https://hn.lindylearn.io Lindy Hacker News best | # by year | search | submit Hacker News is a treasure, and not only to discuss news. 99% of the best content was not created today. This site aggregates old articles that get reposted on Hacker News, so that you have a chance to read the best ones. It's the equivalent of your cozy neighbourhood library, if you wish. How to use: Browse the newest or highest-rated links, search for resources on any topic, or list articles per year or website. 2016 Why does Super Mario Bros. have faster music on the real NES? (old.reddit.com) 23 points | 5 hours ago with 0 comments 2019 Why Wolfram Tech Isn't Open Source (blog.wolfram.com ) 260 points across 2 posts | 9 hours ago with 215 comments 2019 Postgres is a great pub/sub and job server ( webapp.io) 405 points | 1 day ago with 191 comments 1944 Excerpt from CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual ( svn.cacert.org) 231 points | 1 day ago with 116 comments 1985 Forth BBS 2 (github.com) 101 points | 1 day ago with 12 comments 2012 Floating-Point Complexities ( randomascii.wordpress.com) 13 points | 1 day ago with 0 comments 2016 The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences ( qualiacomputing.com) 165 points across 2 posts | 1 day ago with 68 comments 1999 The Bastard Operator from Hell (bofh.bjash.com) 362 points across 2 posts | 1 day ago with 96 comments 2003 No evidence that parachutes prevent injuries when jumping out of planes (bmj.com) 73 points | 1 day ago with 26 comments 2014 How to Drink All Night Without Getting Drunk ( yahoo.com) 10 points | 2 days ago with 1 comments 2019 National Park Typeface (nationalparktypeface.com) 823 points across 2 posts | 2 days ago with 31 comments 2013 Carmen Ortiz Has Blood on Her Hands (mattbruenig.com ) 293 points | 2 days ago with 120 comments 2019 Who Are the Greeks? (the-american-interest.com) 27 points | 3 days ago with 7 comments 1998 Technorealism (technorealism.org) 95 points | 3 days ago with 47 comments 1983 Inventing the Atari 2600 (spectrum.ieee.org) 103 points | 3 days ago with 47 comments 2013 Photos of a KH-12 Kennan Keyhole Secret Military Spy Satellite (spacesafetymagazine.com) 80 points | 4 days ago with 41 comments 2005 A Mac For Mick (folklore.org) 78 points | 6 days ago with 26 comments 2019 Carolina Gold was once the most popular rice grown in America (seriouseats.com) 88 points | 1 week ago with 81 comments 2011 The trees that miss the mammoths ( af-legacy-prd.americanforests.org) 103 points | 1 week ago with 26 comments 1995 Interview with Anders Hejlsberg on Delphi ( theopenforce.com) 145 points | 1 week ago with 53 comments 2013 Prevayler: ACID persistence for plain old Java objects (prevayler.org) 44 points | 1 week ago with 10 comments 2013 Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days ( github.com) 189 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 40 comments 2018 Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine ( marctenbosch.com) 772 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 37 comments 2016 Mount Athos, the "Autonomous Monastic State" of Greece (cntraveler.com) 134 points | 1 week ago with 149 comments 2018 Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (anishathalye.com) 2233 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 90 comments 2019 Using deep learning to predict the olfactory properties of molecules (ai.googleblog.com) 55 points | 1 week ago with 5 comments 1977 The CIA and the Media (carlbernstein.com) 274 points | 1 week ago with 152 comments 2002 Smiley Lore :-) (cs.cmu.edu) 54 points | 1 week ago with 20 comments 1993 Icon Programming Language - A brief introduction ( www2.cs.arizona.edu) 56 points | 1 week ago with 18 comments 2009 Why TV Lost (paulgraham.com) 105 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 132 comments 2018 Lessons learned after working one year as a Common Lisp Developer (cdagostino.io) 194 points | 1 week ago with 70 comments 2018 Facts don't change our minds (jamesclear.com) 166 points | 1 week ago with 191 comments 2007 Bjarne Stroustrup: "I Did It for You All" ( harmful.cat-v.org) 158 points | 1 week ago with 111 comments 2009 The Economics of Pinball (cheaptalk.org) 60 points | 1 week ago with 31 comments 2018 Lack of sunlight makes our cells store more fat ( ualberta.ca) 194 points | 1 week ago with 110 comments 2017 A Minimalist Guide to SQLite (tech.marksblogg.com) 55 points | 1 week ago with 3 comments 2013 Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors ( hypirion.com) 78 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 14 comments 2017 Mastering Bash and Terminal (blockloop.io) 69 points | 1 week ago with 13 comments 2019 How to write idempotent Bash scripts (arslan.io) 327 points | 1 week ago with 99 comments 2013 Essential security for Linux servers (sollove.com) 199 points | 1 week ago with 146 comments 2017 What scientific term or concept ought to be more widely known? (edge.org) 59 points | 1 week ago with 62 comments 2008 Common shell script mistakes (pixelbeat.org) 246 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 53 comments 2013 FAQs: Why we don't have them (gds.blog.gov.uk) 240 points | 1 week ago with 190 comments 2007 Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi? (viemu.com) 148 points across 2 posts | 1 week ago with 123 comments 1996 Internet addiction: The emergence of a new clinical disorder (netaddiction.com) 81 points | 1 week ago with 78 comments 2016 Can you drill into a supervolcano to relieve pressure? (askageologist.blogspot.com) 118 points | 1 week ago with 121 comments 1996 Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (dolekemp96.org) 76 points | 1 week ago with 46 comments 2018 Async I/O for Dummies (alwaysrightinstitute.com) 61 points | 1 week ago with 27 comments 2019 Programming War Stories: macOS Freeware/Shareware ( aarongiles.com) 115 points | 1 week ago with 29 comments 2017 Demystifying USB-C and Thunderbolt Docks (dell.com) 66 points | 1 week ago with 74 comments 2005 The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (nickbostrom.com) 331 points across 5 posts | 1 week ago with 63 comments 2008 Vegetable Oil for Lubricating Chainsaws (fs.fed.us) 81 points | 2 weeks ago with 134 comments 2019 The team that powers VLC (increment.com) 140 points | 2 weeks ago with 70 comments 1998 Cool URIs Don't Change (w3.org) 683 points across 3 posts | 2 weeks ago with 72 comments 2017 ADSL works over wet string (revk.uk) 418 points | 2 weeks ago with 153 comments 2017 Tell me an engineering murderboard story ( pluspora.com) 49 points | 2 weeks ago with 37 comments 2015 A man who invented lithium-ion battery at 57 has an idea for a new one at 92 (qz.com) 80 points | 2 weeks ago with 55 comments 1984 Rule-Based Expert Systems (people.dbmi.columbia.edu) 59 points | 2 weeks ago with 19 comments 2014 Drinking year-old eggnog to put science to the test (chicagoreader.com) 50 points | 2 weeks ago with 49 comments 2012 Never Use Black (ianstormtaylor.com) 565 points across 3 posts | 2 weeks ago with 217 comments 2017 Reality has a surprising amount of detail ( johnsalvatier.org) 1487 points across 3 posts | 2 weeks ago with 118 comments 2016 Die photos and analysis of the revolutionary 8008 microprocessor (righto.com) 116 points across 2 posts | 2 weeks ago with 0 comments 2007 Our main problem in health policy is overemphasis on medicine (cato-unbound.org) 53 points | 2 weeks ago with 76 comments 2016 The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory ( scottaaronson.blog) 155 points | 2 weeks ago with 27 comments 1968 Stephen Sondheim on How to Do a Crossword Puzzle ( nymag.com) 59 points | 2 weeks ago with 19 comments 2004 Consider the Lobster (columbia.edu) 99 points | 2 weeks ago with 34 comments 2019 The Church of the Clocked Screws ( blog.lostartpress.com) 74 points | 2 weeks ago with 58 comments 2018 Why Decentralization Matters (cdixon.org) 73 points | 2 weeks ago with 74 comments 2019 Event Sourcing Is Hard (chriskiehl.com) 286 points | 2 weeks ago with 119 comments 2004 Design Issues for Foreign Function Interfaces ( web.archive.org) 43 points | 2 weeks ago with 5 comments 2014 The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (libcom.org) 64 points | 2 weeks ago with 36 comments 2016 The origins of 'horn ok please,' India's most ubiquitous phrase (atlasobscura.com) 353 points | 2 weeks ago with 365 comments 2010 8880 Super Car (technicopedia.com) 144 points | 2 weeks ago with 58 comments 2015 Insects and the origins of consciousness (pnas.org) 65 points | 2 weeks ago with 11 comments 2019 Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language (colobot.info) 133 points | 2 weeks ago with 43 comments 2001 Sudden cardiac death in young people with apparently normal heart (academic.oup.com) 45 points | 2 weeks ago with 24 comments 2017 Floating point visually explained ( fabiensanglard.net) 288 points | 2 weeks ago with 57 comments 2017 Why Ancient Roman Concrete Outlasts Our Own ( sci-hubtw.hkvisa.net) 54 points | 2 weeks ago with 67 comments 2011 An introduction to topos theory (fuw.edu.pl) 60 points | 2 weeks ago with 10 comments 2000 A Case for Asynchronous Computer Architecture ( avlsi.csl.yale.edu) 65 points | 2 weeks ago with 57 comments 2008 The Myth of Multitasking (thenewatlantis.com) 44 points | 3 weeks ago with 6 comments 2007 Effects of Toxoplasma on Human Behavior ( ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) 55 points | 3 weeks ago with 26 comments 2008 The Brickyard Summer of 1957 (brickcollecting.com) 52 points | 3 weeks ago with 9 comments 2009 Bernie Madoff's unwitting accomplice: The AS/400 ( web.archive.org) 60 points | 3 weeks ago with 49 comments 2014 Interpersonal Traits of Aspies Placed in Context ( gist.github.com) 52 points | 3 weeks ago with 37 comments 2019 WWWBrowser - a Haskell web browser ( cth.altocumulus.org) 87 points | 3 weeks ago with 12 comments 2019 Experiments in Constraint-based Graphic Design ( anishathalye.com) 62 points | 3 weeks ago with 9 comments 2018 The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot ( atlasobscura.com) 327 points across 2 posts | 3 weeks ago with 308 comments 2018 Hacking CD/DVD/Blu-ray for Biosensing ( ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) 112 points | 3 weeks ago with 14 comments 2003 Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose (borrett.id.au ) 72 points across 2 posts | 3 weeks ago with 1 comments 2019 A new way to make quadratic equations easy ( technologyreview.com) 104 points | 3 weeks ago with 73 comments 2018 Why Paper Jams Persist (newyorker.com) 59 points | 3 weeks ago with 23 comments 2012 Transatlantic ping faster than sending a pixel to the screen? (superuser.com) 128 points across 2 posts | 3 weeks ago with 29 comments 1995 Toyota Children's Web Site (toyota.co.jp) 92 points | 3 weeks ago with 37 comments 1949 Thinking Like a Mountain (web.archive.org) 52 points | 3 weeks ago with 3 comments 2006 Loopless Code (jsoftware.com) 136 points | 3 weeks ago with 129 comments 1932 In Praise of Idleness (harpers.org) 468 points across 2 posts | 3 weeks ago with 170 comments 2019 The Interactive Fiction Archive (ifarchive.org) 101 points | 3 weeks ago with 24 comments 2019 The 3-2-1 Backup Rule - Why Your Data Will Always Survive (vmwareblog.org) 184 points | 3 weeks ago with 199 comments 2012 Please Stop "Fixing" Font Smoothing ( usabilitypost.com) 126 points across 2 posts | 3 weeks ago with 85 comments More For more projects like this, join Lindy Learning | Follow timeless articles on Twitter | Contact me