834
342
Omg.lol – A lovable web page and email address
https://home.omg.lol
3 years ago
656
323
My bad habit of hoarding information
https://andreisurugiu.com/blog/bad-habit/
654
241
Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=181050.0
627
270
Why was Roman concrete so durable?
https://news.mit.edu/2023/roman-concrete-durability-lime-casts-0106
519
456
Ask HN: What's on your home server?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271167
514
1547
Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34272687
464
428
U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022
https://themeasureofaplan.com/us-stock-market-returns-1870s-to-present/
419
277
Things they didn’t teach you about software engineering
https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/things-they-didnt-teach-you/
403
451
GitHub is sued, and we may learn something about Creative Commons licensing
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/01/05/github-is-sued-and-we-may-learn-something-about-creative-commons-licensing/
362
289
How transportation technologies shaped empires
https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/transportation-tech-shaped-empires
352
184
Show HN: I spent 2 years building Tablane as a 17-year-old
https://github.com/Tablane/tablane
335
35
Zelda: Link's Awakening game engine documentation (2021)
https://github.com/zladx/LADX-Disassembly/wiki/Game-engine-documentation
325
137
VALL-E: Neural codec language models are zero-shot text to speech synthesizers
https://valle-demo.github.io/
314
341
A practical comparison of build and test speed between C++ and Rust
https://quick-lint-js.com/blog/cpp-vs-rust-build-times/
292
46
Rust Atomics and Locks: Low-Level Concurrency in Practice
https://marabos.nl/atomics/
288
175
Stripe is about to refund €147k worth of payments to my all of my customers
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34271815
286
210
No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (2014)
https://beneinstein.medium.com/no-you-cant-manufacture-that-like-apple-does-93bea02a3bbf
272
360
Rising rent, not poverty, is the real driver of homelessness
https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/house-speaker-rain-homeless-film-reviews/housing
267
224
Five mildly anti-Buddhist essays
https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/five-mildly-anti-buddhist-essays
60
A Curious Integral
https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2023/01/a_curious_integral.html
232
293
Emergency measures needed to rescue Great Salt Lake from ongoing collapse
https://pws.byu.edu/great-salt-lake
220
236
Wizards of the Coast Trying to Retroactively Cancel OGL 1.0a
https://www.enworld.org/threads/hello-i-am-lawyer-with-a-psa-almost-everyone-is-wrong-about-the-ogl-and-srd-clearing-up-confusion.694192/
219
131
Perfect Circle
https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
122
How to Build an Exchange (2017)
https://www.janestreet.com/tech-talks/building-an-exchange/
217
44
Artsy Engineering Handbook
https://github.com/artsy/README
202
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Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do
https://www.ecu.edu.au/newsroom/articles/research/less-gym-time-same-results-why-lowering-weights-is-all-you-need-to-do
190
153
Leaked Slack all-hands meeting reveals a ‘strong culture clash’ with Salesforce
https://fortune.com/2023/01/05/leaked-slack-all-hands-meeting-reveals-a-strong-culture-clash-and-growing-rift-with-parent-company-salesforce/
185
65
Wikipedia admin jailed for 32 years after alleged Saudi infiltration
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/wikipedia-admin-jailed-for-32-years-after-alleged-saudi-spy-infiltration/
183
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Human gene linked to bigger brains was born from seemingly useless DNA
https://www.science.org/content/article/human-gene-linked-bigger-brains-was-born-seemingly-useless-dna
178
57
Canaries in coal mines (2018)
https://blog.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/canary-resuscitator/
170
104
Please Sell My Personal Information
https://taylor.town/please-sell-my-personal-information
164
331
Artist banned, told to “find a different style”- AI-made art
https://www.thetechdeviant.com/2023/01/06/artist-banned-told-to-find-a-different-style-since-his-style-is-too-similar-to-ai-made-art/
Sunken Greenhouse
https://thetinylife.com/sunken-greenhouse/
159
144
Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days (2018)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06185-8
158
33
Carl Hewitt has died [pdf]
http://ee380.stanford.edu/Carl-Hewitt.pdf
148
50
Fourth membrane is discovered in the brain
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2353622-weve-just-discovered-a-new-part-of-the-brains-waste-disposal-system/
138
Tell HN: Oculus will delete purchases if you don’t switch to a meta account
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34282623
132
Tail Call Optimization: The Musical (2019) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PX0BV9hGZY
62
Modern Polars: A comparison of the Polars and Pandas dataframe libraries
https://kevinheavey.github.io/modern-polars/
129
47
Spammy syscalls in strace dumps
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/01/05/syscall/
127
100
FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims
https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/victim-services/seeking-victim-information/seeking-victims-in-the-hashflare-investigation
124
Ask HN: Why are URNs not more popular?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34275951
Show HN: List of Stripe Alternatives
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34281730
121
41
Politics and the English Language (1946)
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/politics-and-the-english-language/
119
87
Ask HN: How to restore cognition after years of trauma? I feel slow and dumb
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34279527
118
43
Coaching engineering managers to take on organizational problems
https://jeffammons.com/2023/01/06/growing-leaders-to-solve-the-hardest-problems/
117
16
The 10 year old indie mobile app: what worked for the long haul
https://medium.com/@taylorhughes/the-10-year-old-indie-mobile-app-ce96244a0af0
114
54
I prefer semi-automation
https://lucaskostka.com/posts/semi-automation
109
21
Denoising Diffusion models from first principle in Julia
https://liorsinai.github.io/coding/2022/12/03/denoising-diffusion-1-spiral.html
105
29
A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/a-philosophy-professors-final-class
167
Switzerland: snow flown in by helicopter in attempt to keep ski slopes open
https://switzerlandtimes.ch/local/gstaad-be-flies-in-snow-by-helicopter/
103
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Ask HN: Share your personal site
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34279215
102
The Tyranny of Nicespeak (2001)
https://web.archive.org/web/20011106205530/http://www.consider.net/forum_new.php3?newTemplate=OpenObject&newTop=200111050017&newDisplayURN=200111050017
123
A skeptical take on ChatGPT: Ezra Klein interviews Gary Marcus
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-gary-marcus.html
115
X servers no longer allow byte-swapped clients
http://who-t.blogspot.com/2023/01/x-servers-no-longer-allow-byte-swapped.html
97
98
MT-Propeller 11 blade propeller delivers 15% increase in static thrust
https://www.mt-propeller.com/en/entw/about_firsts.htm#11
Tesla finally breaks and offers round steering wheel on Model S/X
https://electrek.co/2023/01/05/tesla-offers-round-steering-wheel-model-s-x/
89
140
Why didn’t we get the four-hour workday?
https://rootsofprogress.org/the-four-hour-workday-prediction
201
Ask HN: What $500-2500 product improved your 2022
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34279146
80
12
An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-Writing System and Phenological Calendar
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-upper-palaeolithic-protowriting-system-and-phenological-calendar/6F2AD8A705888F2226FE857840B4FE19
75
26
P Language: a state machine-based programming language (2021)
https://p-org.github.io/P/whatisP/
74
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A Brief Defense of XML
https://borretti.me/article/brief-defense-of-xml
