461
134
I won free load testing
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-won-free-load-testing
4 years ago
444
156
The Game: A continually-run D&D campaign, since 1982
https://thegamednd.com/the-game-out-of-game/
70
Show HN: PostgresML, now with analytics and project management
https://postgresml.org
397
250
An illustrated guide to plastic straws (2021)
https://hwfo.substack.com/p/an-illustrated-guide-to-plastic-straws
137
Brendan at Intel.com
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2022-05-02/brendan-at-intel.html
390
834
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31235968
333
33
Occlusion Grotesque Experimental Typeface (2021)
https://bjoernkarmann.dk/occlusion-grotesque
329
172
Grindr user data has been for sale for years
https://www.wsj.com/articles/grindr-user-data-has-been-for-sale-for-years-11651492800
311
92
Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava
https://mtbx.bike?page=hangtime
307
479
Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen3 Review – with Linux
https://ernestas.me/lenovo-thinkpad-p1-gen3
296
255
Square-Enix sells all of its Western game studios and their games to Embracer
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/05/embracer-acquires-tomb-raider-deus-ex-and-all-western-square-enix-game-studios/
294
The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019)
https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/06/project-failure-case-study-knight-capital.html
286
408
Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31230903
280
110
Fritzing is an open-source electronic design tool
https://fritzing.org/
278
183
Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31231690
269
552
Historic fertilizer crunch threatens food security
https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/farmers-are-struggling-to-keep-up-food-supply-as-fertilizer-prices-surge
247
212
JEP proposed to target JDK 19: 425: Virtual Threads (Preview)
https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2022-April/006530.html
235
174
Using TODO For Everything
https://goldin.io/blog/stop-using-todo
234
146
Pop culture has become an oligopoly
https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/pop-culture-has-become-an-oligopoly
222
218
Google fires another AI researcher who reportedly challenged findings
https://www.engadget.com/google-fires-ai-researcher-over-paper-challenge-132640478.html
221
34
Use fast data algorithms (2021)
https://jolynch.github.io/posts/use_fast_data_algorithms/
220
236
Nearly all of the Western USA is in drought and it's not even summer yet
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/west-climate-change-water/
404
Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5q7zb/bored-ape-virtual-land-sale-breaks-ethereum-wastes-dollar180-million-in-fees
207
64
Integer vs. Linear Programming in Python
https://mlabonne.github.io/blog/linearoptimization/
201
85
Racket v8.5
https://blog.racket-lang.org/2022/04/racket-v8-5.html
197
102
The Spanish PM and the defence minister were infected by Pegasus (in Spanish)
https://www.eldiario.es/politica/gobierno-revela-telefonos-pedro-sanchez-margarita-robles-han-sido-infectados-pegasus_1_8959353.html
190
98
Lisp in Space
https://corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/
114
An engineered barley plant that ‘orders’ soil bacteria to manufacture fertiliser
https://www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/news/engineered-barley-plant-orders-soil-bacteria-manufacture-ammonia-fertiliser
169
258
The Agony of Eros: Dating
https://ava.substack.com/p/the-agony-of-eros-dating
153
94
Learning to think critically about machine learning
https://news.mit.edu/2022/ethical-machine-learning-course-0415
144
268
Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31235966
256
Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make
https://jacquesmattheij.com/twitter-blocked-my-account-for-a-tweet-i-did-not-make/
135
107
‘Biodegradable’ drinking straws contain PFAS
https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/Biodegradabledrinking-straws-contain-PFAS/99/i11
133
89
Practical bruteforce of military grade AES-1024 (2021) [video]
https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-2021-r3s-216-practical-bruteforce-of-military-grade-aes-1024
130
104
IKEA's restaurants were failing, then it turned to Swedish meatballs
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/30/business/why-ikea-sells-meatballs/index.html
128
61
Show HN: How did I live without Pipe Watch?
https://www.kylheku.com/cgit/pw/about/
124
170
Apple hit with EU antitrust charge over its payment technology
https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-hit-with-eu-antitrust-charge-over-its-payment-technology-2022-05-02/
122
126
A wild turkey is attacking people in D.C.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/wild-turkey-attack-washington-dc-11651414703
40
Launch HN: Meticulous (YC S21) – Catch JavaScript errors before they hit prod
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31236066
115
24
Tell HN: 3 years of running a minimal blogging platform
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31233600
112
28
Don’t Trust Activity Monitor on M1 Macs
https://eclecticlight.co/2022/05/02/dont-trust-activity-monitor-on-m1-macs/
108
32
Anomaly Six claims it can track the movements of ~3B devices in real time
https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/1517528390437199873
106
41
Two workers are quadratically better than one (2020)
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/queueing-prism/
66
Ask HN: Engineers Running a Business?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31235132
Single Page Applications using Rust (with WASM)
https://www.sheshbabu.com/posts/rust-wasm-yew-single-page-application/
8
Making graphics in 4 kilobytes (2008) [pdf]
http://web.archive.org/web/20210826120419/https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/proceduralgfx/inspire2008.pdf
97
52
‘It was the poor man’s studio’: how Amiga computers reprogrammed modern music
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/may/02/poor-man-studio-amiga-computers-modern-music-jungle-calvin-harris
95
Ask HN: Why are there so many companies trying to reinvent the terminal (badly)?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31232665
93
116
On the Duopoly of Mobile
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/on-the-duopoly-of-mobile/
91
56
The Negative Link Between Extraversion and Perceived Listening
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01461672211072815?journalCode=pspc&
A case study of Toyota unintended acceleration and software safety (2014) [pdf]
https://course.ece.cmu.edu/~ece642/lectures/10_koopman_public_toyota_talk.pdf
86
158
SF Conservancy now accepting copyright assignment for any GPL software
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/may/02/copyright-assignment-project/
87
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools
https://www.owlfolio.org/development/autoconf-swot/
77
11
Show HN: Run WASM in Containerd
https://github.com/cpuguy83/runwasi
76
82
Ask HN: What helped you get good at programming?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31240927
75
18
What birds listen for in birdsong
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-birds-really-listen-for-in-birdsong-its-not-what-you-think/
74
25
PinePhone multi-distro demo image
https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/
An O(1) Generic Blog Post About Rust
https://peterkos.me/rust-const-generics/
71
62
A preliminary analysis of DALL-E 2 (Marcus, Davis, Aaronson)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.13807
Ask HN: Learn C++11 or Rust in 2022?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31232722
68
Making traditional light switches smart
https://www.jamesridgway.co.uk/making-traditional-light-switches-smart/
20
Starbeam – A library for building reactive data systems
https://github.com/wycats/starbeam
67
A 2000-year-old postcard
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2022/04/postcard.html
99
Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31235967
100
Zelensky Compound NDA
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2022/04/30/Zelensky-Compound-NDA
13
Disassembly of Apple II DeskTop a “Finder”-Like GUI for 8-Bit Apples
https://github.com/a2stuff/a2d
59
Show HN: Kontxt – Social web layer with CMS and social network
https://www.kontxt.io
57
49
Stop Using a Loading Spinner (2017)
http://blog.iamsuleiman.com/stop-using-loading-spinner-theres-something-better/