Yearly Favorites
2011.
Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data (qcontinuum.substack.com)
2012.
Unreal Tournament 2004 is back (old.reddit.com)
2013.
At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery (quantamagazine.org)
2014.
Ditching Obsidian and building my own (amberwilliams.io)
2015.
Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure (rosalux.de)
2016.
Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024 are now undecided (digitalcourage.social)
2017.
Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux (help.kagi.com)
2018.
LLMs can get "brain rot" (llm-brain-rot.github.io)
2019.
GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability (theregister.com)
2020.
I put my whole life into a single database (howisfelix.today)
2021.
Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography (words.filippo.io)
2022.
Falsehoods programmers believe about aviation (flightaware.engineering)
2023.
How to build a coding agent (ghuntley.com)
2024.
Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea
2025.
Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun (iflscience.com)
2026.
CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion (smithsonianmag.com)
2027.
Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy (news.cornell.edu)
2028.
Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab (nytimes.com)
2029.
GPT-5 for Developers (openai.com)
2030.
Google shared my phone number (danq.me)
2031.
Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens (github.com)
2032.
GNU Health (gnuhealth.org)
2033.
Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place (engineering.fyi)
2034.
I'm switching to Python and actually liking it (cesarsotovalero.net)
2035.
Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything (wsj.com)
2036.
How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips (japantimes.co.jp)
2037.
AI's Dial-Up Era (wreflection.com)
2038.
Unifi Travel Router (blog.ui.com)
2039.
What makes Claude Code so damn good (minusx.ai)
2040.
You can't cURL a Border (drobinin.com)