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

Blog posts and Substacks that got recommended

PointsCommentsRecommendersNewest
  1. 1101
    Old Code Gets Younger Every Year
    medium.com20201 submissionHN thread
    240 pts
    188 cmts
  2. 1102
    Congress Needs to Stop Day Trading, Says Sen. Mark Warner
    bigtechnology.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    240 pts
    162 cmts
  3. 1103
    The Early Days of Valve from a Woman Inside
    medium.com20241 submissionHN thread
    240 pts
    51 cmts
  4. 1104
    Steve Jobs Danced To My Song
    medium.com20131 submissionHN thread
    240 pts
    29 cmts
  5. 1105
    Keeping Secrets
    medium.com2014–20151 submissionHN thread
    240 pts
    27 cmts
    1 person
  6. 1106
    How the U.S. and Its Allies Got Stuck with the World’s Worst New Warplane
    medium.com2013–20141 submissionHN thread
    239 pts
    341 cmts
    2 people
  7. 1107
    I Have Read Prop F
    medium.com20152 submissionsHN thread
    239 pts
    170 cmts
    1 person
  8. 1108
    Biggest drop in Facebook organic reach we have seen
    medium.com20174 submissionsHN thread
    239 pts
    132 cmts
  9. 1109
    What to build instead of AI agents
    decodingml.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    239 pts
    119 cmts
  10. 1110
    Designer Duds
    medium.com20142 submissionsHN thread
    239 pts
    95 cmts
    1 person
  11. 1111
    I reversed a Node.js malware and found the author
    medium.com20221 submissionHN thread
    239 pts
    71 cmts
  12. 1112
    TensorFlow Graphics: Computer Graphics Meets Deep Learning
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    239 pts
    25 cmts
  13. 1113
    Why I love databases
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    238 pts
    168 cmts
  14. 1114
    Hacking the Hedonic Treadmill
    experimentalhistory.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    238 pts
    143 cmts
  15. 1115
    NATO Classified Cloud Platform Compromised
    ddosecrets.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    238 pts
    116 cmts
  16. 1116
    Weekend projects: getting silly with C
    lcamtuf.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    238 pts
    113 cmts
  17. 1117
    Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?
    medium.com20161 submissionHN thread
    238 pts
    86 cmts
  18. 1118
    China is eating the world
    apropos.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    237 pts
    531 cmts
  19. 1119
    Former Labor Secretary Found What Work Is Like Now
    jasonstanford.substack.com2022–20232 submissionsHN thread
    237 pts
    439 cmts
  20. 1120
    Our phones are killing our ability to feel sexy (2024)
    catherineshannon.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    237 pts
    233 cmts
  21. 1121
    It's hard to build an oscillator
    lcamtuf.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    237 pts
    88 cmts
  22. 1122
    Vue in 2016
    medium.com2016–20172 submissionsHN thread
    237 pts
    77 cmts
    2 people
  23. 1123
    The Further Text Adventures of Scott Adams
    madned.substack.com2021–20261 submissionHN thread
    236 pts
    181 cmts
    1 person
  24. 1124
    An open letter on E.O. Wilson's legacy
    razib.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    236 pts
    155 cmts
    2 people
  25. 1125
    Why We Are Self-Publishing the Aviary Cookbook
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    236 pts
    76 cmts
  26. 1126
    Holy Shit, I Interviewed the President
    medium.com20153 submissionsHN thread
    236 pts
    76 cmts
  27. 1127
    Founding Stories Are Myths
    medium.com20183 submissionsHN thread
    236 pts
    65 cmts
  28. 1128
    How to take 7 years to ship a beta
    medium.com20182 submissionsHN thread
    236 pts
    56 cmts
  29. 1129
    The Hidden Cost of Touchscreens
    medium.com20183 submissionsHN thread
    235 pts
    163 cmts
  30. 1130
    Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores
    christinapagel.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    235 pts
    160 cmts
  31. 1131
    Work Hard, Live Well
    medium.com20151 submissionHN thread
    235 pts
    160 cmts
  32. 1132
    Look ma, no mouse: Vimium
    codefaster.substack.com20201 submissionHN thread
    235 pts
    106 cmts
  33. 1133
    Viral “racism in academia” story deleted when I started asking questions
    tracingwoodgrains.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    235 pts
    104 cmts
    1 person
  34. 1134
    How should net metering affect your electric bill?
    climateer.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    234 pts
    327 cmts
  35. 1135
    A Slow-Motion Trainwreck Facing the Meal-Kit Industry
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    234 pts
    315 cmts
    2 people
  36. 1136
    Monorepo: please do
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    234 pts
    161 cmts
  37. 1137
    Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics
    collegetowns.substack.com20252 submissionsHN thread
    234 pts
    151 cmts
  38. 1138
    Pop culture has become an oligopoly
    experimentalhistory.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    234 pts
    146 cmts
    2 people
  39. 1139
    I’m a black man – What happened when I booked an Airbnb
    medium.com20161 submissionHN thread
    233 pts
    262 cmts
  40. 1140
    A theory of Zoom fatigue
    theconvivialsociety.substack.com2020–20232 submissionsHN thread
    233 pts
    205 cmts
    1 person
  41. 1141
    Ignore the haters, and other lessons learned from creating JSON5
    aseemk.substack.com2022–20231 submissionHN thread
    233 pts
    200 cmts
    2 people
  42. 1142
    I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020)
    medium.com20211 submissionHN thread
    233 pts
    151 cmts
  43. 1143
    Software design gets worse before it gets better
    tidyfirst.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    233 pts
    140 cmts
  44. 1144
    Let’s kill no-reply
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    233 pts
    105 cmts
  45. 1145
    What I Learned Building Twitter Bootstrap
    medium.com20121 submissionHN thread
    233 pts
    69 cmts
    1 person
  46. 1146
    Target=”_blank” is an underestimated vulnerability
    medium.com20168 submissionsHN thread
    233 pts
    54 cmts
    1 person
  47. 1147
    Moment().endOf(‘term’)
    medium.com2016–20186 submissionsHN thread
    233 pts
    52 cmts
  48. 1148
    Why is everyone a bank?
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    232 pts
    250 cmts
  49. 1149
    Why Telegram is insecure (2015)
    medium.com2015–20192 submissionsHN thread
    232 pts
    246 cmts
    5 people
  50. 1150
    My experience rewriting Enjarify in Rust
    medium.com20162 submissionsHN thread
    232 pts
    121 cmts