How much bigger could Earth be before rockets wouldn't work?(space.stackexchange.com)

393 points by trashtensor 2 years ago | 206 comments

A Space Exploration Stack Exchange question asking how much larger Earth could be before chemical rockets could no longer reach orbit.

Why don't we define “imaginary” numbers for every “impossibility”? (2012)(math.stackexchange.com)

98 points by curling_grad 3 years ago | 74 comments

How can we compare expressive power between two Turing-complete languages?(langdev.stackexchange.com)

67 points by joebiden2 3 years ago | 39 comments

JPL Horizons Sending Too Many Emails(astronomy.stackexchange.com)

61 points by azeemba 3 years ago | 7 comments

What process created this X11 window?(unix.stackexchange.com)

105 points by signa11 3 years ago | 61 comments

Is RAM wiped before use in another LXC container?(security.stackexchange.com)

292 points by Aachen 3 years ago | 151 comments

Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find(arstechnica.com)

608 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 211 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that hackers found a train manufacturer's firmware made trains break down after third-party repairs; the manufacturer called it slander.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

Doing Rails Wrong(bananacurvingmachine.com)

324 points by treesenthusiast 1 year ago | 206 comments

A blog post written as a satirical dialogue about overcomplicating Rails 8 apps with Vite, Node, and npm instead of Rails' built-in tooling.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)

454 points by vgel 3 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.

Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum(kraktoos.com)

415 points by kraktoos 3 years ago | 255 comments

A blog post arguing that Discord is a poor choice for a project's Q&A forum, citing chaotic message flow and terrible search and discoverability.