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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. 551
    Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    361 pts
    197 cmts
  2. 552
    Something is wrong with children's videos on the internet
    medium.com2017–202612 submissionsHN thread
    361 pts
    118 cmts
    24 people
  3. 553
    Some of the work we did at Danger
    medium.com20143 submissionsHN thread
    361 pts
    79 cmts
  4. 554
    Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions
    assemblingamerica.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    360 pts
    300 cmts
  5. 555
    Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions”
    medium.com20172 submissionsHN thread
    360 pts
    209 cmts
  6. 556
    A friend died nearly 2 years ago. I had no idea
    medium.com20131 submissionHN thread
    360 pts
    194 cmts
  7. 557
    How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent
    adaobi.substack.com2024–20252 submissionsHN thread
    359 pts
    219 cmts
  8. 558
    Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture
    thechipletter.substack.com2024–20263 submissionsHN thread
    358 pts
    187 cmts
  9. 559
    Enough's enough: Contract teaching at a Canadian University
    medium.com20151 submissionHN thread
    358 pts
    177 cmts
  10. 560
    The End of Starsky Robotics
    medium.com2020–20262 submissionsHN thread
    358 pts
    157 cmts
    8 people
  11. 561
    A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z
    nealstephenson.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    358 pts
    135 cmts
  12. 562
    When buying the dip doesn’t work: An analysis of the dot-com crash
    endlessmetrics.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    357 pts
    393 cmts
  13. 563
    The case against social media is stronger than you think
    arachnemag.substack.com20252 submissionsHN thread
    357 pts
    291 cmts
  14. 564
    I’m 35 and I may suddenly have lost the rest of my life
    medium.com2017–20202 submissionsHN thread
    357 pts
    139 cmts
    1 person
  15. 565
    Feynman’s Razor
    defenderofthebasic.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    357 pts
    128 cmts
  16. 566
    Farewell Node.js
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    357 pts
    86 cmts
  17. 567
    Why I Still Use Vim
    medium.com2017–20185 submissionsHN thread
    356 pts
    314 cmts
    2 people
  18. 568
    CrossFit's Dirty Little Secret
    medium.com20131 submissionHN thread
    356 pts
    209 cmts
  19. 569
    Lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup, Dinnr
    medium.com2014–20151 submissionHN thread
    356 pts
    169 cmts
    4 people
  20. 570
    Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019)
    medium.com2024–20252 submissionsHN thread
    356 pts
    87 cmts
  21. 571
    Monorepos: Please don’t
    medium.com2019–20254 submissionsHN thread
    355 pts
    436 cmts
    2 people
  22. 572
    Stripe is building a Ruby typechecker
    medium.com20182 submissionsHN thread
    355 pts
    184 cmts
    1 person
  23. 573
    Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience
    medium.com20141 submissionHN thread
    355 pts
    168 cmts
  24. 574
    Ten minutes a day
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    355 pts
    49 cmts
  25. 575
    Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight
    medium.com2015–20181 submissionHN thread
    353 pts
    392 cmts
    3 people
  26. 576
    The Death of Couchsurfing?
    medium.com20201 submissionHN thread
    353 pts
    304 cmts
  27. 577
    Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency
    medium.com20166 submissionsHN thread
    353 pts
    196 cmts
  28. 578
    Ten Years of Worthless Side Projects
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    353 pts
    143 cmts
  29. 579
    Why are nuclear power construction costs so high?
    constructionphysics.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    352 pts
    496 cmts
    4 people
  30. 580
    Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)
    progressandpoverty.substack.com2022–20241 submissionHN thread
    352 pts
    410 cmts
    1 person
  31. 581
    Illegal host, electric shocks, slugs, leaks and no support – How Airbnb failed
    medium.com20221 submissionHN thread
    352 pts
    409 cmts
  32. 582
    Rust and Go
    medium.com2014–20161 submissionHN thread
    352 pts
    302 cmts
    1 person
  33. 583
    Facebook's PR feels broken
    themargins.substack.com20201 submissionHN thread
    352 pts
    242 cmts
    1 person
  34. 584
    Publish and Perish
    erikhoel.substack.com20212 submissionsHN thread
    352 pts
    163 cmts
  35. 585
    Who cares about diversity?
    fakenous.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    351 pts
    467 cmts
  36. 586
    GitHub blocked me and all my libraries
    medium.com2020–20232 submissionsHN thread
    351 pts
    203 cmts
    2 people
  37. 587
    Let there be more biographies of failures
    commonreader.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    351 pts
    142 cmts
  38. 588
    Plane accidentally flew around the world (2018)
    medium.com2018–20235 submissionsHN thread
    351 pts
    78 cmts
    4 people
  39. 589
    We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix
    pushtoprod.substack.com20242 submissionsHN thread
    350 pts
    165 cmts
  40. 590
    The trillion-dollar lawsuit against Tether
    danco.substack.com20192 submissionsHN thread
    350 pts
    165 cmts
  41. 591
    The Trouble with D3
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    350 pts
    156 cmts
  42. 592
    Boosting Sales with Machine Learning
    medium.com20164 submissionsHN thread
    350 pts
    78 cmts
    1 person
  43. 593
    When Nerds Collide (2014)
    medium.com2014–20217 submissionsHN thread
    349 pts
    343 cmts
    9 people
  44. 594
    Why not hire part-time developers?
    aklos.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    349 pts
    289 cmts
  45. 595
    Graph Algorithms for Data Science
    graphs4sci.substack.com2019–2026235 submissionsHN thread
    349 pts
    38 cmts
    5 people
  46. 596
    Why aren't smart people happier?
    experimentalhistory.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    348 pts
    492 cmts
  47. 597
    Innovation heroes are a sign of a dysfunctional organization
    steveblank.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    348 pts
    166 cmts
  48. 598
    WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
    medium.com2014–20222 submissionsHN thread
    347 pts
    68 cmts
    3 people
  49. 599
    Generation Junk
    walterkirn.substack.com20231 submissionHN thread
    346 pts
    460 cmts
  50. 600
    On Smoking
    annagat.substack.com20212 submissionsHN thread
    346 pts
    383 cmts