1776
811
In 2024, please switch to Firefox
https://roytanck.com/2023/12/23/in-2024-please-switch-to-firefox/
2 years ago
581
136
Blot turns a folder into a website
https://blot.im/how
523
142
Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38803092
511
328
Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)
https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2021/12/02/xrandr/
377
182
Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38804603
345
230
Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/every-major-pharmacy-chain-is-giving-the-government-warrantless-access-to-medical-records/
341
270
Gentoo goes Binary
https://www.gentoo.org/news/2023/12/29/Gentoo-binary.html
312
101
Understanding Parquet, Iceberg and Data Lakehouses
https://davidgomes.com/understanding-parquet-iceberg-and-data-lakehouses-at-broad/
109
U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes
https://fatherhood.gov:443/for-dads/dad-jokes
308
247
Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
https://eclecticlight.co/2023/12/29/why-are-apple-silicon-vms-so-different/
253
235
"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/no-inventions-no-innovations-a-history
229
103
Malware abuses Google OAuth endpoint to 'revive' cookies, hijack accounts
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-abuses-google-oauth-endpoint-to-revive-cookies-hijack-accounts/
227
257
Korea to welcome 'digital nomads' with new visa starting Jan. 1
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2023-12-29/national/kcampus/Korea-to-welcome-digital-nomads-with-new-visa-starting-Jan-1/1947155
223
402
Copyright is not a moral right, it's a monetization strategy
https://twitter.com/Plinz/status/1740597001652461895
98
The Linux backdoor attempt of 2003 (2013)
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2013/10/09/the-linux-backdoor-attempt-of-2003/
221
228
Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)
http://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2017/01/salt-and-salary.html
219
92
Koka: Strongly typed functional-style language with effect types and handlers
https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/index.html
209
100
How the append-only btree works (2010)
https://www.bzero.se/ldapd/btree.html
189
41
The step-by-step mechanical logic of old pinball machines [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3p_Cv32tEo
172
139
UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector
https://www.nationalgrid.com/national-grid-announces-commercial-operations-viking-link-worlds-longest-land-and-subsea
167
143
Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
https://www.getinboxzero.com
161
47
Unprivileged process injection techniques in Linux
https://joev.dev/posts/unprivileged-process-injection-techniques-in-linux
153
194
Everyone's getting ghosted, the new normal in tech recruiting
https://medium.com/@k0ryk/everyones-getting-ghosted-dbf0fbaf161
147
9
First personal search engine prototype
https://rsdoiel.github.io/blog/2023/03/10/first-prototype-pse.html
144
America doesn't know tofu
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/02/america-doesn-t-know-tofu
91
Toyota-owned automaker tampered with safety tests for 30 years
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/27/business/daihatsu-japan-production-halt-safety-tests-intl-hnk/index.html
21
Most favorited articles by the top 10k most active HN members (2020)
https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/hacker-favourites-analysis
62
Parsing an Undocumented File Format
https://blog.vivekpanyam.com/parsing-an-undocumented-file-format
141
24
The Web Is Fantastic
https://rknight.me/blog/the-web-is-fantastic/
132
195
40% of US electricity is now emissions-free
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/40-of-us-electricity-is-now-emissions-free/
129
60
Bourbaki dangerous bend symbol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki_dangerous_bend_symbol
126
A Core Calculus for Documents [pdf]
https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/ck-core-calc-doc-lambda-ultimate-doc/paper.pdf
124
322
Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/12/its-shakeout-time-as-losses-of-netflix-rivals-top-5-billion/
123
2023 was the year that GPUs stood still
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/2023-was-the-year-that-gpus-stood-still/
114
77
48x32: A 1536 LED Game Computer
https://jacquesmattheij.com/48x32-introduction/
108
Strawberry case study: What if farmers had to pay for water?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/29/climate/california-farmers-water-tax.html
106
Derinkuyu: Mysterious underground city in Turkey found in man's basement
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/derinkuyu-underground-city/
Open source liability is coming
https://developersalliance.org/open-source-liability-is-coming/
102
52
Kaspersky discloses iPhone hardware feature vital in Operation Triangulation
https://www.kaspersky.com/about/press-releases/2023_kaspersky-discloses-iphone-hardware-feature-vital-in-operation-triangulation-case
93
Social media companies made $11B in US ad revenue from minors, study finds
https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-meta-instagram-revenue-teens-harvard-cc9bf875d6f7259ba2aee8805ccdaf3d
166
Don't Say Velcro (2017)
https://www.velcro.com/original-thinking/the-velcro-brand-trademark-guidelines/dont-say-velcro/
95
28
Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode
https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/linux-is-the-only-os-to-support-diagonal-pc-monitor-mode-dev-champions-the-case-for-22-degree-rotation-computing
94
30
I'm a world champion pea thrower
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/dec/29/experience-im-a-world-champion-pea-thrower
89
27
Unexpected ways memory subsystem interacts with branch prediction
https://johnnysswlab.com/unexpected-ways-memory-subsystem-interacts-with-branch-prediction/
82
Day 20: My favourite problem from Advent of Code 2023
https://mliezun.github.io/2023/12/25/favourite-advent-of-code-2023.html
80
13
Learning to love to draw with Commander Mark
https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1217590736/mark-kistler-secret-city
79
135
The worst kind of programmer
http://mikhailian.mova.org/node/284
70
Tallest wooden wind turbine starts turning
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67718719
78
45
QR error correction helps and hinders scanning (2021)
https://huonw.github.io/blog/2021/09/qr-error-correction/
74
One man saved a generation of premature babies (2016)
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36321692
