643
461
We raised a bunch of money
https://fly.io/blog/we-raised-a-bunch-of-money/
3 years ago
597
346
Fast machines, slow machines
https://jmmv.dev/2023/06/fast-machines-slow-machines.html
443
511
Plastics are poisoning us
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/book-reviews-plastic-waste
418
221
Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs
https://github.com/jetpack-io/typeid
398
94
2,200 forgotten vintage computers from a barn in Massachusetts
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3k34/2200-forgotten-vintage-computers-are-being-liberated-from-a-barn-in-massachusetts
395
38
Show HN: Open-source background removal in the browser
https://github.com/imgly/background-removal-js
393
389
National Geographic lays off its last remaining staff writers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/06/28/national-geographic-staff-writers-laid-off/
372
614
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries permits
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/canada_tech_talent_h1b_plan/
336
335
The damaging results of mandated return to office
https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/the-damaging-results-of-the-mandated-return-to-office-is/454043
321
339
Apple joins opposition to encrypted message app scanning
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66028773
312
639
US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4067865-congress-doubles-down-on-explosive-claims-of-illegal-ufo-retrieval-programs/
310
207
Making Games
https://etodd.io/2023/06/27/making-games/
292
172
A proto-pizza emerges from a fresco on a Pompeii wall
http://pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/pompeii-a-still-life-discovered-by-the-new-excavations-of-regio-ix/
289
41
Computerraria: A fully compliant RISC-V computer inside Terraria
https://github.com/misprit7/computerraria
249
182
Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1
https://blog.jonlu.ca/posts/us-east-1-latency
246
66
Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor
https://awesomekling.substack.com/p/welcoming-shopify-as-a-ladybird-sponsor
245
219
Meta developer tools: Working at scale
https://engineering.fb.com/2023/06/27/developer-tools/meta-developer-tools-open-source/
243
99
BlockSuite: An open-source Notion-like editor with multiplayer support
https://blocksuite.affine.pro/blocksuite-overview.html
239
129
Junk websites filled w AI-generated text pulling in money from programmatic ads
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/26/1075504/junk-websites-filled-with-ai-generated-text-are-pulling-in-money-from-programmatic-ads/
235
123
Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings
https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection?q=&artist=Vincent+van+Gogh
231
96
Future CSS: State Container Queries
https://ishadeed.com/article/css-state-queries/
230
146
Flashing elements alienate users
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/every-flashing-element-on-your-site
117
Visa to acquire Brazilian startup Pismo for $1B
https://www.pismo.io/blog/visa-to-acquire-pismo/
60
I made a command-line tool to assist me with writing polyrhythmic drum parts
https://github.com/dredozubov/polyrhythmix
201
154
Honda Monkey Breaks World Record Covering 4,183 Km on Single Tank
https://www.advpulse.com/adv-news/honda-monkey-breaks-world-record-covering-4183-km-on-single-tank/
195
A trick to eliminate 2π (sometimes)
https://marci.gunyho.com/theta.html
184
139
Pixel fucked: Inside Hollywood's VFX crisis
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/hollywood-vfx-industry-breaking-point
181
104
Ask HN: How to navigate the world as a brain-damaged 17 year old?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505122
168
400
To save money on insurance, drivers agree to intrusive monitoring technology
https://money.com/usage-based-car-insurance-gaining-customers/
161
110
Using command line to process CSV files (2022)
https://muhammadraza.me/2022/data-oneliners/
160
59
Microsoft opens MIDI 2.0 repo
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/windows-music-dev/hello-midi-2-0-were-opening-the-repo/
88
Natural language is an unnatural interface
https://varunshenoy.substack.com/p/natural-language-is-an-unnatural
153
Fintech engineering mistakes (2022)
https://startupwin.kelsus.com/p/9-fintech-engineering-mistakes
148
150
Show HN: PFAS.report – Measure the forever chemicals in your blood via Quest
https://pfas.report/
137
122
The Bathyscaph Trieste: Technological and Operational Aspects (1962)
https://archive.org/details/bathyscaphtriest00wals
134
46
PayPal “Buy Now” buttons have been broken for a week
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36514098
Show HN: Serverless VPN, pay as you go, unlimited devices, no subscriptions
https://upvpn.app
31
Ed Fredkin has died
https://twitter.com/dag_spicer/status/1673799376437927936
118
102
Sony just spilled confidential Playstation information because of a Sharpie
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/28/23777298/sony-ftc-microsoft-confidential-documents-marker-pen-scanner-oops
115
48
Launch HN: June (YC W21) – Product Analytics for B2B SaaS Companies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505743
111
55
Back In Time: Vintage Maps of Akihabara (1976–2001)
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2019/05/11/back-in-time-akihabara-1983-to-2001/
109
71
The Secretive Surveillance Wizards Helping ICE Wiretap Facebook and Google Users
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/02/23/meet-the-secretive-surveillance-wizards-helping-the-fbi-and-ice-wiretap-facebook-and-google-users/
108
The idea maze for AI startups (2015)
https://cdixon.org/2015/02/01/the-ai-startup-idea-maze/
107
72
What AMD Learned from Its Big Chiplet Push
https://spectrum.ieee.org/chiplet
106
125
Plex lays off more than 20 percent of its staff
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/28/23777418/plex-layoffs-20-percent-staff
98
Airbnb Collapse Is Real
https://twitter.com/nickgerli1/status/1673774695693385728
87
Trinity Desktop Environment – a modern KDE3 fork
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
91
Testing the memory safe Rust implementation of Sudo/Su
https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/testing-sudo-rs/
89
How not to write a pipeline
https://cohost.org/tef/post/1764930-how-not-to-write-a
190
Titanic tourist sub photos show wreckage being brought ashore
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66045554
84
22
Construct's New WebGPU Renderer
https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/construct-official-blog-1/introducing-constructs-new-1768
83
Behind the Pretty Frames: Diablo IV
https://mamoniem.com/behind-the-pretty-frames-diablo-iv/
Ironies of Automation (1983) [pdf]
https://web.archive.org/web/20200717054958if_/https://www.ise.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Bainbridge_1983_Automatica.pdf
79
Show HN: Webhooks for platforms that do not natively support them
https://nohooks.io
124
Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/gsma_smartphone_recycling_plan/
Proton Pass end-to-end encrypted password manager is here and free for everyone
https://9to5mac.com/2023/06/28/proton-pass-encrypted-password-manager-free/
75
49
Ask HN: What are your favorite methodologies for organizing digital life
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36504570
74
45
How the data center site selection process works at Dropbox
https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/how-the-data-center-site-selection-process-works-at-dropbox
73
57
Stability AI Head of Research Resigns from Startup
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-26/stability-ai-head-of-research-resigns-from-startup
17
The False Dawn: Reevaluating Google's RL for Chip Macro Placement
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09633
69
43
The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code [pdf]
http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~imarkov/10rules.pdf
65
Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/06/28/thousands-of-species-of-animals-likely-have-consciousness