776
477
Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast
https://thume.ca/2023/01/02/one-machine-twitter/
3 years ago
537
270
Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34287407
494
366
Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens
https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-finds-that-buttons-in-cars-are-safer-and-quicker-to-use-than-touchscreens
454
173
The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3
https://github.com/Airblader/i3
414
376
Excess management is costing the U.S. $3T per year (2016)
https://hbr.org/2016/09/excess-management-is-costing-the-us-3-trillion-per-year
403
164
Epochalypse
https://www.epochalypse.today/
371
78
Show HN: Futurecoder – A free interactive Python course for coding beginners
https://futurecoder.io/
321
214
The beauty of CGI and simple design
https://rubenerd.com/the-beauty-of-cgi-and-simple-design-by-hales/
310
189
Post-processing is ruining iPhone photos
https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/06/mkbhd-post-processing-ruining-iphone-photos/
290
124
Will You Help Me Repair My Door [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y
286
84
The Safari bug that never was (2022)
https://obyford.com/posts/the-safari-bug-that-never-was/
275
166
The science of having ideas in the shower
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/08/the-science-of-why-you-have-great-ideas-in-the-shower
269
409
ChatGPT won’t replace search engines any time soon
https://www.algolia.com/blog/ai/why-chatgpt-wont-replace-search-engines-any-time-soon/
239
227
Rsync.net warrant canary
https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
229
248
Modern C for C++ peeps (2019)
https://floooh.github.io/2019/09/27/modern-c-for-cpp-peeps.html
222
107
Guitar Effects Guidebook, Vol. 20 [pdf]
https://static.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/guitar_effects_guidebook_vol_20.pdf
205
154
Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps – I spent a week to find out why (2021)
https://worthdoingbadly.com/macappsios/
198
181
Software horror show: SAP Concur
https://blog.plover.com/prog/crap-warning-signs-2.html
196
121
Devirtualizing nike.com's bot protection
https://www.nullpt.rs/devirtualizing-nike-vm-1
86
Cybiko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybiko
129
Ask HN: Main things to consider when building an app for business/enterprise?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34287685
180
226
Not-such-better-living through chemistry
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/not-such-better-living-through-chemistry
177
The Cornell Note Taking System
https://lsc.cornell.edu/how-to-study/taking-notes/cornell-note-taking-system/
174
119
Monkey stone tools shed doubts on the human origin of archeological sites
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09596836221131707
169
267
Universal flu vaccine against all known subtypes takes promising first steps
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0271
160
Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram over youth mental health
https://www.geekwire.com/2023/seattle-public-schools-sues-tiktok-youtube-instagram-and-others-seeking-compensation-for-youth-mental-health-crisis/
161
97
College that fired prof for showing image of Muhammad could lose accreditation
https://reason.com/2023/01/05/a-college-fired-a-professor-for-showing-a-painting-of-muhammad-now-it-could-lose-its-accreditation/
57
Small Visual Basic
https://github.com/VBAndCs/sVB-Small-Visual-Basic
158
130
Microplastics are finding their way into fruit and vegetables as they grow
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230103-how-plastic-is-getting-into-our-food
145
99
Undo codes for Japanese elevator floor buttons
https://soranews24.com/2017/08/18/the-secret-undo-codes-for-japanese-elevator-floor-buttons/
133
88
There is no software maintenance
https://henrikwarne.com/2023/01/07/there-is-no-software-maintenance/
131
74
A Look into Medieval Homes
https://www.medievalists.net/2023/01/medieval-homes/
127
219
Death by vegetable oil: What the studies say (2020)
https://www.jeffnobbs.com/posts/death-by-vegetable-oil-what-the-studies-say
126
81
When is a PC not a PC? The PC-98
https://scalibq.wordpress.com/2023/01/07/when-is-a-pc-not-a-pc-the-pc-98/
32
PHP: Prolog Home Page
https://php.energy
114
Show HN: URL Snake
https://github.com/lukebatchelor/url-snake
113
76
Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language
https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/testing-without-mocks/testing-without-mocks
112
5
The Rise of Steel – Part I
https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-steel-part-i
110
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds (2022)
https://www.vibilagare.se/english/physical-buttons-outperform-touchscreens-new-cars-test-finds
Playing games with AIs: The limits of GPT-3 and similar large language models
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-022-09602-0
45
Valetudo – Free your vacuum cleaner from the cloud
https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo
105
63
Jazz Is Freedom
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/jazz-is-freedom-grimstad
34
Ask HN: Did dang get hacked?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34286253
104
The time I yoga-balled an Apple store employee
https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/the-time-i-yoga-balled-an-apple-store-employee/
90
Classifying Python virtual environment workflows
https://snarky.ca/classifying-python-virtual-environment-workflows/
94
35
The Aral Sea has shrunk because of the re-routing of its source rivers (2022)
https://www.marineinsight.com/environment/aral-sea-disaster-why-one-of-the-biggest-inland-seas-dried-up/
39
Using Qt 6 under LGPLv3
https://embeddeduse.com/2023/01/06/using-qt-5-15-and-qt-6-under-lgplv3/
89
33
Why does private equity get to play make-believe with prices?
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1h9csrci656v4/Why-Does-Private-Equity-Get-to-Play-Make-Believe-With-Prices
Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes
https://theconversation.com/only-the-richest-ancient-athenians-paid-taxes-and-they-bragged-about-it-147249
79
51
Japanese beef croquettes are so popular there's a 30-year waitlist
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/japan-kobe-beef-croquettes-30-year-waitlist/index.html
115
Will we know alien life when we see it?
https://nautil.us/will-we-know-alien-life-when-we-see-it-256501/
75
96
Dedicated biomass is not a good idea
https://climateer.substack.com/p/biomass
73
12
Borg, Omega, Kubernetes: Lessons learned over a decade (2016)
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2898444
72
106
Low nutritional quality in vegetarian meat
https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/bio/news/Pages/Low-nutritional-quality-in-vegetarian-meat-.aspx
69
A civil war over semicolons: Robert Caro and his editor
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/01/turn-every-page-documentary-robert-caro-robert-gottlieb/672651/
22
FTC intends to ban noncompete clauses that bind 30M US workers
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/ftc-proposes-ban-on-noncompete-clauses-says-they-violate-workers-legal-rights/
68
92
The Californian Ideology (1995)
https://bruces.medium.com/the-californian-ideology-by-richard-barbrook-and-andy-cameron-1995-c50014fcdbce
66
31
Paul Otlet's Mundaneum anticipated the internet [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sxUPxJsXZY
64
8
EnterpriseReady
https://www.enterpriseready.io/
