Ruby 3.2 preview 1 with support for WASM compilation
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/04/03/ruby-3-2-0-preview1-released/
358
236
Reliably Send an HTTP Request as a User Leaves a Page
https://css-tricks.com/send-an-http-request-on-page-exit/
351
270
Welcome to 'Le Monde' in English
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/about-us/article/2022/04/07/welcome-to-le-monde-in-english_5979903_115.html
316
246
Nuclear power helped prevent ~2M deaths in the last 50 years
https://twitter.com/rafaelmgrossi/status/1512061341212704771
307
281
FAA, do your damn job
https://www.avweb.com/insider/faa-do-your-damn-job/
299
562
Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
https://duncanlock.net/blog/2022/04/06/using-windows-after-15-years-on-linux/
295
206
The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter
https://annoying.technology/posts/e6901c0ea272f57d/
294
218
A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/04/04/book-review-a-square-meal-part-i-foods-of-the-20s-and-30s/
280
113
TypeScript as fast as Rust: TypeScript++
https://zaplib.com/docs/blog_ts++.html
278
217
Microplastics found in live human lung tissue
https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/microplastics-found-in-live-human-lung-tissue-for-the-first-time/
274
259
Ask HN: Have you ever switched cloud?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30942698
255
We’ve got a science opportunity overload: Launching the Wolfram Institute
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/04/weve-got-a-science-opportunity-overload-its-time-to-launch-the-wolfram-institute/
248
133
1.5-Inch Hand-Carved Agate from 1500 B.C. Shows Sub-Millimeter Details (2017)
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/griffin-warrior-tomb-pylos-combat-agate-1142624
228
Unit Testing is Overrated (2020)
https://tyrrrz.me/blog/unit-testing-is-overrated/
234
387
Why the WHO took two years to say Covid is airborne
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00925-7
212
90
rand() may call malloc()
https://www.thingsquare.com/blog/articles/rand-may-call-malloc/
210
165
Raspberry Pi update removes the default user
http://deepaqua.me/2022/04/07/the-pi-user-is-dead-long-life-the-pi-user/
209
84
Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI
https://spectrum.ieee.org/andrew-ng-data-centric-ai
92
Use Git tactically
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/04/06/use-git-tactically/
192
122
Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/fermilab-says-particle-is-heavy-enough-to-break-the-standard-model-20220407/
183
140
Advantages of Monorepos (2015)
https://danluu.com/monorepo/
182
44
Money Stuff is Linear-ish
https://danielstone.substack.com/p/money-stuff-is-linear-ish
177
49
ACM Opens First 50 Years Backfile
https://www.acm.org/articles/bulletins/2022/april/50-years-backfile
173
36
Invitation to Europe
https://novayagazeta.eu/
167
39
PiGlass v2: A wearable Pi Zero 2
https://learn.adafruit.com/piglass-v2-wearable-raspberry-pi-computer
148
64
3M Cuts Output of PFAS Used in Chip Production
https://www.eetimes.com/3m-cuts-output-of-hazardous-material-used-in-chip-production/
147
145
Ask HN: Hybrid/Remote software team rituals
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30940747
146
31
Tree-sitter grammar for org-mode
https://github.com/milisims/tree-sitter-org
143
Hand-optimizing the TCC code generator
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220406.html
139
68
The underwhelming impact of software engineering research
https://iansommerville.com/technology/research-impact/
130
121
A detailed look at the S-300P anti-aircraft missile system
http://ausairpower.net/APA-Grumble-Gargoyle.html
129
19
News for the Future of BeeWare
https://beeware.org/news/buzz/exciting-news-for-the-future-of-beeware/
127
29
Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (2012)
https://eranki.tumblr.com/post/27076431887/scaling-lessons-learned-at-dropbox-part-1
123
79
Horse-riding astronaut is a milestone in AI’s journey to make sense of the world
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1049061/dalle-openai-gpt3-ai-agi-multimodal-image-generation/
119
93
Tell HN: Dropbox user age verification feature can lock your account
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30945199
86Box: Why Not Pentium III?
https://86box.net/2022/03/21/why-not-p3.html
117
158
Is the DTS vs. Dolby war effectively over?
https://www.whathifi.com/features/is-the-dts-vs-dolby-war-effectively-over
115
Show HN: Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative
https://pipedream.com/
Mantle – Serverless Maps Using Lambda or Cloudflare Workers
https://protomaps.com/blog/serverless-self-hosted-maps/
108
David Deutsch’s Constructor Theory
https://www.constructortheory.org/
103
69
Birds make better bipedal bots than humans do
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/birds-make-better-bipedal-bots-than-humans-do/
97
The physicalization of metamathematics and the implications for its foundations
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/03/the-physicalization-of-metamathematics-and-its-implications-for-the-foundations-of-mathematics/
7
Pwning the Bcm61650
https://blog.xilokar.info/pwning-the-bcm61650.html
88
17
Denonia: The First Malware Specifically Targeting AWS Lambda
https://www.cadosecurity.com/cado-discovers-denonia-the-first-malware-specifically-targeting-lambda/
86
16
Nsh, a unified router style CLI for OpenBSD
https://github.com/yellowman/nsh
10
Rust 1.60.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/04/07/Rust-1.60.0.html
80
27
Brain charts: mapping the rapid growth and slow decline of the brain over life
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/BrainCharts
77
15
From context collapse to content collapse (2020)
https://www.roughtype.com/?p=8724
76
25
Redesigning an app, one day a week at a time
http://pketh.org/redesigning-an-app.html
66
System/360 Announcement (1964)
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PR360.html