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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. 1
    No Thank You, Mr. Pecker
    medium.com2019–20262 submissionsHN thread
    2,451 pts
    730 cmts
    11 people
  2. 2
    I am an Uber survivor
    medium.com2017–20208 submissionsHN thread
    2,194 pts
    769 cmts
    8 people
  3. 3
    Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    2,101 pts
    353 cmts
    1 person
  4. 4
    Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    1,937 pts
    456 cmts
    2 people
  5. 5
    We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly
    medium.com2018–20211 submissionHN thread
    1,652 pts
    840 cmts
    6 people
  6. 6
    Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
    supernuclear.substack.com2025–20261 submissionHN thread
    1,652 pts
    498 cmts
    3 people
  7. 7
    How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
    medium.com201610 submissionsHN thread
    1,626 pts
    427 cmts
    3 people
  8. 8
    I've Just Liberated My Modules
    medium.com2016–201718 submissionsHN thread
    1,618 pts
    797 cmts
    10 people
  9. 9
    Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
    timculpan.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    1,612 pts
    826 cmts
  10. 10
    I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)
    haterade.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    1,579 pts
    454 cmts
    1 person
  11. 11
    Welcome, ACLU
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    1,558 pts
    1,030 cmts
  12. 12
    An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
    theaiunderwriter.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    1,503 pts
    898 cmts
    4 people
  13. 13
    Amazon's customer service backdoor
    medium.com2016–202512 submissionsHN thread
    1,465 pts
    356 cmts
    5 people
  14. 14
    A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work
    madned.substack.com2021–20232 submissionsHN thread
    1,465 pts
    254 cmts
    1 person
  15. 15
    My Resignation from the Intercept
    greenwald.substack.com2020–20221 submissionHN thread
    1,441 pts
    1,603 cmts
    14 people
  16. 16
    Google just deleted my nearly 10-year-old free and open-source Android app
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    1,400 pts
    581 cmts
  17. 17
    Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage
    themargins.substack.com2020–20211 submissionHN thread
    1,393 pts
    514 cmts
    11 people
  18. 18
    Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup
    medium.com2016–20175 submissionsHN thread
    1,316 pts
    559 cmts
  19. 19
    Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
    medium.com2016–202214 submissionsHN thread
    1,302 pts
    226 cmts
    16 people
  20. 20
    IDEs we had 30 years ago
    blogsystem5.substack.com2023–20252 submissionsHN thread
    1,300 pts
    1,195 cmts
  21. 21
    Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
    bitbytebit.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    1,291 pts
    723 cmts
  22. 22
    US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data
    medium.com2017–20232 submissionsHN thread
    1,279 pts
    301 cmts
    5 people
  23. 23
    Why you should never use Upwork
    medium.com2016–20187 submissionsHN thread
    1,253 pts
    267 cmts
    2 people
  24. 24
    How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    1,249 pts
    788 cmts
    3 people
  25. 25
    Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit
    madned.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    1,245 pts
    656 cmts
  26. 26
    All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    1,230 pts
    266 cmts
  27. 27
    Hi, It’s Google Corporate Development
    medium.com20151 submissionHN thread
    1,227 pts
    278 cmts
  28. 28
    Everyone knows all the apps on your phone
    peabee.substack.com2025–20264 submissionsHN thread
    1,214 pts
    483 cmts
    6 people
  29. 29
    Solarpunk is happening in Africa
    climatedrift.substack.com2025–20262 submissionsHN thread
    1,203 pts
    591 cmts
    2 people
  30. 30
    The 'Toy Story' You Remember
    animationobsessive.substack.com20252 submissionsHN thread
    1,198 pts
    338 cmts
    2 people
  31. 31
    Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies
    medium.com2021–20253 submissionsHN thread
    1,160 pts
    408 cmts
    16 people
  32. 32
    WeWork and Counterfeit Capitalism
    mattstoller.substack.com2019–20221 submissionHN thread
    1,158 pts
    414 cmts
    5 people
  33. 33
    “Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti
    howardchen.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    1,143 pts
    329 cmts
  34. 34
    Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
    medium.com2015–20164 submissionsHN thread
    1,137 pts
    344 cmts
    2 people
  35. 35
    Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly
    medium.com20201 submissionHN thread
    1,100 pts
    523 cmts
  36. 36
    My startup failed, and this is what it feels like
    medium.com2014–20152 submissionsHN thread
    1,088 pts
    252 cmts
    2 people
  37. 37
    How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
    greenwald.substack.com2021–20222 submissionsHN thread
    1,067 pts
    1,795 cmts
    8 people
  38. 38
    That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus
    cybersect.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    1,058 pts
    622 cmts
    3 people
  39. 39
    Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’
    mattstoller.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    1,057 pts
    440 cmts
  40. 40
    Cloudflare took down our website
    robindev.substack.com2024–20261 submissionHN thread
    1,044 pts
    466 cmts
    11 people
  41. 41
    How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    1,043 pts
    386 cmts
    4 people
  42. 42
    I will not do a tech interview
    medium.com20131 submissionHN thread
    1,032 pts
    542 cmts
    2 people
  43. 43
    Things I wished more developers knew about databases
    medium.com20202 submissionsHN thread
    1,024 pts
    445 cmts
  44. 44
    The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment
    medium.com201635 submissionsHN thread
    1,015 pts
    408 cmts
    11 people
  45. 45
    Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
    matthewtejo.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    1,003 pts
    1,341 cmts
    1 person
  46. 46
    Heuristics that almost always work
    astralcodexten.substack.com2022–20231 submissionHN thread
    1,000 pts
    520 cmts
    14 people
  47. 47
    Arm China Has Gone Rogue
    semianalysis.substack.com2021–20221 submissionHN thread
    995 pts
    639 cmts
    2 people
  48. 48
    Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate
    medium.com2018–20213 submissionsHN thread
    991 pts
    390 cmts
  49. 49
    Using SVG as image placeholders
    medium.com2017–20182 submissionsHN thread
    986 pts
    135 cmts
    1 person
  50. 50
    Career advice for people with bad luck
    chiefofstuff.substack.com20201 submissionHN thread
    981 pts
    491 cmts