hackerhub
Repos2,462Wiki2,456Videos2,543Essays2,631Startup520Careers306Build logs1,629Incidents115Papers2,662Books2,130Courses1,991Specs1,824Datasets946Music1,204Films919Patents520Podcasts752

Essays

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

Blog posts and Substacks that got recommended

PointsCommentsRecommendersNewest
  1. 701
    How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2017
    medium.com2017–20182 submissionsHN thread
    315 pts
    161 cmts
    1 person
  2. 702
    Things the media does to manufacture outrage
    medium.com2015–20175 submissionsHN thread
    315 pts
    91 cmts
    2 people
  3. 703
    The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe
    techtrenches.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    314 pts
    253 cmts
  4. 704
    I installed Windows 95 on my Apple Watch
    medium.com201610 submissionsHN thread
    314 pts
    51 cmts
  5. 705
    Reflections on My Career at Microsoft
    medium.com20193 submissionsHN thread
    313 pts
    161 cmts
  6. 706
    Manipulating Human Psychology To Turn Users Into Addicts
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    313 pts
    103 cmts
  7. 707
    Charles Bukowski: The Slavery of the 9 to 5
    medium.com20172 submissionsHN thread
    312 pts
    224 cmts
  8. 708
    Lessons learned as a React contractor
    medium.com20172 submissionsHN thread
    312 pts
    168 cmts
  9. 709
    Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers
    collegetowns.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    311 pts
    443 cmts
  10. 710
    When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook
    medium.com20201 submissionHN thread
    311 pts
    253 cmts
    1 person
  11. 711
    How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
    medium.com2024–20251 submissionHN thread
    311 pts
    111 cmts
    2 people
  12. 712
    Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address
    medium.com2017–20202 submissionsHN thread
    310 pts
    189 cmts
    1 person
  13. 713
    Google destroyed my Play Developer Account and my work for the last 2 years
    medium.com20221 submissionHN thread
    310 pts
    116 cmts
  14. 714
    Fake Friends with Real Benefits
    medium.com2014–20211 submissionHN thread
    310 pts
    107 cmts
    3 people
  15. 715
    Education of a Programmer
    medium.com20172 submissionsHN thread
    310 pts
    61 cmts
  16. 716
    All poverty is energy poverty
    omnibudsman.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    309 pts
    439 cmts
    1 person
  17. 717
    How I Hacked Amazon’s $5 WiFi Button
    medium.com2015–20164 submissionsHN thread
    309 pts
    119 cmts
    4 people
  18. 718
    How Apple Influenced The Labels To Shut Down My Music Streaming Startup
    medium.com20153 submissionsHN thread
    309 pts
    95 cmts
    3 people
  19. 719
    How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store
    medium.com20152 submissionsHN thread
    309 pts
    71 cmts
  20. 720
    Designing a New Old Home: Part 1
    medium.com20203 submissionsHN thread
    308 pts
    237 cmts
  21. 721
    Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference
    radioandnukes.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    308 pts
    69 cmts
  22. 722
    How to Easily Detect Objects with Deep Learning on Raspberry Pi
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    308 pts
    50 cmts
    1 person
  23. 723
    Docker for Mac Beta Review
    medium.com20163 submissionsHN thread
    307 pts
    307 cmts
  24. 724
    Tech job listings are down 40% on several job boards
    medium.com20166 submissionsHN thread
    307 pts
    251 cmts
  25. 725
    The Shameful Decline of Scientific American
    medium.com2022–20231 submissionHN thread
    307 pts
    235 cmts
    2 people
  26. 726
    Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    307 pts
    217 cmts
  27. 727
    How We Grow Junior Developers at the BBC
    medium.com20172 submissionsHN thread
    307 pts
    159 cmts
  28. 728
    Paypal froze our funds, then offered us a business loan
    medium.com20163 submissionsHN thread
    307 pts
    136 cmts
  29. 729
    On Phone Numbers and Identity
    medium.com20163 submissionsHN thread
    307 pts
    113 cmts
    3 people
  30. 730
    Google Joins Apple to Opt-out of Mobile Advertising IDs
    thebigtech.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    306 pts
    198 cmts
  31. 731
    Commenting vs. Making
    chiefofstuff.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    306 pts
    96 cmts
  32. 732
    Growing from 0 to 4M users on our fashion app with vertical machine learning
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    306 pts
    71 cmts
  33. 733
    iTunes will never work well
    medium.com20161 submissionHN thread
    305 pts
    363 cmts
  34. 734
    We need a new media system
    taibbi.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    305 pts
    283 cmts
    2 people
  35. 735
    What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold
    medium.com20161 submissionHN thread
    305 pts
    255 cmts
  36. 736
    Jabra: we know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops
    medium.com2019–20202 submissionsHN thread
    305 pts
    194 cmts
    1 person
  37. 737
    Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever
    thealgorithmicbridge.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    305 pts
    189 cmts
  38. 738
    Things I've learned about writing software after 12 years
    medium.com20152 submissionsHN thread
    305 pts
    120 cmts
  39. 739
    The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education
    aisnakeoil.substack.com2022–20231 submissionHN thread
    304 pts
    360 cmts
    1 person
  40. 740
    Microservices: Why Are We Doing This?
    michaeldehaan.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    304 pts
    316 cmts
  41. 741
    GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it
    garymarcus.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    304 pts
    257 cmts
  42. 742
    How do video games stay in sync?
    medium.com20222 submissionsHN thread
    304 pts
    164 cmts
  43. 743
    Escaping the SPA rabbit hole with modern Rails
    medium.com20184 submissionsHN thread
    304 pts
    136 cmts
  44. 744
    Freelancer.com is destroying my life
    medium.com20142 submissionsHN thread
    303 pts
    143 cmts
  45. 745
    To the 4 white male policemen who beat me for checking the health of [detainee]
    medium.com20167 submissionsHN thread
    303 pts
    140 cmts
  46. 746
    Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?
    featherlessbipeds.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    302 pts
    413 cmts
    1 person
  47. 747
    About This Googler's Manifesto
    medium.com2017–20221 submissionHN thread
    302 pts
    354 cmts
    29 people
  48. 748
    How I Eat for Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, AI, and Instagram
    medium.com2019–20224 submissionsHN thread
    302 pts
    181 cmts
    3 people
  49. 749
    Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software?
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    302 pts
    176 cmts
  50. 750
    The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back
    ianleslie.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    302 pts
    145 cmts