26 stories tagged stack-exchange, newest first.
104 points by thatslast | 84 comments
A Stack Exchange Webmasters answer by Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince listing five reasons Cloudflare offers a free CDN tier: data, referrals, hiring, QA, and bandwidth scale.
66 points by zdw | 35 comments
Blog post by a long-serving ServerFault moderator, elected in 2011, announcing he is stepping down after over 15 years and reflecting on moderation.
246 points by djoldman | 55 comments
Wikipedia article on Cleo, the pseudonym of Vladimir Reshetnikov, known for posting precise answers to hard integrals on Math Stack Exchange without showing work.
354 points by ProxyTracer | 195 comments
A Physics Stack Exchange question from 2011 asking why kinetic energy scales with the square of speed rather than linearly; the capture shows a bot verification page.
503 points by azeemba | 67 comments
A Movies & TV Stack Exchange question asking how the 1936 Universal Pictures opening logo animation was created.
361 points by azeemba | 59 comments
A Stack Exchange question on Programming Language Design and Implementation asking how modern compilers decide which variables to place in registers.
745 points by OsrsNeedsf2P | 542 comments
Substack post by Evan Carroll about Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange renaming or erasing Luigi Mangione's account, framed as tech serving the ruling class.
577 points by napolux | 144 comments
A History Stack Exchange question asking about the origin of a widely shared black-and-white photo of a tank in a lake that became a meme.
952 points by jamesy0ung | 388 comments
A Unix & Linux Stack Exchange question asking why the man command printed "gimme gimme gimme" to stderr when run at 00:30.
456 points by kamaraju | 178 comments
A Genealogy & Family History Stack Exchange question asking why a trailing "j" appears in Roman numerals in 16th–17th century parish register dates.
360 points by wscourge | 268 comments
A User Experience Stack Exchange question asking whether a toggle button should display its current state or the state it will switch to.
414 points by wscourge | 271 comments
A User Experience Stack Exchange question asking why the mouse pointer cursor is tilted rather than straight, and whether it is a legacy design choice.
393 points by trashtensor | 206 comments
A Space Exploration Stack Exchange question asking how much larger Earth could be before chemical rockets could no longer reach orbit.
1128 points by flexagoon | 256 comments
A locked English Language & Usage Stack Exchange question asking which word starting with "y" names an axe-like object shown in a picture.
407 points by ent101 | 169 comments
A Biology Stack Exchange question asking whether DNA has analogues of programming constructs like IF-statements, WHILE loops, function calls, and GOTO.
461 points by ent101 | 391 comments
An English Language & Usage Stack Exchange question asking whether English ever had a formal second-person pronoun like German Sie or French vous.
365 points by ent101 | 236 comments
An Aviation Stack Exchange question asking whether Microsoft Flight Simulator can help someone learn to fly or improve as a pilot.
401 points by janandonly | 311 comments
Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange question asking whether limiting lithium battery charging to 80% defeats the purpose of extending battery life.
1314 points by robin_reala | 212 comments
A Puzzling Stack Exchange question asking whether a Duplo train track layout built by the poster's kids can close without excessive tension.
408 points by micouay | 282 comments
A Latin Stack Exchange answer about translating the phrase "She said goodbye too many times before" into Latin.
371 points by Grimburger | 212 comments
A GenAI Stack Exchange question asking how to stop ChatGPT from excessively apologizing when challenged, even when its reply was correct.
477 points by tentacleuno | 193 comments
A Code Golf Stack Exchange answer presenting an extremely optimized FizzBuzz implementation reaching about 55 GiB/s throughput.
463 points by JasonPunyon | 232 comments
A Meta Stack Exchange answer about the missing June 2023 Stack Exchange data dump; the page did not render when captured.
320 points by mwint | 226 comments
A Meta Stack Exchange post announcing a moderation strike by volunteers protesting Stack Overflow, Inc.'s treatment of its community moderators.
629 points by jpitz | 148 comments
Physics Stack Exchange question asking why a Geiger counter reads elevated radiation inside a clothes dryer right after a drying cycle.
757 points by sprawl_ | 217 comments
Electrical Engineering Stack Exchange question from someone in a war zone asking whether steel-core clothesline wire rope can be used as AC and DC cabling.