686
453
The boiling frog of digital freedom
https://gazoche.xyz/posts/boiling-frog/
3 years ago
575
248
I don’t want to grow my freelance design studio into an agency
https://neladunato.com/blog/why-wont-grow-freelance-studio-into-agency/
447
360
Climate Change Tracker
https://climatechangetracker.org
343
76
The Raft Consensus Algorithm (2015)
https://raft.github.io
325
101
So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand (2020)
https://gist.github.com/senderle/8ad6aae251c4ddf9424f8a05dd0e8c18
313
82
Hacking the Timex m851
https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/timex.html
308
238
Historians have an increasingly strong incentive to tell dramatic stories
https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/stories-are-bad-for-your-intelligence
301
165
Pesticide safety limit for salmon farms watered down after industry lobbying
https://theferret.scot/pesticide-safety-limit-industry-lobbying/
300
42
Cola: A text CRDT for real-time collaborative editing
https://nomad.foo/blog/cola
263
231
Harry Browne’s Rules of Financial Safety (1999)
https://thetaoofwealth.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/harry-brownes-17-golden-rules-of-financial-safety/
251
218
Google preemptively banned hundreds of millions of 'pirate' URLs last year
https://torrentfreak.com/google-preemptively-banned-hundreds-of-millions-of-pirate-urls-last-year-230903/
156
Transformers as Support Vector Machines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16898
250
223
Sag-AFTRA votes unanimously to expand its strike to include the games industry
https://www.eurogamer.net/sag-aftra-votes-unanimously-to-expand-its-strike-to-include-the-games-industry
385
UPI Payments: 10B transactions a month done, next stop 100B
https://www.bqprime.com/business/upi-payments-10-billion-transactions-a-month-done-next-stop-100-billion
230
Vale.sh – A Linter for Prose
https://vale.sh/
214
22
Lego 3-axis styrofoam cutter [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR0SYhG76fw
202
136
How did Stripe come up with its name? (2015)
https://www.quora.com/How-did-Stripe-come-up-with-its-name/answer/Greg-Brockman
195
80
Kenton's House
https://kentonshouse.com/
193
54
Baresip – An Open Source modular SIP User-Agent with audio and video support
https://github.com/baresip/baresip
185
49
Black Art of 3D Game Programming (1995)
https://archive.org/details/BlackArt3DEBook
173
86
Foxconn's promise to invest $10B in Wisconsin is now a distant memory
https://www.engadget.com/foxconns-promise-to-invest-10-billion-in-wisconsin-is-now-a-distant-memory-090555405.html
166
119
Microsoft Edge is starting to annoy me big time
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/microsoft-edge-personalized-web-got-it-annoyance.html
158
48
How to write correct code by construction using the Coq Proof Assistant
https://betterprogramming.pub/a-taste-of-coq-and-correct-code-by-construction-111bf74d3b98
151
Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything
https://rssfeedasap.com
141
192
Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night
https://electrek.co/2023/09/01/tesla-fsd-beta-tried-to-kill-me-last-night/
139
89
Do we think about vector storage wrong?
https://hachyderm.io/@softwaredoug/111000936722843110
138
25
The Musaicum EU-plus 10M resolution image of Europe
https://imagico.de/blog/en/announcing-the-musaicum-eu-plus-10m-resolution-image-of-europe/
126
120
The curious case of hybrids in watchmaking
https://monochrome-watches.com/a-technical-perspective-defining-and-understanding-hybrid-watches/
67
He created the Katamari games, but they’re rolling on without him
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/arts/katamari-damacy-keita-takahashi.html
125
108
Yenish people
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yenish_people
121
Vigil, the eternal morally vigilant programming language
https://github.com/munificent/vigil
41
HTML Design Principles (2007)
https://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/
115
John le Carré's 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' is the ultimate spy novel
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230831-why-john-le-carrs-the-spy-who-came-in-from-the-cold-is-the-ultimate-spy-novel
112
58
Simple fragrance method boosts cognitive capacity: study
https://scitechdaily.com/a-whiff-of-genius-simple-fragrance-method-boosts-cognitive-capacity-by-226/
111
68
Just Build It...
https://blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2023/09/just-build-it/
110
SF Fire Dept.: Person Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance
https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/01/person-dies-cruise-robotaxi-blocks-san-francisco-ambulance/
27
Recreating the THX Deep Note (2009)
https://earslap.com/article/recreating-the-thx-deep-note.html
107
145
Tolkien, 50 Years On
https://thecritic.co.uk/tolkien-50-years-on/
106
117
‘Psychonauts’ by Mike Jay review
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/psychonauts-mike-jay-review
105
78
Become an expert in something specific and boring
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/J7nmbqcWncPMZFhGC/want-to-make-a-difference-on-policy-and-governance-become-an
95
Confessions of a Netflix DVD Dead-Ender
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/netflix-dvds-mail-ending/675204/
92
63
Vector Search with OpenAI Embeddings: Lucene Is All You Need
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14963
90
65
The Eleuther AI Mafia
https://www.latent.space/p/rwkv#%C2%A7the-eleuther-mafia
USPS Isn't Paying 45,000 Rural Postal Workers This Week
https://jalopnik.com/usps-isnt-paying-45-000-rural-postal-workers-this-week-1850797494
33
Using the Wrong Dictionary (2014)
https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
88
32
Discovery of the historic Great Lakes schooner Trinidad
https://www.shipwreckworld.com/articles/discovery-of-the-historic-great-lakes-schooner-trinidad
36
MaraDNS: A small open-source DNS server
https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS
87
28
My editor trashed my inquiry into child sexual abuse. Now I know why.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/02/peter-wilby-editor-child-sexual-abuse
81
13
Fernando Pessoa’s Unselving
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/06/23/fernando-pessoas-many-personalities/
37
Niri: A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri
79
Bigger, better, faster, more
https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2023/08/22/bigger-better-faster-more/
75
Da Vinci robot surgeon removes inoperable tumor, saving patient’s life
https://bgr.com/science/da-vinci-robot-surgeon-removes-inoperable-tumor-saving-patients-life/
74
17
A WWII documentary series is being demonetized by YouTube [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24QgMpvX3mw
72
128
Pentax K-3 III Monochrome: A DSLR Just for B&W Photo Lovers
https://petapixel.com/2023/05/24/pentax-k-3-iii-monochrome-review-a-dslr-just-for-bw-photo-lovers/
71
129
Shorts risks cannibalising core YouTube business, say senior staff
https://www.ft.com/content/c51ce73a-8ae7-4f5e-aa3c-5e24e471cc7b
70
5
Refurb weekend: PowerBook Duo 2300c
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/09/refurb-weekend-powerbook-duo-2300c.html
31
VSCode Removes Twitter Integration
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/commit/cbdfe4e0b4e31575549496093617df08f011f370
Interfaces for prototyping hardware
https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2023_09_hardware_prototyping/
64
7
Copper Be Gone: The Chemistry Behind PCB Etching
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/31/copper-be-gone-the-chemistry-behind-pcb-etching/
Silicon Valley’s elites can’t be trusted with the future of AI
https://fortune.com/2023/09/01/silicon-valley-elite-trust-future-ai-dominance-dangers-god-complex-wadhwa-gupta/
11
Coherer Effect [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMkdnj698-0
