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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. 801
    How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    292 pts
    202 cmts
  2. 802
    Record labels dig their own grave, and the shovel is called TikTok
    tedgioia.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    292 pts
    185 cmts
  3. 803
    Post Virtual Reality Sadness
    medium.com20161 submissionHN thread
    292 pts
    157 cmts
  4. 804
    System shock: A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance
    medium.com2015–20204 submissionsHN thread
    292 pts
    119 cmts
    1 person
  5. 805
    The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
    paullukas.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    291 pts
    226 cmts
  6. 806
    American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
    earthhope.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    291 pts
    191 cmts
  7. 807
    How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web?
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    291 pts
    168 cmts
    1 person
  8. 808
    The Itch Nobody Can Scratch
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    291 pts
    147 cmts
  9. 809
    What if we had Local-First Software?
    adlrocha.substack.com2020–20221 submissionHN thread
    291 pts
    144 cmts
    1 person
  10. 810
    How Chromium Works
    medium.com2015–20182 submissionsHN thread
    291 pts
    71 cmts
    1 person
  11. 811
    Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic
    medium.com20221 submissionHN thread
    290 pts
    322 cmts
  12. 812
    Gaijin Engineer in Tokyo
    medium.com2018–20203 submissionsHN thread
    290 pts
    155 cmts
  13. 813
    My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job
    medium.com20142 submissionsHN thread
    290 pts
    150 cmts
    1 person
  14. 814
    2006: Dwarf Fortress
    if50.substack.com20212 submissionsHN thread
    290 pts
    94 cmts
  15. 815
    The Internet Is for Porn
    themargins.substack.com20203 submissionsHN thread
    289 pts
    434 cmts
  16. 816
    When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    289 pts
    391 cmts
  17. 817
    Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?
    annehelen.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    289 pts
    309 cmts
  18. 818
    In MySQL, don’t use “utf8”, use “utf8mb4” (2016)
    medium.com2018–20202 submissionsHN thread
    289 pts
    173 cmts
    2 people
  19. 819
    Is Hacker News Bullshit?
    liamp.substack.com2020–20224 submissionsHN thread
    289 pts
    158 cmts
    3 people
  20. 820
    Compiling Rust to Web Assembly
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    289 pts
    88 cmts
    1 person
  21. 821
    Why I left Google
    medium.com20131 submissionHN thread
    288 pts
    212 cmts
  22. 822
    I'm quitting the Washington Post
    anntelnaes.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    288 pts
    198 cmts
    2 people
  23. 823
    What no one talks about when running and selling a business
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    288 pts
    184 cmts
  24. 824
    How to Design for the Modern Web
    medium.com20188 submissionsHN thread
    288 pts
    114 cmts
    1 person
  25. 825
    What are Bloom filters? (2015)
    medium.com2015–20163 submissionsHN thread
    288 pts
    107 cmts
  26. 826
    We can do better than “same, but electric”
    climateer.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    287 pts
    632 cmts
    2 people
  27. 827
    37-Year-Old Mom Spent Seven Days Online as an 11-Year-Old Girl
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    287 pts
    281 cmts
  28. 828
    Mastodon is big in Japan, and the reason why is uncomfortable
    medium.com2017–20221 submissionHN thread
    287 pts
    221 cmts
    1 person
  29. 829
    Coinbase and the IRS
    medium.com20176 submissionsHN thread
    287 pts
    202 cmts
  30. 830
    Cyc: History's Forgotten AI Project
    outsiderart.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    287 pts
    141 cmts
    1 person
  31. 831
    Latency/throughput tradeoffs, illustrated with coffee
    medium.com2019–20212 submissionsHN thread
    287 pts
    96 cmts
  32. 832
    Anesthesia works on plants too, and we don’t know why
    medium.com2020–20251 submissionHN thread
    287 pts
    61 cmts
    2 people
  33. 833
    My year with a distraction-free iPhone
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    286 pts
    181 cmts
  34. 834
    Learn C
    medium.com20131 submissionHN thread
    286 pts
    179 cmts
  35. 835
    A requiem for amateur chemistry
    lcamtuf.substack.com2022–20241 submissionHN thread
    286 pts
    152 cmts
    2 people
  36. 836
    Cat Litter Boxes and DRM
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    286 pts
    123 cmts
  37. 837
    The Wisdom in Kung Fu Panda
    moviewise.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    285 pts
    179 cmts
  38. 838
    The Tech Monopolies Go Vertical
    mule.substack.com20204 submissionsHN thread
    285 pts
    142 cmts
  39. 839
    The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google
    medium.com2014–20152 submissionsHN thread
    285 pts
    117 cmts
    1 person
  40. 840
    Mastering Programming (2016)
    tidyfirst.substack.com2024–20262 submissionsHN thread
    285 pts
    117 cmts
    1 person
  41. 841
    Someone left my Gmail in debug mode
    medium.com20151 submissionHN thread
    285 pts
    51 cmts
  42. 842
    The window for great-grandmothers is closing
    memoirsandrambles.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    284 pts
    477 cmts
  43. 843
    Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack
    medium.com2017–20202 submissionsHN thread
    284 pts
    278 cmts
    4 people
  44. 844
    Don't squander public trust on bullshit
    livboeree.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    284 pts
    150 cmts
  45. 845
    PCBs, copper pours, ground planes, and you
    lcamtuf.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    284 pts
    83 cmts
  46. 846
    Understanding Hinton’s Capsule Networks, Part I: Intuition
    medium.com20173 submissionsHN thread
    284 pts
    44 cmts
    2 people
  47. 847
    The time that Tony Fadell sold me a container of hummus
    medium.com201627 submissionsHN thread
    284 pts
    6 cmts
  48. 848
    Forgetting the Asbestos – how we lose knowledge and technologies
    1517.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    283 pts
    209 cmts
  49. 849
    Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management
    medium.com20164 submissionsHN thread
    283 pts
    152 cmts
    1 person
  50. 850
    Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (1979)
    medium.com2016–202612 submissionsHN thread
    283 pts
    129 cmts
    12 people