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168k objects in the archive · 2,631 ranked picks

Blog posts and Substacks that got recommended

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  1. 651
    Introducing TensorFlow.js: Machine Learning in JavaScript
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    329 pts
    44 cmts
  2. 652
    Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed?
    timdellinger.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    328 pts
    334 cmts
    1 person
  3. 653
    How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops
    medium.com2015–20183 submissionsHN thread
    328 pts
    304 cmts
    2 people
  4. 654
    The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021)
    annehelen.substack.com2021–20264 submissionsHN thread
    328 pts
    177 cmts
  5. 655
    Well, We Failed – Wattage is shutting down
    medium.com20151 submissionHN thread
    328 pts
    157 cmts
    1 person
  6. 656
    Students flee field as computer 'fad fades' (1987)
    pessimistsarchive.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    327 pts
    381 cmts
  7. 657
    When did writing in major newspapers become so bad?
    mleverything.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    327 pts
    295 cmts
  8. 658
    Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    327 pts
    170 cmts
    1 person
  9. 659
    How landlords get kickbacks to lock tenants into big Internet providers
    medium.com20161 submissionHN thread
    327 pts
    152 cmts
  10. 660
    Introducing U.S. Web Design Standards
    medium.com20151 submissionHN thread
    327 pts
    88 cmts
  11. 661
    A Plane That Accidentally Circumnavigated the World (2014)
    medium.com20182 submissionsHN thread
    327 pts
    50 cmts
  12. 662
    unveiling dark e0be6f1e0b06
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    326 pts
    253 cmts
  13. 663
    Poison, Poison Everywhere
    loeber.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    326 pts
    208 cmts
  14. 664
    How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer
    medium.com20202 submissionsHN thread
    326 pts
    186 cmts
  15. 665
    Why is this idiot running my engineering org?
    medium.com20201 submissionHN thread
    326 pts
    167 cmts
  16. 666
    The cortex is a neural network of neural networks
    medium.com2019–20223 submissionsHN thread
    326 pts
    131 cmts
    1 person
  17. 667
    Trial Balloon for a Coup?
    medium.com2017–202424 submissionsHN thread
    326 pts
    74 cmts
    5 people
  18. 668
    Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)
    medium.com2015–20194 submissionsHN thread
    326 pts
    59 cmts
    3 people
  19. 669
    The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
    steerlabs.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    324 pts
    380 cmts
  20. 670
    Why doesn't advice work?
    dynomight.substack.com2023–20253 submissionsHN thread
    324 pts
    321 cmts
    2 people
  21. 671
    Don't ignore the janitor
    happychasing.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    324 pts
    271 cmts
  22. 672
    820GB Database Dump of Roskomnadzor (Russian Government Censorship Organization)
    ddosecrets.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    324 pts
    116 cmts
  23. 673
    I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929
    roaring20s.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    323 pts
    250 cmts
  24. 674
    How to find your Uber passenger rating
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    323 pts
    189 cmts
  25. 675
    What’s Next in Computing?
    medium.com201613 submissionsHN thread
    323 pts
    148 cmts
  26. 676
    X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans
    weaponizedspaces.substack.com2025–20261 submissionHN thread
    322 pts
    206 cmts
    1 person
  27. 677
    Misconfigured Jira instances exposed data of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    322 pts
    85 cmts
  28. 678
    Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy (2013)
    medium.com2015–20163 submissionsHN thread
    321 pts
    337 cmts
    2 people
  29. 679
    Falling Out of Love with Apple, Part 3: Content and Censorship
    hardware.substack.com20201 submissionHN thread
    321 pts
    289 cmts
    1 person
  30. 680
    Amazon Employee: We Shouldn’t Sell Facial Recognition Tech to Police
    medium.com20183 submissionsHN thread
    321 pts
    266 cmts
    1 person
  31. 681
    We should measure well-being instead of failing to measure economic productivity
    bengoertzel.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    321 pts
    200 cmts
  32. 682
    Every engineer should do a stint in consulting
    cloudirregular.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    321 pts
    172 cmts
  33. 683
    Synchronizing Pong to music with constrained optimization
    victortao.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    321 pts
    37 cmts
  34. 684
    Freedom is not a goal, but a direction
    edwardsnowden.substack.com20213 submissionsHN thread
    320 pts
    239 cmts
  35. 685
    Inclusivity Is a Joke
    medium.com20161 submissionHN thread
    320 pts
    216 cmts
  36. 686
    Why I left Google to join Grab
    medium.com2018–20205 submissionsHN thread
    320 pts
    179 cmts
    10 people
  37. 687
    Notes against note-taking systems
    sashachapin.substack.com2022–20254 submissionsHN thread
    320 pts
    160 cmts
    1 person
  38. 688
    Early employees take the most risk today
    medium.com2015–201611 submissionsHN thread
    320 pts
    156 cmts
    3 people
  39. 689
    A discussion about the breaking of the Internet
    medium.com2016–202158 submissionsHN thread
    320 pts
    139 cmts
    13 people
  40. 690
    Vue 2.0 is here
    medium.com2016–20199 submissionsHN thread
    319 pts
    78 cmts
    6 people
  41. 691
    The human genome is full of viruses
    medium.com20201 submissionHN thread
    318 pts
    111 cmts
    1 person
  42. 692
    My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs
    verdik.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    318 pts
    70 cmts
  43. 693
    Analysis of Apple Watch running data
    applewatchrunner.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    317 pts
    166 cmts
  44. 694
    Let's Reverse Engineer Discord
    medium.com2020–20222 submissionsHN thread
    317 pts
    109 cmts
    3 people
  45. 695
    Banned for Life
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    316 pts
    285 cmts
    1 person
  46. 696
    Most books don't sell only a dozen copies
    countercraft.substack.com2022–20242 submissionsHN thread
    316 pts
    199 cmts
    4 people
  47. 697
    Europe's now-drowned 'lost world' and the 25m-high tsunami that finished it off
    everythingisamazing.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    316 pts
    162 cmts
  48. 698
    The Death of the Urdu Script
    medium.com2014–20191 submissionHN thread
    316 pts
    137 cmts
    2 people
  49. 699
    JavaScript Start-up Performance
    medium.com20175 submissionsHN thread
    316 pts
    130 cmts
  50. 700
    Wealthfront: Silicon Valley Tech at Wall Street Prices
    medium.com2015–20222 submissionsHN thread
    315 pts
    187 cmts
    2 people