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Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.
Saved on: 2026-05-06

The Internet is Cool. Thank you, TCP

An exploration of TCP, the workhorse of the internet. This deep dive includes detailed examples and a step-by-step walkthrough.
Saved on: 2025-11-15

Where It's at:// — overreacted

From handles to hosting.
Saved on: 2025-10-04

Dumb Pipe

Iroh connections are dumb pipes: easy, direct connections that punch through NATs & stay connected as network conditions change.
Saved on: 2025-07-28

Skibidi Boppy: McDonald’s e la nostra vita digitale

Ovvero: il costo sociale della tecnologia sta in quello che sostituisce
Saved on: 2025-07-25

A Day in the Life: The Global BGP Table

Update: This article was discussed on Hackernews Much has been written and a lot of analysis performed on the global BGP table over the years, a significant portion by the inimitable Geoff Huston.
Saved on: 2024-11-25

This Website is Hosted on Bluesky

Well, not this one. But this one is! How? Let’s take a closer look at Bluesky and the AT Protocol that underpins it. Note: I communicated with the Bluesky team prior to the publishing of this post. While the functionality described is not the intended use of the application, it is known behavior and does not constitue a vulnerability disclosure process. My main motivation for reaching out to them was because I like the folks and don’t want to make their lives harder.
Saved on: 2024-11-25

sending-an-ethernet-packet.md

I'm sick of complex blogging solutions, so markdown files in a git repo it is - francisrstokes/githublog
Saved on: 2024-11-11

An Introduction to BGP... from the operator of a small AS

BGP is a critical protocol powering the Internet, yet remains poorly understood. Here’s a quick introduction from the operator of a small AS.
Saved on: 2024-10-24

Rubenerd

By Ruben Schade in Sydney, Australia. 🌻
Saved on: 2024-06-29

httpareacodes

A super silly idea
Saved on: 2024-01-31

How Google perfected the web

How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same.
Saved on: 2024-01-08

A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors

Some of the hidden norms about Hacker News not otherwise covered in the Guidelines and the FAQ. - minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
Saved on: 2023-12-27

Absurd Success

So… I’ve had the most unreal week of coding. Zero exaggeration, I’ve halved the RAM requirements of the search engine, removed the need to take the system offline during an upgrade, removed hard limits on how many documents can be indexed, and quadrupled soft limits on how many keywords can be in the corpus. It’s been a long term goal to keep it possible to run and operate the system on low-powered hardware, and so far improvements have been made, to the point where my 32 Gb RAM developer machine feels spacey rather than cramped, but this set of changes takes it several notches further.
Saved on: 2023-08-31

Learning Center — NsLookup.io

Learn about DNS with our free content.
Saved on: 2023-05-09

HN Classics

Saved on: 2022-08-26

Web5 | TBD

Tags: #internet
Saved on: 2022-06-11

The Web's Timeline

Saved on: 2022-06-03

(1) Robert G. Reeve su Twitter: "I'm back from a week at my mom's house and

I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that. As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵
Saved on: 2021-05-31

Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Update, April 9, 2021 : We've launched Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create...
Saved on: 2021-05-04

Most favorited Hacker News posts of all time / Tom Larkworthy / Observable

The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members. The list skews toward innovative learning resources and tech career tips, but there is a little of everything. Data was scraped 2020-09-1 from the public favourites lists. This is an observable notebook with the data attached as a file, so you can fork your own analysis if you don't like how I did it (e.g. you could find the favorited Ask HN posts). To calculate the top favourites, I give each member 30 votes to divided over their
Saved on: 2020-09-02

Pocket

Saved on: 2020-07-24

The infinite scroll - Columbia Journalism Review

For the sake of this exercise, please imagine it’s another gray midday in winter, months after the end of the World Series and still weeks from the beginning of spring training. The afternoon is sunless but somehow also hangover-bright, and your brain has decided to make it worse. It wants to know how things are […]
Saved on: 2020-03-07

Best of Hacker News Shown HN of All The Time: 2008 - 2025

This up votes itself, I made an open-source laptop from scratch, If YouTube had actual channels, A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time, Redbean – Single-file distributable web server, Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years, I may have created a new type of puzzle, I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza, Web Design in 4 minutes, I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels, I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam, Airmash – Multiplayer Missile Warfare HTML5 Game, Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android, Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing, GPT-4-powered web searches for developers, I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products, Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework, Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas, 40k HN comments mentioning books, extracted using deep learning, I'm building an open-source Amazon, Show HN, Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately, Tetris in a PDF, Bel, 3 years and 1M users later, I just open-sourced my "Internet OS", Sorting Two Metric Tons of Lego, Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time, SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually, Wave function collapse algorithm, Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web, Spot the Drowning Child, Make your site’s pages instant in one minute, I built an app to stop me doomscrolling by touching grass, Lofi.cafe, Privacy-focused, ad-free, non-tracking torrent search engine, We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos, Six Degrees of Wikipedia, Make a programmable mirror, Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust, Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news, A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released, I created an After Effects alternative, Trading cards made with e-ink displays, InstantDB – A Modern Firebase, I made a web game called Almost Pong, Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs, I built another house optimized for LAN parties, A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties, I wrote my own RTS game engine in C, Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project, New AI edits images based on text instructions, Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family, Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt, Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files, RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript, I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week, My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare, I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node, Web browser to help programmers think clearly, Markov chains explained visually, Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers, I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries, SHA-256 Animation, OneBody Church Directory software I've been hacking on for 7 years, htmz – a low power tool for HTML, I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire, Generating fantasy maps – an interactive exploration, Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine, I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer, I built a hardware processor that runs Python, I made a modern web UI for Wikipedia, A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video], I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics, Browsh – A modern, text-based browser, I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling, Beeper – All Your Chats in One App, This Word Does Not Exist, XKCD-inspired StackSort, EdgeDB 1.0, Warp, a Rust-based terminal, I made an alternative platform for professional profiles, Hacker News user blogroll, Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text, Unsure Calculator – back-of-a-napkin probabilistic calculator, iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system, Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker, I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials, I wrote a book about Go, Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines, Your Social Media Fingerprint maybe NSFW, Primitive Pictures, A web debugger an ex-Cloudflare team has been working on for 4 years, I made a new sensor out of 3D printer filament for my PhD, Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos, Long Range E-Bike, I built an After Effects for dummies, My embarrassing personal website from the 90s, iPod.js – An online iPod that connects to Spotify and Apple Music, I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks, Hacker News Classics
Saved on: 2019-09-22

Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?

MySpace inspired a generation of teenagers to learn how to code. We have Dark Mode now, but where did all the glitter go?
Saved on: 2019-01-31

The Guardian pulls out of Facebook’s Instant Articles and Apple News

"Our primary objective is to bring audiences to the trusted environment of the Guardian to support building deeper relationships."
Saved on: 2017-04-24

Hacker News

Saved on: 2016-11-02

CoinTent: A Sustainable Ad-Free Web – CoinTent – Medium

We started a company to help media websites a couple years ago for one simple reason: our experience with online content was broken. Advertising made the act of reading an article or watching a video…
Saved on: 2016-10-27

Hacker News Books

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News delivered to you in a weekly newsletter.
Saved on: 2016-08-26

DNS: The Good Parts

Dig through the DNS and learn how and why it all works.
Saved on: 2016-06-08

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World review – Herzog's wild ride through the web

With interviewees ranging from Elon Musk to a gaming addict, Werner Herzog presents the web in all its wildness and utopian potential in this dizzying documentary
Saved on: 2016-01-25

HTTP gets an official status code for legal demands: 451

HTTP status codes are a core part of helping your browser understand what to do with a page. You're probably familiar with 404 -- page not found -- but there are a plethora of others, ...
Saved on: 2015-12-21

feross/webtorrent

⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web
Saved on: 2015-11-23

Random Useful Websites

randomusefulwebsites.com ist die beste Quelle für alle Informationen die Sie suchen. Von allgemeinen Themen bis hin zu speziellen Sachverhalten, finden Sie auf randomusefulwebsites.com alles. Wir hoffen, dass Sie hier das Gesuchte finden!
Saved on: 2015-08-12

http2 explained

Saved on: 2015-02-13

Google Search Will Be Your Next Brain - Backchannel - Medium

Hinton, a sinewy, dry-witted Englishman by way of Canada, is standing at a white board in Mountain View, California, on the campus of Google, the company he joined in 2013 as a Distinguished…
Saved on: 2015-01-17

Front-end Front — Basically, front-end news

Front-End Front is a place where front-end developers can ask questions, share interesting links, and show their work to the rest of the community.
Saved on: 2014-12-17

6 links that will show you what Google knows about you — Productivity in th

Want to find out all the things Google knows about you? Here are 6 links that will show you some of the data Google has about you. In order to serve relevant ads, Google collects data about you and…
Saved on: 2014-11-19

Hacker News API | Y Combinator

Today we’re excited to launch an official Hacker News API [https://github.com/HackerNews/API]. [https://github.com/HackerNews/API] We’ve partnered up with Firebase [http://firebase.com] (YC S11) so that the data we’re making available will be near real time, which should be a huge improvement for developers who had to rely on scraping the site for this info. The API is available at https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/ with some initial documentation and a few examples written by our own Nick Siv
Saved on: 2014-10-07
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