1328
652
Why do you waste so much time on the internet?
https://zan.bearblog.dev/why-i-waste-time/
4 years ago
821
594
Everything with a battery should have an off switch
https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1522599896066396161
616
438
When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided"
https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1522468481135902725
522
240
When negotiating a price, never bid with a round number (2016)
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/when-negotiating-a-price-never-bid-with-a-round-number
419
320
Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31281919
404
740
Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/home-prices-mortgage-rates-moodys-mark-zandi/
387
168
How many radioactive bananas would you need to power a house?
https://what-if.xkcd.com/158/
371
465
GraphQL Is a Trap?
https://xuorig.medium.com/graphql-is-a-trap-e83ca380aa8f
357
393
When buying the dip doesn’t work: An analysis of the dot-com crash
https://endlessmetrics.substack.com/p/when-buying-the-dip-doesnt-work-an
323
177
The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021)
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-diminishing-returns-of-productivity
275
259
Master’s Degree in Computer Science
https://evanp.me/2022/05/04/masters-degree-in-computer-science/
258
144
SEC Charges Nvidia with Inadequate Disclosures about Impact of Cryptomining
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-79-0
254
385
Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll
https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2022/05/mercedes-benz-says-self-driving-option-ready-to-roll/
239
52
“Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t” crosses citizen science with environmentalism
https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/books-media/botany-joey-santore-youtube-crime-pays/
221
208
RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects
https://www.radbasic.dev/
205
167
How Apple overcame its culture of secrecy to create AirPods Pro
https://www.fastcompany.com/90748492/apple-airpods-pro-creation
203
180
Stripe responds to the Financial Connections/Plaid kerfuffle
https://twitter.com/collision/status/1522541067777753090
201
56
Learning modern Linux: A handbook for the cloud native practitioner
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-modern-linux/9781098108939/
196
115
The joys and sorrows of maintaining a personal website
https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/joys-and-sorrows.html
131
Half a million people watch me study on TikTok
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-61305442
194
When is a ‘tank’ not a tank?
https://acoup.blog/2022/05/06/collections-when-is-a-tank-not-a-tank/
189
Seed-firing drones are planting 40k trees every day to fight deforestation
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/05/04/this-australian-start-up-wants-to-fight-deforestation-with-an-army-of-drones
181
207
Faecal transplants reverse hallmarks of ageing
https://www.uea.ac.uk/news/-/article/faecal-transplants-reverse-hallmarks-of-ageing
179
53
MenuetOS
http://www.menuetos.net/index.htm
143
Behold GoldenEye 007 with four screens – dream come true or travesty?
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/5/23058787/goldeneye-007-nintendo-64-no-screen-cheating-museum-computing-history
178
70
Efficiency is the enemy? (2021)
https://fs.blog/slack/
176
141
How many Linux commands can a 7 year old learn?
https://thejavaguy.org/posts/008-my-kid-learned-bash-in-one-hour/
173
29
Demystifying Database Performance for Developers
https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/demystifying-database-performance-for-developers
172
51
User Disengagement
https://zerodha.tech/blog/user-disengagement/
170
73
UK telecom EE blocks archive.org
https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2022/05/06/uk-is-over-the-edge-archive-org-blocked-at-the-telecom-level/
155
225
An approximation to determine the source of the WOW! Signal
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/an-approximation-to-determine-the-source-of-the-wow-signal/4C58B6292C73FE8BF04A06C67BAA5B1A
153
Dashy: Homepage for Your Homelab
https://dashy.to/
152
Ali, what’s up
https://huntingbears.nl/2022/05/05/ali-whats-up/
149
68
Deploying Kubernetes clusters in increasingly absurd languages
https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2022/05/04/deploying-kubernetes-clusters-in-absurd-languages
147
Implementing a Merkle Tree for an Immutable Verifiable Log
https://aly.arriqaaq.com/merkle-tree-and-verifiable-data-structures/
82
Sentry.io outage
https://status.sentry.io
146
67
PikaPods – Instant Open Source App Hosting
https://www.pikapods.com/
48
Flash Boys 2: Frontrunning, transaction reordering, consensus instability (2019)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05234
145
Where do space, time and gravity come from?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/where-do-space-time-and-gravity-come-from-20220504/
GitHub Résumé: Service that creates a résumé based on your GitHub repos/activity
https://github.com/resume/resume.github.com
71
Home Made TPM2.0 Module
https://diy.viktak.com/2022/04/home-made-tpm2-0-module.html
130
96
Tell HN: AT&T disabled phone numbers and accounts of users using the old phones
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31281580
128
125
AMD doubles the number of CPU cores it offers to Chromebooks
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/hp-acer-chromebooks-claim-multitasking-boost-with-new-core-heavy-amd-cpus/
58
Half Baked
https://seths.blog/2022/05/half-baked/?via=thomas.me
124
The Case for Higher Rates
https://thelastbearstanding.substack.com/p/the-case-for-higher-rates
123
TRPC: End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy
https://trpc.io/
120
I’ve spent my Easter break customizing Neovim
https://framal.xyz/why-ive-spent-my-easter-break-customizing-neovim/
117
36
In Test Tubes, RNA Molecules Evolve into a Tiny Ecosystem
https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-test-tubes-rna-molecules-evolve-into-a-tiny-ecosystem-20220505/
135
You say “cave dweller debugging”, I say debug logging
https://www.sicpers.info/2022/05/you-say-cave-dweller-debugging-i-say-debug-logging/
83
Japanese Words in Neuromancer
https://jrogel.com/neuromancer-japanese-words/
106
112
'Rater' is paid $10 hourly to teach Google's algorithm
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-raters-paid-to-teach-algorithm-204308901.html
89
Repeal the Foreign Dredge Act of 1906
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/repeal-the-foreign-dredge-act-of
103
169
Average home prices in New Zealand reaches 8.8 times average household income
https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/property/house-prices-now-at-a-record-88x-nz-incomes
101
6
Code the Classics – Volume 1
https://store.rpipress.cc/products/code-the-classics
100
3
Recognize Digits Using ML in Elixir
https://fly.io/phoenix-files/recognize-digits-using-ml-in-elixir/
99
62
Social media break improves mental health
https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/social-media-break-improves-mental-health-new-study/
7
Origami Simulator
https://origamisimulator.org/
39
Base 2048
https://github.com/qntm/base2048
95
OpenVMS on x86
https://vmssoftware.com/about/openvmsx86/
91
WordPress sites getting hacked ‘within seconds’ of TLS certificates being issued
https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/wordpress-sites-getting-hacked-within-seconds-of-tls-certificates-being-issued
42
Umami: Own Your Website Analytics
https://umami.is/
84
Google is 2B lines of code and it's all in one place (2015)
https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand-one-place/
44
Eating one-fifth less beef could halve deforestation
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01238-5
Second large Hetzner outage in a week caused by DDoS attack
https://status.hetzner.com/incident/ea9ed47d-ecfa-49bd-a961-fdfbdaf026e0
24
Using a game engine to write a GUI to the OpenBSD package manager
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-05-05-i-wrote-a-gui-frontend-with-a-game-engine.html
81
28
Public health agency tracked Canadians' movements via phone data during pandemic
https://www.cp24.com/news/canadians-trips-to-liquor-stores-pharmacies-tracked-via-phones-during-pandemic-1.5890349
90
PHP RFC: Deprecate ${} string interpolation
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_dollar_brace_string_interpolation
78
60
Rustc: Add do yeet expressions to allow experimentation in nightly
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/96376
Inkdrop: Organizing your Markdown notes made simple
https://www.inkdrop.app/
72
45
ESO event on groundbreaking results from Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann22006/
55
Why isn't there any HiDPI resolution on my M1 Mac?
https://www.madrau.com/support/support/faq_files/ns_Why_isnt_there_any_HiDPI_resolu.html
69
18
Jonathan Blow on how Microsoft responded to Windows Terminal suggestions
https://twitter.com/jonathan_blow/status/1522623413675868161