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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. 1701
    Know Your Amphetamines
    astralcodexten.substack.com2021–20233 submissionsHN thread
    48 pts
    1 cmts
    15 people
  2. 1702
    Crafting link underlines on Medium
    medium.com2014–20162 submissionsHN thread
    47 pts
    21 cmts
    4 people
  3. 1703
    Ten years of trying to meditate
    ammarmian.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    46 pts
    144 cmts
  4. 1704
    The Enigma of Peter Thiel
    johnganz.substack.com2022–20233 submissionsHN thread
    46 pts
    45 cmts
    3 people
  5. 1705
    A note on our lawsuit against Otto and Uber
    medium.com2017–202018 submissionsHN thread
    46 pts
    3 cmts
    7 people
  6. 1706
    2015 in review
    medium.com20167 submissionsHN thread
    45 pts
    1 cmts
    3 people
  7. 1707
    NPR Trashes Free Speech. A Brief Response
    taibbi.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    44 pts
    8 cmts
    4 people
  8. 1708
    Axolotl and Proteus
    medium.com2016–20219 submissionsHN thread
    43 pts
    7 cmts
    9 people
  9. 1709
    Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need?
    medium.com20251 submissionHN thread
    42 pts
    156 cmts
  10. 1710
    I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language
    maximumeffort.substack.com2022–20262 submissionsHN thread
    42 pts
    15 cmts
    7 people
  11. 1711
    Announcing Tokio a Finagle inspired network application framework for Rust
    medium.com20165 submissionsHN thread
    42 pts
    1 cmts
    3 people
  12. 1712
    Remove Richard Stallman: Appendix A
    medium.com20192 submissionsHN thread
    41 pts
    40 cmts
    16 people
  13. 1713
    On Joi and MIT
    medium.com2019–20201 submissionHN thread
    41 pts
    28 cmts
    4 people
  14. 1714
    The Truth About Rod Vagg
    medium.com2017–20211 submissionHN thread
    41 pts
    11 cmts
    5 people
  15. 1715
    If we prefer trad architecture by a large margin, why did we stop making it?
    astralcodexten.substack.com2021–20238 submissionsHN thread
    40 pts
    10 cmts
    11 people
  16. 1716
    The Media Lied Repeatedly About Brian Sicknick Death and They Just Got Caught
    greenwald.substack.com20214 submissionsHN thread
    40 pts
    3 cmts
    5 people
  17. 1717
    POLA Would Have Prevented the Event-Stream Incident
    medium.com2018–20252 submissionsHN thread
    39 pts
    10 cmts
    5 people
  18. 1718
    Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, and the Quest to Kill EBay
    medium.com2018–20217 submissionsHN thread
    39 pts
    4 cmts
    5 people
  19. 1719
    Himeji: A scalable centralized system for authorization at Airbnb
    medium.com2021–20222 submissionsHN thread
    38 pts
    16 cmts
    4 people
  20. 1720
    The Evolution of a Software Engineer
    medium.com2014–202611 submissionsHN thread
    38 pts
    5 cmts
    5 people
  21. 1721
    The whole thing was a scam
    garymarcus.substack.com20261 submissionHN thread
    38 pts
    3 cmts
    5 people
  22. 1722
    Goodbye for now
    medium.com2017–20242 submissionsHN thread
    38 pts
    3 cmts
    3 people
  23. 1723
    The Psychopharmacology of the FTX Crash
    astralcodexten.substack.com2022–20232 submissionsHN thread
    37 pts
    35 cmts
    4 people
  24. 1724
    Tesla’s Driver Fatality Rate is more than Triple that of Luxury Cars
    medium.com2018–20231 submissionHN thread
    37 pts
    31 cmts
    17 people
  25. 1725
    The Surprisingly Solid Mathematical Case of the Tin Foil Hat Gun Prepper
    medium.com2018–20212 submissionsHN thread
    37 pts
    20 cmts
    4 people
  26. 1726
    Making Dart a Better Language for UI
    medium.com2019–20223 submissionsHN thread
    37 pts
    7 cmts
    4 people
  27. 1727
    Book Review: The Future of Fusion Energy
    astralcodexten.substack.com2022–20239 submissionsHN thread
    37 pts
    5 cmts
    5 people
  28. 1728
    Longer elected terms would lead to better government?
    demodexio.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    36 pts
    156 cmts
    1 person
  29. 1729
    Put your Electron app on a diet with Electrino
    medium.com2017–20202 submissionsHN thread
    36 pts
    12 cmts
    4 people
  30. 1730
    A Song of Shapes and Words
    roonscape.substack.com2022–20233 submissionsHN thread
    36 pts
    5 cmts
    5 people
  31. 1731
    Covid/Vitamin D: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
    astralcodexten.substack.com2021–20222 submissionsHN thread
    36 pts
    3 cmts
    5 people
  32. 1732
    Generosity Is Potency
    wastebook.substack.com2018–202631 submissionsHN thread
    35 pts
    3 cmts
    4 people
  33. 1733
    The Tragedy of Mozilla
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    35 pts
    3 cmts
    5 people
  34. 1734
    Book Review: Progress and Poverty
    astralcodexten.substack.com2021–20234 submissionsHN thread
    35 pts
    1 cmts
    24 people
  35. 1735
    What Is Dark?
    medium.com2019–20201 submissionHN thread
    34 pts
    24 cmts
    5 people
  36. 1736
    The Methods of Moral Panic Journalism
    michaelhobbes.substack.com2021–20221 submissionHN thread
    34 pts
    22 cmts
    3 people
  37. 1737
    The Shocking Secret About Static Types
    medium.com2016–202410 submissionsHN thread
    34 pts
    10 cmts
    6 people
  38. 1738
    It's Kind of Cheesy Being Green
    medium.com2015–20191 submissionHN thread
    34 pts
    6 cmts
    5 people
  39. 1739
    Commandeering Facebook
    greenwald.substack.com2021–20221 submissionHN thread
    34 pts
    6 cmts
    9 people
  40. 1740
    React with C++: Building the Quip Mac and Windows Apps
    medium.com2015–20192 submissionsHN thread
    34 pts
    3 cmts
    4 people
  41. 1741
    Go Experience Report: Generics in Kubernetes
    medium.com2017–20235 submissionsHN thread
    33 pts
    8 cmts
    9 people
  42. 1742
    Peg Parsing Series Overview (2019)
    medium.com2019–20255 submissionsHN thread
    33 pts
    6 cmts
    4 people
  43. 1743
    UK Now Reports Myocarditis Stratified by Age and Sex After Vaccine or SARS-CoV-2
    vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com2021–20222 submissionsHN thread
    33 pts
    4 cmts
    10 people
  44. 1744
    GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question
    aisnakeoil.substack.com20235 submissionsHN thread
    33 pts
    2 cmts
    4 people
  45. 1745
    Demasking the Torture of Julian Assange
    medium.com2019–20241 submissionHN thread
    33 pts
    0 cmts
    8 people
  46. 1746
    Prospectus On Próspera
    astralcodexten.substack.com2021–20221 submissionHN thread
    32 pts
    7 cmts
    6 people
  47. 1747
    Adumbrations of Aducanumab
    astralcodexten.substack.com2021–20234 submissionsHN thread
    32 pts
    1 cmts
    7 people
  48. 1748
    On the future of Metafilter
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    32 pts
    0 cmts
    5 people
  49. 1749
    Brex is moving away from Elixir to Kotlin
    medium.com2021–20233 submissionsHN thread
    31 pts
    11 cmts
    5 people
  50. 1750
    The truth has got its boots on: what the evidence says about Mr. Damore’s memo
    medium.com2017–20253 submissionsHN thread
    31 pts
    4 cmts
    4 people