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Blog posts and Substacks that got recommended

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  1. 1001
    Slow, flexible and cheap: Six years of development to create a rubber hexagon
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    255 pts
    33 cmts
  2. 1002
    How we uncovered the identity of popular spyware makers
    medium.com20151 submissionHN thread
    255 pts
    28 cmts
  3. 1003
    Is the frequency domain a real place?
    lcamtuf.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    254 pts
    149 cmts
  4. 1004
    Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993
    thechipletter.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    254 pts
    147 cmts
  5. 1005
    How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?
    medium.com20161 submissionHN thread
    254 pts
    82 cmts
    1 person
  6. 1006
    The Y Combinator (no, not that one) – A Crash Course on Lambda Calculus
    medium.com2014–20192 submissionsHN thread
    254 pts
    46 cmts
    1 person
  7. 1007
    Why I stopped hacking the Amazon Dash button and learned to solder
    medium.com20161 submissionHN thread
    253 pts
    124 cmts
    1 person
  8. 1008
    Panera Bread did nothing about its customer data vulnerability for eight months
    medium.com2018–20221 submissionHN thread
    253 pts
    89 cmts
    3 people
  9. 1009
    Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies
    resobscura.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    252 pts
    203 cmts
  10. 1010
    Apple M2 Die Shot and Architecture Analysis – Big Cost Increase and A15 Based IP
    semianalysis.substack.com20222 submissionsHN thread
    252 pts
    199 cmts
    1 person
  11. 1011
    Today I accept that Rails is yesterday’s software
    medium.com201611 submissionsHN thread
    252 pts
    190 cmts
    1 person
  12. 1012
    How ancient people saw themselves
    worldhistory.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    252 pts
    170 cmts
  13. 1013
    Sales happen when buyers fear missing out
    tidyfirst.substack.com20242 submissionsHN thread
    252 pts
    124 cmts
  14. 1014
    People spend too much time on decisions with equally satisfying outcomes
    robkhenderson.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    252 pts
    121 cmts
  15. 1015
    How to sequence your DNA for <$2k
    maxlangenkamp.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    252 pts
    120 cmts
  16. 1016
    Good Retry, Bad Retry
    medium.com2024–20256 submissionsHN thread
    252 pts
    66 cmts
    1 person
  17. 1017
    Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain
    schlockchain.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    251 pts
    400 cmts
  18. 1018
    P. J. O'Rourke, 1947-2022
    mattlabash.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    251 pts
    171 cmts
  19. 1019
    Homoiconic Python
    aljamal.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    251 pts
    102 cmts
  20. 1020
    Linux kernel bug delivers corrupt TCP/IP data
    medium.com20165 submissionsHN thread
    251 pts
    59 cmts
  21. 1021
    How the Apple archive ended up at Stanford
    annamancini.substack.com2022–20261 submissionHN thread
    251 pts
    48 cmts
    2 people
  22. 1022
    The student loan crisis is really an underemployment catastrophe
    medium.com20194 submissionsHN thread
    250 pts
    362 cmts
  23. 1023
    A salt monopoly could spike car accidents in the Midwest
    mattstoller.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    250 pts
    337 cmts
  24. 1024
    The Social Recession: By the Numbers
    novum.substack.com2022–20242 submissionsHN thread
    250 pts
    334 cmts
  25. 1025
    Ethereum Proof-of-Stake
    0xfoobar.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    250 pts
    326 cmts
    3 people
  26. 1026
    The memory safety problem isn't bad coders
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    250 pts
    220 cmts
  27. 1027
    Paul McCartney's Freakish Memory
    ianleslie.substack.com20222 submissionsHN thread
    250 pts
    180 cmts
  28. 1028
    My multi-decade quest for rural broadband
    madned.substack.com2021–20252 submissionsHN thread
    250 pts
    168 cmts
    1 person
  29. 1029
    Why the world needs deep generalists, not specialists
    medium.com20185 submissionsHN thread
    250 pts
    127 cmts
  30. 1030
    Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director
    substack.com20252 submissionsHN thread
    250 pts
    103 cmts
    1 person
  31. 1031
    The Story of Firefox OS
    medium.com2017–20256 submissionsHN thread
    250 pts
    87 cmts
    3 people
  32. 1032
    New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529
    yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com2021–20221 submissionHN thread
    249 pts
    400 cmts
    3 people
  33. 1033
    OpenAI Moves to Complete Potentially the Largest Theft in Human History
    thezvi.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    249 pts
    97 cmts
  34. 1034
    Life advice from NYC chess hustlers
    annekadet.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    249 pts
    89 cmts
  35. 1035
    Truths about video game stories
    bottomfeeder.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    248 pts
    323 cmts
  36. 1036
    No one knows how much the government can borrow
    noahpinion.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    248 pts
    318 cmts
  37. 1037
    America’s Open Wound
    edwardsnowden.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    248 pts
    306 cmts
    1 person
  38. 1038
    Microsoft and Google collaborate to make PWAs better
    medium.com20201 submissionHN thread
    248 pts
    195 cmts
  39. 1039
    We need someone who has done “it” before
    cutlefish.substack.com20222 submissionsHN thread
    248 pts
    174 cmts
  40. 1040
    So you want to write a package manager
    medium.com2016–202626 submissionsHN thread
    248 pts
    122 cmts
    11 people
  41. 1041
    An Open Letter to My CEO
    medium.com2016–201733 submissionsHN thread
    248 pts
    122 cmts
    5 people
  42. 1042
    Solo founder dilemma; CEO or CTO?
    nvnt.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    248 pts
    96 cmts
  43. 1043
    What they don’t tell you about event sourcing
    medium.com2018–20217 submissionsHN thread
    248 pts
    77 cmts
    2 people
  44. 1044
    What I Learned from Reading Every Amazon Shareholders Letter
    medium.com20173 submissionsHN thread
    248 pts
    72 cmts
  45. 1045
    Writing memory safe JIT compilers
    medium.com2024–20263 submissionsHN thread
    248 pts
    67 cmts
    1 person
  46. 1046
    The decline and fall of Java on the desktop
    jdeploy.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    247 pts
    357 cmts
  47. 1047
    How did sports betting become legal in the US?
    shreyashariharan.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    247 pts
    357 cmts
  48. 1048
    Is the big tech era ending?
    wyclif.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    247 pts
    351 cmts
  49. 1049
    “Dune” (The Movie), Annotated
    maxread.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    247 pts
    323 cmts
  50. 1050
    I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language
    nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    247 pts
    289 cmts