704
1098
No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing
https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/no-one-expects-young-men-to-do-anything
4 years ago
675
226
French fighter jet joy ride goes très, très wrong (2020)
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a32131240/french-dassault-fighter-jet-joyride/
554
203
Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/how-to-delete-instagram-facebook-online-accounts/
520
215
10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
https://abevoelker.github.io/how-long-since-google-said-a-google-drive-linux-client-is-coming/
377
99
Textualize – A framework for building Text User Interface applications
https://www.textualize.io/
353
268
Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/21/23035289/google-reject-all-cookie-button-eu-privacy-data-laws
339
165
How easy is it in 2022 to find a SHA1 collision?
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/99767/how-easy-is-it-in-2022-to-find-a-sha1-collision
330
238
The afterlife of used hotel soap
https://thehustle.co/the-surprising-afterlife-of-used-hotel-soap/
322
67
Drones have transformed blood delivery in Rwanda
https://www.wired.com/story/drones-have-transformed-blood-delivery-in-rwanda/
319
176
Pushing back against contract demands is scary but please try anyway
https://blog.plover.com/law/contracts-3.html
289
32
Patching an embedded synthesiser OS from 1996 with Ghidra
http://blog.petersobot.com/patching-the-k2500
245
83
Good genes are nice, but joy is better (2017)
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/
243
74
Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup
https://yasoob.me/posts/extracting-whatsapp-messages-from-ios-backup/
235
132
Fedora 36: A brave new (DRM/KMS only) world
https://blog.dowhile0.org/2022/04/22/fedora-36-a-brave-new-drm-kms-only-world/
234
143
DaVinci Resolve 18
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/whatsnew
230
40
Maximum Flow and Minimum-Cost Flow in Almost-Linear Time
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.00671
223
130
A Swedish skier was basically frozen, but lived (2016)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-woman-who-survived-the-lowest-body-temperature-ever
200
80
Project Gutenberg – Library of over 60k free eBooks
https://www.gutenberg.org/
194
485
Gen Z does not dream of labor
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22977663/gen-z-antiwork-capitalism
188
Software Mise En Place
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/software-mise-en-place/
175
How Nix and NixOS get so close to perfect
https://christine.website/talks/nixos-pain-2021-11-10
184
45
Show HN: I'm making a dynamic language in Rust
https://github.com/mwerezak/sphinx-lang
170
64
Some of the forces blocking new ideas in science
https://mattsclancy.substack.com/p/conservatism-in-science
152
43
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
https://jamesclear.com/habits
151
198
Why didn't our ancient ancestors get cavities?
https://sciencenorway.no/animal-kingdom-apes-history/why-didnt-our-ancient-ancestors-get-cavities/2010848
149
331
Twitter re-examines Elon Musk’s bid, may be more receptive to a deal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-re-examines-elon-musks-bid-may-be-more-receptive-to-a-deal-11650822932
146
22
The TTY Demystified (2008)
https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/
142
224
The candy stores of Oxford Street
http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-candy-stores-of-oxford-street.html
133
85
The Psychedelic Experience: A new concept in psychotherapy (1962) [pdf]
https://erowid.org/references/texts/show/2179docid2021
131
112
Norway convinced Japan to love salmon sushi (2015)
https://www.npr.org/2015/09/18/441530790/how-the-desperate-norwegian-salmon-industry-created-a-sushi-staple
118
61
Everyone should learn the slide rule (2021)
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/why-everyone-should-learn-the-slide-rule/
110
236
UK-Morocco 10GW Renewable Electricity Interconnector Planned
https://xlinks.co/morocco-uk-power-project/
106
19
New artificial tooth enamel is harder and more durable
https://www.science.org/content/article/new-artificial-enamel-harder-and-more-durable-real-thing
105
37
LA company to pay $22.5M after allegedly faking hundreds of Covid test results
https://abc7.com/settlement-covid-test-results/11777433/
104
29
Transparently running binaries from any architecture in Linux (2018)
https://ownyourbits.com/2018/06/13/transparently-running-binaries-from-any-architecture-in-linux-with-qemu-and-binfmt_misc/
100
33
Evolution is not a tree of life but a fuzzy network
https://aeon.co/essays/why-evolution-is-not-a-tree-of-life-but-a-fuzzy-network
96
Do the same mechanisms that create complex life also create complex technology?
https://mattsclancy.substack.com/p/progress-in-programming-as-evolution-398
94
75
The Rise and Fall of World’s Fairs
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-rise-and-fall-of-worlds-fairs-180979946/
89
119
Ask HN: Why are there so few fanless laptops with Intel/AMD?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31142209
88
Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House
https://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/pm652-art-hi.html
87
108
The temptation of writing shell scripts, illustrated
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ShellScriptTemptation
Magnum: Lightweight, modular C++11 graphics middleware for games/visualization
https://github.com/mosra/magnum
18
Generating the pseudo-random codes that measured distance to Apollo spacecraft
https://righto.com/apollo/ranging-xor.html
60
Show HN: WorkOrPay – Set goals, form contracts, pay a penalty if you fail
https://www.workorpay.com/
81
107
Exposure to 835MHz RF-EMF induces hyperactivity and demyelination in mice (2017)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5247706/
79
8
Implementing a Transputer system using RasPi Pico and RAM expansion
http://trochilidae.blogspot.com/2021/07/stack-based-with-os-in-hardware.html
78
123
What Is a Major Chord?
https://www.jefftk.com/p/what-is-a-major-chord
Tell HN: Have just discovered that I can use any key as Ctrl on my keyboard\
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31146046
77
76
Will Japan run on ammonia? Major chemical firms want to build the infrastructure
https://cen.acs.org/business/petrochemicals/Japan-run-ammonia/100/i14
140
$5939 per meter "Audiophile Approved" Mains Cable
https://www.hifiklubben.de/audioquest-nrg-dragon-high-current-stromkabel/aqnrgdragonhc1,0/
9
Large-Scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network
https://laion.ai/
66
Ultra-light liquid hydrogen tanks promise to make jet fuel obsolete
https://newatlas.com/aircraft/hypoint-gtl-lightweight-liquid-hydrogen-tank/
71
Yo-Yo Ma Performs Richard Feynman’s Ode to the Wonder of Life, Animated
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/04/22/richard-feynman-yo-yo-ma/
Perpetual Bond
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_bond
