DiskClick: Ever wanted to hear old hard drive sounds(deervo.itch.io)

96 points by zdw 2 years ago | 58 comments

Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines(tarjan.itch.io)

131 points by Gorsefound 2 months ago | 38 comments

FreeBSD(docs.freebsd.org)

87 points by vermaden 9 months ago | 29 comments

Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage(github.com)

157 points by arbayi 2 months ago | 56 comments

Building an Open Source Decentralized E-Book Search Engine(github.com)

254 points by j2qk3b 2 years ago | 33 comments

Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Enshittification” [audio](podtail.com)

227 points by Trouble_007 3 years ago | 216 comments

My Friend Aaron(rorz.io)

562 points by sarreph 2 months ago | 152 comments

A short story by Rory McMeekin on his personal blog about a school friend, Aaron, who obsessed over things like World of Warcraft instead of studying.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event(jeffgeerling.com)

330 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 186 comments

Jeff Geerling's blog post recapping his experience at Open Sauce, a Bay Area maker and creator event held at the San Mateo fairgrounds.

The Art of Finishing(bytedrum.com)

609 points by emmorts 2 years ago | 147 comments

A personal blog essay on the ByteDrum blog about a developer's pile of unfinished side projects and the challenge of actually finishing them.

From where I left(antirez.com)

1111 points by tilt 1 year ago | 408 comments

Blog post by Redis creator antirez reflecting on leaving Redis about 4.4 years ago and announcing his return to the project.

JSONB has landed(sqlite.org)

579 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 181 comments

SQLite forum post by Richard Hipp announcing JSONB, a binary rewrite of SQLite's JSON functions that landed on trunk and can be several times faster.