619
331
Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots
https://www.wired.com/story/bots-online-advertising/
4 years ago
510
132
Show HN: SigNoz – open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic
https://github.com/SigNoz/signoz
472
54
Stellarium 1.0
https://stellarium.org/release/2022/10/01/stellarium-1.0.html
457
202
230K Chinese “persuaded to return” from abroad to establish Extraterritoriality
https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/230000-policing-expands
419
71
The 'Egg' Laptop
https://www.ikejima.org/projects/2022091-egg-laptop.html
371
102
The self-taught UI/UX designer roadmap (2021)
https://bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/the-self-taught-ui-ux-designer-roadmap-in-2021-aa0f5b62cecb
368
208
TikTok tracks you across the web, even if you don’t use the app
https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privacy/tiktok-tracks-you-across-the-web-even-if-you-dont-use-app-a4383537813/
366
244
A surprising way to lose your files on Windows
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33047150
323
167
The 'attention economy' corrupts science
https://bigthink.com/the-present/attention-economy-science-damaged/
322
85
Enhanced noise suppression in Jitsi Meet
https://jitsi.org/blog/enhanced-noise-suppression-in-jitsi-meet/
311
157
Notes against note-taking systems
https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/notes-against-note-taking-systems
287
194
Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-22/how-paris-will-become-100-cyclable
261
120
Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done right
https://lycheeorg.github.io/
248
96
Solo founder dilemma; CEO or CTO?
https://nvnt.substack.com/p/solo-founder-dilemma-ceo-or-cto
240
87
Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis
https://worldsensorium.com/why-are-plants-green/
237
201
YouTube age-restriction quagmire exposed by 78-minute Mega Man documentary
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/09/youtube-age-restriction-quagmire-exposed-by-78-minute-mega-man-documentary/
235
399
Why Men Are Hard to Help
https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/why-men-are-hard-to-help
215
145
Ten Years of TypeScript
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/ten-years-of-typescript/
212
192
Does Company ‘X’ have an Azure Active Directory Tenant?
https://www.shawntabrizi.com/aad/does-company-x-have-an-azure-active-directory-tenant/
209
60
Seer – a GUI front end to GDB for Linux
https://github.com/epasveer/seer
119
Build your fanbase using the K-pop method
https://lulu.substack.com/p/fandom
205
263
Rammstein Get Restraining Order Blocking Viagogo from Reselling Concert Tickets
https://consequence.net/2022/10/rammstein-block-resell-concert-tickets/
200
193
A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/09/29/a-study-of-lights-at-night-suggests-dictators-lie-about-economic-growth
199
90
Bash one-liner to produce a list of HEX color codes that read like English words
https://gist.github.com/aileftech/dd4f5598b1f3837651fdf16e5abc3ffb
161
59
Data Version Control
https://dvc.org/
156
182
Telefunc: Remote Functions instead of API
https://telefunc.com/
155
44
Cloning a Rare ISA Card to Use a Rare CD Drive [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W1t2_EJG9w
141
88
Charles Mitchell and the 1929 stock crash
https://thehustle.co/the-banker-who-caused-the-1929-stock-crash/
138
76
How writing has spread across the world
https://www.openculture.com/2022/09/how-writing-has-spread-across-the-world-from-3000-bc-to-this-year-an-animated-map.html
130
153
Amazon to Close 4 of Its 5 US Call Centers, Shifts to Work-from-Home
https://wolfstreet.com/2022/09/29/amazon-to-close-4-of-its-5-us-call-centers-shifts-to-work-from-home-after-closing-44-warehouses-halting-construction-on-8-office-towers/
125
108
Too Much Internet
https://edzitron.medium.com/there-is-simply-too-much-internet-7ed232938709
124
139
The Lilium Jet
https://lilium.com/jet
41
DVD drives turned into microscopes
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/01/dvd-drives-turned-into-microscopes/
121
Impoverished Emotional Lives
https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/impoverished-emotional-lives
116
The City of London’s oldest document is currently on public display
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the-city-of-londons-oldest-document-is-currently-on-public-display-57746/
110
21
Pelikan, Twitter’s framework for building caches
https://github.com/twitter/pelikan
107
10
First evidence of social relationships between chimpanzees, gorillas: study
https://source.wustl.edu/2022/09/study-reports-first-evidence-of-social-relationships-between-chimpanzees-gorillas/
104
“58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere” mkws theme
https://t.mkws.sh/58bytes/
62
The Raw Truth About Lox (2003)
https://forward.com/news/7669/the-raw-truth-about-lox/
98
Mle is a small, flexible, terminal-based text editor written in C
https://github.com/adsr/mle
101
94
DNS Providers as Piracy Fighters?
https://torrentfreak.com/dns-providers-as-piracy-fighters-enforcement-groups-weigh-options-221001/
126
Stadia Is a Major Driver of Vulkan Adoption
https://stadiadosage.com/stadia-driver-of-vulkan/
61
Show HN: An ultra-light-weight tool to quickly test your ping
http://ping.projects.chrisjeakle.com
22
Markets in Power
https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/markets-in-power/
91
82
AI Hyperopia
https://mvcalder-01701.medium.com/ai-hyperopia-42956de9516d
89
66
Japan tests explosion-powered rocket for the first time in space (2021)
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/japan-tests-explosion-powered-rocket-for-the-first-time-in-space-is-a-success-167696.html
32
Boom! Antitrust Bill Passed
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/boom-antitrust-bill-passed
The era of fast, cheap genome sequencing is here
https://www.wired.com/story/the-era-of-fast-cheap-genome-sequencing-is-here/
56
Early Cormac McCarthy Interviews Rediscovered
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/30/books/early-cormac-mccarthy-interviews-rediscovered.html
The Limits of Rationality
https://pursuingreality.com/2020/11/25/the-limits-of-rationality/
53
Xerox PARC – Office Alto Commercial (1979) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0zgj2p7Ww4
Predicting Google Closures (2013)
https://www.gwern.net/Google-shutdowns
16
Breakthrough in understanding how cancer spreads could lead to better treatments
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/breakthrough-in-understanding-of-how-cancer-spreads-could-lead-to-better-treatments
38
Testing React Apps in 2022 with Cypress: An In-Depth Guide for Beginners
https://profy.dev/article/cypress-react
79
122
Nier Automata for Switch is a miracle port
https://www.rpgsite.net/feature/13323-nier-automata-for-switch-is-a-miracle-port
78
113
Bruce Willis Sells Deepfake Likeness Rights So His 'Twin' Can Star in Movies
https://www.cbr.com/bruce-willis-sells-deepfake-likeness/
73
48
You will ask many, many questions
https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2022/01/17/you-will-ask-many-many-questions/
18
Big Problems
https://thoughtfulatlas.bearblog.dev/big-problems/
43
Researchers successfully convert methane gas into liquid methanol
https://scitechdaily.com/new-method-converts-greenhouse-gas-into-fuel/
69
5
Co-writing longform narratives with Dramatron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14958
77
A new way of keeping trains apart uses magnetic signals in the tracks
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2022/09/28/keeping-trains-apart-is-crucial-to-safety
68
24
State Machine in Real Life
https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/StateMachineInRealLife.html?vj01hn
67
168
Ask HN: What did Linux not do right?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33047966
15
The lost art of handheld demakes
https://wireframe.raspberrypi.com/articles/the-lost-art-of-handheld-demakes
86
Tesla AI Day 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a78vivUG_A4
47
An old Encyclopaedia Britannica is a work to cherish
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/an-old-encyclopaedia-britannica-is-a-work-to-cherish
65
42
Rex: The World's Smallest PDA [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGQNAg3TxCo
64
2
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thorny-problem-of-keeping-the-internets-time?