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1.
In 2024, please switch to Firefox (roytanck.com)
1776 points by Vinnl 10 months ago | 811 comments
2.
Blot turns a folder into a website (blot.im)
581 points by angrymouse 10 months ago | 136 comments
3.
Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017) (kiwihellenist.blogspot.com)
221 points by throwaway167 10 months ago | 228 comments
4.
Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading (incident.io)
653 points by paprikati 10 months ago | 408 comments
5.
Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021) (sprocketfox.io)
511 points by AndrewKemendo 10 months ago | 328 comments
6.
THAT: A brand new analog computer (ieee.org)
218 points by CharlesW 10 months ago | 91 comments
7.
OsmAPP – A Universal OpenStreetMap App (osmapp.org)
200 points by maelito 10 months ago | 65 comments
8.
Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different? (eclecticlight.co)
308 points by ingve 10 months ago | 247 comments
9.
"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel (construction-physics.com)
253 points by gok 10 months ago | 235 comments
10.
UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector (nationalgrid.com)
172 points by Svip 10 months ago | 139 comments
11.
How big can a snowflake get? (npr.org)
76 points by Hooke 10 months ago | 22 comments
12.
Using linear programming to assess spatial access (andrewpwheeler.com)
70 points by apwheele 10 months ago | 12 comments
13.
How the append-only btree works (2010) (bzero.se)
209 points by kevmo314 10 months ago | 100 comments
14.
Parsing an Undocumented File Format (vivekpanyam.com)
143 points by vpanyam 10 months ago | 62 comments
15.
The Linux backdoor attempt of 2003 (2013) (freedom-to-tinker.com)
223 points by zhan_eg 10 months ago | 98 comments
16.
Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?
523 points by kanodiaashu 10 months ago | 142 comments
17.
Smallest Typeface (devroye.org)
170 points by simantel 10 months ago | 110 comments
18.
Gentoo goes Binary (gentoo.org)
341 points by akhuettel 10 months ago | 273 comments
19.
BCHS software stack: BSD, C, httpd, SQLite (learnbchs.org)
153 points by edward 10 months ago | 91 comments
20.
GraphWords: Visual Dictionary and Thesaurus (graphwords.com)
50 points by hyperific 10 months ago | 18 comments
21.
The surprising genius of sewing machines [video] (youtube.com)
195 points by gumby 10 months ago | 68 comments
22.
Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access (techdirt.com)
345 points by rntn 10 months ago | 230 comments
23.
Custom firmware for MI fitness band (github.com/atc1441)
147 points by ITwork2019 10 months ago | 39 comments
24.
Developer Productivity for Humans: Software Quality (ieee.org)
133 points by saeedesmaili 10 months ago | 46 comments
25.
Multiplayer Online Science (mmos.ch)
60 points by hyperific 10 months ago | 14 comments
26.
Learning to love to draw with Commander Mark (npr.org)
80 points by geox 10 months ago | 13 comments
27.
Natural Language Corpus Data: Beautiful Data (2009) (norvig.com)
53 points by zerojames 10 months ago | 3 comments
28.
Unexpected ways memory subsystem interacts with branch prediction (johnnysswlab.com)
89 points by r4um 10 months ago | 27 comments
29.
I'm a world champion pea thrower (theguardian.com)
94 points by sandebert 10 months ago | 30 comments
30.
It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load (fernandovillalba.substack.com)
218 points by DevOpsy 10 months ago | 192 comments

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