893
447
The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten
https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2022/01/06/memcached-interview/
3 years ago
779
153
How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material [pdf]
http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/mc/WriteThinkLearn.pdf
685
347
Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31062799
470
216
“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG
https://fosstodon.org/@rudolf/108147439615842718
425
315
Unreal vs. Unity Opinion
https://gist.github.com/flibitijibibo/035087d8736441786b10e8c3879d50dd
419
596
Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/04/16/2154203/richard-stallman-speaks-on-the-state-of-free-software-and-answers-questions
414
539
The Uber Bubble
https://braveneweurope.com/hubert-horan-the-uber-bubble-why-is-a-company-that-lost-20-billion-claimed-to-be-successful
343
221
Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM
https://semianalysis.substack.com/p/samsung-electronics-cultural-issues
339
104
The games Nintendo didn't want you to play: Tengen
https://nicole.express/2022/the-center-point-can-not-hold.html
331
293
The money I saved as a child would buy one picogram of gold today
https://twitter.com/dbasch/status/1515737443395383299
317
188
Assume your devices are compromised
https://www.go350.com/posts/digital-secrets/
303
115
The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy
https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/59479.html
283
436
What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?
https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/what-does-shitty-job-mean-in-the
275
253
Why are some egg yolks so orange?
https://www.foodunfolded.com/article/why-are-some-egg-yolks-so-orange
59
Planting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06974
244
140
3M tape with anisotropic z-axis electrical conductivity
https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/b10167835/
204
Run end-to-end tests faster with Firecracker
https://webapp.io/blog/github-actions-10x-faster-with-firecracker/
196
90
Eric Schmidt's influence on U.S. science policy
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/28/google-billionaire-joe-biden-science-office-00020712
183
128
Stabilization of gamma sulfur enables 4000 cycle Li-S batteries [pdf]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-022-00626-2.pdf
182
126
Miniclip to Discontinue Desktop Site and Transition Exclusively to Mobile Games
https://www.miniclip.com/games/en/
176
33
Dexed FM synthesizer similar to DX7 running on bare metal Raspberry Pi
https://github.com/probonopd/MiniDexed
163
160
Fuck Your Miracle Year
https://rogersbacon.substack.com/p/fuck-your-miracle-year
159
27
Scallop: A Neurosymbolic Programming Language
https://scallop-lang.github.io/
158
77
Rewriting Sysctl(8) in Rust: Systeroid
https://blog.orhun.dev/rewriting-sysctl-in-rust/
Collectibles are terrible investments
https://fullstackeconomics.com/sorry-collectibles-are-terrible-investments/
150
84
A French town where the lighting is alive
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220407-the-living-lights-that-could-reduce-energy-use
149
146
Vampire Attack Twitter
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2022/04/16/vampire-attack-twitter.html
45
Show HN: "q", a DNS query tool with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH
https://github.com/natesales/q
124
79
Show HN: Employees.fyi – Easily compare U.S. workforce demographic data
https://employees.fyi
120
22
Warpgate: Smart SSH bastion that works with any SSH client
https://github.com/warp-tech/warpgate
119
40
I Made an Entire Call Center Angry over Losing $94k [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQy0nBzdAYI
117
62
Don't build useless features
https://staysaasy.com/product/2022/04/16/battlefield-product-management-dont-build-useless-features.html
114
75
Beanstalk Farms stablecoin project loses $182M to exploit
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=beanstalk-farms-stablecoin-project-loses-182-million-to-exploit
110
24
Building a Hacker Space (2007) [pdf]
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/attachments/1003_Building%20a%20Hacker%20Space.pdf
108
38
The New Old Way of Learning Languages (2008)
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-new-old-way-of-learning-languages/
106
The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
The chicken you are eating has increased 364% in size over the last 50 years
https://twitter.com/MrSollozzo/status/1515324097223225345
101
34
With every good film I see, I feel reborn (1996)
https://www.sabzian.be/article/hossein-sabzian
100
32
Running macOS on the Amiga in the 80s [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v4BaWwoyA0
25
A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture (2020) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFT54hO1X8M
99
20
Clojure and Doom Emacs on a brand new M1 computer
https://www.arthurbrrs.me/clojure-doom-emacs-m1
97
How to code, build, and deploy from an iPad using Gitlab and Gitpod
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/02/10/how-to-code-build-and-deploy-from-an-ipad-using-gitlab-and-gitpod/
95
29
Social animals seek power in surprisingly complex ways
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/social-animals-seek-power-in-surprisingly-complex-ways/
93
67
Broadcom introduces Wi-Fi 7 chipset solutions
https://linuxgizmos.com/broadcom-introduces-worlds-first-wi-fi-7-chipset-solutions/
92
16
Hero 2.0, an ultra-low cost 3D-printed robotics platform
https://www.wevolver.com/article/hero-20-an-ultra-low-cost-3d-printed-robotics-platform-could-open-swarm-robotics-experimentation-up-to-all
80
Ask HN: Has remote work made you procrastinate more?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31058930
87
100k Detroit homeowners illegally taxed $600M still waiting to be compensated
https://www.metrotimes.com/news/detroit-illegally-overtaxed-homeowners-600m-theyre-still-waiting-to-be-compensated-29800877