Moon(ciechanow.ski)
2976 points by todsacerdoti | 248 comments
Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive article explaining the Moon, its phases, and its orbital path around Earth.
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Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.
![Screenshot of brightonruby.com: Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/12/17/50107973-6051-43cc-b8aa-6087e50faf48.jpg)
Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video](brightonruby.com)
639 points by vinnyglennon | 227 comments
Brighton Ruby 2024 conference talk video by Nadia Odunayo on reaching two million users as a one-woman development team.
FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices(cnbc.com)
511 points by LordAtlas | 505 comments
CNBC/Reuters news article reporting that the FTC finalized a rule banning hidden junk fees in hotel and event ticket pricing.
After 3 Years, I Failed. Here's All My Startup's Code(dylanhuang.com)
468 points by gniting | 210 comments
Blog post by Dylan Huang announcing the shutdown of his developer tools startup Konfig after three years and open-sourcing its entire codebase.
ISO 8583: The language of credit cards(increase.com)
370 points by ekmartin | 72 comments
An Increase article explaining ISO 8583, the message format standard used by card networks to process credit card transactions.
Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts(arstechnica.com)
335 points by pseudolus | 524 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that teen drug use continued an unprecedented decline in 2024, with the pandemic-era cohort showing high rates of abstaining.
Developing Developers (2015)(felleisen.org)
167 points by danielam | 92 comments
![Screenshot of scholar.harvard.edu: The Night Watch [pdf] (2013)](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/12/19/0c89440a-b6e3-44a3-bc0a-d3ec13c489e3.jpg)
The Night Watch [pdf] (2013)(scholar.harvard.edu)
147 points by isaiahwp | 23 comments
In Defense of Y'All(texasmonthly.com)
145 points by scour | 308 comments
The Headlight Brightness Wars(theringer.com)
128 points by throw0101b | 137 comments
Grammarly acquires Coda(coda.io)
116 points by Olphs | 72 comments
Is stuff online worth saving?(rubenerd.com)
113 points by Brajeshwar | 124 comments
Show HN: Adventures in OCR(blog.medusis.com)
94 points by bambax | 28 comments
CRDTs and Collaborative Playground(cerbos.dev)
88 points by emreb | 4 comments
![Screenshot of cs.yale.edu: Haskell vs. Ada vs. C++ vs. an Experiment in Prototyping Productivity (1994) [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/12/18/96949b8e-d1a6-45ca-b624-7af80415127a.jpg)
One-Mile-in-Five(wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com)
47 points by agronaut | 5 comments
![Screenshot of youtube.com: Introduction to Wait-free Algorithms in C++ Programming [video]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2024/12/17/9ad13da2-77ca-4f28-9a11-678d7f0b7bfb.jpg)
Fixing C Strings(thasso.xyz)
30 points by ushakov | 39 comments
The enduring power of kitsch(bbc.com)
25 points by breathenew | 11 comments
Webhook Tester/Debugger(hooklistener.com)
22 points by acaor | 4 comments
Alley Cat Remeow Edition(joflof.com)
22 points by justsomehnguy | 8 comments
The Focusing Illusion(optimallyirrational.com)
21 points by yamrzou | 1 comments
