Yearly Favorites
1981.
“Bad Apple” in Minecraft (purplesyringa.moe)
1982.
Fewer Foreign Passengers Are Flying to the US (jasher.substack.com)
1983.
One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid (twitter.com)
1984.
Deterioration of local community a major driver of loss of play-based childhood (afterbabel.com)
1985.
Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?
1986.
CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon (twitter.com)
1987.
Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022) (ghuntley.com)
1988.
What will enter the public domain in 2025? (publicdomainreview.org)
1989.
CEOs are running companies from afar even as workers return to office (bloomberg.com)
1990.
In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999) (web.stanford.edu)
1991.
US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she'd died (theguardian.com)
1992.
USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap (techcrunch.com)
1993.
Defenders think in lists, attackers think in graphs (2015) (github.com)
1994.
Maggie Smith has died (variety.com)
1995.
Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone (discuss.systems)
1996.
I stopped everything and started writing C again (kmx.io)
1997.
How Meta trains large language models at scale (engineering.fb.com)
1998.
Gosub – An open-source browser engine (github.com)
1999.
The Alpha Myth: How captive wolves led us astray (anthonydavidadams.substack.com)
2000.
iPhone 16 Pro Storage Expansion 128GB to 1TB [video] (youtube.com)
2001.
Google’s TOS doesn’t eliminate a user’s Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf] (ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov)
2002.
$2 H100s: How the GPU Rental Bubble Burst (latent.space)
2003.
YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info (old.reddit.com)
2004.
Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996) (amasci.com)
2005.
7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025 (matt.blwt.io)
2006.
Engineering principles for building financial systems (substack.wasteman.codes)
2007.
A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves (valve.computer)
2008.
Conway's Gradient of Life (hardmath123.github.io)
2009.
Do AI companies work? (benn.substack.com)
2010.
Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says (bloomberg.com)