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Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs
A leaked internal Google email from Sergey Brin recounting an agitated phone call from Steve Jobs, a small, funny window…
Shortest URLs on the Internet
A curious hunt for the shortest web addresses that actually serve a page, from single-letter domains to top-level domain…
Silence Is a Commons
Ivan Illich's 1983 essay on how amplified speech and computers crowd out silence, and why quiet is a shared resource tha…
Skinny Bob
A long, meticulous frame-by-frame investigation of the infamous Skinny Bob alien footage, weighing visual effects clues…
Smuggling Arbitrary Data Through an Emoji
A clever walkthrough of hiding secret bytes inside a single emoji using Unicode variation selectors, with an interactive…
Snopes - The Definitive Fact-Checking Site
Long-running fact-checking resource that investigates urban legends, rumors, viral claims, and misinformation.
Something Awful
A pioneering comedy forum and website from 1999 whose community spawned foundational internet memes and meme-format cult…
Sorting 2 Metric Tons of Lego
A first-person account of building a machine to sort two metric tons of used Lego bricks, covering the conveyor setup, c…
Spreadsheet Horror Stories
A catalogue of real-world spreadsheet disasters collected by the European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group, from lost mil…
Square Theory
A delightful essay born in a crossword Discord server on why some wordplay clues and puns feel so satisfying, with a sim…
Star Trek: DS9 Episodes Worth Watching
A curated guide to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes worth watching, a shortcut for newcomers who want the best of…
Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things
Novelist Catherynne M. Valente looks back on three decades of online communities, from LiveJournal to Twitter, and why e…
Stupid Projects From The Stupid Hackathon
A write-up of the projects built at the Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas Hackathon, a showcase of deliberatel…
Subtitling Guide
A step-by-step fansubbing guide covering timing, translating, typesetting, encoding, and quality checks, written for any…
Super Fighter versus Sango Fighter
A feature by Brandon Cobb on two rival Taiwanese fighting games, the legal wrangles that followed and how the Chinese wa…
Surprising Shared Word Etymologies
A tour of English words that turn out to be secret relatives, tracing pairs with wildly different meanings back to the s…
Talkie: A Vintage Language Model From 1930
Introduces a language model trained only on text from before 1931, so it answers as if the modern world did not exist. R…
Tamagotchi Torture Chamber
A Cornell student engineering project that built a rig to automatically play, poke and torment a real Tamagotchi, docume…
Ten Seconds to Ponder if a Thread Is Worth It
A short essay and userstyle idea that makes you wait ten seconds before opening a Hacker News thread, a small experiment…
Ten Years in Silicon Alley
Literary Kicks founder Levi Asher recounts his decade as a developer and web pioneer in New York's Silicon Alley, from t…
Tetris Story by Vadim Gerasimov
A first-hand account of how Tetris was created in the Soviet Union in 1984-86, written by one of its original programmer…
That Time Seattle Gave Me 32M Emails for $40
A civic hacker tells how a public-records request to the City of Seattle accidentally yielded 32 million emails for fort…
The $5000 Compression Challenge
The full email record of a famous bet: a challenger offered 5000 dollars to anyone who could compress a random file, and…
The 3 Gurus of 90s Web Design
A look back at 1997, when Flash and CSS arrived and David Siegel, Jakob Nielsen and Jeffrey Zeldman each pushed a differ…
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