676
319
PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities
https://www.fourth-wall.co.uk/post/powertoys-11-awesome-features-microsoft-won-t-add-to-windows
4 years ago
612
441
Tell HN: I was permanently banned from eBay in one hour
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31305341
424
348
Emerging evidence that mindfulness can sometimes increase selfish tendencies
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220302-how-mindfulness-can-make-you-a-darker-person
358
131
Donald Knuth was framed (2020)
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/donald-knuth-was-framed/
327
77
Plane accidentally flew around the world (2018)
https://medium.com/s/story/the-long-way-round-the-plane-that-accidentally-circumnavigated-the-world-c04ca734c6bb
296
211
Vitamin D and Depression (2020)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6970300/
271
375
Feeling uncomfortable when leaving phone at home shouldn't be normal
https://vaidik.bearblog.dev/feeling-uncomfortable-when-leaving-phone-at-home-shouldnt-be-normal/
242
313
No Fixed Address Bank Account
https://www.hsbc.co.uk/help/money-worries/no-fixed-address/
230
23
Scapy: Low level packet hacking toolkit for Python
https://www.trickster.dev/post/scapy-low-level-packet-hacking-toolkit-for-python/
213
176
Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media
https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/monsantos-ghostwriting-to-influence
210
404
Equality is prevented by the misperception that it harms advantaged groups
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm2385
206
69
Layoffs.fyi
https://layoffs.fyi/
205
34
Pixabay has royalty free music you can use for free
https://pixabay.com/
194
305
Lessons learned from the recent job hunt
https://www.jvt.me/posts/2022/05/02/lessons-learned-job-hunt/
187
143
Jeffrey Snower was originally demoted over PowerShell
https://twitter.com/jsnover/status/1523010444570419200
179
161
Forget personalisation, it’s impossible and it doesn’t work
https://www.marketingweek.com/peter-weinberg-jon-lombardo-personalisation-impersonalisation/
57
Use fzf for tmux session switching
https://waylonwalker.com/tmux-fzf-session-jump/
111
“I don't know the numbers”: a math puzzle
https://alexanderell.is/posts/numbers-game/
175
12
Show HN: CaskDB – project to teach you building a key value store
https://github.com/avinassh/py-caskdb
174
162
65k fake students enrolled in the California junior college system
https://openthebooks.substack.com/p/65000-fake-students-enrolled-in-the
60
Soil: The world beneath our feet
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/07/secret-world-beneath-our-feet-mind-blowing-key-to-planets-future
166
96
Multiple assignment and tuple unpacking improve Python code readability (2018)
https://treyhunner.com/2018/03/tuple-unpacking-improves-python-code-readability/
173
The End of Industrial Society
https://palladiummag.com/2021/03/24/the-end-of-industrial-society/
157
83
VSCode – Markdown Edition
https://blog.dendron.so/notes/upyp4ow9fkpwvu50n8wsvnp/
148
169
What Is JSON Patch?
http://jsonpatch.com/
139
241
Wealthy Americans are buying second passports as a 'plan B'
https://www.businessinsider.com/wealthy-americans-buy-second-passports-amid-covid-politics-climate-change-2022-5
138
149
Ask HN: How do I get my Google account back?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31302391
133
14
A Case for an Open Source CS Curriculum [pdf] (2018)
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~tom/talks/edslides.pdf
124
43
Show HN: Thanks to BeAware, Deaf iPhone users have a free alerting device (OSS)
https://www.deafassistant.com/
120
2
RustBelt: Securing the Foundations of the Rust Programming Language (2018) [pdf]
https://people.mpi-sws.org/~dreyer/papers/rustbelt/paper.pdf
117
16
Compiling an OpenBSD kernel 50% faster
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/compiling-an-openbsd-kernel-50-faster
115
49
Tidbyt hardware display device: a review
https://macwright.com/2022/03/11/tidbyt-review.html
114
137
Ask HN: Are there any good poverty simulator games?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31305446
104
28
Kiss Linux (2020)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200528200318/https://k1ss.org/
20
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of JPEG: A Signal Processing Approach [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0me3guauqOU
103
9
Wordle in Python using literate programming
https://jiby.tech/project/literate_wordle/wordle.html
98
Boquila trifoliolata mimics leaves of an artificial plastic host plant (2021)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15592324.2021.1977530
94
Ask HN: WFH – will I be outsourced?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31306507
90
25
Specific Brain Cells Linked to Parkinson's Disease
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/specific-brain-cells-linked-to-parkinson-s-disease-69988
84
79
What happens if Twitter gets encrypted DMs?
https://getsession.org/blog/twitter-encrypted-dms
113
While I’m on a tech rant – who invented this piece of pure sadism?
https://twitter.com/hackedoffhugh/status/1523250148725637125
80
52
(Yet Another) Lisp in Go
http://johnj.com/posts/l1/
76
91
Star Citizen is doing 'bedsheet deformation' physics now
https://www.pcgamer.com/star-citizen-is-doing-bedsheet-deformation-physics-now-because-of-course-it-is/
74
125
Among a certain set, counterfeit luxury bags may be more popular real ones
https://www.thecut.com/2022/04/repladies-fake-luxury-bags.html
72
58
Hundreds of suicidal teens sleep in emergency rooms
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/08/health/emergency-rooms-teen-mental-health.html
71
6
Apple2idiot: A general purpose ESP32 IoT board for the Apple IIe
https://github.com/equant/apple2idiot
21
Show HN: Automedia – a tool for managing bitrot and formats in media libraries
https://github.com/mmastrac/automedia
62
13
Regex Vis – regular expression visualizer
https://regex-vis.com/?r=%5E%28%28%5BhH%5Dacker%29%5B+%5D%3F%28%5BnN%5Dews%7Cnewsletter%29%29%24