1297
179
Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones
https://dukope.com/devlogs/papers-please/mobile/
2 years ago
720
433
GraphQL kinda sucks
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32366759
391
363
Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020)
https://unixsheikh.com/articles/technical-reasons-to-choose-freebsd-over-linux.html
364
340
I assure you, medieval people bathed (2019)
https://going-medieval.com/2019/08/02/i-assure-you-medieval-people-bathed/
351
122
Git In Two Minutes (updated after 8 years)
https://www.garyrobinson.net/2014/10/git-in-two-minutes-for-a-solo-developer.html
334
74
Simulating an Entire Car Engine (yes, it makes noise) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT-sKtR970
311
100
MyNoise – Background Noise Generators
https://mynoise.net/
307
282
Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-022-02039-0
149
Google Trying to Solve a UUID
https://www.google.com/search?q=0e2b835d-4d9a-4b8b-b009-988741022e8c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
301
347
Electronics are built with death dates. Let’s not keep them a secret
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/08/02/why-gadgets-die/
281
78
The Scottish Highlands, Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range
https://vividmaps.com/central-pangean-mountains/
261
232
Ask HN: How to say no to a GitHub issue feature request?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32366248
238
158
Skin exposure to UVB light induces a skin-brain-gonad axis and sexual behavior
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(21)01013-5
228
229
The First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Was Just Approved by US Regulators
https://singularityhub.com/2022/08/05/the-first-small-modular-nuclear-reactor-design-was-just-approved-by-us-regulators/
219
199
Ubisoft about to take away games you bought
https://www.pcgamer.com/ubisoft-to-pull-online-from-older-games-which-also-takes-away-your-dlc/
208
83
Ask HN: Resources to learn generative art programming?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32370671
204
124
What We Gain from a Good Bookstore
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-we-gain-from-a-good-bookstore
203
103
AlphaFold won’t revolutionise drug discovery
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-alphafold-wont-revolutionise-drug-discovery/4016051.article
196
114
Twitter confirms zero-day used to expose data of 5.4M accounts
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/twitter-confirms-zero-day-used-to-expose-data-of-54-million-accounts/
182
Original source of `(seed * 9301 and 49297) % 233280` random algorithm? (2014)
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/260969/original-source-of-seed-9301-49297-233280-random-algorithm
169
81
Having, a less understood SQL clause
https://smallthingssql.com/having-a-less-understood-sql-clause/
162
121
US has lost at least three nuclear bombs that have never been located
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220804-the-lost-nuclear-bombs-that-no-one-can-find
146
88
Steve Jobs negotiates Apple's deal with Microsoft (1997)
https://www.techemails.com/p/apples-deal-with-microsoft
138
134
Ask HN: More “experimental” UIs for editing/writing code?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32372351
129
143
The Latest Study on Red Meat and Heart Disease: A Red Herring
https://unsettledscience.substack.com/p/the-latest-study-on-red-meat-and
126
24
ESA – Climate from Space
https://cfs.climate.esa.int/index.html#/
125
34
NetBSD 9.3
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_3_released
118
130
How Did Elevators Lose Their Music?
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/how-did-elevators-lose-their-music
113
31
The First Three Discworld Games
https://www.filfre.net/2022/08/discworld-on-page-and-screen-part-2-the-first-three-discworld-games/
97
101
Ask HN: Longevity for your parents, what to do?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32366557
93
72
Rainwater everywhere on Earth unsafe to drink due to ‘forever chemicals’
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/08/04/rainwater-everywhere-on-earth-unsafe-to-drink-due-to-forever-chemicals-study-finds
92
70
Monad Confusion and the Blurry Line Between Data and Computation
https://www.micahcantor.com/blog/monad-confusion/
91
22
Olga Tokarczuk – Nobel Lecture – Literature Prize 2018
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2018/tokarczuk/lecture/
90
US library defunded after refusing to censor authors
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/05/michigan-library-book-bans-lgbtq-authors
33
Mobile Electronics Workbench (2017)
http://www.nisker.net/projects/mobile-electronics-workbench/
87
45
Kanye West's Stem Player – An engineering disaster
https://krystalgamer.github.io/stem-player-emulator/
84
AI generated, command whatever you want. It will generate mind-blowing images
https://www.midjourney.com/app/
80
Quiet quitting: why doing the bare minimum at work has gone global
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/aug/06/quiet-quitting-why-doing-the-bare-minimum-at-work-has-gone-global
184
Carlos Ghosn’s Brazen Escape from Japan
https://www.wsj.com/articles/carlos-ghosn-escape-japan-private-jet-box-hidden-11659733392
79
32
'The best thing we can do today to JavaScript is to retire it’ Douglas Crockford
https://devclass.com/2022/08/04/retire_javascript_says-json-creator-douglas-crockford/
76
12
NetBSD 9.3 Released
https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.3.html
On pretending to have read books
https://thecritic.co.uk/on-pretending-to-have-read-books/
