914
366
Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached
https://github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
4 years ago
653
346
Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
https://github.com/dekuNukem/bob_cassette_rewinder/blob/master/README.md
565
147
Ffmpeg Buddy
https://evanhahn.github.io/ffmpeg-buddy/
530
182
Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities
https://billmei.net/blog/friendship
489
617
I disabled WiFi on the new Samsung fridge
https://eattherich.club/@swaggboi/108382897807037127
477
137
Asking robots to design stained glass windows
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/a-guide-to-asking-robots-to-design
457
209
California Right to Repair Bill Dies in Senate Committee
https://calpirg.org/news/cap/california-right-repair-bill-dies-senate-committee
338
124
A decade of dotfiles
https://evanhahn.com/a-decade-of-dotfiles/
303
286
Programming in the Apocalypse
https://matduggan.com/programming-in-the/
298
151
How to Store an SSH Key on a Yubikey
https://xeiaso.net/blog/yubikey-ssh-key-storage
255
131
Firefly III: A free and open-source finance manager
https://www.firefly-iii.org/
253
130
Qualcomm shook down the cell phone industry for almost 20 years (2019)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/05/how-qualcomm-shook-down-the-cell-phone-industry-for-almost-20-years/
249
300
Two envelopes problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_envelopes_problem
351
Schools should be using open source software
https://tdarb.org/posts/schools.txt
244
181
Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/remembering-apples-newton-30-years-on/
234
87
Flask Mega-Tutorial (2017)
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-i-hello-world
228
115
Bleh
https://drewdevault.com/2022/05/30/bleh.html
199
53
So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/05/so-long-home-t1-line-hello-hacking-t1.html
Xournalpp++ – closs-platform, open source note taking software
https://xournalpp.github.io/
198
271
Viruses that were on hiatus during Covid are back, behaving in unexpected ways
https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/25/viruses-that-were-on-hiatus-during-covid-are-back-and-behaving-in-unexpected-ways/
179
86
Makeabetter.computer – Microgrants for projects that make computers better
https://makeabetter.computer/
178
Mosquitoes kill more than 700k people every year (2017)
https://www.isglobal.org/en_GB/-/mosquito-el-animal-mas-letal-del-mundo
172
132
A vision of a multi-threaded Emacs
https://coredumped.dev/2022/05/19/a-vision-of-a-multi-threaded-emacs/
158
33
Lesser known features of ClickHouse
https://pradeepchhetri.xyz/clickhouselesserknownfeatures/
163
What caused the hallucinations of the Oracle of Delphi?
https://dynomight.net/delphi/
148
111
Working on the weekends – an academic necessity?
https://thegradient.pub/working-on-the-weekends-an-academic-necessity/
288
Profiles of people living in homeless encampments, rarely what you’d expect
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-05-29/venice-library-homeless-encampment-interviews
83
Choose Boring Technology (2015)
https://boringtechnology.club/
139
80
Dozens of high-traffic websites vulnerable to ‘account pre-hijacking’, study
https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/dozens-of-high-traffic-websites-vulnerable-to-account-pre-hijacking-study-finds
37
Grothendieck's Approach to Equality [pdf]
https://www.ma.ic.ac.uk/~buzzard/xena/pdfs/grothendieck_equality.pdf
136
243
The Go Programming Language and Environment
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/5/260357-the-go-programming-language-and-environment/fulltext
135
72
“When systems require novel accounting methods the reason is usually fraud”
https://twitter.com/br4s1d4s/status/1531135288428199936
212
Embracing Modern C++ Safely, Book Review
https://www.cppstories.com/2022/embracing-modern-cpp-book/
133
Climate Spiral [video]
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4975
168
Why is front-end development so unstable? (2018)
https://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2018/05/why-is-front-end-development-so-unstable/
64
Show HN: Top Links from Hacker News, Reddit, Techmeme, PH on a Single Page
https://alltoplinks.com/
119
The Software Industry Is Still the Problem
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2022/6/261171-the-software-industry-is-still-the-problem/fulltext
28
Enter a command to see help text for each arg
https://explainshell.com/
129
35
The Story of Heroku
https://leerob.io/blog/heroku
128
32
CogVideo: Large-Scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformers
https://github.com/THUDM/CogVideo
25
Hack a satellite
https://hackasat.com/
123
House Bill Funds CHIPS Act, Stresses R&D
https://www.eetimes.com/house-bill-funds-chips-act-stresses-rd/
122
Alexa, why have you charged me £2 to say the Hail Mary?
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/may/28/alexa-daily-prayers-voice-command-amazon-subscription
118
22
I wrote my own rsync [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpwObdgemoE
112
125
There is no reason to cross the U.S. by train but I did it anyway (2019)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/20/magazine/train-across-america-amtrak.html
126
DuckDuckGo faces controversy over tracking agreement with Microsoft
https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/27/private-browser-duckduckgo-found-to-actually-be-tracking-users-16722038/
110
261
Big money, nuclear subsidies, and systemic corruption (2021)
https://thebulletin.org/2021/02/big-money-nuclear-subsidies-and-systemic-corruption/
109
71
The “World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer” Is a Hoax with Staged Photos [pdf]
https://scorpioncapital.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/reports/IONQ.pdf
108
45
The industry has been sizing kayak paddles wrong
https://paddlingmag.com/skills/buying-advice/kayak-paddle-shaft-length/
105
Getting a vanity phone number with four consecutive digits
https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/verizon-rare-numbers
100
57
Really Prolific?
https://www.medo64.com/2022/05/really-prolific/
97
63
The Scaling Hypothesis (2021)
https://www.gwern.net/Scaling-hypothesis
95
24
Classic Game Postmortem: 'Q*bert' [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhkLfz0GKYU
91
21
Rethink-app: DNS over HTTPS, firewall, and connection tracker for Android
https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app
54
Monterey’s Finder Find memory leak may not be fixed
https://eclecticlight.co/2022/05/30/why-montereys-finder-find-memory-leak-may-not-be-fixed/
88
John Rawls and the “Veil of Ignorance” (2020)
https://open.library.okstate.edu/introphilosophy/chapter/john-rawls-and-the-veil-of-ignorance/
I Write Letters to CEOs (2018)
https://www.johnwdefeo.com/articles/why-i-write-letters-to-ceos
19
Build your own FPGA (2012)
http://blog.notdot.net/2012/10/Build-your-own-FPGA
23
An introduction to logical decision theory for everyone else
https://arbital.com/p/logical_dt/?l=5kv
84
56
When Tether Blows Up
https://paranoidenough.com/2022/05/30/When-Tether-Blows-Up.html
13
Producing Open Source Software (2020)
https://producingoss.com/
81
27
Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces prevented 95% of wifi attacks
https://www.mpg.de/18700996/internet-of-thinges-intelligent-reflecting-surface
79
41
Disputing the Dogmas of Surveillance Advertising (2021) [pdf]
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements/1597050/commissioner_slaughter_national_advertising_division_10-1-2021_keynote_address.pdf
143
Canadians Unable to Afford Safe Housing Are Turning to Medically-Assisted Death
https://ourgeneration.news/news/canadians-unable-to-afford-safe-housing-are-turning-to-medically-assisted-death
78
31
Harry Beck’s 1933 London Tube Map
https://www.openculture.com/2018/04/the-genius-of-harry-becks-1933-london-tube-map.html
76
10
Solving Problems with Decomposition
https://www.erichgrunewald.com/posts/decomposition-and-problem-solving/
74
59
Ask HN: How to invest savings?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31563463
70
Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly (2017)
https://blog.chromium.org/2017/05/goodbye-pnacl-hello-webassembly.html
46
On the Shortcomings of Gemini Protocol
https://lof.flounder.online/gemlog/2022-05-30%20On%20the%20shortcomings%20of%20gemini%20protocol.gmi
