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2018How to build a low-tech website? (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
379 points | 3 years ago with 216 comments
2018Meow Hash (mollyrocket.com)
377 points | 3 years ago with 108 comments
2018iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (neosmart.net)
376 points | 4 years ago with 468 comments
2018NIST's answer to “Do you need a blockchain?” (imgur.com)
369 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 3 comments
2018A home-made lithographically-fabricated integrated circuit (sam.zeloof.xyz)
361 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 13 comments
2018Plane accidentally flew around the world (medium.com)
343 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 69 comments
2018EEG Cat Ears (i2nk.co)
338 points | 2 years ago with 63 comments
2018I don’t want to sign up for your newsletter (katsnyderux.com)
337 points | 1 year ago with 303 comments
2018Lobotomizing Gnome (eklitzke.org)
337 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 168 comments
2018Everything Easy is Hard Again (frankchimero.com)
336 points | 3 years ago with 258 comments
2018Backblaze Durability Calculates at 99.999999999% – Why It Doesn’t Matter (backblaze.com)
334 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 1 comments
2018Jitsi Meet – Improving Scale and Media Quality with Cascading SFUs (webrtchacks.com)
333 points | 4 years ago with 116 comments
2018The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (atlasobscura.com)
327 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 308 comments
2018Breathing and Exercise: Strength Training for Your Diaphragm (pennmedicine.org)
327 points | 4 years ago with 119 comments
2018/* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */ (community.cadence.com)
321 points | 4 years ago with 118 comments
2018ES modules: A cartoon deep-dive (hacks.mozilla.org)
317 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 35 comments
2018The technology that changed air travel (retool.com)
317 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 32 comments
2018An Invisible Tax on the Web: Video Codecs (blog.mozilla.org)
314 points | 3 years ago with 165 comments
2018Can't uninstall Adobe apps without an account (feedback.photoshop.com)
312 points | 3 years ago with 247 comments
2018Why SQLite does not use Git (sqlite.org)
312 points | 1 year ago with 434 comments
2018Hacker News Classics (jsomers.net)
311 points | 4 years ago with 42 comments
2018TIL–Python has a built-in persistent key-value store (remusao.github.io)
310 points | 2 years ago with 90 comments
2018Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR (xissufotoday.space)
310 points | 3 years ago with 97 comments
2018Learn TLA+ (learntla.com)
310 points | 4 years ago with 58 comments
2018I asked an online tracking company for all of my data (privacyinternational.org)
305 points | 4 years ago with 179 comments
2018I got a Ph.D. at age 66 (sciencemag.org)
300 points | 4 years ago with 196 comments
201850th Anniversary of the Mother of All Demos (amasad.me)
300 points | 2 years ago with 82 comments
2018I don't want to learn your query language (erikbern.com)
297 points | 3 years ago with 218 comments
2018The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (wifinigel.blogspot.com)
297 points | 1 year ago with 180 comments
2018Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know (SSC) (slatestarcodex.com)
297 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 3 comments
2018The Little Typer (thelittletyper.com)
293 points | 2 years ago with 90 comments
2018Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend democracy (eff.org)
292 points | 3 years ago with 307 comments
2018A surprisingly hard CS problem: sums of square roots (shlegeris.com)
292 points | 2 years ago with 177 comments
2018I recorded user behaviour on my competitor’s websites (dejanmarketing.com)
290 points | 2 years ago with 96 comments
2018Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (nodum.org)
288 points | 2 years ago with 480 comments
2018Britain’s CO2 Emissions Have Fallen to Levels Last Seen in 1890 (e360.yale.edu)
286 points | 4 years ago with 151 comments
2018Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (lethain.com)
284 points across 3 posts | 1 year ago with 324 comments
2018Iyashikei: Japan’s Genre of “Healing Games” (screentherapyblog.wordpress.com)
283 points | 4 years ago with 112 comments
2018Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days (nature.com)
281 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 144 comments
2018Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C (nature.com)
279 points | 3 years ago with 13 comments
2018Lessons Learned Reproducing a Deep Reinforcement Learning Paper (amid.fish)
279 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 10 comments
2018Moving Away from UUIDs (neilmadden.blog)
278 points | 2 years ago with 229 comments
2018A Short Guide to Minimal Web Development (meiert.com)
277 points | 4 years ago with 83 comments
2018Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (economist.com)
277 points | 4 years ago with 434 comments
2018DeepCreamPy- Decensoring Hentai with Deep Neural Networks (github.com)
275 points | 2 years ago with 130 comments
2018Running servers and services well is not trivial (utcc.utoronto.ca)
272 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 83 comments
2018Ingenious Low-Cost Tilt Detection System (imgur.com)
270 points | 4 years ago with 135 comments
2018Dropbox saved $75M over two years by building its own infrastructure (geekwire.com)
268 points | 4 years ago with 212 comments
2018Who ordered the car bomb that killed Maltese journalist Daphne Galizia? (npr.org)
268 points | 4 years ago with 49 comments
2018That annoying shade of blue (bsago.me)
267 points | 2 years ago with 126 comments
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