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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. 1251
    What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die
    mattparlmer.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    206 pts
    163 cmts
  2. 1252
    Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0
    jenniferdaniel.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    205 pts
    382 cmts
  3. 1253
    I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad
    medium.com20241 submissionHN thread
    205 pts
    302 cmts
  4. 1254
    Why are there no good dinosaur films?
    briannazigler.substack.com20252 submissionsHN thread
    204 pts
    462 cmts
  5. 1255
    USDA ignoring the science on low-carb diets
    unsettledscience.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    204 pts
    281 cmts
  6. 1256
    Why everything looks the same
    medium.com2022–20252 submissionsHN thread
    204 pts
    232 cmts
    2 people
  7. 1257
    Understanding Coinbase
    diff.substack.com20213 submissionsHN thread
    204 pts
    150 cmts
  8. 1258
    When Orcs Were Real
    treeofwoe.substack.com2021–20242 submissionsHN thread
    203 pts
    219 cmts
    2 people
  9. 1259
    Engineer demos how SpaceX is building fracked well gas plant
    esghound.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    203 pts
    193 cmts
  10. 1260
    Hello World on z/OS
    medium.com2018–20193 submissionsHN thread
    203 pts
    121 cmts
    3 people
  11. 1261
    When AI promises speed but delivers debugging hell
    nsavage.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    202 pts
    253 cmts
  12. 1262
    Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    202 pts
    195 cmts
  13. 1263
    Study finds memory decline surge in young people
    onepercentrule.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    202 pts
    194 cmts
  14. 1264
    Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    201 pts
    214 cmts
    1 person
  15. 1265
    Stephen Fry – AI: A Means to an End or a Means to Our End?
    stephenfry.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    201 pts
    174 cmts
    1 person
  16. 1266
    Reasons not to take Lumina's anticavity probiotic
    trevorklee.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    201 pts
    153 cmts
    1 person
  17. 1267
    Putting Devs Before Users: How Frameworks Destroyed Web Performance
    medium.com20201 submissionHN thread
    201 pts
    152 cmts
  18. 1268
    Quitting Amazon 5 months after I started
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    201 pts
    145 cmts
  19. 1269
    I Lost My $50k Twitter Username (2014)
    medium.com2014–20254 submissionsHN thread
    201 pts
    101 cmts
    27 people
  20. 1270
    How can Ethereum systematically scale better?
    medium.com2017–20182 submissionsHN thread
    200 pts
    161 cmts
    2 people
  21. 1271
    On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days
    coldhealing.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    199 pts
    278 cmts
  22. 1272
    Buying an ebike
    ryanj.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    199 pts
    241 cmts
  23. 1273
    Bob Dylan lays down what killed rock n roll (2016)
    medium.com20211 submissionHN thread
    199 pts
    229 cmts
  24. 1274
    The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection
    davidrozado.substack.com20252 submissionsHN thread
    198 pts
    183 cmts
  25. 1275
    Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch
    dissentinbloom.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    198 pts
    178 cmts
  26. 1276
    Apple is building an operating system for health
    divinations.substack.com20201 submissionHN thread
    198 pts
    175 cmts
  27. 1277
    Weaponizing Ads: How Google and Facebook Ads Are Used to Wage Propaganda Wars
    medium.com20251 submissionHN thread
    198 pts
    169 cmts
  28. 1278
    How much do construction costs matter to the price of housing?
    constructionphysics.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    197 pts
    337 cmts
  29. 1279
    Angular 2/4 Is Too Little Too Late
    medium.com2017–20223 submissionsHN thread
    197 pts
    208 cmts
    1 person
  30. 1280
    GraalVM at Facebook
    medium.com20211 submissionHN thread
    197 pts
    164 cmts
  31. 1281
    Bangkok Smoking Kid
    creativesamba.substack.com20201 submissionHN thread
    197 pts
    160 cmts
  32. 1282
    Why does no one ever talk about Sweden anymore?
    ianmsc.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    196 pts
    178 cmts
    2 people
  33. 1283
    An Economy of Overfed Middlemen
    mattstoller.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    196 pts
    154 cmts
  34. 1284
    “Don't fuck up the culture” – A letter to the Airbnb team
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    196 pts
    148 cmts
  35. 1285
    Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods
    americansunlight.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    195 pts
    274 cmts
  36. 1286
    Why was western printing superior to Asian printing?
    erikexamines.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    195 pts
    209 cmts
  37. 1287
    Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail
    the418.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    195 pts
    188 cmts
  38. 1288
    How I’d redesign piano sheet music
    medium.com20152 submissionsHN thread
    195 pts
    159 cmts
  39. 1289
    Dark Horse Discord
    mule.substack.com20202 submissionsHN thread
    195 pts
    156 cmts
  40. 1290
    Why LLMs Can't Write Q/Kdb+: Writing Code Right-to-Left
    medium.com20251 submissionHN thread
    195 pts
    145 cmts
  41. 1291
    Incarcerated and Facebook
    medium.com20201 submissionHN thread
    194 pts
    194 cmts
  42. 1292
    4 in 5 Americans who need insulin have taken on credit card debt to cover cost
    neverleave.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    194 pts
    187 cmts
  43. 1293
    Metabase: Why we picked Clojure
    medium.com2015–20213 submissionsHN thread
    194 pts
    187 cmts
    1 person
  44. 1294
    CA Cities to Lose All Zoning Powers in 2 Days
    darrellowens.substack.com2023–20241 submissionHN thread
    193 pts
    165 cmts
    2 people
  45. 1295
    Defund the Police meets the crime wave
    bariweiss.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    192 pts
    333 cmts
    1 person
  46. 1296
    Why AI Infrastructure Startups Are Insanely Hard to Build
    nextword.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    192 pts
    181 cmts
  47. 1297
    Development speed is not a bottleneck
    pawelbrodzinski.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    192 pts
    149 cmts
  48. 1298
    How Spotify Killed Lo-Fi Hip Hop
    gamechops.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    191 pts
    227 cmts
  49. 1299
    The Way We Hire Is All Wrong
    medium.com20152 submissionsHN thread
    191 pts
    159 cmts
  50. 1300
    Big Tech Coding Interview Framework – Pt 1. Inspect
    fangprep.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    191 pts
    144 cmts