521

Apps Getting Worse

494

One Bad Apple

452

American parents are sending their kids to 'Russian math' (2017)

270

Once an Addict, Always an Addict?

230

I'm reading the FT and WSJ from 100 years ago each week leading to 1929

221

Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science

198

Big Tech are supposed to be the plumbers, not patricians of internet discourse

194

I closed a lot of browser tabs

157

Longitudinal analysis shows durable immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection

142

Glenfiddich will use its own whisky waste to fuel its trucks

133

Stupidity is a specific cognitive failing

124

Does Oil Come from Dinosaurs?

124

The Principles of Newspeak (1949)

121

The first two hours of MTV (1981) [video]

114

Official Elasticsearch Python library no longer works with open-source forks

103

Flawed data led to a connection between time spent on devices and mental health

102

Screw You, Microsoft Edge

102

Does this medieval fresco show a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Garden of Eden?

102

Google “contemplated buying some or all of Epic” to stop “contagion”

89

Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free

89

The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo

89

Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores

82

About 90% of Animators Quit Their Jobs Within 3 Years

69

Embarrassed by your Olympic javelin: did cavemen do it better?

66

Wealth Shown to Scale

64

Fairer Chess: A Reversal of Two Opening Moves in Chess Creates Balance

64

Summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather

61

Amazon third-party sellers reportedly hound customers who leave bad reviews

58

Why WebAssembly is innovative even outside the browser

57

Evolution of Search Engines Architecture – Algolia Search Architecture Part 1

56

Launch HN: HyperLinq (YC S21) – Desktop trading terminal

54

Revisiting Prechelt’s paper comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++ and scripting languages

52

Today is the World Wide Web's 30th birthday

47

What happens if you stick your head in a particle accelerator? (2017)

47

'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (2007)

46

Xsolla fires 150 employees based on big data analysis of their activity

45

RunAsDate – Run a program with the specified date/time (2019)

45

Bloom Filters: More than a space-efficient hashmap

43

2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city

42

Localhost

41

Canberra asks to introduce detection capabilities in encrypted communication

39

‘Tortured phrases’ give away fabricated research papers

39

FEC Asks Congress to Ban Prechecked Recurring Donation Boxes

39

Constexpr is a Platform (2020)

39

Cleaning Up Git History

39

What Irony Is Not (2020)

39

ST Sees AR Glasses Replacing Smartphones

39

Growing object-oriented software vs. what I would do

38

Why Don’t Green Buildings Live Up to Hype on Energy Efficiency?

38

Big Tech call center workers face pressure to accept home surveillance

37

Is Britain becoming more meritocratic than America?

37

Ask HN: Is anyone working on an open hardware 3G/4G dongle?

37

Expanded Protections for Children – FAQ [pdf]

37

California's Dixie Fire Is Now the 2nd Largest in State History

36

Ask HN: Is domain squatting still profitable? Is there a solution?

36

Tesseract.js – A Javascript port of the Tesseract OCR engine

35

; Echo “Shell Injection”

33

Ask HN: Is learning math useful to be a good computer scientist?

30

The Kawa Scheme Language

28

Why most programming language performance comparisons are most likely wrong

27

Facebook shuts out NYU academics’ research on political ads

27

John Rawls: Visions of Justice

26

Understanding Heidegger on technology (2014)

26

Is it time to ditch the design grid?

26

Snaprecovery: Recover old Snaps that have “disappeared” from Snapchat

25

Xsolla CEO says firing using an algorithm-based solution protect minorities

25

Imaging Cygnus a at 8.45 GHz with ATA

25

Posh: A Data-Aware Shell

23

The Local Minima of Suckiness

22

MusicXML and Percussion Notation

22

The Highbrow Neanderthal

19

Ex-Tesla Employee Called Racial Slur Wins Rare $1M Award

19

The Non-Radiating Antenna

18

0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

18

Testing in production: using JSON Schema for 3rd party API response validation

17

The Programming Language B (1973)

16

New York Public Library’s Picture Collection Will Be Archived

15

Drunk-driver detectors for cars mandated in infrastructure bill

14

Show HN: Yet another Homebrew Video Game Console, this time FPGA-based

14

The macOS Sandbox File Limit

13

Clock Synchronization (2020)

13

History of Hacking the Nintendo 3DS [pdf]

13

The PDP-11 Basic Analysis Project

10

For centuries, England’s go-to apple utensil was a sheep bone

10

Bringing NetBSD to Zig's Continuous Integration

10

How to train like an Ancient Greek Olympian

9

Kernel Pwning with eBPF: A Love Story

8

ModelingToolkit, Modelica, and Modia: The Composable Modeling Future in Julia

8

A Summary of Fortran [pdf] (1992)

7

Myths of Human Genetics (2011)

7

Improving Responsiveness in Text Inputs

7

A thorough introduction to bpftrace

5

Lisping at JPL (2020)

4

Watch Out, Beyond Burgers–The Fungi Renaissance Is Here

4

Show HN: Generating Collisions on NeuralHash

4

Freshly disclosed vulnerability CVE-2021-20090 exploited in the wild

4

The 'snake' who saved the monarchy

4

Seeing cave art in a new light

4

Sea-thru: a physics-based color reconstruction algorithm for underwater images

3

Mousai: An Open Source Shazam