560
323
Google Timer is gone
https://www.google.com/search?q=6+minute+timer
2 years ago
470
685
Nuclear energy is clean
https://www.collectifission.nl/nl/2022/07/nuclear-energy-is-clean/
445
337
Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-08-01/blockade-australia-technology-bail-conditions-encrypted-apps/101277038
439
79
EasyRPG
https://easyrpg.org/
397
102
Show HN: I've been making JavaScript sandbox alone for 6 years
https://playcode.io/
378
148
Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32296952
349
390
When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/when-cities-treated-cars-as-dangerous-intruders/
335
189
Famous HNers and their sites
https://jessimekirk.com/blog/hn_users_links/
327
183
Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2022/07/thoughts-mind-wander
308
48
Shor, I’ll do it (2007)
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=208
286
226
Google’s in-house desktop Linux
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3668548/the-story-behind-google-s-in-house-desktop-linux.html
282
143
RISC-V based single board computers are getting there
https://bret.dk/raspberry-pi-zero-vs-mangopi-mq-pro-benchmarks/
252
Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/mary-schmich-is-world-famous-but-you-may-not-know-her/
121
People spend too much time on decisions with equally satisfying outcomes
https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/people-spend-too-much-time-on-decisions
235
181
Leaked memo reveals Amazon’s plans to combat the Teamsters in California
https://www.vox.com/recode/23282640/leaked-internal-memo-reveals-amazons-anti-union-strategies-teamsters
231
461
A looming copper crunch and why recycling can’t fix it
https://www.mining.com/the-looming-copper-crunch-and-why-recycling-cant-fix-it/
223
25
CS109a: Introduction to Data Science – Resources
https://harvard-iacs.github.io/2021-CS109A/pages/materials.html
218
92
New Ghostscript PDF interpreter
https://www.ghostscript.com/blog/pdfi.html
210
168
Million: less than 1kb virtual DOM that is fast
https://millionjs.org/
209
122
Study finds Wikipedia influences judicial behavior
https://news.mit.edu/2022/study-finds-wikipedia-influences-judicial-behavior-0727
186
196
Kubernetes reinvented virtual machines in a good sense
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/kubernetes-vs-virtual-machines/
184
111
Roboticists discover alternative physics
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-roboticists-alternative-physics.html
105
The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions
https://brandur.org/fragments/early-tech-decisions
182
47
Cat gap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_gap
170
239
2022 Amish Population Profile
https://groups.etown.edu/amishstudies/statistics/amish-population-profile-2022/
159
24
Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eInk development platform (2021)
https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/
86
TI-83 Plus One More
https://www.leadedsolder.com/2021/08/10/ti83-lcd-ribbon-repair.html
156
68
Raising VC funding for a solo-dev OSS project
https://blog.tooljet.com/raising-vc-funding-for-open-source-project/
149
201
VCs squandered billions on scooter startups
https://news.crunchbase.com/transportation/scooter-startups-vc-public-market-lime-brds/
The high-stakes race to engineer new psychedelic drugs
https://www.wired.com/story/race-to-engineer-new-psychedelic-drugs/
145
74
Shellfirm: Intercept risky patterns at the command line
https://github.com/kaplanelad/shellfirm
142
8
Nichelle Nichols, Uhura in ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 89
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/nichelle-nichols-dead-star-trek-the-original-series-1235330159/
138
60
Hitachi Wood Plug Cutter Works Perfectly in Hand Held Drills (2013)
https://paulsellers.com/2013/06/hitachi-plug-cutter-works-perfeclty-in-hand-held-drills/
135
281
Riding transit takes almost twice as long as driving (2017)
https://www.governing.com/archive/gov-transit-driving-times.html
133
88
If only Borland had stuck with Turbo Modula-2 for CP/M (2013)
https://techtinkering.com/2013/03/12/if-only-borland-had-stuck-with-turbo-modula-2-for-cpm/
128
Citroen 2cv pages
http://www.citrobe.org/br70s.htm
126
30
New Clojure Project Quickstart
https://blog.michielborkent.nl/new-clojure-project-quickstart.html
124
107
Emacs Timeline
https://emacs.brause.cc/timeline.html
117
18
Converting from the Game Gear to the Master System
https://nicole.express/2022/sega-8-bit-conversion-kit.html
116
41
Spinning Levers – How a Transmission Works (1936) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLtS4VUcvQ
109
58
The worst dam idea: evaporating the Mediterranean to power Europe
https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/the-worst-dam-idea-in-the-world
17
Annotated version of Boole's 1847 “Algebra of Logic” (2019) [pdf]
http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~snburris/htdocs/MAL.pdf
TSMC Completes Construction of 5nm Fab 21 in Arizona
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-fab-21-arizona
38
Alternative wonders of the world
https://twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1553472360434515973
100
16
Open Soil Spectral Library
https://soilspectroscopy.github.io/ossl-manual/
99
32
What's wrong with how we train, hire, and motivate programmers [video]
https://danielbmarkham.com/the-rant/
93
10
The shadowy world of umbral calculus [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0EUFP7-P1M
91
53
Botanists are disappearing – just when the world needs them most
https://theconversation.com/botanists-are-disappearing-just-when-the-world-needs-them-most-186849
85
101
Lava Tubes on the Moon Maintain Comfortable Room Temperatures Inside
https://www.universetoday.com/156932/lava-tubes-on-the-moon-maintain-comfortable-room-temperatures-inside/
84
6
xkcd twitter thread:DALL-E 2 Pokemon cards backwards in time
https://twitter.com/xkcd/status/1552281410869907456
83
36
Ipcalc – Command line CIDR calculator with IPv6 support
https://gitlab.com/ipcalc/ipcalc
19
Atari 2600 Service Manual [pdf]
https://console5.com/techwiki/images/e/ec/2600_Field_Service_Manual.pdf
76
57
How Kubernetes Broke Git
https://matt-rickard.com/how-kubernetes-broke-git/
