1353
404
I'm all-in on server-side SQLite
https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/
4 years ago
655
663
UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/05/09/ust-stablecoin-falls-below-dollar-peg-for-second-time-in-48-hours/
644
210
Yep, I created the new Avatar font
https://swelltype.com/yep-i-created-the-new-avatar-font/
560
360
“It Is Getting Worse. People Are Leaving”
https://www.railwayage.com/regulatory/it-is-getting-worse-people-are-leaving/
514
320
Preview, the Mac app people forget about
https://www.fourth-wall.co.uk/post/10-tips-for-preview-the-default-mac-app-that-people-forget-about
472
254
I saw a cool truck today
https://theap.substack.com/p/i-saw-a-cool-truck-today
358
543
NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S5474
339
143
I’m going to miss you, but I am taking a sabbatical
https://kottke.org/22/05/announcement-im-going-to-miss-you-but-i-am-taking-a-sabbatical
332
222
I'm a fucking webmaster (2016)
https://justinjackson.ca/webmaster/
318
248
MVC frameworks aren't dinosaurs but sharks
https://www.david-dahan.com/blog/10-reasons-mvc-frameworks-arent-dinosaurs-but-sharks
308
341
Day trader army loses all the money it made in meme-stock era
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-08/day-trader-army-loses-all-the-money-it-made-in-meme-stock-era
287
291
How to have a billion dollar exit with zero capital gains tax
https://axiomalpha.com/how-to-use-the-unlimited-tax-loophole/
278
171
Dutch digital identity system crisis
https://blogs.fsfe.org/nico.rikken/2022/03/16/dutch-digital-identity-system-crisis/
272
247
Ask HN: Important nonobvious startup/business lessons you've learned?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31312820
245
166
Short URLs: Why and How
https://sive.rs/su
233
65
Making a falling sand simulator
https://jason.today/falling-sand
231
155
Webb Telescope Image Sharpness Check
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2022/04/Webb_in_full_focus
209
174
Knitters got knotted in a purity spiral (2020)
https://unherd.com/2020/01/cast-out-how-knitting-fell-into-a-purity-spiral/
206
419
U.S. takes unprecedented steps to replenish Colorado River's Lake Powell
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-takes-unprecedented-steps-replenish-colorado-rivers-lake-powell-2022-05-03/
205
91
Using Java's Project Loom to build more reliable distributed systems
https://jbaker.io/2022/05/09/project-loom-for-distributed-systems/
49
Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu (1978) [video]
https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
203
113
Ask HN: Is Heroku Being Sunset?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31313779
201
236
Ask HN: Is DBA still a good job?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31309729
194
54
The Making Of Grand Theft Auto (1996) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vWSi44ZTSw
188
84
Illinois college, hit by ransomware attack, to shut down
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ransomware-attack-covid-combine-shutter-illinois-college-rcna24905
186
140
Colleges where everyone works and there's no tuition
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/education/no-tuition-free-work-colleges-us/
184
124
eBay Robbed This Man of $4700 and Suspended His Account When He Asked Questions
https://old.reddit.com/r/iamatotalpieceofshit/comments/uleq7s/ebay_robbed_this_man_of_4700_dollars_and/
183
43
Differentiable Signed Distance Function Rendering
http://rgl.epfl.ch/publications/Vicini2022SDF
107
So You Wanna Be a Chef (2010)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210225165109/https://ruhlman.com/so-you-wanna-be-a-chef-by-bourdain-2/
182
99
Master of Orion
https://www.filfre.net/2020/01/master-of-orion/
180
294
Dark pattern: how YouTube makes sure you don’t always “skip ad”
https://blog.prototypr.io/dark-pattern-how-youtube-makes-sure-you-dont-always-skip-ad-e6ab2117e3b5?gi=b69a2bb0a65b
176
169
Agile and the long crisis of software
https://logicmag.io/clouds/agile-and-the-long-crisis-of-software/
175
47
We raised $100M for open and collaborative machine learning
https://huggingface.co/blog/series-c
153
A Dutch city testing the future of urban life
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220404-the-dutch-city-experimenting-with-the-future-of-urban-life
30
Show HN: A Spatial Environment for Python
https://python.natto.dev/
165
168
Ask HN: Why does nobody support h.265/HEVC anymore?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31317989
163
108
A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)
https://www.fugue.co/blog/2015-11-11-guide-to-emacs.html
154
22
The next chapter for Cloudflare Workers: open-source
https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-open-source-announcement/
151
237
Humanity’s broken risk perception is reversing global progress
https://www.undrr.org/news/humanitys-broken-risk-perception-reversing-global-progress-spiral-self-destruction-finds-new
148
162
Writing HTML sucks and No-code doesn't help
https://rogovoy.me/blog/writing-html-sucks
146
60
Tesseract.js wraps an Emscripten port of the Tesseract OCR Engine
https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js
138
The Beautiful Diablo 2 Resurrected Machine
https://fabiensanglard.net/d2r/index.html
132
125
AV1 Video Codec
https://aomedia.org/av1/
228
Boston University Undergraduate Costs Reach $80k
https://www.bu.edu/admissions/tuition-aid/tuition/
128
57
Storing State in the URL
https://antonz.org/storing-state/
127
114
The Turkish drone that changed the nature of warfare
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/16/the-turkish-drone-that-changed-the-nature-of-warfare
122
50
Tell HN: Cloudflare Is Blocking Firefox Forks Waterfox Classic and Pale Moon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31317886
118
33
Viz Studio: code-based live animation editor
https://viz.intelligence.rocks/
109
102
Virtual offices are not remote-friendly workplaces
https://mycodingtales.com/stop-pretending-your-company-is-remote/
39
Hacks for Engineering Estimates
https://www.shubhro.com/2022/01/30/hacks-engineering-estimates/
105
Ask HN: Is Erlang an albatross to Elixir adoption?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31314274
103
9
Adding code to an existing ELF file
https://dropbear.sh/blog/elf-patching.html
96
Automatic Differentiation: Forward and Reverse
https://jingnanshi.com/blog/autodiff.html
95
The Two Generals Problem
https://haydenjames.io/the-two-generals-problem/
94
16
Beyond message passing: A physics-inspired paradigm for graph neural networks
https://thegradient.pub/graph-neural-networks-beyond-message-passing-and-weisfeiler-lehman/
52
Parsing / Recursive Descent Parser
https://www.huy.rocks/everyday/05-08-2022-parsing-recursive-descent-parser
90
26
Zsh-autoquoter makes shell quoting slightly less annoying
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/zsh-autoquoter/
88
115
Nvidia LHR Lock Officially Cracked Bringing Full Crypto Mining Speeds
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antonyleather/2022/05/07/nvidia-lhr-lock-officially-cracked-bringing-full-crypto-mining-speeds/
87
41
Syncing files between browser and disk using Yjs and the File System Access API
https://motif.land/blog/syncing-text-files-using-yjs-and-the-file-system-access-api
86
The time SUSE, the German Linux company, banned mentioning Jewish holidays
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-time-suse-the-german-linux-company
The Radioactive Boy Scout (1998)
https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/
83
28
The realtime web: evolution of the user experience
https://ably.com/blog/the-realtime-web-evolution-of-the-user-experience
74
14
Show HN: Pythondocs.xyz – Live search for Python documentation
https://pythondocs.xyz/
73
38
Writer and musician Ali Sethi has created an unconventional hit with “Pasoori”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-pop-song-thats-uniting-india-and-pakistan