Airfoil(ciechanow.ski)
2422 points by todsacerdoti | 280 comments
Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining how airplanes fly by examining the forces generated by airflow around wings and airfoils.
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Netlify just sent me a $104k bill for a simple static site(old.reddit.com)
1499 points by laubonghaudoi | 671 comments
A Reddit r/webdev post in which a user reports receiving a $104,500 Netlify bill for a simple static site.
Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey(bloomberg.com)
827 points by coloneltcb | 874 comments
Bloomberg report that Apple is ending its decade-long electric car project, Titan, and moving some staff to its AI division.
Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu(overkill.wtf)
813 points by brandrick | 557 comments
News article reporting that Nintendo of America filed a lawsuit against Tropic Haze, the creators of the Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu.
Testcontainers(testcontainers.com)
641 points by floriangosse | 238 comments
Homepage of Testcontainers, an open source framework providing throwaway Docker-based instances of databases, message brokers, and browsers for tests.
I turned my open-source project into a full-time business(docs.emailengine.app)
552 points by andris9 | 208 comments
Blog post by Andris Reinman, author of Nodemailer, describing how he turned his open-source email project EmailEngine into a full-time business.
U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe(wsj.com)
477 points by moose_man | 193 comments
Wall Street Journal article reporting that the U.S. government launched an antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth Group; page showed a device verification screen.
Testing the F-35C Tailhook(the-engi-nerd.github.io)
391 points by sklargh | 167 comments
Blog post by @the_engi_nerd presenting a single-page version of their thread on the design and testing of the F-35C carrier tailhook.
Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5°C(newatlas.com)
332 points by Brajeshwar | 133 comments
New Atlas article on research finding that botanical gardens and urban green spaces can cool surrounding city air by an average of 5°C.
Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report(ainonline.com)
327 points by elorant | 268 comments
AIN news article on an FAA expert panel report finding Boeing lacks key elements of a safety culture, including employee awareness of how to report safety concerns.
Ant Geopolitics(aeon.co)
252 points by romaintailhurat | 76 comments
SuperTux(github.com)
233 points by floriangosse | 44 comments
Blazer: Business intelligence made simple(github.com)
184 points by tosh | 33 comments
Easter eggs on Swiss maps (2021)(bigthink.com)
173 points by Brajeshwar | 39 comments
Pure Programming Language(agraef.github.io)
128 points by tosh | 19 comments
Is Tableau Dead?(mergeyourdata.com)
114 points by dsaavy | 93 comments
How Netflix really uses Java(infoq.com)
110 points by parsd | 59 comments
Universal domain types(mmapped.blog)
93 points by thunderbong | 19 comments
Consider the Pawpaw(beltmag.com)
88 points by PaulHoule | 61 comments
How I Backup(sive.rs)
81 points by twapi | 67 comments
Montage Fallacy(herbertlui.net)
78 points by bschne | 52 comments
Forgejo makes a full break from Gitea(lwn.net)
51 points by jwilk | 23 comments
