Top posts

1. 1
   The Submarine (2005)

   Paul Graham · 645 people · 79 points · first shared 2007 · 5 comments on HN
2. 2
   Beating the Averages (2001)

   Paul Graham · 387 people · 102 points · first shared 2007 · 50 comments on HN
3. 3
   Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)

   Joel on Software · 305 people · 383 points · first shared 2016 · 100 comments on HN
4. 4
   What You Can't Say (2004)

   Paul Graham · 292 people · 888 points · first shared 2007 · 290 comments on HN
5. 5
   The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office"

   Ribbonfarm · 277 people · 1.0K points · first shared 2009 · 173 comments on HN
6. 6
   Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

   Patrick McKenzie · 271 people · 494 points · first shared 2010 · 142 comments on HN
7. 7
   How to Disagree

   Paul Graham · 270 people · 495 points · first shared 2008 · 231 comments on HN
8. 8
   A brief rant on the future of interaction design (2011)

   Bret Victor · 265 people · 1.6K points · first shared 2011 · 300 comments on HN
9. 9
   How to Make Wealth

   Paul Graham · 212 people · 384 points · first shared 2007 · 70 comments on HN
10. 10
    15 Insane things that correlate with each other

    Tyler Vigen · 210 people · 53 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
11. 11
    Meditations on Moloch (2014)

    Slate Star Codex · 202 people · 333 points · first shared 2014 · 54 comments on HN
12. 12
    What Color Is Your Function?

    Bob Nystrom · 192 people · 871 points · first shared 2015 · 143 comments on HN
13. 13
    Our Incredible Journey

    Our Incredible Journey · 191 people · 40 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
14. 14
    Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (2009)

    Paul Graham · 190 people · 1.2K points · first shared 2009 · 130 comments on HN
15. 15
    Nim programming language

    Nim Blog · 185 people · 367 points · first shared 2014 · 190 comments on HN
16. 16
    Things You Should Never Do, Part I (2000)

    Joel on Software · 184 people · 333 points · first shared 2007 · 154 comments on HN
17. 17
    Crystal Language

    Crystal Blog · 180 people · 720 points · first shared 2013 · 171 comments on HN
18. 18
    What colour are your bits? (2004)

    Ansuz · 179 people · 309 points · first shared 2010 · 35 comments on HN
19. 19
    Startup = Growth

    Paul Graham · 160 people · 598 points · first shared 2012 · 206 comments on HN
20. 20
    Do Things that Don't Scale

    Paul Graham · 159 people · 2.1K points · first shared 2013 · 207 comments on HN
21. 21
    Manna – AI Utopia or Dystopia? By Marshall Brain

    Marshall Brain · 156 people · 28 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
22. 22
    Keep Your Identity Small (2009)

    Paul Graham · 152 people · 1.3K points · first shared 2009 · 300 comments on HN
23. 23
    How I do my computing

    Richard Stallman · 151 people · 721 points · first shared 2009 · 327 comments on HN
24. 24
    Elm: a functional reactive programming language that compiles to JavaScript

    Elm Blog · 150 people · 285 points · first shared 2011 · 50 comments on HN
25. 25
    Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast

    Russ Cox · 149 people · 380 points · first shared 2008 · 33 comments on HN
26. 26
    Why Nerds are Unpopular (2003)

    Paul Graham · 149 people · 239 points · first shared 2007 · 115 comments on HN
27. 27
    Readability

    Arc90 Lab · 142 people · 214 points · first shared 2009 · 48 comments on HN
28. 28
    Let’s Encrypt: Delivering SSL/TLS Everywhere

    Let's Encrypt Blog · 141 people · 382 points · first shared 2014 · 17 comments on HN
29. 29
    Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index

    Digiconomist · 140 people · 593 points · first shared 2017 · 453 comments on HN
30. 30
    How to Get Startup Ideas

    Paul Graham · 139 people · 963 points · first shared 2012 · 231 comments on HN
31. 31
    Lena

    qntm · 137 people · 769 points · first shared 2021 · 218 comments on HN
32. 32
    Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

    Patrick McKenzie · 135 people · 1.1K points · first shared 2012 · 260 comments on HN
33. 33
    PHP: a fractal of bad design (2012)

    Eevee · 135 people · 78 points · first shared 2014 · 17 comments on HN
34. 34
    Computer latency: 1977-2017

    Dan Luu · 132 people · 1.3K points · first shared 2017 · 259 comments on HN
35. 35
    Manna – Two Views of Humanity's Future (2003)

    Marshall Brain · 132 people · 105 points · first shared 2020 · 25 comments on HN
36. 36
    The Rise of "Worse is Better"

    jwz · 132 people · 93 points · first shared 2007 · 32 comments on HN
37. 37
    Practical Common Lisp (2005)

    Peter Seibel · 131 people · 596 points · first shared 2007 · 157 comments on HN
38. 38
    Commoditize your complements (2002)

    Joel on Software · 130 people · 80 points · first shared 2016 · 25 comments on HN
39. 39
    Don't Call Yourself a Programmer

    Patrick McKenzie · 127 people · 2.0K points · first shared 2011 · 307 comments on HN
40. 40
    The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2016)

    Nassim Taleb · 126 people · 465 points · first shared 2017 · 214 comments on HN
41. 41
    How To Ask Questions The Smart Way

    Eric S. Raymond · 126 people · 168 points · first shared 2007 · 29 comments on HN
42. 42
    The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)

    Jo Freeman · 124 people · 818 points · first shared 2009 · 149 comments on HN
43. 43
    The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

    The Grug Brained Developer · 123 people · 2.2K points · first shared 2022 · 578 comments on HN
44. 44
    Homepage

    Mr. Money Mustache · 121 people · first shared 2012
45. 45
    I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014)

    Slate Star Codex · 119 people · 532 points · first shared 2014 · 169 comments on HN
46. 46
    Web3 is going just great

    Web3 is Going Just Great · 118 people · 314 points · first shared 2021 · 344 comments on HN
47. 47
    How To Become A Hacker

    Eric S. Raymond · 118 people · 238 points · first shared 2007 · 41 comments on HN
48. 48
    The Python Paradox

    Paul Graham · 117 people · 200 points · first shared 2007 · 78 comments on HN
49. 49
    Programming Sucks

    Still Drinking · 116 people · 641 points · first shared 2014 · 37 comments on HN
50. 50
    Give Well: Make your dollar go further

    GiveWell · 116 people · 6 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
51. 51
    Game theory illustrated by an animated cartoon game

    Nicky Case · 114 people · 1.4K points · first shared 2017 · 74 comments on HN
52. 52
    Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns (2006)

    Steve Yegge · 113 people · 217 points · first shared 2008 · 25 comments on HN
53. 53
    Jwz: The CADT Model

    jwz · 113 people · 17 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
54. 54
    So you want to abolish time zones

    qntm · 107 people · 311 points · first shared 2015 · 140 comments on HN
55. 55
    How To Safely Store A Password

    Coda Hale · 105 people · 906 points · first shared 2010 · 210 comments on HN
56. 56
    How to Start a Startup (2005)

    Paul Graham · 105 people · 95 points · first shared 2007 · 34 comments on HN
57. 57
    Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

    Paul Graham · 104 people · 1.3K points · first shared 2012 · 430 comments on HN
58. 58
    The Website Obesity Crisis

    Idle Words · 103 people · 1.7K points · first shared 2016 · 367 comments on HN
59. 59
    On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

    Strike! Magazine · 102 people · 661 points · first shared 2013 · 349 comments on HN
60. 60
    “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

    Eric Meyer · 102 people · 256 points · first shared 2008 · 79 comments on HN
61. 61
    The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

    Matt Might · 101 people · 768 points · first shared 2010 · 121 comments on HN
62. 62
    Reproducible-builds – Provide a verifiable path from source code to binary

    Reproducible Builds · 101 people · 104 points · first shared 2015 · 19 comments on HN
63. 63
    The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks

    Andrej Karpathy · 100 people · 1.2K points · first shared 2015 · 207 comments on HN
64. 64
    Choose Boring Technology

    Mike McFunley · 100 people · 1.1K points · first shared 2015 · 282 comments on HN
65. 65
    Parse, Don’t Validate

    Alexis King · 99 people · 1.4K points · first shared 2019 · 270 comments on HN
66. 66
    Xerox scanners and photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents

    David Kriesel · 99 people · 1.3K points · first shared 2013 · 184 comments on HN
67. 67
    The Daily WTF goes white to "support" SOPA

    The Daily WTF · 99 people · 334 points · first shared 2008 · 47 comments on HN
68. 68
    Why federated protocols don't work (2016)

    Signal Blog · 99 people · 108 points · first shared 2017 · 130 comments on HN
69. 69
    Hacker Newsletter

    Hacker Newsletter · 97 people · 165 points · first shared 2010 · 23 comments on HN
70. 70
    Paul Graham essays

    Paul Graham · 96 people · 3 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
71. 71
    Software optimization resources for C++, assembly, Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS

    Agner Fog · 95 people · 548 points · first shared 2010 · 22 comments on HN
72. 72
    The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)

    Richard Gabriel · 94 people · 460 points · first shared 2011 · 334 comments on HN
73. 73
    Fire And Motion (2002)

    Joel on Software · 94 people · 126 points · first shared 2017 · 8 comments on HN
74. 74
    LessWrong

    LessWrong · 94 people · 23 points · first shared 2009 · 4 comments on HN
75. 75
    The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction

    LinkedIn Engineering · 92 people · 424 points · first shared 2013 · 17 comments on HN
76. 76
    High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites

    High Scalability · 91 people · 17 points · first shared 2007 · 2 comments on HN
77. 77
    The Road to Superintelligence (2015)

    Wait But Why · 90 people · 236 points · first shared 2015 · 60 comments on HN
78. 78
    Lambda the Ultimate is now dead

    Lambda the Ultimate · 90 people · 11 points · first shared 2007 · 3 comments on HN
79. 79
    Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner

    Plausible Blog · 89 people · 167 points · first shared 2019 · 137 comments on HN
80. 80
    A note of reflection after 10 years of “A successful Git branching model”

    Vincent Driessen · 87 people · 629 points · first shared 2010 · 120 comments on HN
81. 81
    Worse Is Better (2001)

    Richard Gabriel · 87 people · 204 points · first shared 2007 · 43 comments on HN
82. 82
    REST APIs must be hypertext-driven (2008)

    Roy Fielding · 87 people · 63 points · first shared 2008 · 22 comments on HN
83. 83
    Spam Solutions

    Cory Doctorow · 87 people · 4 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
84. 84
    Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine

    Long Now · 86 people · 799 points · first shared 2010 · 49 comments on HN
85. 85
    SQL Indexing and Tuning E-Book for Developers

    Markus Winand · 86 people · 206 points · first shared 2010 · 6 comments on HN
86. 86
    Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution (2015)

    Meaningness · 86 people · 190 points · first shared 2017 · 42 comments on HN
87. 87
    The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002)

    Joel on Software · 86 people · 144 points · first shared 2016 · 85 comments on HN
88. 88
    TailScale – Instantly interconnect your devices and services, wherever they are

    Tailscale Blog · 86 people · 111 points · first shared 2019 · 42 comments on HN
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    Why Can't Programmers.. Program?

    Coding Horror · 86 people · 75 points · first shared 2014 · 78 comments on HN
90. 90
    -2000 Lines of Code

    Folklore.org · 85 people · 1.5K points · first shared 2009 · 256 comments on HN
91. 91
    The Morning Paper: CS Papers Explained Every Weekday

    The Morning Paper · 85 people · 14 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
92. 92
    A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

    James Iry · 84 people · 1.6K points · first shared 2009 · 45 comments on HN
93. 93
    Structured Procrastination (1995)

    Structured Procrastination · 84 people · 1.3K points · first shared 2007 · 162 comments on HN
94. 94
    Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends

    Vivaldi Blog · 84 people · 638 points · first shared 2015 · 250 comments on HN
95. 95
    Lisping at JPL (2002)

    Ron Garret · 83 people · 969 points · first shared 2008 · 307 comments on HN
96. 96
    TikTok's Enshittification

    Pluralistic · 83 people · 36 points · first shared 2023 · 2 comments on HN
97. 97
    I Hate the News (2006)

    Aaron Swartz · 82 people · 564 points · first shared 2008 · 187 comments on HN
98. 98
    Strong software tips from 2000 that are 100% valid today

    Joel on Software · 82 people · 169 points · first shared 2016 · 40 comments on HN
99. 99
    Peter Thiel: The education of a libertarian (2009)

    Cato Unbound · 82 people · 40 points · first shared 2015 · 46 comments on HN
100. 100
     The Egg

     Galactanet · 81 people · 816 points · first shared 2010 · 153 comments on HN
101. 101
     The C10K problem

     Dan Kegel · 81 people · 185 points · first shared 2007 · 55 comments on HN
102. 102
     Homepage

     Gwern · 81 people · first shared 2011
103. 103
     Homepage

     Julia Evans · 81 people · first shared 2014
104. 104
     Actually Portable Executable

     Justine Tunney · 80 people · 678 points · first shared 2020 · 162 comments on HN
105. 105
     “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors

     Alexey Guzey · 80 people · 586 points · first shared 2019 · 151 comments on HN
106. 106
     Technology preview: Private contact discovery for Signal

     Signal Blog · 80 people · 529 points · first shared 2017 · 158 comments on HN
107. 107
     Considerations on Cost Disease

     Slate Star Codex · 80 people · 399 points · first shared 2017 · 232 comments on HN
108. 108
     "Dabblers and Blowhards" - hackers are nothing like painters [2005]

     Idle Words · 80 people · 272 points · first shared 2008 · 57 comments on HN
109. 109
     American fuzzy lop – a security-oriented fuzzer

     lcamtuf · 80 people · 209 points · first shared 2014 · 25 comments on HN
110. 110
     Pandoc - a universal document converter

     John MacFarlane · 80 people · 8 points · first shared 2009 · 1 comments on HN
111. 111
     What can a technologist do about climate change?

     Bret Victor · 79 people · 577 points · first shared 2015 · 289 comments on HN
112. 112
     Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory

     Penny Arcade · 79 people · 8 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
113. 113
     How to Price Software - Economics vs. Pyschology

     Joel on Software · 78 people · 100 points · first shared 2007 · 6 comments on HN
114. 114
     The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

     Epsilon Theory · 77 people · 31 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
115. 115
     How to write a README file for GitHub (Markdown tips)

     Daring Fireball · 77 people · 2 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
116. 116
     How Not To Sort By Average Rating

     Evan Miller · 76 people · 2.1K points · first shared 2009 · 156 comments on HN
117. 117
     Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project

     Asahi Linux · 76 people · 660 points · first shared 2021 · 405 comments on HN
118. 118
     The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code (2000; Still relevant?)

     Joel on Software · 76 people · 113 points · first shared 2007 · 27 comments on HN
119. 119
     Blindsight (2006)

     Peter Watts (rifters) · 76 people · 82 points · first shared 2009 · 42 comments on HN
120. 120
     Fastmail service completely offline for the first time in years

     Fastmail Blog · 76 people · 36 points · first shared 2014 · 9 comments on HN
121. 121
     Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal

     Aider Blog · 76 people · 34 points · first shared 2023 · 3 comments on HN
122. 122
     Show HN: Redshift - Flux Alternative, Easy to Install on Ubuntu

     Jon Lund Steffensen · 76 people · 22 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
123. 123
     Homepage

     Dan Luu · 76 people · first shared 2016
124. 124
     Every Noise at Once

     Every Noise at Once · 75 people · 857 points · first shared 2015 · 94 comments on HN
125. 125
     Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful

     Nathaniel J. Smith · 75 people · 666 points · first shared 2018 · 230 comments on HN
126. 126
     How NAT Traversal Works (2020)

     Tailscale Blog · 74 people · 953 points · first shared 2020 · 89 comments on HN
127. 127
     My First BillG Review (2006)

     Joel on Software · 74 people · 275 points · first shared 2016 · 155 comments on HN
128. 128
     F# for Fun and Profit

     F# for Fun and Profit · 74 people · 60 points · first shared 2013 · 6 comments on HN
129. 129
     Lizardman's Constant Is 4%

     Slate Star Codex · 74 people · 27 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
130. 130
     The Simple Math Behind Early Retirement

     Mr. Money Mustache · 73 people · 205 points · first shared 2012 · 237 comments on HN
131. 131
     Beej's Guide to Network Programming

     Beej · 72 people · 427 points · first shared 2008 · 44 comments on HN
132. 132
     Typing with pleasure, and low latency

     Pavel Fatin · 72 people · 318 points · first shared 2015 · 68 comments on HN
133. 133
     AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET

     Avalonia Blog · 72 people · 191 points · first shared 2017 · 118 comments on HN
134. 134
     PostmarketOS // real Linux distribution for phones

     postmarketOS Blog · 72 people · 34 points · first shared 2017 · 3 comments on HN
135. 135
     What Happened to N-Gate.com?

     N-Gate · 72 people · 8 points · first shared 2017 · 2 comments on HN
136. 136
     If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)

     Josh Worth · 71 people · 2.9K points · first shared 2014 · 261 comments on HN
137. 137
     Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

     John Salvatier · 71 people · 1.9K points · first shared 2017 · 294 comments on HN
138. 138
     Falsehoods Programmers believe about Time

     Infinite Undo · 71 people · 766 points · first shared 2012 · 213 comments on HN
139. 139
     Category Theory for Programmers (2014)

     Bartosz Milewski · 71 people · 548 points · first shared 2014 · 63 comments on HN
140. 140
     ZeroTier - Simple Software Defined Networking

     ZeroTier Blog · 71 people · 141 points · first shared 2013 · 38 comments on HN
141. 141
     Session Encrypted Messenger

     Session Blog · 71 people · 123 points · first shared 2020 · 90 comments on HN
142. 142
     Anecdotes about the development of Apple's original Macintosh

     Folklore.org · 71 people · 16 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
143. 143
     Joel on Software

     Joel on Software · 71 people · 2 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
144. 144
     Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server-side

     I Don't Play Darts · 70 people · 1.1K points · first shared 2016 · 145 comments on HN
145. 145
     Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

     Simon Tatham · 70 people · 911 points · first shared 2009 · 69 comments on HN
146. 146
     Kill sticky headers (2013)

     Alisdair McDiarmid · 70 people · 700 points · first shared 2015 · 116 comments on HN
147. 147
     The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (2005)

     Nick Bostrom · 70 people · 374 points · first shared 2008 · 91 comments on HN
148. 148
     Scissor Statements: Sort by Controversial

     Slate Star Codex · 70 people · 315 points · first shared 2018 · 132 comments on HN
149. 149
     The origin of circuits (2007)

     Damn Interesting · 70 people · 173 points · first shared 2010 · 25 comments on HN
150. 150
     Turing Drawings

     Wry · 70 people · 166 points · first shared 2013 · 119 comments on HN
151. 151
     Countering Trusting Trust Through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC)

     David A. Wheeler · 70 people · 118 points · first shared 2010 · 6 comments on HN
152. 152
     How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

     nee.lv · 69 people · 4.6K points · first shared 2021 · 697 comments on HN
153. 153
     Bret Victor: Learnable Programming

     Bret Victor · 69 people · 1.3K points · first shared 2012 · 183 comments on HN
154. 154
     Coroutines in C (2000)

     Simon Tatham · 69 people · 740 points · first shared 2009 · 93 comments on HN
155. 155
     Who Can Name the Bigger Number?

     Shtetl-Optimized · 69 people · 616 points · first shared 2007 · 145 comments on HN
156. 156
     Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful

     Matasano · 69 people · 433 points · first shared 2011 · 174 comments on HN
157. 157
     Pypy- a framework for implementing interpreters

     PyPy Blog · 69 people · 4 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
158. 158
     Fast.ai – making neural nets uncool again

     fast.ai · 69 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
159. 159
     Terminal and shell performance

     Dan Luu · 68 people · 653 points · first shared 2017 · 204 comments on HN
160. 160
     Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)

     Joel on Software · 68 people · 301 points · first shared 2016 · 148 comments on HN
161. 161
     What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior #1/3

     LLVM Blog · 68 people · 280 points · first shared 2011 · 18 comments on HN
162. 162
     Ripcord – A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack

     cancel.fm · 68 people · 229 points · first shared 2018 · 166 comments on HN
163. 163
     Red Programming Language

     Red Programming Language Blog · 68 people · 118 points · first shared 2011 · 38 comments on HN
164. 164
     Results of XKCD Color Survey

     xkcd Blog · 68 people · 100 points · first shared 2010 · 10 comments on HN
165. 165
     [dupe] Airfoil

     Bartosz Ciechanowski · 68 people · 20 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
166. 166
     Why We Terminated Daily Stormer

     Cloudflare Blog · 67 people · 857 points · first shared 2017 · 1.5K comments on HN
167. 167
     Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity

     METR · 67 people · 778 points · first shared 2025 · 485 comments on HN
168. 168
     A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (1999)

     Breadbox · 67 people · 594 points · first shared 2007 · 22 comments on HN
169. 169
     Show HN: Metabase, an open-source business intelligence tool

     Metabase Blog · 67 people · 304 points · first shared 2015 · 121 comments on HN
170. 170
     The Hacker's Diet (2005)

     John Walker · 67 people · 219 points · first shared 2007 · 77 comments on HN
171. 171
     The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002)

     Joel on Software · 67 people · 108 points · first shared 2007 · 31 comments on HN
172. 172
     How Microsoft Lost the API War (2004)

     Joel on Software · 67 people · 22 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
173. 173
     Homepage

     Patrick McKenzie · 67 people · first shared 2008
174. 174
     Mister gotcha

     The Nib · 67 people · first shared 2017
175. 175
     Orbital Speed

     What If? (xkcd) · 66 people · 26 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
176. 176
     Mechanical Watch

     Bartosz Ciechanowski · 65 people · 4.3K points · first shared 2022 · 413 comments on HN
177. 177
     Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society

     Nicky Case · 65 people · 588 points · first shared 2014 · 86 comments on HN
178. 178
     Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses

     Matt Taylor · 65 people · 437 points · first shared 2013 · 147 comments on HN
179. 179
     SlateStarCodex Is Back Up

     Slate Star Codex · 65 people · 293 points · first shared 2014 · 165 comments on HN
180. 180
     Augmenting Long-term Memory

     Michael Nielsen · 65 people · 223 points · first shared 2018 · 36 comments on HN
181. 181
     Japanese zoning

     Urban K. Choze · 65 people · 208 points · first shared 2014 · 68 comments on HN
182. 182
     Large Text Compression Benchmark

     Matt Mahoney · 65 people · 195 points · first shared 2012 · 55 comments on HN
183. 183
     Spolsky on "Commoditizing Your Complements"

     Joel on Software · 65 people · 76 points · first shared 2008 · 14 comments on HN
184. 184
     There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format.

     Monty Montgomery · 64 people · 1.4K points · first shared 2012 · 316 comments on HN
185. 185
     John Carmack on Inlined Code

     Jonathan Blow · 64 people · 887 points · first shared 2014 · 260 comments on HN
186. 186
     Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing (2012)

     Boing Boing · 64 people · 673 points · first shared 2012 · 96 comments on HN
187. 187
     Laws of Tech Economics: Commoditize Your Complement

     Gwern · 63 people · 734 points · first shared 2018 · 148 comments on HN
188. 188
     Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud

     Apple Security Research Blog · 63 people · 621 points · first shared 2024 · 373 comments on HN
189. 189
     PouchDB, the JavaScript Database That Syncs

     PouchDB Blog · 63 people · 498 points · first shared 2012 · 94 comments on HN
190. 190
     The Toxoplasma of Rage (2014)

     Slate Star Codex · 63 people · 332 points · first shared 2014 · 214 comments on HN
191. 191
     What Is ChatGPT Doing and Why Does It Work? (2023)

     Stephen Wolfram · 63 people · 171 points · first shared 2023 · 85 comments on HN
192. 192
     Show HN: Fly – A global load balancer with middleware

     Fly.io Blog · 63 people · 139 points · first shared 2017 · 68 comments on HN
193. 193
     GPT-4o takes #1 and #2 on the Aider LLM leaderboards

     Aider Blog · 63 people · 97 points · first shared 2024 · 7 comments on HN
194. 194
     Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement (2022)

     Gwern · 63 people · 30 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
195. 195
     The Wrong Abstraction (2016)

     Sandi Metz · 62 people · 1.7K points · first shared 2016 · 240 comments on HN
196. 196
     Ask YC/HN Archive

     Gabriel Weinberg · 62 people · 706 points · first shared 2008 · 29 comments on HN
197. 197
     Figma 1.0 – Collaborative interface design tool

     Figma Blog · 62 people · 360 points · first shared 2013 · 58 comments on HN
198. 198
     A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy

     Clay Shirky · 62 people · 222 points · first shared 2007 · 15 comments on HN
199. 199
     Darktable: An open source photography workflow application

     darktable Blog · 62 people · 113 points · first shared 2013 · 36 comments on HN
200. 200
     Command-line tools can be faster than a Hadoop cluster (2014)

     Adam Drake · 61 people · 1.5K points · first shared 2018 · 253 comments on HN
201. 201
     How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner (2012)

     DaedTech (Erik Dietrich) · 61 people · 1.2K points · first shared 2013 · 432 comments on HN
202. 202
     The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)

     Steve Blank · 61 people · 965 points · first shared 2009 · 390 comments on HN
203. 203
     Ripgrep – A new command line search tool

     Andrew Gallant · 61 people · 846 points · first shared 2016 · 209 comments on HN
204. 204
     Big Company vs. Startup Work and Compensation

     Dan Luu · 61 people · 803 points · first shared 2015 · 402 comments on HN
205. 205
     Less is exponentially more

     Rob Pike · 61 people · 543 points · first shared 2012 · 122 comments on HN
206. 206
     "Secret" History of Silicon Valley (2008)

     Steve Blank · 61 people · 530 points · first shared 2009 · 48 comments on HN
207. 207
     CSS Utility Classes and “Separation of Concerns” (2017)

     Adam Wathan · 61 people · 344 points · first shared 2017 · 106 comments on HN
208. 208
     Chesterton’s Fence (2020)

     Farnam Street · 61 people · 171 points · first shared 2021 · 142 comments on HN
209. 209
     Event Sourcing (2005)

     Martin Fowler · 61 people · 126 points · first shared 2011 · 88 comments on HN
210. 210
     The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession

     Stratechery · 61 people · 24 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
211. 211
     The Gervais Principle

     Ribbonfarm · 61 people · 20 points · first shared 2011 · 2 comments on HN
212. 212
     Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

     Warp Blog · 60 people · 1.3K points · first shared 2021 · 726 comments on HN
213. 213
     Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

     Johnny Decimal · 60 people · 1.1K points · first shared 2017 · 291 comments on HN
214. 214
     The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode

     Joel on Software · 60 people · 442 points · first shared 2007 · 74 comments on HN
215. 215
     Contra Grant On Exaggerated Differences

     Slate Star Codex · 60 people · 200 points · first shared 2017 · 33 comments on HN
216. 216
     The Crackpot Index

     John Baez · 60 people · 60 points · first shared 2007 · 18 comments on HN
217. 217
     The Long Now Foundation

     Long Now · 60 people · 17 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
218. 218
     Daring Fireball is down

     Daring Fireball · 60 people · 8 points · first shared 2007 · 1 comments on HN
219. 219
     List of latencies, throughputs and micro-operations for Intel, AMD, and VIA CPUs [pdf]

     Agner Fog · 60 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
220. 220
     18F

     18F Blog · 60 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
221. 221
     Open Whisper Systems

     Signal Blog · 60 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
222. 222
     Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction

     Bret Victor · 59 people · 1.1K points · first shared 2011 · 72 comments on HN
223. 223
     Learn Rust by writing a small OS

     Philipp Oppermann · 59 people · 897 points · first shared 2015 · 80 comments on HN
224. 224
     The Lisp Curse

     Winestock Webdesign · 59 people · 813 points · first shared 2011 · 303 comments on HN
225. 225
     I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)

     qntm · 59 people · 713 points · first shared 2010 · 158 comments on HN
226. 226
     You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 of the CDA

     Techdirt · 59 people · 457 points · first shared 2020 · 292 comments on HN
227. 227
     The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics

     Jai · 59 people · 242 points · first shared 2015 · 142 comments on HN
228. 228
     The LMAX Architecture (2011)

     Martin Fowler · 59 people · 215 points · first shared 2011 · 35 comments on HN
229. 229
     Nicotine as a useful stimulant

     Gwern · 59 people · 164 points · first shared 2011 · 130 comments on HN
230. 230
     Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by Snowden

     Signal Blog · 59 people · 162 points · first shared 2016 · 120 comments on HN
231. 231
     The Tail End (2015)

     Wait But Why · 59 people · 125 points · first shared 2015 · 3 comments on HN
232. 232
     Hacker News Daily

     Colin Percival · 59 people · 100 points · first shared 2010 · 18 comments on HN
233. 233
     Hexagonal grids for games

     Red Blob Games · 58 people · 2.1K points · first shared 2013 · 74 comments on HN
234. 234
     Doing Business in Japan

     Patrick McKenzie · 58 people · 1.0K points · first shared 2014 · 305 comments on HN
235. 235
     Scott and Scurvy: How the cure for scurvy was lost

     Idle Words · 58 people · 494 points · first shared 2010 · 36 comments on HN
236. 236
     Magic Ink

     Bret Victor · 58 people · 270 points · first shared 2007 · 13 comments on HN
237. 237
     Philip Greenspun's take on Women in Science

     Philip Greenspun · 58 people · 113 points · first shared 2007 · 35 comments on HN
238. 238
     Why Procrastinators Procrastinate

     Wait But Why · 58 people · 73 points · first shared 2013 · 3 comments on HN
239. 239
     The Iron Law of Bureaucracy (2010)

     Jerry Pournelle · 58 people · 73 points · first shared 2011 · 44 comments on HN
240. 240
     Light Table: the next generation code editor

     Light Table Blog · 58 people · 26 points · first shared 2012 · 2 comments on HN
241. 241
     Our Top Charities

     GiveWell · 58 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
242. 242
     Why's that company so big? I could do that in a weekend

     Dan Luu · 57 people · 1.2K points · first shared 2016 · 423 comments on HN
243. 243
     Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future

     Wait But Why · 57 people · 190 points · first shared 2017 · 25 comments on HN
244. 244
     Manual

     Nim Blog · 57 people · first shared 2015
245. 245
     My First Impressions of Web3

     Moxie Marlinspike · 56 people · 3.4K points · first shared 2022 · 1.1K comments on HN
246. 246
     Don't Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal

     thejh · 56 people · 1.4K points · first shared 2013 · 258 comments on HN
247. 247
     How Hacker News ranking really works: scoring, controversy, and penalties

     Ken Shirriff · 56 people · 1.1K points · first shared 2013 · 190 comments on HN
248. 248
     The Illustrated Transformer

     Jay Alammar · 56 people · 732 points · first shared 2018 · 87 comments on HN
249. 249
     Stack Overflow: The Architecture – 2016 Edition

     Nick Craver · 56 people · 454 points · first shared 2016 · 37 comments on HN
250. 250
     The empirical evidence that types affect productivity and correctness

     Dan Luu · 56 people · 149 points · first shared 2014 · 17 comments on HN
251. 251
     The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero (2022)

     Bits about Money · 56 people · 145 points · first shared 2022 · 193 comments on HN
252. 252
     C++ Frequently Questioned Answers (2009)

     Yossi Kreinin · 56 people · 121 points · first shared 2008 · 110 comments on HN
253. 253
     Safe to swim in nuclear spent fuel pool?

     What If? (xkcd) · 56 people · 75 points · first shared 2013 · 8 comments on HN
254. 254
     Organizational Charts for Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Oracle and Google

     Bonkers World · 56 people · 30 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
255. 255
     Banking Applications Compatibility with GrapheneOS

     PrivSec · 56 people · 9 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
256. 256
     Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You

     Patrick McKenzie · 55 people · 1.2K points · first shared 2017 · 276 comments on HN
257. 257
     Yosefk - My history with Forth & stack machines

     Yossi Kreinin · 55 people · 810 points · first shared 2010 · 43 comments on HN
258. 258
     Myths about /dev/urandom

     2uo.de · 55 people · 786 points · first shared 2014 · 171 comments on HN
259. 259
     Mailpile: Let’s take email back

     Mailpile Blog · 55 people · 634 points · first shared 2013 · 232 comments on HN
260. 260
     Typing the technical interview

     Aphyr · 55 people · 578 points · first shared 2017 · 80 comments on HN
261. 261
     The Growth Ponzi Scheme

     Strong Towns · 55 people · 329 points · first shared 2016 · 242 comments on HN
262. 262
     A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ (2010)

     John Regehr · 55 people · 263 points · first shared 2010 · 103 comments on HN
263. 263
     Microservices

     Martin Fowler · 55 people · 185 points · first shared 2014 · 53 comments on HN
264. 264
     Firejail – security sandbox

     Firejail · 55 people · 140 points · first shared 2016 · 32 comments on HN
265. 265
     Aaron Swartz was a key contributor to Markdown

     Daring Fireball · 55 people · 109 points · first shared 2009 · 3 comments on HN
266. 266
     Two Hard Things (2009)

     Martin Fowler · 55 people · 88 points · first shared 2011 · 27 comments on HN
267. 267
     GNU Guix package and system manager

     Guix Blog · 55 people · 79 points · first shared 2019 · 19 comments on HN
268. 268
     Your Life in Weeks

     Wait But Why · 55 people · 35 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
269. 269
     The Django project website is down after investigating security breach

     Django Blog · 55 people · 10 points · first shared 2007 · 1 comments on HN
270. 270
     Accelerando

     Charlie Stross · 55 people · 6 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
271. 271
     PHP: A fractal of bad design

     Veekun · 54 people · 766 points · first shared 2012 · 495 comments on HN
272. 272
     The Nature of Lisp

     Slava Akhmechet · 54 people · 674 points · first shared 2007 · 91 comments on HN
273. 273
     The Early History Of Smalltalk (1993)

     Bret Victor · 54 people · 440 points · first shared 2012 · 68 comments on HN
274. 274
     The control group is out of control (2014)

     Slate Star Codex · 54 people · 381 points · first shared 2014 · 174 comments on HN
275. 275
     The 10,000 Year Clock

     Long Now · 54 people · 380 points · first shared 2011 · 56 comments on HN
276. 276
     Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past technologies

     Low-tech Magazine · 54 people · 266 points · first shared 2019 · 79 comments on HN
277. 277
     The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)

     Idle Words · 54 people · 136 points · first shared 2015 · 40 comments on HN
278. 278
     If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter (2012)

     Quote Investigator · 54 people · 131 points · first shared 2013 · 44 comments on HN
279. 279
     Get that job at Google

     Steve Yegge · 54 people · 118 points · first shared 2008 · 74 comments on HN
280. 280
     Rethinking PID 1 (2010)

     Lennart Poettering · 54 people · 85 points · first shared 2010 · 74 comments on HN
281. 281
     Retraction Watch Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process

     Retraction Watch · 54 people · 15 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
282. 282
     The Missing GitHub Status Page

     mrshu · 54 people · 6 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
283. 283
     Visualizing Algorithms

     Mike Bostock · 53 people · 2.2K points · first shared 2014 · 88 comments on HN
284. 284
     A Primer on Bézier Curves

     Pomax · 53 people · 1.4K points · first shared 2013 · 61 comments on HN
285. 285
     Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago

     Joey Hess · 53 people · 1.2K points · first shared 2012 · 258 comments on HN
286. 286
     Railway-Oriented Programming (2015)

     F# for Fun and Profit · 53 people · 351 points · first shared 2015 · 160 comments on HN
287. 287
     The Fermi Paradox

     Wait But Why · 53 people · 333 points · first shared 2014 · 165 comments on HN
288. 288
     Project IceStorm: open-source toolchain for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs

     Clifford Wolf · 53 people · 199 points · first shared 2015 · 14 comments on HN
289. 289
     Reminder to HN: Think "how will this software get my users laid?"

     jwz · 53 people · 119 points · first shared 2007 · 28 comments on HN
290. 290
     You Could Have Invented Monads (And Maybe You Already Have)

     A Neighborhood of Infinity · 53 people · 47 points · first shared 2009 · 6 comments on HN
291. 291
     Mattermost: Open Source, Private Cloud Slack Alternative

     Mattermost Blog · 53 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
292. 292
     Marginal Revolution

     Marginal Revolution · 53 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
293. 293
     The man who killed Google Search?

     Ed Zitron · 52 people · 1.9K points · first shared 2024 · 878 comments on HN
294. 294
     A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design

     Bret Victor · 52 people · 1.2K points · first shared 2011 · 150 comments on HN
295. 295
     A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution

     Project Zero · 52 people · 1.0K points · first shared 2021 · 341 comments on HN
296. 296
     Richard Stallman resigns from CSAIL at MIT

     Richard Stallman · 52 people · 645 points · first shared 2019 · 323 comments on HN
297. 297
     Quantum mechanics as a generalization of probability (2007)

     Shtetl-Optimized · 52 people · 617 points · first shared 2007 · 88 comments on HN
298. 298
     Evercookie: A cookie that undeletes itself from 8 different storages

     Samy Kamkar · 52 people · 394 points · first shared 2010 · 108 comments on HN
299. 299
     Coding Machines

     Lawrence Kesteloot · 52 people · 282 points · first shared 2009 · 29 comments on HN
300. 300
     Svbtle : The essence of blogging.

     Svbtle · 52 people · 11 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
301. 301
     Three Generations of a Hackneyed Apologia for Censorship Are Enough

     Popehat · 52 people · 6 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
302. 302
     nvAlt: fork of Notational Velocity with MutliMarkdown

     Brett Terpstra · 52 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
303. 303
     Signal APK Outside of the Google Play Store

     Signal Blog · 52 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
304. 304
     Homepage

     Simon Willison · 52 people · first shared 2008
305. 305
     Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote (2006)

     Jeffrey Friedl · 51 people · 552 points · first shared 2009 · 117 comments on HN
306. 306
     Seeking the productive life: Some details of my personal infrastructure (2019)

     Stephen Wolfram · 51 people · 494 points · first shared 2019 · 106 comments on HN
307. 307
     The WTF-8 encoding

     Simon Sapin · 51 people · 289 points · first shared 2015 · 104 comments on HN
308. 308
     Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

     Fathom Analytics Blog · 51 people · 278 points · first shared 2018 · 120 comments on HN
309. 309
     MirageOS: A programming framework for building type-safe, modular systems

     MirageOS · 51 people · 33 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
310. 310
     Quantum supremacy, now with BosonSampling

     Shtetl-Optimized · 51 people · 11 points · first shared 2007 · 2 comments on HN
311. 311
     BetterExplained: Math Lessons That Explain Concepts

     BetterExplained · 50 people · 1.0K points · first shared 2009 · 126 comments on HN
312. 312
     Hexing the technical interview (2017)

     Aphyr · 50 people · 1.0K points · first shared 2017 · 192 comments on HN
313. 313
     Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners

     Addy Osmani · 50 people · 562 points · first shared 2011 · 35 comments on HN
314. 314
     International Journal of Proof-of-Concept or Get The Fuck Out

     PoC||GTFO · 50 people · 109 points · first shared 2014 · 13 comments on HN
315. 315
     Ideas are just a multiplier of execution

     Derek Sivers · 50 people · 29 points · first shared 2009 · 3 comments on HN
316. 316
     New Programming Jargon

     Coding Horror · 50 people · 27 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
317. 317
     Retool: Build internal tools fast with less code

     Retool Blog · 50 people · 7 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
318. 318
     Homepage

     Strong Towns · 50 people · first shared 2014
319. 319
     Git koans

     Steve Losh · 49 people · 826 points · first shared 2013 · 141 comments on HN
320. 320
     Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer

     Heeris · 49 people · 686 points · first shared 2013 · 204 comments on HN
321. 321
     The story of round rectangles

     Folklore.org · 49 people · 299 points · first shared 2010 · 77 comments on HN
322. 322
     The fate of reduce() in Python 3000 (2005)

     Artima Developer · 49 people · 102 points · first shared 2007 · 37 comments on HN
323. 323
     The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categories (2014)

     Slate Star Codex · 49 people · 89 points · first shared 2015 · 46 comments on HN
324. 324
     Homepage

     Fabien Sanglard · 49 people · first shared 2012
325. 325
     An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)

     Robin Sloan · 48 people · 1.8K points · first shared 2020 · 288 comments on HN
326. 326
     Neon – Serverless Postgres

     Neon Blog · 48 people · 669 points · first shared 2022 · 330 comments on HN
327. 327
     Parinfer – Simpler Lisp Editing

     Shaun Lebron · 48 people · 393 points · first shared 2015 · 82 comments on HN
328. 328
     Implementing Regular Expressions

     Russ Cox · 48 people · 102 points · first shared 2010 · 9 comments on HN
329. 329
     Pranking My Roommate with Eerily Targeted Facebook Ads (2014)

     Ghost Influence · 48 people · 83 points · first shared 2016 · 10 comments on HN
330. 330
     Blogging about Midori (2015)

     Joe Duffy · 48 people · 75 points · first shared 2015 · 27 comments on HN
331. 331
     BankSimple invites first customers; rebrands itself as Simple

     Simple Blog · 48 people · 16 points · first shared 2011 · 2 comments on HN
332. 332
     A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry – A look at history and popular culture

     A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry · 48 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
333. 333
     Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you

     Coding2Learn · 47 people · 999 points · first shared 2013 · 422 comments on HN
334. 334
     Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (113 Models Explained)

     Farnam Street · 47 people · 599 points · first shared 2018 · 36 comments on HN
335. 335
     I want off Mr. Golang’s Wild Ride (2020)

     fasterthanli.me · 47 people · 570 points · first shared 2020 · 464 comments on HN
336. 336
     Reverse Engineering the Source Code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

     Bert Hubert · 47 people · 558 points · first shared 2020 · 60 comments on HN
337. 337
     Org Mode – Organize Your Life in Plain Text

     Bernt Hansen · 47 people · 522 points · first shared 2009 · 232 comments on HN
338. 338
     The PGP Problem

     Latacora · 47 people · 502 points · first shared 2019 · 368 comments on HN
339. 339
     The trimodal nature of software salaries in the Netherlands and Europe (2021)

     Gergely Orosz · 47 people · 425 points · first shared 2021 · 305 comments on HN
340. 340
     The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (2008)

     Bruce F. Webster · 47 people · 233 points · first shared 2008 · 127 comments on HN
341. 341
     Richard Stallman's Personal Site

     Richard Stallman · 47 people · 118 points · first shared 2010 · 49 comments on HN
342. 342
     Futhark: High-performance purely functional array programming on the GPU

     Futhark Blog · 47 people · 47 points · first shared 2016 · 1 comments on HN
343. 343
     Sia Going 1.0 (Decentralized Cloud Storage)

     Sia Blog · 47 people · 30 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
344. 344
     War at the Dawn of Civilization

     A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry · 47 people · 7 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
345. 345
     Monolith First (2015)

     Martin Fowler · 46 people · 1.8K points · first shared 2015 · 340 comments on HN
346. 346
     Files Are Hard

     Dan Luu · 46 people · 766 points · first shared 2015 · 151 comments on HN
347. 347
     Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app

     Wouter van Oortmerssen · 46 people · 632 points · first shared 2013 · 90 comments on HN
348. 348
     UTF-8 history (2003)

     Markus Kuhn · 46 people · 426 points · first shared 2008 · 52 comments on HN
349. 349
     On Being a Senior Engineer (2012)

     Kitchen Soap · 46 people · 383 points · first shared 2012 · 110 comments on HN
350. 350
     Why should I care what color the bikeshed is? (1999)

     Poul-Henning Kamp · 46 people · 135 points · first shared 2007 · 82 comments on HN
351. 351
     Software Carpentry: Teaching basic lab skills for research computing

     Software Carpentry · 46 people · 90 points · first shared 2009 · 2 comments on HN
352. 352
     What If - By XKCD

     What If? (xkcd) · 46 people · 56 points · first shared 2012 · 5 comments on HN
353. 353
     When – if ever – will the bandwidth of the Internet surpass that of FedEx?

     What If? (xkcd) · 46 people · 53 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
354. 354
     Mozilla – We need more than deplatforming (2021)

     Mozilla Blog · 46 people · 42 points · first shared 2021 · 38 comments on HN
355. 355
     Bears in the Midst: Intrusion into the Democratic National Committee

     CrowdStrike Blog · 46 people · 6 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
356. 356
     WebAssembly cut Figma's load time by 3x (2017)

     Figma Blog · 46 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
357. 357
     Homepage

     The Old New Thing · 46 people · first shared 2019
358. 358
     Homepage

     Materialize Blog · 46 people · first shared 2020
359. 359
     Explorabl.es

     Explorable Explanations · 45 people · 920 points · first shared 2017 · 36 comments on HN
360. 360
     The Hiring Post

     Thomas Ptacek · 45 people · 643 points · first shared 2015 · 254 comments on HN
361. 361
     Technology preview: Sealed sender for Signal

     Signal Blog · 45 people · 329 points · first shared 2018 · 154 comments on HN
362. 362
     Accidentally Quadratic

     Accidentally Quadratic · 45 people · 195 points · first shared 2015 · 78 comments on HN
363. 363
     Career Advice from Scott Adams (2007)

     The Dilbert Blog · 45 people · 194 points · first shared 2007 · 89 comments on HN
364. 364
     Fast

     Patrick Collison · 44 people · 1.7K points · first shared 2019 · 291 comments on HN
365. 365
     How Google Code Search Worked: Regex Matching with a Trigram Index (2012)

     Russ Cox · 44 people · 1.0K points · first shared 2012 · 70 comments on HN
366. 366
     -2000 Lines of code (2004)

     Folklore.org · 44 people · 798 points · first shared 2023 · 246 comments on HN
367. 367
     Two big announcements

     37signals · 44 people · 736 points · first shared 2008 · 140 comments on HN
368. 368
     Beets: The music geek’s media organizer

     Beets Blog · 44 people · 464 points · first shared 2016 · 121 comments on HN
369. 369
     1,000 True Fans (2008)

     Kevin Kelly · 44 people · 338 points · first shared 2015 · 64 comments on HN
370. 370
     Robots.txt meant for search engines don’t work well for web archives

     Internet Archive Blog · 44 people · 298 points · first shared 2017 · 143 comments on HN
371. 371
     Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” (2009)

     Brent Yorgey · 44 people · 167 points · first shared 2009 · 75 comments on HN
372. 372
     Beyond Exception Handling: Conditions and Restarts

     Peter Seibel · 44 people · 159 points · first shared 2009 · 20 comments on HN
373. 373
     MirageOS: A Unikernel For The Xen Hypervisor

     MirageOS Blog · 44 people · 109 points · first shared 2010 · 52 comments on HN
374. 374
     OpenHatch – Find open source projects to contribute to; find mentors

     OpenHatch Blog · 44 people · 77 points · first shared 2009 · 21 comments on HN
375. 375
     Incredible Articles on ML/AI

     Distill · 44 people · 17 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
376. 376
     Oil Shell: Our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime

     Oils Blog · 44 people · 14 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
377. 377
     Zapier - Sync between your tools

     Zapier Blog · 44 people · 6 points · first shared 2011 · 3 comments on HN
378. 378
     Expanded extension support in Firefox for Android Nightly

     Mozilla Blog · 44 people · 5 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
379. 379
     100% Private Online Backup, Sync & Sharing

     SpiderOak Blog · 44 people · 2 points · first shared 2007 · 1 comments on HN
380. 380
     Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook

     Richard Stallman · 43 people · 1.8K points · first shared 2012 · 362 comments on HN
381. 381
     Parsing JSON is a Minefield

     Nicolas Seriot · 43 people · 1.1K points · first shared 2016 · 292 comments on HN
382. 382
     Inter UI, a typeface designed for user interfaces

     Rasmus Andersson · 43 people · 1.0K points · first shared 2017 · 95 comments on HN
383. 383
     A collection of things that are Turing-complete by accident (2013)

     beza1e1 · 43 people · 624 points · first shared 2013 · 63 comments on HN
384. 384
     Functors, applicatives, and monads in pictures

     Aditya Bhargava · 43 people · 539 points · first shared 2013 · 125 comments on HN
385. 385
     Scaling Mercurial at Facebook

     Facebook Engineering · 43 people · 526 points · first shared 2014 · 241 comments on HN
386. 386
     Rich Programmer Food

     Steve Yegge · 43 people · 398 points · first shared 2007 · 103 comments on HN
387. 387
     Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (2018)

     Slate Star Codex · 43 people · 333 points · first shared 2018 · 146 comments on HN
388. 388
     A Google Suggest Venn Diagram Generator

     Technomancy · 43 people · 310 points · first shared 2010 · 87 comments on HN
389. 389
     The C language is purely functional (2009)

     Conal Elliott · 43 people · 273 points · first shared 2009 · 31 comments on HN
390. 390
     Why Don’t We Use Chemical Weapons Anymore?

     A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry · 43 people · 266 points · first shared 2020 · 157 comments on HN
391. 391
     GPT-3 Creative Fiction

     Gwern · 43 people · 243 points · first shared 2020 · 97 comments on HN
392. 392
     Stay Gold, America

     Coding Horror · 43 people · 202 points · first shared 2014 · 224 comments on HN
393. 393
     To Build a Better Ballot (2016)

     Nicky Case · 43 people · 73 points · first shared 2016 · 20 comments on HN
394. 394
     SimpleLogin – an open-source email forwarding service

     SimpleLogin Blog · 43 people · 52 points · first shared 2019 · 3 comments on HN
395. 395
     AI agent lethal trifecta: private data, untrusted content, exfiltration vectors

     Simon Willison · 43 people · 17 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
396. 396
     LunchMoney – Delightfully simple personal finance and budgeting

     Lunch Money Blog · 43 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
397. 397
     What I Wish I Knew When Learning Haskell

     Stephen Diehl · 42 people · 1.4K points · first shared 2013 · 143 comments on HN
398. 398
     Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (2011) [pdf]

     Shtetl-Optimized · 42 people · 558 points · first shared 2011 · 54 comments on HN
399. 399
     How to increase your luck surface area (2010)

     Codus Operandi · 42 people · 444 points · first shared 2010 · 200 comments on HN
400. 400
     Nootropics

     Gwern · 42 people · 416 points · first shared 2011 · 383 comments on HN
401. 401
     Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Love Debugging)

     Aaron Maxwell · 42 people · 388 points · first shared 2014 · 57 comments on HN
402. 402
     A trip through the graphics pipeline (2011)

     Fabian Giesen · 42 people · 218 points · first shared 2012 · 24 comments on HN
403. 403
     Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (2012)

     Do the Math · 42 people · 153 points · first shared 2017 · 170 comments on HN
404. 404
     Krebsonsecurity.com has an expired SSL certificate

     Krebs on Security · 42 people · 85 points · first shared 2013 · 63 comments on HN
405. 405
     New Posthog Website

     PostHog · 42 people · 51 points · first shared 2020 · 2 comments on HN
406. 406
     Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics? (2023)

     The Gradient · 42 people · 49 points · first shared 2023 · 77 comments on HN
407. 407
     DHH – As I Remember London

     DHH · 42 people · 23 points · first shared 2025 · 14 comments on HN
408. 408
     Conversations 2.17.0 – Jabber/XMPP client for Android

     Conversations · 42 people · 23 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
409. 409
     Contentful: an API-first approach to content management

     Contentful Blog · 42 people · 18 points · first shared 2013 · 3 comments on HN
410. 410
     A comprehensive and precise spec (2016)

     CommitStrip · 42 people · 6 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
411. 411
     Next.js

     Next.js Blog · 42 people · 5 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
412. 412
     Evernote's new website

     Evernote Blog · 42 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
413. 413
     Deaths per TWH by Energy Source

     Next Big Future · 42 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
414. 414
     The Builder's High

     Rands in Repose · 42 people · 1 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
415. 415
     Keyboard latency

     Dan Luu · 41 people · 942 points · first shared 2017 · 265 comments on HN
416. 416
     Why Many Cities Have No Money

     Strong Towns · 41 people · 909 points · first shared 2017 · 471 comments on HN
417. 417
     Piet: Programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings (2002)

     Dan Mouse · 41 people · 772 points · first shared 2007 · 71 comments on HN
418. 418
     “A closure is a poor man’s object; an object is a poor man’s closure” (2003)

     Philip Guo · 41 people · 604 points · first shared 2007 · 227 comments on HN
419. 419
     IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

     Nassim Taleb · 41 people · 444 points · first shared 2019 · 373 comments on HN
420. 420
     Knuth and the Unix Way

     Leancrew · 41 people · 436 points · first shared 2011 · 62 comments on HN
421. 421
     Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

     Thinking Machines Blog · 41 people · 345 points · first shared 2025 · 130 comments on HN
422. 422
     On Hacking

     Richard Stallman · 41 people · 304 points · first shared 2009 · 44 comments on HN
423. 423
     Adderall Risks: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

     Slate Star Codex · 41 people · 298 points · first shared 2017 · 177 comments on HN
424. 424
     Pleroma: A Mastodon-compatible open and federated social networking server

     Pleroma Blog · 41 people · 261 points · first shared 2018 · 107 comments on HN
425. 425
     What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007) [pdf]

     Ulrich Drepper · 41 people · 234 points · first shared 2011 · 97 comments on HN
426. 426
     The one true REST explanation

     Martin Fowler · 41 people · 228 points · first shared 2010 · 47 comments on HN
427. 427
     It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code

     qntm · 41 people · 200 points · first shared 2020 · 88 comments on HN
428. 428
     Twitter is down

     Twitter Status · 41 people · 48 points · first shared 2009 · 4 comments on HN
429. 429
     Red Blob Games: Interactive visual explanations of math and algorithms

     Red Blob Games · 41 people · 47 points · first shared 2014 · 5 comments on HN
430. 430
     Feedbin: A nice place to read on the web

     Feedbin Blog · 41 people · 5 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
431. 431
     Nines of safety: a proposed unit of measurement of risk (by Terence Tao)

     Terence Tao · 41 people · 4 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
432. 432
     How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting

     Kalzumeus · 40 people · 1.8K points · first shared 2012 · 472 comments on HN
433. 433
     There's no speed limit (2009)

     Derek Sivers · 40 people · 1.3K points · first shared 2009 · 194 comments on HN
434. 434
     Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow

     Joel Grus · 40 people · 578 points · first shared 2016 · 84 comments on HN
435. 435
     How to Fold a Julia Fractal

     Steven Wittens · 40 people · 570 points · first shared 2013 · 47 comments on HN
436. 436
     Does one have to be a genius to do maths?

     Terence Tao · 40 people · 275 points · first shared 2007 · 56 comments on HN
437. 437
     Oklab: A perceptual color space for image processing

     Björn Ottosson · 40 people · 239 points · first shared 2020 · 89 comments on HN
438. 438
     Richard Feynman on education in Brazil

     v.cx · 40 people · 164 points · first shared 2011 · 73 comments on HN
439. 439
     Inconsolata

     Raph Levien · 40 people · 163 points · first shared 2007 · 60 comments on HN
440. 440
     A Note About Git Commit Messages

     Tim Pope · 40 people · 123 points · first shared 2010 · 54 comments on HN
441. 441
     Dynamic languages are static languages

     Existential Type · 40 people · 109 points · first shared 2011 · 66 comments on HN
442. 442
     Patrick's greatest hits

     Patrick McKenzie · 40 people · 101 points · first shared 2010 · 20 comments on HN
443. 443
     The IPv6 Mess

     D. J. Bernstein · 40 people · 86 points · first shared 2008 · 68 comments on HN
444. 444
     Flow – A static type checker for JavaScript

     Flow Blog · 40 people · 77 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
445. 445
     Making Crash Bandicoot

     Andy Gavin · 40 people · 75 points · first shared 2011 · 2 comments on HN
446. 446
     Nothing Is Cheaper Than Proof of Work

     Paul Sztorc · 40 people · 65 points · first shared 2016 · 2 comments on HN
447. 447
     Hackery, Math & Design — Acko.net

     Steven Wittens · 40 people · 14 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
448. 448
     Google "We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI" (2023)

     SemiAnalysis · 40 people · 7 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
449. 449
     A List Apart redesign?

     A List Apart · 40 people · 4 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
450. 450
     Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber

     Susan Fowler · 39 people · 4.1K points · first shared 2017 · 1.0K comments on HN
451. 451
     Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

     Cal Paterson · 39 people · 1.7K points · first shared 2020 · 1.3K comments on HN
452. 452
     Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++

     Martin Sústrik · 39 people · 1.3K points · first shared 2012 · 251 comments on HN
453. 453
     On Hacking MicroSD Cards

     bunnie Huang · 39 people · 840 points · first shared 2013 · 68 comments on HN
454. 454
     Lapis – A Lua, Moonscript Framework built on OpenResty

     leafo · 39 people · 552 points · first shared 2013 · 46 comments on HN
455. 455
     How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works

     Figma Blog · 39 people · 481 points · first shared 2019 · 63 comments on HN
456. 456
     Emacs Rocks

     Emacs Rocks · 39 people · 469 points · first shared 2011 · 112 comments on HN
457. 457
     I, Pencil (1958)

     Econlib · 39 people · 333 points · first shared 2008 · 131 comments on HN
458. 458
     Against DNSSEC

     Thomas Ptacek · 39 people · 257 points · first shared 2015 · 144 comments on HN
459. 459
     Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

     Donella Meadows · 39 people · 238 points · first shared 2014 · 12 comments on HN
460. 460
     Things I Won’t Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)

     Derek Lowe · 39 people · 81 points · first shared 2015 · 30 comments on HN
461. 461
     When I think of Snapchat's new potential $10B valuation, I am reminded of this

     Signal v. Noise · 39 people · 14 points · first shared 2014 · 4 comments on HN
462. 462
     Shell Scripting support for Python

     Andrew Moffat · 39 people · 12 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
463. 463
     Superbase – Open-source Firebase alt. – Build in a weekend Scale to billions

     Supabase Blog · 39 people · 4 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
464. 464
     Simplified payments for online and mobile businesses

     Braintree Blog · 39 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
465. 465
     Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby

     Mislav Marohnić · 39 people · 1 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
466. 466
     Design hell

     The Oatmeal · 39 people · first shared 2009
467. 467
     Homepage

     Citus Data Blog · 39 people · first shared 2012
468. 468
     GPS

     Bartosz Ciechanowski · 38 people · 2.9K points · first shared 2022 · 285 comments on HN
469. 469
     Zig cc: A drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang

     Andrew Kelley · 38 people · 1.1K points · first shared 2020 · 288 comments on HN
470. 470
     The TTY demystified (2008)

     Linus Åkesson · 38 people · 935 points · first shared 2011 · 46 comments on HN
471. 471
     The Line of Death

     Eric Lawrence · 38 people · 886 points · first shared 2017 · 105 comments on HN
472. 472
     What every computer science major should know (2011)

     Matt Might · 38 people · 833 points · first shared 2011 · 182 comments on HN
473. 473
     An optimization guide for assembly programmers and compiler makers (2018) [pdf]

     Agner Fog · 38 people · 650 points · first shared 2010 · 59 comments on HN
474. 474
     Donate to Signal

     Signal Blog · 38 people · 462 points · first shared 2019 · 145 comments on HN
475. 475
     The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans

     Otherhand · 38 people · 436 points · first shared 2015 · 75 comments on HN
476. 476
     Elastic TabStops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code (2017)

     Nick Gravgaard · 38 people · 258 points · first shared 2015 · 113 comments on HN
477. 477
     The Configuration Complexity Clock

     Mike Hadlow · 38 people · 188 points · first shared 2016 · 30 comments on HN
478. 478
     Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now

     Tomas Pueyo · 38 people · 167 points · first shared 2020 · 11 comments on HN
479. 479
     GDPR: noyb.eu filed four complaints against Google, FB, Whatsapp, Instagram

     noyb · 38 people · 95 points · first shared 2017 · 109 comments on HN
480. 480
     The Vulnerable World Hypothesis [pdf] (2019)

     Nick Bostrom · 38 people · 92 points · first shared 2018 · 63 comments on HN
481. 481
     Homebrew — MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew

     Homebrew · 38 people · 82 points · first shared 2010 · 62 comments on HN
482. 482
     Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0 (2007) [pdf]

     D. J. Bernstein · 38 people · 47 points · first shared 2009 · 6 comments on HN
483. 483
     It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway (2006)

     The Old New Thing · 38 people · 9 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
484. 484
     What’s our Problem? A (Wait but Why?) self-help book for societies

     Wait But Why · 38 people · 7 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
485. 485
     WebKit Feature Status

     WebKit Blog · 38 people · 7 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
486. 486
     A Constructive Look at TempleOS

     Coders Notes · 37 people · 945 points · first shared 2015 · 169 comments on HN
487. 487
     Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud

     Ink & Switch · 37 people · 938 points · first shared 2019 · 190 comments on HN
488. 488
     Readme Driven Development

     Tom Preston-Werner · 37 people · 765 points · first shared 2010 · 57 comments on HN
489. 489
     Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

     Astral Codex Ten · 37 people · 735 points · first shared 2021 · 755 comments on HN
490. 490
     Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)

     Artem S. Tashkinov · 37 people · 720 points · first shared 2016 · 391 comments on HN
491. 491
     The Flask Mega-Tutorial

     Miguel Grinberg · 37 people · 690 points · first shared 2012 · 87 comments on HN
492. 492
     Hard drive hack provides root access, even after reinstall

     Spritesmods · 37 people · 609 points · first shared 2013 · 89 comments on HN
493. 493
     Employee Equity

     Sam Altman · 37 people · 602 points · first shared 2014 · 333 comments on HN
494. 494
     Accounting for Computer Scientists

     Martin Kleppmann · 37 people · 560 points · first shared 2011 · 75 comments on HN
495. 495
     Git for Computer Scientists (2010)

     eagain.net · 37 people · 451 points · first shared 2007 · 101 comments on HN
496. 496
     Are We Really Engineers? (2021)

     Hillel Wayne · 37 people · 330 points · first shared 2021 · 389 comments on HN
497. 497
     How Not To Run An A/B Test

     Evan Miller · 37 people · 245 points · first shared 2010 · 23 comments on HN
498. 498
     Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2000) [pdf]

     Rob Pike · 37 people · 182 points · first shared 2010 · 68 comments on HN
499. 499
     Technology Preview for secure value recovery

     Signal Blog · 37 people · 157 points · first shared 2019 · 53 comments on HN
500. 500
     The Power of a Pronoun

     Joyent Blog · 37 people · 135 points · first shared 2013 · 184 comments on HN