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1. Advantages of incompetent management (yosefk.com)
543 points by zdw 7 months ago | 252 comments
2. Mature Optimization Handbook (2013) (bueno.org)
2 points by tie-in 8 months ago
3. Rust's iterators optimize nicely–and contain a footgun (ntietz.com)
3 points by weinzierl 8 months ago
4. How GitHub replaced SourceForge as the dominant code hosting platform (graphite.dev)
176 points by fosterfriends 10 months ago | 152 comments
5. How I build and run behavioral interviews (benkuhn.net)
87 points by surprisetalk 11 months ago | 42 comments
6. The Economics of Programming Languages [video] (youtube.com)
283 points by satvikpendem on Oct 6, 2023 | 127 comments
7. Organization probably doesn't want to improve things (mataroa.blog)
524 points by l0b0 on Oct 8, 2023 | 468 comments
8. Grokking Hash Array Mapped Tries (HAMTs) (photonlines.substack.com)
57 points by photon_lines on Aug 24, 2023 | 6 comments
9. Why isn't Titan classed? (2019) (archive.org)
215 points by ZeljkoS on June 23, 2023 | 286 comments
10. Imaginary problems are the root of bad software (cerebralab.com)
946 points by deofoo on June 18, 2023 | 393 comments
11. What Is Social Status? (robkhenderson.substack.com)
53 points by jger15 on June 4, 2023 | 28 comments
12. Is consciousness more like chess or the weather? (nautil.us)
43 points by dnetesn on May 20, 2023 | 123 comments
13. The maze is in the mouse: what ails Google (medium.com/pravse)
603 points by npalli on Feb 15, 2023 | 341 comments
14. Darwinian Gastronomy: Why We Use Spices (1999) (oup.com)
148 points by magoghm on Feb 11, 2023 | 114 comments
15. A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution (economist.com)
137 points by pseudolus on Jan 17, 2023 | 142 comments
16. Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job (stevenbuccini.com)
1012 points by sbuccini on Dec 28, 2022 | 570 comments
17. The Calamities of Others: An ancient historian aims for the big picture (laphamsquarterly.org)
26 points by diodorus on Oct 21, 2022 | 20 comments
18. A Brief History of the “House of the Rising Sun“ (2011) (americanbluesscene.com)
10 points by softwaredoug on Sept 26, 2022 | 2 comments
19. Performance improving techniques to make Spark Joins 10x faster (medium.com/analytics-vidhya)
2 points by softwaredoug on Sept 9, 2022
20. Nocturnal bottleneck (wikipedia.org)
203 points by Symmetry on Aug 17, 2022 | 76 comments
21. New evidence suggests giant asteroid impacts created Earth’s continents (singularityhub.com)
80 points by cheinyeanlim on Aug 15, 2022 | 96 comments
22. The “bicameral mind” 30 years on (2007) (nih.gov)
163 points by evo_9 on Aug 7, 2022 | 104 comments
23. I was at Woodstock ’99 and it destroyed my innocence (kerrang.com)
112 points by lawgimenez on Aug 5, 2022 | 147 comments
24. Old jokes (dynomight.net)
381 points by Gadiguibou on Aug 4, 2022 | 265 comments
25. Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (nautil.us)
95 points by ofou on Aug 4, 2022 | 159 comments
26. Good Losses, Bad Losses [pdf] (morganstanley.com)
29 points by yarapavan on July 31, 2022 | 2 comments
27. MIT invents $4 solar desalination device (freethink.com)
462 points by serverlessmom on Aug 3, 2022 | 235 comments
28. Roboticists discover alternative physics (phys.org)
184 points by doener on July 31, 2022 | 111 comments
29. Physicists come close to resolving the black hole information paradox (2020) (quantamagazine.org)
63 points by acalmon on Aug 2, 2022 | 22 comments
30. How I regained concentration and focus (innoq.com)
671 points by aiobe on Aug 1, 2022 | 415 comments

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