552
221
My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span
https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/awakening-moment-to-how-smartphones-fragment-our-attention/
3 years ago
439
177
AT&T lawyer stopped Plan 9 release CD with songs by Lou Reed, Debbie Harry
https://www.tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/H2XN5ONL3XAAUFVERXNYKS7QOZAOGBFA/
387
207
Flowers for Algernon (1965) [pdf]
https://www.sdfo.org/gj/stories/flowersforalgernon.pdf
382
231
Oh Shit, Git
https://ohshitgit.com/
349
424
Ask HN: Any certification that is worth it? Legitimately helped your career?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31874802
322
130
The Seiko TV watch
https://sabukaru.online/articles/the-watch-for-which-james-bond-gave-up-his-rolex-the-seiko-tv-watch
318
178
Whatever happened to the bee apocalypse?
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/06/whatever-happened-to-bee-apocalypse.html
252
29
Xlite: Query Excel and Open Document spreadsheets as SQLite virtual tables
https://github.com/x2bool/xlite
248
233
I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10396-i-finally-found-a-solid-debian-tablet-the-surface-go-2
237
120
PostgreSQL upgrades are hard
https://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/1116-PostgreSQL-Upgrades-are-hard!.html#_content
406
Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights
https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/24/23182288/google-letter-email-employees-roe-v-wade-decision
218
62
VirtualBuddy: Virtualize macOS 12 and later on Apple Silicon
https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy
213
63
Tom Davies has become a beloved icon of GeoGuessr
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-charming-bloke-who-dominates-geoguessr
208
75
OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux port of the Little Snitch application firewall
https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch
202
126
Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left a double crater
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/25/chinese_rocket_moon_crash_pic/
195
38
A frog so small, it could not frog
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/06/pumpkin-toadlet-frogs-uncontrolled-landing-jumps/661262/
190
20
SQLite Release 3.39.0
https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_39_0.html
185
299
Most of the world’s grain is not eaten by humans
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/23/most-of-the-worlds-grain-is-not-eaten-by-humans
181
313
Hollywood doesn’t make movies like ‘The Fugitive’ anymore (2018)
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/08/the-fugitive-harrison-ford-25-years-later/566729/
135
64
Doom on a chip from a IKEA LED smart lamp
https://uk.pcmag.com/games/133930/you-can-run-doom-on-a-chip-from-a-15-ikea-smart-lamp
287
The most livable cities
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/22/the-worlds-most-liveable-cities
134
89
Don't let dicts spoil your code (2020)
https://roman.pt/posts/dont-let-dicts-spoil-your-code/
129
105
Papers on GitHub Copilot, copyright law, and ownership for AI-generated code
https://www.fsf.org/licensing/copilot
116
106
The collapsing quality of dev.to (2021)
https://wagslane.dev/posts/collapsing-quality-of-devto/
112
14
Unified theory of documentation systems
https://documentation.divio.com/
111
51
Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon
https://yukon.ca/en/news/mummified-baby-woolly-mammoth-found-gold-miner-klondike
110
84
EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight (2019)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/06/everquests-long-strange-20-year-trip-still-has-no-end-in-sight/
107
137
What Copilot means for open source
https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/this-copilot-is-stupid-and-wants-to-kill-me.html
78
The Typography of Legal Opinions
https://typographyforlawyers.com/court-opinions.html
104
58
Arkansas Bill (2021) Establishing a Database for Tracking Women Seeking Abortion
https://trackbill.com/bill/arkansas-house-bill-1195-to-create-the-every-mom-matters-act-to-provide-healthcare-support-to-pregnant-women-in-arkansas-and-to-stabilize-families-and-reduce-the-number-of-abortions-performed-in-the-state/1982203/
103
22
Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/frozen-whole-baby-woolly-mammoth-yukon-gold-fields-1.6501128
100
70
AI-guided robots are ready to sort recyclables
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-guided-robots-are-ready-to-sort-your-recyclables
99
21
Frequently asked questions about your craniotomy (2020)
https://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/frequently-asked-questions-craniotomy/
98
Pure: A static analysis file format checker
https://github.com/ronomon/pure
94
147
I think the GNOME designers are incompetent
https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/84023.html
93
24
Crystal's Interpreter (2021)
https://crystal-lang.org/2021/12/29/crystal-i.html
92
71
Texas repeatedly raises pollution limits for Cheniere LNG plant
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/texas-repeatedly-raises-pollution-limits-cheniere-lng-plant-2022-06-24/
90
A mystery that took 13k years to crack
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/06/mastodon-mammoth-extinction-climate-change/661351/
88
55
Nikon Z9 Disassembly and Teardown
https://kolarivision.com/nikon-z9-disassembly-and-teardown/
85
Dangit, Git?
https://dangitgit.com/en
17
Archaeologist discovers 6k year-old island settlement off Croatian coast (2021)
https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/archaeologist-discovers-6000-year-old-island-settlement-off-croatian-coast-2021-06-24/
47
If your website's full of assholes, it's your fault (2011)
https://anildash.com/2011/07/20/if_your_websites_full_of_assholes_its_your_fault-2/
76
262
Ask HN: Europe to East Coast, does it make sense to move at 50?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31873504
Social justice for the bald man
https://stakedy.com/long/social-justice-for-the-bald-man.html
69
Show HN: Feather – 90 percent of Bloomberg terminal, for 5 percent of the price
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31877584
60
Hell is ourselves
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/hell-is-ourselves