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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. 351
    super mail forward an email that evolves as you forward it 84466596f30d
    medium.com20162 submissionsHN thread
    455 pts
    65 cmts
  2. 352
    The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
    positiveblue.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    454 pts
    489 cmts
  3. 353
    Is everything an MLM
    annehelen.substack.com2019–20222 submissionsHN thread
    454 pts
    393 cmts
  4. 354
    My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
    medium.com2018–20232 submissionsHN thread
    454 pts
    146 cmts
    6 people
  5. 355
    Why Scrum is stressing you out
    rethinkingsoftware.substack.com20243 submissionsHN thread
    453 pts
    454 cmts
    1 person
  6. 356
    Where are the robotic bricklayers?
    constructionphysics.substack.com2021–20221 submissionHN thread
    452 pts
    543 cmts
    3 people
  7. 357
    Photographs of 19th Century Japan
    cosmographia.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    452 pts
    132 cmts
  8. 358
    Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
    paramaggarwal.substack.com20202 submissionsHN thread
    451 pts
    299 cmts
  9. 359
    Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track
    medium.com2019–20201 submissionHN thread
    451 pts
    216 cmts
    1 person
  10. 360
    Designing very large JavaScript applications
    medium.com2018–20205 submissionsHN thread
    450 pts
    162 cmts
  11. 361
    Modern garbage collection
    medium.com201610 submissionsHN thread
    449 pts
    244 cmts
  12. 362
    Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    449 pts
    101 cmts
  13. 363
    The Most Dangerous Censorship
    edwardsnowden.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    448 pts
    509 cmts
    1 person
  14. 364
    Always Be Coding – How to Land an Engineering Job
    medium.com2013–20141 submissionHN thread
    445 pts
    236 cmts
    2 people
  15. 365
    Never Write Your Own Database (2017)
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    445 pts
    154 cmts
  16. 366
    IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
    medium.com2019–202510 submissionsHN thread
    444 pts
    530 cmts
    35 people
  17. 367
    Angular 2 versus React
    medium.com20166 submissionsHN thread
    444 pts
    244 cmts
  18. 368
    No one should have to travel in fear
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    444 pts
    143 cmts
    3 people
  19. 369
    Pixels and voxels, the long answer
    medium.com2016–20254 submissionsHN thread
    444 pts
    104 cmts
  20. 370
    Building my own solar power system
    medium.com20251 submissionHN thread
    443 pts
    344 cmts
  21. 371
    Python at Netflix
    medium.com20192 submissionsHN thread
    443 pts
    237 cmts
  22. 372
    The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas
    medium.com2013–20142 submissionsHN thread
    443 pts
    136 cmts
    2 people
  23. 373
    Facebook M – The Anti-Turing Test
    medium.com2015–20163 submissionsHN thread
    441 pts
    156 cmts
  24. 374
    Berkshire Hathaway of the Internet
    medium.com2017–20216 submissionsHN thread
    441 pts
    113 cmts
    1 person
  25. 375
    Why has college gotten so expensive in the last 30 years? A blank check in 1993
    medium.com20201 submissionHN thread
    440 pts
    562 cmts
  26. 376
    Management things I learned at Imgur
    medium.com2015–20202 submissionsHN thread
    440 pts
    219 cmts
    1 person
  27. 377
    The greatest sales deck I've ever seen (2016)
    medium.com2016–20219 submissionsHN thread
    440 pts
    168 cmts
    5 people
  28. 378
    Cortana is really bad
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    439 pts
    293 cmts
  29. 379
    You need to know what right-half-plane zeros are
    jbconsulting.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    439 pts
    277 cmts
  30. 380
    Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors
    startuppitch.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    439 pts
    188 cmts
    1 person
  31. 381
    Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025
    mbh4h.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    438 pts
    404 cmts
    1 person
  32. 382
    What does the cerebellum do?
    sarahconstantin.substack.com2023–20242 submissionsHN thread
    438 pts
    206 cmts
  33. 383
    Building your own deep learning computer is 10x cheaper than AWS
    medium.com2018–20201 submissionHN thread
    437 pts
    264 cmts
    2 people
  34. 384
    Whatever’s Best For The People, That’s What We Do
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    437 pts
    121 cmts
    1 person
  35. 385
    Habits of highly mathematical people
    medium.com2016–20253 submissionsHN thread
    437 pts
    110 cmts
    2 people
  36. 386
    How I became an artist
    medium.com2015–20181 submissionHN thread
    437 pts
    106 cmts
    1 person
  37. 387
    The man who bought Pine Bluff, Arkansas (2022)
    maxread.substack.com2022–20243 submissionsHN thread
    436 pts
    215 cmts
    4 people
  38. 388
    On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage
    walkingtheworld.substack.com20222 submissionsHN thread
    435 pts
    343 cmts
  39. 389
    Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
    medium.com20192 submissionsHN thread
    434 pts
    85 cmts
  40. 390
    ChatGPT went berserk
    garymarcus.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    432 pts
    468 cmts
  41. 391
    My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement
    technicallychallenged.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    432 pts
    359 cmts
    1 person
  42. 392
    Don't push AI down our throats
    gpt3experiments.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    431 pts
    358 cmts
  43. 393
    Google’s lawyer accidentally made a sensitive document public
    mattstoller.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    430 pts
    161 cmts
  44. 394
    Don't forget Microsoft
    luttig.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    429 pts
    453 cmts
    1 person
  45. 395
    GitHub stars won’t pay your rent
    medium.com20192 submissionsHN thread
    429 pts
    176 cmts
    1 person
  46. 396
    You can't censor away extremism or any other problem
    freddiedeboer.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    428 pts
    789 cmts
  47. 397
    A Software Engineer’s Adventures in Learning Mathematics
    medium.com20152 submissionsHN thread
    428 pts
    222 cmts
    1 person
  48. 398
    Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
    bewildered.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    427 pts
    648 cmts
  49. 399
    On loyalty to your employer (2018)
    medium.com2025–20262 submissionsHN thread
    427 pts
    448 cmts
  50. 400
    Thomas Piketty: “Germany has never repaid.”
    medium.com20151 submissionHN thread
    427 pts
    337 cmts
    3 people