513
156
Tell HN: I interviewed my dad before he died
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32349006
2 years ago
411
346
Botspam apocalypse
https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/61-botspam-apocalypse.gmi
403
206
Launch HN: CodeCrafters (YC S22) – Practice writing complex software
https://codecrafters.io
398
274
Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack
https://lexfridman.com/john-carmack/
381
265
Old jokes
https://dynomight.net/old-jokes/
349
162
Sending spammers to password purgatory
https://www.troyhunt.com/sending-spammers-to-password-purgatory-with-microsoft-power-automate-and-cloudflare-workers-kv/
331
147
The OG Social Network: Other People’s Websites
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/other-peoples-websites/
317
189
Ask HN: What HN post made you money?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32341922
303
244
Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google
https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/monotonous-web/index.html
296
249
C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'
https://lemon.rip/w/c99-vla-tricks/
295
Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/googles-video-chat-merger-begins-now-there-are-two-google-meet-apps/
282
354
Part of my code makes Copilot crash
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/20273
267
124
Show HN: Penumbra, a perceptually optimized color palette based on natural light
https://github.com/nealmckee/penumbra
258
195
Using grape harvest dates to estimate summer temperature over 650 years
https://tamino.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/french-heat/
237
141
Black holes finally proven mathematically stable
https://www.quantamagazine.org/black-holes-finally-proven-mathematically-stable-20220804/
229
60
OmnesViae: Roman Routeplanner
https://omnesviae.org/
224
Is DALL-E 2 ‘gluing things together’ without understanding their relationships?
https://www.unite.ai/is-dall-e-2-just-gluing-things-together-without-understanding-their-relationships/
221
Connect-Web: TypeScript library for calling RPC servers from web browsers
https://buf.build/blog/connect-web-protobuf-grpc-in-the-browser
217
276
Excel never dies (2021)
https://www.notboring.co/p/excel-never-dies
214
148
All about QBasic and QuickBasic
https://www.qbasic.net/
211
87
Coral makes comeback on Great Barrier Reef
https://www.hawkesburygazette.com.au/story/7846819/coral-makes-comeback-on-great-barrier-reef/
203
37
Art of README (2020)
https://github.com/hackergrrl/art-of-readme
201
391
Apple is building a demand-side platform
https://digiday.com/media/apple-is-building-a-demand-side-platform/
197
166
Tell HN: Amazon shopping is racing to the bottom of quality
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32344010
193
94
Show HN: Superblocks – IDE for Internal Apps, APIs and Cron Jobs
https://www.superblocks.com/
187
Quaise Energy is working to create geothermal wells
https://news.mit.edu/2022/quaise-energy-geothermal-0628
165
Thinking with pen and paper
https://ljvmiranda921.github.io/life/2022/08/04/pen-and-paper/
175
154
Solein – Protein out of thin air
https://www.solein.com
230
Visa, Mastercard suspend payments for ad purchases on PornHub, MindGeek
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/04/visa-suspends-card-payments-for-ad-purchases-on-pornhub-and-mindgeek-amid-controversy.html
173
97
Ask HN: Any solo game developers here?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32343096
107
Indian government withdraws Personal Data Protection Bill
https://www.accessnow.org/no-place-for-privacy-in-india-as-government-withdraws-data-protection-bill/
129
Against Discipline
https://irinadumitrescu.substack.com/p/against-discipline
68
My lab went from 4000 kg to 130 kg of waste a year
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02092-1
161
85
Ask HN: Any great books about technical writing?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342493
155
113
Who do we spend time with across our lifetime? (2020)
https://ourworldindata.org/time-with-others-lifetime
143
33
Clojure Scripting on Node.js
https://github.com/babashka/nbb
139
98
How to use an iPad as a secure calling and messaging device
https://yawnbox.com/blog/how-to-use-an-ipad-as-a-secure-calling-and-messaging-device/
332
Hyundai rolls out 27 heavy-duty hydrogen trucks in Germany
https://thedriven.io/2022/08/04/hyundai-rolls-out-27-heavy-duty-hydrogen-trucks-in-germany/
138
Gitlab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts [rumor]
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/gitlab_data_retention_policy/
135
146
Ask HN: What's up with these DoorDash dark patterns?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32338779
134
115
On Being Rich-ish: Lessons I learned becoming suddenly middle-class
https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-being-rich-ish-lessons-i-learned
121
100
How prestige outlets get away with copypasta
https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/how-prestige-outlets-like-the-guardian
118
27
Elizabeth Cotton’s Fingerstyle Ragtime
http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2022/elizabeth-cottens-fingerstyle-ragtime/#more-26016
117
52
Show HN: Killer Crossword - A crossword puzzle variation with no clues
https://killercrossword.com
53
Ask HN: How to be independent as a developer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32342058
111
Gaudi: A Neural Architect for Immersive 3D Scene Generation
https://github.com/apple/ml-gaudi
110
46
Software engineering books to read and reread
https://quentin.delcourt.be/blog/software-engineering-books-to-read-and-reread/index.html
96
mCaptcha – Proof of work based, privacy respecting CAPTCHA system
https://github.com/mCaptcha/mCaptcha
77
Toward a Better Music Theory (2013)
http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2013/toward-a-better-music-theory/
109
104
Infineon chip flaws to disrupt IONIQ 5 EV production
https://www.kedglobal.com/automobiles/newsView/ked202208030010
36
LocalStack and AWS Parity Explained
https://localstack.cloud/blog/2022-08-04-parity-explained/
105
400-year-old Ecuadoran beer resurrected from yeast
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-year-old-ecuadoran-beer-resurrected-yeast.html
74
It is time to stop teaching frequentism to non-statisticians (2012)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2590
99
108
Ask HN: What skills have given you a 10x return?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32339219
21
OpenStax: Free and Flexible Textbooks and Resources
https://openstax.org/
Hocus focus: how magicians made a fortune on Facebook
https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/07/28/hocus-focus-how-magicians-made-a-fortune-on-facebook
66
The SQL query engine Trino (formerly PrestoSQL) recaps a decade of innovation
https://trino.io/blog/2022/08/04/decade-innovation.html
95
159
Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?
https://nautil.us/why-is-the-human-brain-so-efficient-7216/
93
157
A man’s lonely fight to ban private jets
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7pw7/one-mans-lonely-lonely-fight-to-ban-private-jets
Implementing a “mini-LaTeX” in ~2000 lines of code
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2022/07/implementing-mini-latex-in-2000-lines.html
91
7
John Carmack: Doom, Quake, Programming, Games – Lex Fridman Podcast [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I845O57ZSy4
89
28
Researchers discover major roadblock in alleviating network congestion
https://news.mit.edu/2022/algorithm-computer-network-bandwidth-0804
88
164
A group of activists got leaf blowers banned in the nation’s capital (2019)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/james-fallows-leaf-blower-ban/583210/
86
Let's Encrypt’s subscriber agreement changes on Sept 21
https://letsencrypt.org/repository/
79
Google declined to review an extension because they can’t find a Kindle to test
https://twitter.com/daniel_nguyenx/status/1555111384437772288
70
16
Cumulative loneliness and subsequent memory function
https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.12734
59
Anime retailer Right Stuf has been acquired by Sony/Aniplex
https://www.rightstufanime.com/post/right-stuf-has-joined-the-crunchyroll-family
