800
216
How to Befriend Crows
https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/109571409346371116
3 years ago
476
41
Tell HN: Thank You
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34140096
425
157
Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom
https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/social-media-may-prevent-users-from-reaping-creative-rewards-of-profound-boredom-new-research/
403
127
Google removed my Yubikeys from a Google account 'just to be safe'
https://lunnova.dev/articles/google-just-to-be-safe/
391
145
Dioxus: User interfaces that run anywhere
https://dioxuslabs.com/
357
899
How Twitter moderated the Covid debate
https://www.thefp.com/p/how-twitter-rigged-the-covid-debate
337
192
Unbundling Tools for Thought
https://borretti.me/article/unbundling-tools-for-thought
312
45
Writing a Mini-CDN to Learn Nginx/Prometheus/Grafana/Lua
https://github.com/leandromoreira/cdn-up-and-running
303
186
Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of SimCity, other games
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/windows-95-went-the-extra-mile-to-ensure-compatibility-of-simcity-other-games/
299
182
The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)
http://wifinigel.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-5ghz-problem-for-wi-fi-networks-dfs.html
289
54
Rigs of Rods: free and open source vehicle simulator that uses soft-body physics
https://www.rigsofrods.org/
272
175
Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewer notifications
https://medium.com/@AnalyticsAtMeta/notifications-why-less-is-more-how-facebook-has-been-increasing-both-user-satisfaction-and-app-9463f7325e7d
252
74
Hyperview: Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website
https://hyperview.org
241
100
Leak of a cancelled 1996 “Duke Nukem Forever” side-scroller
https://twitter.com/vinciusmedeiro6/status/1607187382335324162
237
108
Save web pages as PDF in Firefox for Android
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/save-web-pages-pdf-firefox-android
235
139
Why do bees die when they sting you?
https://www.subanima.org/bees/
225
69
NixOS on M1
https://github.com/tpwrules/nixos-m1
222
117
Customer service reps for Disney and Airbnb who have to pay to take calls (2020)
https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-customer-service-reps-for-disney-and-airbnb-who-have-to-pay-to-talk-to-you
220
388
Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth in wake of storm
https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/nation/2022/12/23/thousands-trapped-on-pine-ridge-burn-clothes-for-warmth-in-wake-of-storm/69752694007/
215
164
eBay, Etsy and other marketplaces on brink of having to disclose seller details
https://www.eseller365.com/ebay-etsy-inform-act-hidden-spending-bill/
213
240
Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/26/opinion_column_alexa/
112
A Visual Guide to React's useEffect (2021)
https://alexsidorenko.com/blog/useeffect/
188
141
Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code likely to be buggy
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/21/ai_assistants_bad_code/
183
131
Gattaca draft script (1997)
https://sfy.ru/?script=gattaca
180
194
Rogue antibody and mystery pathogen behind AstraZeneca blood clots: study
https://www.smh.com.au/national/rogue-antibody-and-mystery-pathogen-behind-astrazeneca-blood-clots-study-20221223-p5c8gl.html
168
133
Bitcoin hashrate drops nearly 40% as deadly U.S. storm unplugs miners
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-hashrate-drops-nearly-40-034118180.html
160
24
Novu – Service for managing multi-channel notifications with a single API
https://github.com/novuhq/novu
147
107
Japan to begin extracting rare earth metals from seabed in 2024
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Commodities/Japan-to-begin-extracting-rare-earth-metals-from-seabed-in-2024
146
105
People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities–Until They Live in One
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/car-free-cities-opposition
Mold linker: targeting macOS/iOS now requires a commercial license
https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v1.8.0
144
87
Running Windows 7 on a 5 MHz CPU with 128MB of RAM
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-7-runs-at-5-mhz
143
27
How to Sell Your Startup
https://bilalmahmood.medium.com/how-to-sell-your-startup-744805fb59ab
140
51
Digital Gardening in Obsidian
https://bytes.zone/posts/digital-gardening-in-obsidian/
138
How France Changed the Tides of the American Revolution (2018)
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/how-france-helped-win-american-revolution
136
34
Hypermedia Systems
https://hypermedia.systems
128
203
How tech’s defiance of economic gravity came to an abrupt end
https://www.economist.com/business/2022/12/24/how-techs-defiance-of-economic-gravity-came-to-an-abrupt-end
68
Benchmarking Ruby 2.6 to 3.2
https://gettalong.org/blog/2022/benchmarking-rubies.html
125
99
The US-Canada border cuts through the Haskell Free Library and Opera House
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/26/inside-the-library-where-you-can-read-in-two-countries-at-once
124
173
Power substations vandalized in Washington state
https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_83938cfff92036cf0e1b55ced9febc77
123
I wrote a Ruby extension in Zig
https://katafrakt.me/2022/12/25/ruby-extension-zig/
120
15
Qwantify
https://github.com/wanjohiryan/qwantify
9
Binary Posters
https://github.com/corkami/pics/blob/master/binary/README.md
81
Lichee Pi 4A
https://sipeed.com/licheepi4a
110
Creepy Website Similarity
https://memex.marginalia.nu/log/69-creepy-website-similarity.gmi
109
44
The FCC can finally hammer predatory prison phone call companies
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/the-fcc-can-finally-hammer-predatory-prison-phonecall-companies-thanks-to-just-passed-bill/
106
5
Peekaboo: Text to Image Diffusion Models Are Zero-Shot Segmentors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13224
104
The Way Things Work CD-ROM (1994)
https://archive.org/details/the-way-things-work-cdrom
103
36
The worst-selling Microsoft software product of all time: OS/2 for the Mach 20
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20221226-00/?p=107615
101
76
Google’s water use is soaring, consume more than 25% of water used in The Dalles
https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/12/googles-water-use-is-soaring-in-the-dalles-records-show-with-two-more-data-centers-to-come.html
98
65
Ménage Problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9nage_problem
95
7
Sunstone (medieval)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstone_(medieval)
26
An Event Apart – Farewell
https://www.aneventapart.com/
94
42
Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2022?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34138737
How many QMS advertising panels in Sydney are near a Telstra public telephone?
https://observablehq.com/@mjbo/sydney-qms-panel-public-telephone-pairings
92
19
Use LibreOffice Base as a GUI for an SQLite Database in OS X (2016)
https://www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2016/02/10/libreoffice-base-sqlite-odbc-osx/
91
17
DDR Type 2 – Short-wave spy transmitter
https://www.cryptomuseum.com/spy/ddr2/index.htm
90
What you need to know about Wi-Fi 6 (IEEE 802.11ax)
https://help.keenetic.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010536300-What-you-need-to-know-about-Wi-Fi-6-IEEE-802-11ax-
88
I'm glad I lack passion to be a programmer
https://blog.miris.design/not-a-programmer
85
70
Novell NetWare: The King Returns from the Dead (2001)
http://web.archive.org/web/20200217014004/https://www.aaxnet.com/design/novell.html
84
The Twitter Files: How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate
https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1607378386338340867
28
The Canon Cat: the little computer that could have changed the world
https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-98-the-canon-cat?tdest_id=1264190
In the world of astrophysics, one failed cancel campaign led to another
https://quillette.com/2022/12/25/character-assassination-social-justice-physics/
79
102
Archaeologists devise a better clock for Biblical times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/science/archaeology-bible-geomagnetism.html
78
111
Why on Earth are flowers beautiful? (2018)
https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/why-on-earth-are-flowers-beautiful/
6
Letter regarding proposed free expression statement from MIT
https://news.mit.edu/2022/proposed-free-expression-statement-0901
77
73
Ask HN: Products/Services you swear by – Dec. 2022
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34140396
72
53
Tinder users are using ChatGPT to message matches
https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-tinder-tiktok
67
11
73-year-old pays $370/month to live in a plane he bought for $100k
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/26/73-year-old-pays-370-bucks-a-month-to-live-in-a-1066-square-foot-plane.html
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – Bad Writing
https://filmcolossus.com/glass-onion-bad-writing
Ask HN: 90s kids happily less connected?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34143278
64
56
Soaring fertilizer prices could see millions more undernourished
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-soaring-fertilizer-prices-millions-undernourished.html
