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18

Jerk (ivanish.ca)

a year ago | surprisetalk | ivanish.ca | best

5

Ask HN: What are you doing this weekend?

a year ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | newest

5

Ask HN: Share your Mastodon/X profiles

a year ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | newest

2

Against the Advice of My Superintelligence (taylor.town)

a year ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

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[flagged] Planet eBook: free literature for your device (planetebook.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | planetebook.com | best

5

The ocean floor is covered in naturally-occurring batteries that make oxygen (theeggandtherock.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | theeggandtherock.com | frontpage

1

Bunch Theory (2016) [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

3

Ask HN: Any online courses/degrees to "level up"?

a year ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | newest

3

Is Sleep Training Harmful? (pudding.cool)

a year ago | surprisetalk | pudding.cool | newest

3

Ask HN: Tips for Estimating Projects?

a year ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | newest

2

Geothermal plants can harness fracking to create green energy (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | washingtonpost.com | newest

9

Is There a Homeless Crisis? (dynomight.net)

a year ago | surprisetalk | dynomight.net | frontpage

2

Keeping students in school, instead of failing them (thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | wordpress.com | newest

1

Against the Advice of My Superintelligence (taylor.town)

a year ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

2

The self-fulfilling prophecy of React (joshcollinsworth.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | joshcollinsworth.com | frontpage

9

Ask HN: What have you worked on this year?

a year ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | newest

12

Tot Notes (leancrew.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | leancrew.com | frontpage

38

Ask HN: What's the worst advice you've ever received?

a year ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | frontpage

5

Poll: Which front end framework do you prefer?

a year ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | frontpage

1

Barbarian Books Laid the Foundation for Japan's Industrial Revolution (marginalrevolution.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | marginalrevolution.com | frontpage

8

Where should visual programming go? (tonsky.me)

a year ago | surprisetalk | tonsky.me | frontpage

1

Coding Is State Farming (frest.substack.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | substack.com | newest

4

Okapi: A lightweight performant JavaScript parser for Rust and WASM (github.com/thegreatercurve)

a year ago | surprisetalk | github.com | newest

9

Ask HN: What's the most undervalued idea in your field?

a year ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | frontpage

2

The Museum of Other Things (otherthingsmuseum.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | otherthingsmuseum.com | newest

6

Ask HN: What's your approach to finishing a project that's stuck?

a year ago | surprisetalk | ycombinator.com | newest

1

Proof Without Words (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | surprisetalk | wikipedia.org | newest

2

Mapping the landscape of gen-AI product user experience (interconnected.org)

a year ago | surprisetalk | interconnected.org | newest

2

Lawn to Meadow: Why your lawn is killing us [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

21

Why don't they compose music like Bach any more? (marginalrevolution.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | marginalrevolution.com | frontpage

43

Who Killed the World? (pudding.cool)

a year ago | surprisetalk | pudding.cool | best

1

Lagrange: A GUI client for browsing Geminispace (skyjake.fi)

a year ago | surprisetalk | skyjake.fi | newest

3

Lattice "will not further pursue digital workers in the product" (lattice.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | lattice.com | newest

2

Woolly mammoth DNA exceptionally preserved in freeze-dried 'jerky' (newscientist.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | newscientist.com | newest

1

Superbabies: Putting the Pieces Together (lesswrong.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | lesswrong.com | newest

2

A simple procedural animation technique [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

1

A new way of creating space (planetocracy.org)

a year ago | surprisetalk | planetocracy.org | newest

2

2222: A tiny, silly game that you can program with anything (github.com/ivanreese)

a year ago | surprisetalk | github.com | newest

84

Why is Sweden paying grandparents to babysit? (bloomberg.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | bloomberg.com | best

1

Disappearing Polymorphs (marginalrevolution.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | marginalrevolution.com | newest

35

Mermaid Gantt diagrams for displaying distributed traces in Markdown (2023) (brycemecum.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | brycemecum.com | best

2

Toolbox Languages (hillelwayne.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | hillelwayne.com | newest

1

The Speedy Media Manifesto (2019) (taylor.town)

a year ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

11

Inkbase: Programmable Ink (2022) (inkandswitch.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | inkandswitch.com | best

29

Automerge: A library of data structures for building collaborative applications (automerge.org)

a year ago | surprisetalk | automerge.org | best

1

PowerSync: Postgres<>SQLite Sync Layer (powersync.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | powersync.com | newest

1

Dynamic Selection with Flux (inkandswitch.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | inkandswitch.com | newest

1

Good" Plants vs. "Bad" Plants: unpacking the invasive species discourse (treepeople.org)

a year ago | surprisetalk | treepeople.org | newest

1

Zod is amazing. Here's why we're also using TypeBox (val.town)

a year ago | surprisetalk | val.town | newest

1

Counterexamples in Type Systems (counterexamples.org)

a year ago | surprisetalk | counterexamples.org | newest

1

VisionOS Dev: Taylor's Opinionated and Already-Outdated Guide (2024) (taylor.town)

a year ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

4

Trust as a bottleneck to growing teams quickly (benkuhn.net)

a year ago | surprisetalk | benkuhn.net | frontpage

1

Simulating the evolution of rock, paper, scissors [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | frontpage

1

How to Feed the Olympics (eater.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | eater.com | frontpage

2

Internet Phone Book (internetphonebook.net)

a year ago | surprisetalk | internetphonebook.net | newest

2

Jelly: The simplest way to jam on email as a team (goodenough.us)

a year ago | surprisetalk | goodenough.us | frontpage

1

Terminal Madness (1980) [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

2

Video Ethnography of "ICARUS" on the Xerox Alto [video] (2017) (youtube.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | frontpage

16

Why Doesn't Advice Work? (dynomight.net)

a year ago | surprisetalk | dynomight.net | frontpage

2

Some Tricks from the Scrapscript Compiler (bernsteinbear.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | bernsteinbear.com | frontpage

5

Rent Control (marginalrevolution.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | marginalrevolution.com | newest

1

Vimeo's Position on AI (vimeo.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | vimeo.com | newest

2

What is the probability of a Biden alternative win? Building a statistical model (dactile.net)

a year ago | surprisetalk | dactile.net | newest

1

VisionOS Dev: Taylor's Opinionated and Already-Outdated Guide (2024) (taylor.town)

a year ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

2

When to Build Millennia Sewers (taylor.town)

a year ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

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Shortery – Automate Your Mac (numberfive.co)

a year ago | surprisetalk | numberfive.co | newest

2

College admission rates for where you went to school (flowingdata.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | flowingdata.com | newest

1

Some more thoughts on The Browser Company (manuelmoreale.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | manuelmoreale.com | newest

4

2014 Nissan Leaf: first impressions (2024) (incoherency.co.uk)

a year ago | surprisetalk | incoherency.co.uk | frontpage

2

Acquire and Implement a Bed Brush (practicalbetterments.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | practicalbetterments.com | newest

1

Agricultural Productivity in Africa (marginalrevolution.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | marginalrevolution.com | newest

1

Synthetic Intelligence (2019) (taylor.town)

a year ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

2

Experimental Images (interconnected.org)

a year ago | surprisetalk | interconnected.org | newest

2

A concise and hinged summary of what it was like to build this site from scratch (gkeenan.co)

a year ago | surprisetalk | gkeenan.co | newest

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There is still the need for a better Goodreads alternative (creativerly.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | creativerly.com | best

3

Alan Kay on Sam Altman (2016) [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

1

Time Preference, Parenthood and Policy Preferences (marginalrevolution.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | marginalrevolution.com | newest

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YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable (frontendmasters.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | frontendmasters.com | best

2

Student-Oriented Teaching (2022) (taylor.town)

a year ago | surprisetalk | taylor.town | newest

15

Numeronymize (leancrew.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | leancrew.com | best

145

Let's stop counting centuries (dynomight.net)

a year ago | surprisetalk | dynomight.net | best

2

I went to an algorave (todepond.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | todepond.com | frontpage

10

The magic of small engineering teams (posthog.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | posthog.com | frontpage

8

Do grayscale images take less space? (sagebl.eu)

a year ago | surprisetalk | sagebl.eu | frontpage

2

He Memorized the World with Google Maps. Now He's Exploring It (nytimes.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | nytimes.com | newest

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How to put up with a society you don't like (42m.me)

a year ago | surprisetalk | 42m.me | frontpage

3

Wolley: Open-Source Robot Vacuum (wolley.se)

a year ago | surprisetalk | wolley.se | newest

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Biden's paths forward, according to Manifold (manifold.markets)

a year ago | surprisetalk | manifold.markets | newest

1

The promise of charter cities [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

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Excalidraw: Open-source "hand-drawn" browser drawing tool (excalidraw.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | excalidraw.com | frontpage

2

How to make a CPU (2022) [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

1

Law of Shitty Clickthroughs (2011) (andrewchen.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | andrewchen.com | newest

1

Welcome to the Age of Magnesium [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest

6

Building Figma AI (figma.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | figma.com | frontpage

3

Ads Hypocrisy (manuelmoreale.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | manuelmoreale.com | newest

1

Small Web: computer science colloquium at University of Groningen (ar.al)

a year ago | surprisetalk | ar.al | newest

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Group of Austrians Picks 77 Charities to Receive Heiress's Fortune (nytimes.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | nytimes.com | newest

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Self and Self: Whys and Wherefores (2009) [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | frontpage

9

The Alternate Reality Kit (1987) [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | best

1

AI the Product vs. AI the Feature [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | surprisetalk | youtube.com | newest