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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. 1751
    The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight
    medium.com2019–20254 submissionsHN thread
    31 pts
    4 cmts
    3 people
  2. 1752
    Dracula Daily – Bram Stoker’s Dracula delivered in real-time
    draculadaily.substack.com2019–202619 submissionsHN thread
    31 pts
    2 cmts
    22 people
  3. 1753
    Emails with Intercept Editors Showing Censorship of My Joe Biden Article
    greenwald.substack.com2020–20213 submissionsHN thread
    31 pts
    1 cmts
    19 people
  4. 1754
    Lockdown Effectiveness: much more than you wanted to know
    astralcodexten.substack.com2021–20226 submissionsHN thread
    31 pts
    1 cmts
    14 people
  5. 1755
    Why Everything Is Suddenly Getting More Expensive – and Why It Won’t Stop
    medium.com2017–202210 submissionsHN thread
    30 pts
    5 cmts
    4 people
  6. 1756
    PubGrub: Next-Generation Version Solving
    medium.com2018–20203 submissionsHN thread
    30 pts
    4 cmts
    3 people
  7. 1757
    Book Review: How Asia Works
    astralcodexten.substack.com2021–20231 submissionHN thread
    30 pts
    1 cmts
    4 people
  8. 1758
    Why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT (2014)
    medium.com2015–20194 submissionsHN thread
    29 pts
    8 cmts
    4 people
  9. 1759
    The analysis Filecoin doesn’t want you to read
    medium.com20174 submissionsHN thread
    29 pts
    6 cmts
    5 people
  10. 1760
    How Dread Pirate Roberts got caught
    medium.com20131 submissionHN thread
    28 pts
    8 cmts
    3 people
  11. 1761
    Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do
    thewhyaxis.substack.com2023–20251 submissionHN thread
    28 pts
    3 cmts
    5 people
  12. 1762
    How Hacker News ranking algorithm works
    medium.com2016–20265 submissionsHN thread
    28 pts
    2 cmts
    20 people
  13. 1763
    The Facts Are True, the News Is Fake
    medium.com2017–20255 submissionsHN thread
    28 pts
    1 cmts
    5 people
  14. 1764
    Preserving Flash with WebAssembly the right way: without re-implementing it
    medium.com2019–20201 submissionHN thread
    28 pts
    1 cmts
    3 people
  15. 1765
    Pomplamoose 2014 Tour Profits
    medium.com2014–20213 submissionsHN thread
    28 pts
    0 cmts
    5 people
  16. 1766
    Behdad Esfahbod: If you read one thing from me, please be this
    medium.com20205 submissionsHN thread
    27 pts
    3 cmts
    5 people
  17. 1767
    Medium’s CSS is actually pretty fucking good
    medium.com2014–20153 submissionsHN thread
    27 pts
    2 cmts
    3 people
  18. 1768
    Why Is Booz Allen Renting Us Back Our Own National Parks?
    mattstoller.substack.com2022–20233 submissionsHN thread
    26 pts
    2 cmts
    4 people
  19. 1769
    How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds – From Google’s Design Ethicist
    medium.com2016–201713 submissionsHN thread
    26 pts
    0 cmts
    4 people
  20. 1770
    You Might Not Need Redux
    medium.com2016–20216 submissionsHN thread
    25 pts
    1 cmts
    30 people
  21. 1771
    Thirty Years After Manufacturing Consent, How Mass Media Keeps Thought Inbounds
    taibbi.substack.com2018–20191 submissionHN thread
    25 pts
    1 cmts
    6 people
  22. 1772
    The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot
    greenwald.substack.com2021–20221 submissionHN thread
    24 pts
    3 cmts
    7 people
  23. 1773
    Sleep Is the Mate of Death
    astralcodexten.substack.com2021–20221 submissionHN thread
    24 pts
    2 cmts
    7 people
  24. 1774
    A bug in Android and Microsoft Teams could have caused a 911 call to fail
    medium.com2021–20261 submissionHN thread
    23 pts
    5 cmts
    5 people
  25. 1775
    The pro-Israel information war
    jackpoulson.substack.com2023–20251 submissionHN thread
    23 pts
    4 cmts
    4 people
  26. 1776
    Lint Like It's 2015
    medium.com2015–20172 submissionsHN thread
    23 pts
    0 cmts
    4 people
  27. 1777
    Announcing Dart 2: Optimized for Client-Side Development
    medium.com20187 submissionsHN thread
    22 pts
    5 cmts
    3 people
  28. 1778
    Why Atom Can't Replace Vim
    medium.com2014–20205 submissionsHN thread
    22 pts
    4 cmts
    5 people
  29. 1779
    Jeff’s Letter to the Angular Team and Community
    medium.com2020–20212 submissionsHN thread
    22 pts
    1 cmts
    4 people
  30. 1780
    The Food Delivery Death Star
    medium.com2016–20192 submissionsHN thread
    22 pts
    0 cmts
    3 people
  31. 1781
    Something Rotten at the Heart of Reddit
    grahamlinehan.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    22 pts
    0 cmts
    4 people
  32. 1782
    NextDNS first to block ALL third-party trackers disguised as first-party
    medium.com2019–20241 submissionHN thread
    21 pts
    4 cmts
    4 people
  33. 1783
    Beyond Interactive: Notebook Innovation at Netflix
    medium.com2018–201910 submissionsHN thread
    21 pts
    1 cmts
    6 people
  34. 1784
    How a Failed Kickstarter Campaign Told the World Half the Story
    medium.com20172 submissionsHN thread
    20 pts
    4 cmts
    5 people
  35. 1785
    How to Legally Own Another Person
    medium.com2017–20238 submissionsHN thread
    20 pts
    2 cmts
    14 people
  36. 1786
    A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
    andymasley.substack.com2025–20265 submissionsHN thread
    20 pts
    2 cmts
    11 people
  37. 1787
    I Have More Work to Do
    medium.com2017–20214 submissionsHN thread
    20 pts
    1 cmts
    6 people
  38. 1788
    Der Spiegel journalist messed with the wrong small town
    medium.com2018–20215 submissionsHN thread
    20 pts
    1 cmts
    9 people
  39. 1789
    Ask vs. Guess Culture
    jeanhsu.substack.com2023–20264 submissionsHN thread
    20 pts
    0 cmts
    3 people
  40. 1790
    Tolerance is not a moral precept (2017)
    medium.com2023–20253 submissionsHN thread
    19 pts
    7 cmts
    5 people
  41. 1791
    The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the Apocalypse
    medium.com2023–20255 submissionsHN thread
    19 pts
    5 cmts
    6 people
  42. 1792
    Is a consistent writing habit gonna improve my life?
    amineaouragh.substack.com2018–202613 submissionsHN thread
    19 pts
    4 cmts
    5 people
  43. 1793
    Towards a Unified Theory of Operational Transformation and CRDT
    medium.com2016–20185 submissionsHN thread
    19 pts
    1 cmts
    5 people
  44. 1794
    WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
    astralcodexten.substack.com2021–20234 submissionsHN thread
    19 pts
    1 cmts
    15 people
  45. 1795
    Too Good to Check: A Play in Three Acts
    astralcodexten.substack.com20213 submissionsHN thread
    19 pts
    1 cmts
    7 people
  46. 1796
    Strong Opinions, Weakly Held – A Framework for Thinking
    medium.com2019–20233 submissionsHN thread
    19 pts
    0 cmts
    4 people
  47. 1797
    The Forgotten History of OOP
    medium.com2018–20217 submissionsHN thread
    19 pts
    0 cmts
    4 people
  48. 1798
    The Masks Masquerade – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    medium.com2020–20248 submissionsHN thread
    19 pts
    0 cmts
    6 people
  49. 1799
    Abraham Wald and the Missing Bullet Holes
    medium.com2016–20235 submissionsHN thread
    18 pts
    2 cmts
    13 people
  50. 1800
    My childhood friendship with Nikolai Durov, and Pavel Durov suing me (2017)
    medium.com2017–20235 submissionsHN thread
    18 pts
    0 cmts
    7 people