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168k objects in the archive · 2,631 ranked picks

Blog posts and Substacks that got recommended

PointsCommentsRecommendersNewest
  1. 851
    How a TV Sitcom Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization
    medium.com2016–202022 submissionsHN thread
    283 pts
    109 cmts
  2. 852
    An introduction to IPFS
    medium.com2016–20182 submissionsHN thread
    283 pts
    60 cmts
    1 person
  3. 853
    You Don’t Need a Master Plan, You Just Need to Start
    medium.com20164 submissionsHN thread
    283 pts
    38 cmts
  4. 854
    Hire people who give a shit
    alexw.substack.com2020–20254 submissionsHN thread
    282 pts
    405 cmts
  5. 855
    Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech
    lcamtuf.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    282 pts
    130 cmts
  6. 856
    Building a Developer Cult
    subvert.substack.com20201 submissionHN thread
    282 pts
    126 cmts
  7. 857
    How Trustpilot Extorts Businesses
    medium.com20222 submissionsHN thread
    282 pts
    73 cmts
  8. 858
    A Zero-Math Introduction to Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    282 pts
    50 cmts
  9. 859
    Oxford University Press’s new logo is unfathomably bad
    joukovsky.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    281 pts
    329 cmts
  10. 860
    AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder
    resobscura.substack.com20252 submissionsHN thread
    281 pts
    312 cmts
  11. 861
    React/JavaScript fatigue
    medium.com2015–20177 submissionsHN thread
    281 pts
    224 cmts
    5 people
  12. 862
    A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the BSD + Patents license
    medium.com20173 submissionsHN thread
    281 pts
    197 cmts
    2 people
  13. 863
    The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class
    danco.substack.com2021–20253 submissionsHN thread
    281 pts
    161 cmts
    1 person
  14. 864
    Why wood has gotten so dang expensive
    constructionphysics.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    281 pts
    143 cmts
    2 people
  15. 865
    Postgres is eating the database world
    medium.com20241 submissionHN thread
    281 pts
    142 cmts
    1 person
  16. 866
    StumbleUpon closing after 16 years, accounts can be migrated to Mix
    medium.com20183 submissionsHN thread
    281 pts
    129 cmts
  17. 867
    What I Learned From Making Hot Sauce at Scale in China
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    281 pts
    98 cmts
  18. 868
    1977: Zork
    if50.substack.com2021–20252 submissionsHN thread
    281 pts
    91 cmts
  19. 869
    Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll
    scrollprize.substack.com20242 submissionsHN thread
    281 pts
    27 cmts
  20. 870
    The AWS and MongoDB Infrastructure of Parse
    medium.com20175 submissionsHN thread
    280 pts
    93 cmts
  21. 871
    I Let IBM’s Watson Tell Me What to Cook for a Week
    medium.com20151 submissionHN thread
    280 pts
    58 cmts
  22. 872
    Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (2015)
    medium.com2015–20264 submissionsHN thread
    279 pts
    174 cmts
    5 people
  23. 873
    Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
    annehelen.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    279 pts
    131 cmts
  24. 874
    Google Play Store Now Open for Progressive Web Apps
    medium.com2019–20203 submissionsHN thread
    279 pts
    79 cmts
    1 person
  25. 875
    Ten years in, nobody has come up with a use for blockchain
    medium.com2017–20252 submissionsHN thread
    278 pts
    215 cmts
    2 people
  26. 876
    How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?
    excamera.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    278 pts
    138 cmts
    1 person
  27. 877
    It’s Okay to “Forget” What You Read
    medium.com2017–20183 submissionsHN thread
    278 pts
    58 cmts
    2 people
  28. 878
    Learning The Elite Class
    aella.substack.com20222 submissionsHN thread
    277 pts
    298 cmts
  29. 879
    Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
    mleverything.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    277 pts
    290 cmts
  30. 880
    Oh shit, my app is successful and I didn't think about accessibility
    jacobbartlett.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    277 pts
    289 cmts
  31. 881
    What Happened at the Satoshi Roundtable
    medium.com20165 submissionsHN thread
    277 pts
    204 cmts
    3 people
  32. 882
    XZ Backdoor: Times, damned times, and scams
    rheaeve.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    277 pts
    170 cmts
    8 people
  33. 883
    The Burnout Society
    apposition.substack.com2021–20221 submissionHN thread
    277 pts
    167 cmts
    1 person
  34. 884
    Why I’m dropping Rust
    medium.com20162 submissionsHN thread
    277 pts
    158 cmts
  35. 885
    What I learned in two years of moving government forms online (2018)
    medium.com2018–20214 submissionsHN thread
    277 pts
    133 cmts
  36. 886
    It's Never Too Late to Be Successful and Happy
    invincible.substack.com20191 submissionHN thread
    277 pts
    111 cmts
  37. 887
    Don’t Get Trampled: The Puzzle for “Unicorn” Employees
    medium.com2017–20188 submissionsHN thread
    277 pts
    98 cmts
    2 people
  38. 888
    If all the world were a monorepo
    jtibs.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    277 pts
    75 cmts
    1 person
  39. 889
    The biggest crypto lending company is a ponzi scheme
    rorodi.substack.com2021–20222 submissionsHN thread
    276 pts
    399 cmts
    1 person
  40. 890
    Beginner’s guide to mechanical keyboards
    coolgadget.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    275 pts
    434 cmts
  41. 891
    How to get rid of gerrymandering: the math is surprising
    demodexio.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    275 pts
    403 cmts
  42. 892
    Why do all websites look the same?
    medium.com20183 submissionsHN thread
    275 pts
    224 cmts
  43. 893
    Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting
    maalvika.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    275 pts
    196 cmts
    1 person
  44. 894
    All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
    isburmistrov.substack.com2024–20263 submissionsHN thread
    275 pts
    177 cmts
  45. 895
    What travel insurance really means
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    274 pts
    176 cmts
    1 person
  46. 896
    Ten Commandments of Sushi
    medium.com20151 submissionHN thread
    274 pts
    114 cmts
  47. 897
    How the Soviets put a lander on Venus
    asianometry.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    274 pts
    83 cmts
  48. 898
    To Know If the Election Was Hacked, Look at the Ballots
    medium.com201618 submissionsHN thread
    273 pts
    200 cmts
    5 people
  49. 899
    Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers
    medium.com2019–20223 submissionsHN thread
    273 pts
    197 cmts
    9 people
  50. 900
    The Bullshit
    walterkirn.substack.com2021–20233 submissionsHN thread
    273 pts
    195 cmts