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  1. Tech for Gardeners

    Are there any keen gardeners that would recommend any tech? (hardware or software)

    7 points 3
  2. Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?

    It occurred to me that we often use colours in our terminals and code editors to highlight test failures, linting errors etc, but we don't typically use sounds. Has anyone integrated sound effects in any way?

    234 points 335
  3. Alan Bates the campaigner for the Post Office IT scandal has been knighted (theguardian.com)
    25 points 12
  4. Treating OCD caused by excessive levels of glutamate (theconversation.com)
    2 points 0
  5. Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?

    As a lowly web developer I struggle to understand what concrete progress has been made in quantum computing. I understand there are papers that have shown results that no classical computer could achieve but what has…

    164 points 131
  6. Pumping water up a tower without using electricity – The Breurram pump (youtube.com)
    15 points 2
  7. The original iPhone didn't have a Product Manager (twitter.com)
    3 points 0
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  9. How to Think Like a Programmer (youtube.com)
    1 points 0
  10. How a Kalman filter works, in pictures (bzarg.com)
    481 points 80
  11. What would you include in a manifesto for deep work?

    I got talking to a twitter acquaintance about finding work with an employer who abides by a commitment to deep work In order for this to happen employers would have to commit to some kind of manifesto. So what would be…

    1 points 1
  12. Engineer – must not have experience in Node, Ruby, PHP, ASP, .NET (twitter.com)
    59 points 71
  13. Comma.ai – Scaling for 10x User growth (medium.com)
    3 points 0
  14. The future of web software is HTML over WebSockets (alistapart.com)
    517 points 336
  15. Walk me through this “Safety Third” thing (2020) (mikerowe.com)
    26 points 16
  16. TDD is dead, long live testing (dhh.dk)
    2 points 1
  17. The three great virtues of a programmer (threevirtues.com)
    1 points 0
  18. How to Destroy the Earth (qntm.org)
    3 points 0
  19. CubeSats often use regular tape measures as antennas (reddit.com)
    3 points 0
  20. Ask HN: Is there a better way than reading docs for devs to discover features?

    I just came across these three Rails methods that I'd never heard about https://twitter.com/_swanson/status/1353727578159329281 So apart from reading the docs and happening across twitter posts, what other ways could we…

    1 points 0
  21. Defeating IEDs with explosive downwards rockets (youtube.com)
    2 points 0
  22. Super-expressive – Write regex in natural language (github.com)
    83 points 57
  23. AI improves Tax Policy by 16% (youtube.com)
    1 points 0
  24. John Le Carré has died (bbc.co.uk)
    1 points 0
  25. Russia announces Covid vaccine (Sputnik V) (theguardian.com)
    1 points 1