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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. 1051
    The Slow Death of Hollywood
    mattstoller.substack.com2019–20202 submissionsHN thread
    247 pts
    255 cmts
    4 people
  2. 1052
    Why we need Lisp machines
    fultonsramblings.substack.com2022–20253 submissionsHN thread
    247 pts
    225 cmts
  3. 1053
    Evaluation of five password managers
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    247 pts
    212 cmts
  4. 1054
    Tor’s Branding Pivot Is Going to Get Someone Killed
    medium.com2016–20193 submissionsHN thread
    247 pts
    157 cmts
    4 people
  5. 1055
    Nick Farr's 30c3 Jake Appelbaum story of abuse and harassment
    medium.com20166 submissionsHN thread
    247 pts
    101 cmts
    5 people
  6. 1056
    Everything Is Broken (2014)
    medium.com2014–202615 submissionsHN thread
    247 pts
    71 cmts
    18 people
  7. 1057
    Congress is going to throw the kitchen sink at big tech
    bigtechnology.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    246 pts
    323 cmts
  8. 1058
    Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    246 pts
    253 cmts
    1 person
  9. 1059
    Confusing UI in iOS7
    medium.com20131 submissionHN thread
    246 pts
    188 cmts
  10. 1060
    CDC officials’ resignation emails
    insidemedicine.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    246 pts
    145 cmts
  11. 1061
    Why ContentEditable Is Terrible, Or: How the Medium Editor Works (2014)
    medium.com2014–20165 submissionsHN thread
    246 pts
    86 cmts
    9 people
  12. 1062
    After Docker: Unikernels and Immutable Infrastructure
    medium.com20142 submissionsHN thread
    246 pts
    70 cmts
  13. 1063
    E.O. Wilson on Introversion, the Limits of IQ, and Where Ideas Come From
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    246 pts
    68 cmts
    1 person
  14. 1064
    What do new Sudoku techniques teach us about real-world problem solving?
    desystemize.substack.com2022–20252 submissionsHN thread
    246 pts
    67 cmts
    1 person
  15. 1065
    A 1,600-Year-Old Viking War Game
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    246 pts
    56 cmts
  16. 1066
    From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
    medium.com20132 submissionsHN thread
    246 pts
    55 cmts
    1 person
  17. 1067
    I Peeked Into My Node_Modules Directory And You Won’t Believe What Happened Next
    medium.com2016–201872 submissionsHN thread
    246 pts
    44 cmts
    1 person
  18. 1068
    Should managers still code?
    theengineeringmanager.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    245 pts
    307 cmts
  19. 1069
    Demand for Ruby on Rails is Still Huge
    medium.com20182 submissionsHN thread
    245 pts
    244 cmts
    1 person
  20. 1070
    Bring back private offices
    albertcory50.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    245 pts
    234 cmts
  21. 1071
    The greatest privilege we never talk about: beauty
    medium.com2020–20222 submissionsHN thread
    245 pts
    211 cmts
    1 person
  22. 1072
    Banning open weight models would be a disaster
    rbren.substack.com20242 submissionsHN thread
    245 pts
    190 cmts
    1 person
  23. 1073
    Don't bother creating a mobile app
    medium.com20153 submissionsHN thread
    245 pts
    176 cmts
  24. 1074
    The brilliance of All Gas No Brakes
    bigtechnology.substack.com20201 submissionHN thread
    245 pts
    113 cmts
    1 person
  25. 1075
    I Knew Snowden. And He’s Not The Story
    medium.com20131 submissionHN thread
    245 pts
    99 cmts
  26. 1076
    Why noise is necessary for our brains to perform at a high-level
    ekin.substack.com2021–20263 submissionsHN thread
    244 pts
    151 cmts
  27. 1077
    grid computing shatters world record for goldbach conjecture verification 1ef3dc58a38d
    medium.com20251 submissionHN thread
    244 pts
    134 cmts
  28. 1078
    2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
    resobscura.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    244 pts
    90 cmts
  29. 1079
    Introducing Apex – Serverless Architecture with AWS Lambda
    medium.com20168 submissionsHN thread
    244 pts
    41 cmts
    2 people
  30. 1080
    SecureLogin Authentication Protocol 1.0
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    243 pts
    186 cmts
  31. 1081
    Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper
    productivegrowth.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    243 pts
    146 cmts
  32. 1082
    Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier
    drfeifei.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    243 pts
    127 cmts
  33. 1083
    The tyranny of the wagon equation
    maximumeffort.substack.com2022–20241 submissionHN thread
    243 pts
    113 cmts
    4 people
  34. 1084
    Houston, We Have A Public Domain Problem
    medium.com20142 submissionsHN thread
    243 pts
    98 cmts
  35. 1085
    When 70M people visit your joke site
    warzel.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    243 pts
    78 cmts
  36. 1086
    The BYTE magazine covers by Robert Tinney
    lunduke.substack.com2021–20232 submissionsHN thread
    243 pts
    66 cmts
    1 person
  37. 1087
    Making a Small RPG
    jslegenddev.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    243 pts
    38 cmts
  38. 1088
    Are you stuck in movie logic?
    usefulfictions.substack.com20252 submissionsHN thread
    242 pts
    190 cmts
  39. 1089
    Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular
    medium.com2021–20221 submissionHN thread
    242 pts
    162 cmts
    1 person
  40. 1090
    Easy Scalable Text Rendering on the GPU
    medium.com2016–20267 submissionsHN thread
    242 pts
    41 cmts
    6 people
  41. 1091
    The Star Trek Economy
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    241 pts
    232 cmts
  42. 1092
    The secret of Minecraft (2014)
    medium.com2014–20243 submissionsHN thread
    241 pts
    224 cmts
  43. 1093
    Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf?
    theahura.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    241 pts
    223 cmts
  44. 1094
    Towards a bra-free Instagram experience
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    241 pts
    216 cmts
  45. 1095
    The Obvious UI Is Often the Best UI
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    241 pts
    99 cmts
  46. 1096
    60 FPS Animations with CSS3
    medium.com2016–20185 submissionsHN thread
    241 pts
    76 cmts
    2 people
  47. 1097
    Play by Your Own Rules
    medium.com20131 submissionHN thread
    241 pts
    39 cmts
  48. 1098
    'Children of Men' is happening
    edwest.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    240 pts
    384 cmts
  49. 1099
    The Left-NIMBY Canon
    noahpinion.substack.com20212 submissionsHN thread
    240 pts
    298 cmts
    1 person
  50. 1100
    Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'
    animationobsessive.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    240 pts
    228 cmts