794
166
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font
http://blog.pkh.me/p/35-investigating-why-steam-started-picking-a-random-font.html
3 years ago
585
373
The truffle industry is a scam
https://www.tasteatlas.com/truffle-industry-is-a-big-scam
509
118
I quit my programmer job to become a chicken
https://sebastiancarlos.medium.com/how-i-quit-my-programmer-job-to-become-a-chicken-b733c20680b1
502
520
Ask HN: What is the thing you've built that you regret the most?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33675112
404
69
Tree views in CSS
https://iamkate.com/code/tree-views/
387
57
Music Mouse
https://teropa.info/musicmouse/
225
$477M FTX ‘hack’ was a Bahamian government asset seizure
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/supposed-477-million-ftx-hack-was-actually-a-bahamian-government-asset-seizure-11668782216
372
290
Consider working on genomics
https://claymcleod.dev/blog/2022-11-19-consider-working-on-genomics.html
356
129
Putting Z-Library on IPFS
http://annas-blog.org/putting-5,998,794-books-on-ipfs.html
336
87
Quake 1 port for Apple Watch
https://github.com/ByteOverlord/Watch_Quake
333
706
The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature
https://quillette.com/2022/11/18/the-erasure-of-women-from-online-pregnancy-literature/
217
119
How can you not be romantic about programming? (2020)
https://thorstenball.com/blog/2020/09/08/how-can-you-not-be-romantic-about-programming/
209
29
TinyBIOS – A minimalist open-source BIOS project for fun
https://github.com/pwk4m1/TinyBIOS
206
120
Tell HN: Cloudflare Is Blocking Piped
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33667236
202
352
How to sell tickets fairly
https://barnabas.me/blog/2022/11/selling-tickets-fairly/
199
112
HelenOS: a microkernel-based, multiserver OS from scratch
http://www.helenos.org/
192
23
Tiniest x86-64-Linux emulator
https://github.com/jart/blink
187
43
Tools for thought as cultural practices, not computational objects
https://maggieappleton.com/tools-for-thought
175
141
A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon
https://patricia.no/2022/11/18/twitter_off_ramp.html
170
64
Mystery Blips
https://mosquitocapital.substack.com/p/the-mystery-blips
167
55
Show HN: Easylang – A browser-based first programming language
https://easylang.online/ide/#tut=1
70
Alan MacMasters: How the great toaster hoax was exposed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/the-reporters-63622746
186
Digging 10 miles underground could yield enough geothermal energy to power Earth
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/digging-10-miles-geothermal-energy
24
ChessBase and Stockfish end their legal dispute
https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2022/chessbase-stockfish-agreement/
165
27
Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver
https://rpdillon.net/redbean-tiddlywiki-saver.html
159
42
An Interview with Mickey Petersen, Author of Mastering Emacs
https://syntopikon.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-mickey-petersen
32
Strategy 101: An introduction to power
https://tasshin.com/blog/strategy-101/
148
245
Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 EV makes its US debut
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/18/23466094/hyundai-ioniq-6-us-debut-laas-range-features-ev
139
62
Sheep flocks alternate their leader and achieve collective intelligence
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adc9241
136
US Supreme Court asked if cops can plant spy cams around homes
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/18/supreme_court_cameras_police/
133
128
Is our definition of burnout all wrong?
https://www.bustle.com/wellness/burnout-definition-what-we-get-wrong
131
107
Class-action lawsuit filed against US state agency over mobile 'spyware'
https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/17/kochfunded_group_sues_us_state/
126
177
Quest for my perfect watch
https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/watch.html
125
121
Decision Fatigue
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/11/decision-fatigue.html
117
56
How the famous “comfy shorts” quote worked in Japanese Pokémon (2018)
https://legendsoflocalization.com/a-look-at-pokemon-and-comfy-shorts/
116
44
Go First Dice
http://www.ericharshbarger.org/dice/go_first_dice.html
36
Wide and lasting consequences: Teachers give girls higher grades than boys
https://scitechdaily.com/wide-and-lasting-consequences-teachers-give-girls-higher-grades-than-boys/
113
41
Show HN: Run unsafe user generated JavaScript in the browser
https://workerbox.net/
108
83
Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too
https://web.archive.org/web/20221110031633/https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-spotlight/
106
31
Intermittent fasting protects against Alzheimer’s disease in mice
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-022-00311-y
105
50
Binance has no proof of reserves for ETH/XRP, inadequate reserves for rest
https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/yxxugl/binance_is_not_holding_verifiable_proof_of/
104
Go 1.21 may have a clear(x) builtin
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoFutureClearBuiltin
101
Starting FORTH (1981)
https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/
Show HN: Rssnix – Unix-style filesystem-based RSS/Atom/JSON Feed fetcher/reader
https://github.com/jafarlihi/rssnix
97
Latam Airlines Airbus A320neo hits fire engine on runway during take-off
https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/latam/airbus-a320neo-hits-vehicle-on-runway-during-take-off-roll/
96
Exiting the Vampire Castle (2013)
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exiting-vampire-castle/
37
271 years before Pantone, every color imaginable in an 800-page book
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/05/color-book/
91
8
Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) with Audio Applications
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/mdft/
90
Show HN: OKSolar: Improving Solarized using the OKLab perceptual colorspace
https://meat.io/oksolar
303
Nord Stream leaks confirmed as sabotage, Sweden says
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/traces-explosives-found-nord-stream-pipelines-sweden-says-2022-11-18/
89
Why Meta’s latest large language model survived only three days online
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/18/1063487/meta-large-language-model-ai-only-survived-three-days-gpt-3-science/
88
12
Reverse-mode algorithmic differentiation using effect handlers in OCaml 5
https://github.com/ocaml-multicore/effects-examples/blob/master/algorithmic_differentiation.ml
85
In Japan, Artisans Create ‘Cut Glass from Edo’
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/fashion/craftsmanship-glass-cutting-japan.html
84
It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia
https://cepa.org/article/its-costing-peanuts-for-the-us-to-defeat-russia/
74
7
Nix-Lisp: A Lisp implementation written in Nix
https://github.com/utdemir/nixlisp
72
6
Steps to improve your writing (2020)
https://adamfaliq.wordpress.com/2020/10/28/write-well/
71
Wickr Me is shutting down December 31, 2023
https://wickr.com/our-focus-on-end-to-end-encrypted-enterprise-communications/
16
Software Mimicry
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/software-mimicry/
68
Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launching an app store
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/18/23466359/activision-riot-mobile-app-stores-epic-games-google-court-filings-project-hug
