923
197
I spent two years launching tiny projects
https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/i_spent_two_years_launching_tiny_projects
4 years ago
777
359
Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
https://www.getlago.com/blog/why-billing-systems-are-a-nightmare-for-engineers
655
231
Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore
https://rubenerd.com/git-ignores-gitignore-with-gitignore-in-gitignore/
611
583
I'm an addict
https://onetwo.bearblog.dev/addict/
489
428
Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it
https://ixns.github.io//lifehacks/computers/internet/2022/05/17/avoid-google-bloatware.html
443
146
Accelerated PyTorch Training on M1 Mac
https://pytorch.org/blog/introducing-accelerated-pytorch-training-on-mac/
404
377
Please Stop Using Grey Text
https://tangledweb.xyz/please-stop-using-grey-text-3d3e71acfca8
369
274
Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste
https://news.utexas.edu/2022/04/27/plastic-eating-enzyme-could-eliminate-billions-of-tons-of-landfill-waste/
338
134
Oauth2 support for GMail
http://www.pmail.com/newsflash.htm
304
169
Thoughts on OKRs
https://joeblu.com/blog/2022_05_okrs/
302
172
How to feel engaged at work: a software engineer's guide
https://jasont.co/ennui/
280
201
U.S. court rejects Tether’s bid to conceal reserve records from the public
https://finbold.com/u-s-court-rejects-tethers-bid-to-conceal-reserve-records-from-the-public/
268
78
The big six matrix factorizations
https://nhigham.com/2022/05/18/the-big-six-matrix-factorizations/
265
137
My deepfake DALL-E 2 vacation photos passed the Turing Test
https://www.mattbell.us/my-fake-dall-e-2-vacation-photos-passed-the-turing-test/
257
162
Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me over Selfie Data
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/05/senators-urge-ftc-to-probe-id-me-over-selfie-data/
253
300
Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/parmigiano-reggiano-fraud-micro-transponder-rinds-digital-label
249
95
Heroku CI and Review App Secrets Compromised
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31417993
248
136
Python 3.11 beta vs. 3.10 benchmark
https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas/blob/657830f1ab35466053634bb165f6582f6d788614/main-vs-310.rst
246
211
Ask HN: Thoughts on being “boring”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31427696
229
258
What did British officers think of the American civil war as it was happening?
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/war-words
215
236
Sunset of libspotify
https://developer.spotify.com/community/news/2022/04/12/libspotify-sunset/
213
Gimp 3 Beta Released
https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/06/gimp-2-99-2-released/
212
121
Erlang/OTP 25.0 Release
https://www.erlang.org/news/157
206
168
Manifest v3 in Firefox: Recap and Next Steps
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/
203
101
Bringing Bcachefs to Linux Mainline
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/895266/08dde553840fd74b/
199
1 TW of solar to be deployed annually by 2030
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/05/16/a-fate-realized-1-tw-of-solar-to-be-deployed-annually-by-2030/
56
Gophie – modern gopher client for Windows, Mac, Linux
https://gophie.org/
193
159
Kindle, ePub, and Amazon’s love of reinventing wheels
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/17/kindle-epub-and-amazons-love-of-reinventing-wheels/
190
18
3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development 2nd Edition
https://gamemath.com/book/intro.html
189
86
The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]
https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
181
96
Google's Subsea Fiber Optics
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/googles-subsea-fiber-optics-explained
Total Commander forced to stop letting you install APKs
https://www.androidpolice.com/total-commander-apk-installation-block/
48
When Your Smart ID Card Reader Comes With Malware
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/05/when-your-smart-id-card-reader-comes-with-malware/
167
26
120k SVG logos, also available in PNG format
https://vectorwiki.com
166
42
Show HN: Natural Language Processing Demystified (Part One)
https://www.nlpdemystified.org/
165
36
Unfinished Business with Postgres
https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2022/05/18/unfinished-business-with-postgres/
163
4
OTP 25 has been released
http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-announce/2022-May/000208.html
158
130
Leaving The Qt Company
https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2022-May/042477.html
155
138
Software Engineering Insights from 10 Years at Google
https://addyosmani.com/blog/software-eng-10-years/
153
62
Show HN: Open-source Firebase Alternative? It's here
https://github.com/appwrite/appwrite/discussions/3240
150
100
The impact of childhood lead exposure on adult personality (2021)
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2020104118
148
31
Generative art using C++ printer commands and a receipt printer
https://twitter.com/flockaroo/status/1526948400041758721
144
109
The future of search is boutique
https://future.a16z.com/the-future-of-search-is-boutique/
142
Apple introduces new professional training to support growing IT workforce
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/05/apple-introduces-new-professional-training-to-support-growing-it-workforce/
41
Deno 1.22
https://deno.com/blog/v1.22
126
Long-Term Building in Japan
https://longnow.org/ideas/02019/09/11/long-term-building-in-japan/
129
175
The bulls**t Canonical wants you to jump through before they will give
https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/usjhye/this_is_the_bullst_canonical_wants_you_to_jump/
117
14
Jailer – Data Browsing
https://wisser.github.io/Jailer/data-browsing.html
116
84
We reduced 502 errors by caring about PID 1 in Kubernetes
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/17/how-we-removed-all-502-errors-by-caring-about-pid-1-in-kubernetes/
79
The Code Is the To-Do List
https://www.executeprogram.com/blog/the-code-is-the-to-do-list
39
How Airbnb Built “Wall” to prevent data bugs
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/how-airbnb-built-wall-to-prevent-data-bugs-ad1b081d6e8f
107
61
How fast SSDs slow to a crawl: thermal throttling (2021)
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/02/26/how-fast-ssds-slow-to-a-crawl-thermal-throttling/
170
5th Circuit Court Finds SEC Enforcement Unconstitutional [pdf]
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-61007-CV0.pdf
29
Advice for Overcoming Writer’s Block (2016)
https://www.vulture.com/2016/11/read-dan-harmons-excellent-advice-for-overcoming-writers-block.html
90
Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Search Words by First Known Use Date
https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/
89
5
EightBit-Atari-Fonts: Fonts generated from bitmaps from Atari 8bit computers
https://github.com/TheRobotFactory/EightBit-Atari-Fonts
83
51
Formalising Gödel's incompleteness theorems, I
https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io//2022/05/18/Formalising-Incompleteness-I.html
75
43
Does communication matter in technical interviews? Here's the data
https://blog.interviewing.io/does-communication-matter-in-technical-interviewing-we-looked-at-100k-interviews-to-find-out/
74
6
Textual – A TUI framework for Python inspired by modern web development
https://github.com/Textualize/textual
71
2
bcachefs: Principles of Operation [pdf]
https://bcachefs.org/bcachefs-principles-of-operation.pdf
20
Notes on the M4 Macro Language (2008)
http://mbreen.com/m4.html
70
The Modern Gamer's Guide to Running Morrowind
https://serif-7.github.io/posts/openmw/
68
57
Tesla booted from S&P 500 ESG index
https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-s-p-500-esg-index-51652886703
67
Troof on Nootropics
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/link-troof-on-nootropics
63
34
CTemplar Is Shutting Down
https://ctemplar.com/ctemplar-is-shutting-down/
Lightbulbs Were So Startup
https://interconnected.org/home/2022/05/18/edison
19
Pixels and Accessibility
https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/surprising-truth-about-pixels-and-accessibility/
103
The Fed's $2.7T mortgage problem
https://www.axios.com/2022/05/18/fed-mortgage-portfolio