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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. 301
    Reflections on Palantir
    nabeelqu.substack.com2024–20261 submissionHN thread
    482 pts
    581 cmts
    5 people
  2. 302
    My Story as a Homeless Developer
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    482 pts
    300 cmts
  3. 303
    Every map of China is wrong
    medium.com20241 submissionHN thread
    482 pts
    263 cmts
    1 person
  4. 304
    My Time at Snap
    medium.com20191 submissionHN thread
    481 pts
    247 cmts
  5. 305
    Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial
    patriotone.substack.com20212 submissionsHN thread
    480 pts
    352 cmts
    3 people
  6. 306
    Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface
    patternproject.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    479 pts
    308 cmts
    1 person
  7. 307
    Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting
    medium.com2017–20243 submissionsHN thread
    479 pts
    121 cmts
    6 people
  8. 308
    My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone
    medium.com20202 submissionsHN thread
    478 pts
    445 cmts
  9. 309
    Tell me what your company does
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    478 pts
    189 cmts
  10. 310
    The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal
    medium.com20221 submissionHN thread
    477 pts
    780 cmts
  11. 311
    Geniuses of the past were aristocratically tutored
    erikhoel.substack.com2022–20231 submissionHN thread
    477 pts
    477 cmts
    5 people
  12. 312
    Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account
    medium.com20211 submissionHN thread
    477 pts
    299 cmts
  13. 313
    Asking robots to design stained glass windows
    astralcodexten.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    477 pts
    137 cmts
    5 people
  14. 314
    Apple just told the world it has no idea who the Mac is for
    medium.com201610 submissionsHN thread
    475 pts
    355 cmts
  15. 315
    How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016
    medium.com20163 submissionsHN thread
    475 pts
    192 cmts
  16. 316
    Two years spent spamming spammers back
    medium.com20165 submissionsHN thread
    475 pts
    133 cmts
  17. 317
    Million requests per second with Python
    medium.com20177 submissionsHN thread
    474 pts
    175 cmts
  18. 318
    A critique of trends in tech
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    473 pts
    233 cmts
  19. 319
    Make Linux look like Windows 95
    lunduke.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    473 pts
    202 cmts
  20. 320
    I saw a cool truck today
    theap.substack.com20221 submissionHN thread
    472 pts
    254 cmts
  21. 321
    Extracting AI models from mobile apps
    altayakkus.substack.com2024–20252 submissionsHN thread
    472 pts
    236 cmts
    2 people
  22. 322
    What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?
    peabee.substack.com20242 submissionsHN thread
    471 pts
    317 cmts
  23. 323
    OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20
    stevecoast.substack.com20242 submissionsHN thread
    471 pts
    138 cmts
  24. 324
    Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?
    mattstoller.substack.com20211 submissionHN thread
    470 pts
    563 cmts
  25. 325
    Facebook is terrifying
    medium.com20172 submissionsHN thread
    469 pts
    281 cmts
  26. 326
    Inside font-rs, a font renderer written in Rust
    medium.com2016–20234 submissionsHN thread
    469 pts
    117 cmts
    3 people
  27. 327
    Oatly: The New Coke?
    divinations.substack.com20204 submissionsHN thread
    468 pts
    412 cmts
  28. 328
    A one-line change decreased our build times by 99%
    medium.com2020–20244 submissionsHN thread
    467 pts
    244 cmts
  29. 329
    Dear JavaScript
    medium.com201611 submissionsHN thread
    466 pts
    236 cmts
    2 people
  30. 330
    Observations from people-watching
    skincontact.substack.com20252 submissionsHN thread
    466 pts
    229 cmts
  31. 331
    The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority (2016)
    medium.com2017–20269 submissionsHN thread
    465 pts
    309 cmts
    120 people
  32. 332
    Addiction to Outrage (2020)
    medium.com20211 submissionHN thread
    465 pts
    240 cmts
  33. 333
    How Airlines don’t care about privacy: Case Study Emirates.com
    medium.com20181 submissionHN thread
    465 pts
    174 cmts
  34. 334
    All about whiteboard markers
    medium.com2017–20254 submissionsHN thread
    464 pts
    130 cmts
    2 people
  35. 335
    Sir, there's a cat in your mirror dimension
    lcamtuf.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    463 pts
    71 cmts
  36. 336
    Mastodon 2.0
    medium.com20172 submissionsHN thread
    462 pts
    190 cmts
  37. 337
    The coming tsunami of fakery
    grandy.substack.com2022–20231 submissionHN thread
    461 pts
    410 cmts
    1 person
  38. 338
    Grief gets an expiration date, just like us
    bessstillman.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    461 pts
    211 cmts
  39. 339
    Learning not to trust the All-In podcast
    passingtime.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    460 pts
    280 cmts
  40. 340
    You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    460 pts
    172 cmts
    1 person
  41. 341
    Skyrim rendered in text
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    459 pts
    106 cmts
  42. 342
    How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps
    medium.com2016–20196 submissionsHN thread
    459 pts
    60 cmts
    2 people
  43. 343
    NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
    greenwald.substack.com20212 submissionsHN thread
    458 pts
    331 cmts
    7 people
  44. 344
    Maybe you’re not trying
    usefulfictions.substack.com20255 submissionsHN thread
    458 pts
    189 cmts
  45. 345
    Using Ghidra and Python to reverse engineer Ecco the Dolphin
    32bits.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    458 pts
    134 cmts
  46. 346
    Now that the FCC has repealed net neutrality, let’s adopt it in California
    medium.com20171 submissionHN thread
    457 pts
    191 cmts
  47. 347
    How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
    medium.com20201 submissionHN thread
    456 pts
    396 cmts
  48. 348
    Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy
    helentoner.substack.com20251 submissionHN thread
    455 pts
    259 cmts
  49. 349
    How I made Google’s data grid scroll faster with a line of CSS
    medium.com20212 submissionsHN thread
    455 pts
    217 cmts
  50. 350
    Start presentations on the second slide
    tidyfirst.substack.com20241 submissionHN thread
    455 pts
    152 cmts