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The bad boy of bar charts: William Playfair (2023)

https://blog.engora.com/2023/05/the-bad-boy-of-bar-charts-william.html
34•bryanrasmussen•3d ago

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skeptrune•3h ago
Something poetic about the guy who made bar and pie charts being a serial con artist
jihadjihad•2h ago
With the ironic last name to boot
ggm•2h ago
Somebody should speak up to Florence Nightingale and her flame charts and stats visualisations. Heroine of operations research.
ctxc•8m ago
https://blog.engora.com/2020/05/florence-nightingale-data-an...

And he's done it five years back! Great blog, look at his other posts too

ctxc•12m ago
What a goldmine of a blog. Interesting find!

Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth

https://github.com/lfnoise/sapf
35•mindcrime•2h ago•2 comments

TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) Deep Dive

https://henryhmko.github.io/posts/tpu/tpu.html
34•transpute•1h ago•2 comments

P-Hacking in Startups

https://briefer.cloud/blog/posts/p-hacking/
108•thaisstein•3d ago•41 comments

LaborBerlin: State-of-the-Art 16mm Projector

https://www.filmlabs.org/wiki/en/meetings_projects/spectral/laborberlin16mmprojector/start
149•audionerd•8h ago•28 comments

The bad boy of bar charts: William Playfair (2023)

https://blog.engora.com/2023/05/the-bad-boy-of-bar-charts-william.html
34•bryanrasmussen•3d ago•5 comments

Denmark's Archaeology Experiment Is Paying Off in Gold and Knowledge

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/denmark-let-amateurs-dig-for-treasure-and-it-paid-off/
116•sohkamyung•3d ago•53 comments

U.S. has bombed Fordo nuclear plant in attack on Iran

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg3rzj8emjt
421•mattcollins•4h ago•1149 comments

Airpass – easily overcome WiFi time limits

https://airpass.tiagoalves.me/
272•herbertl•3d ago•188 comments

Type Inference Zoo

https://zoo.cuichen.cc/
39•mpweiher•3d ago•2 comments

AllTracker: Efficient Dense Point Tracking at High Resolution

https://alltracker.github.io/
69•lnyan•11h ago•8 comments

Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA

https://smex.org/open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/
720•the-anarchist•1d ago•421 comments

Show HN: Luna Rail – treating night trains as a spatial optimization problem

https://luna-rail.com/en/home-2
45•ant6n•3d ago•8 comments

Compact Representations for Arrays in Lua [pdf]

https://sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/sblp/article/view/30252/30059
53•tkhattra•3d ago•11 comments

Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes

277•throwarayes•12h ago•170 comments

Scaling our observability platform by embracing wide events and replacing OTel

https://clickhouse.com/blog/scaling-observability-beyond-100pb-wide-events-replacing-otel
174•valyala•19h ago•76 comments

Phoenix.new – Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix

https://fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-the-remote-ai-runtime/
547•wut42•1d ago•243 comments

Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/microsoft-edit-text-editor-ubuntu
238•jandeboevrie•3d ago•245 comments

Compiler for the B Programming Language

https://github.com/tsoding/b
32•ycuser2•3d ago•5 comments

Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/06/17/unexpected-security-footguns-in-gos-parsers/
178•ingve•3d ago•97 comments

Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level (2023)

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20231003-countcorrectly.html
30•RA2lover•2d ago•9 comments

uBlock Origin Lite Beta for Safari iOS

https://testflight.apple.com/join/JjTcThrV
196•Squarex•20h ago•37 comments

'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/science/article/2025/06/21/gwada-negative-french-scientists-find-new-blood-type-in-woman_6742577_10.html
144•spidersouris•21h ago•60 comments

Axolotls May Hold the Key to Regrowing Limbs

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/axolotls-may-hold-the-key-to-regrowing-limbs-and-scientists-are-unraveling-their-secrets-to-help-humans-do-the-same-180986781/
48•noleary•2d ago•28 comments

AI is ushering in a 'tiny team' era

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-20/ai-is-ushering-in-the-tiny-team-era-in-silicon-valley
129•kjhughes•10h ago•110 comments

Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app

https://delta.chat/en/
244•Bluestein•22h ago•139 comments

The Nyanja new PC-Engine/TurboGrafx 16-bit console game in development

https://sarupro.itch.io/thenyanja
46•retro_guy•3d ago•1 comments

Balatro for the Nintendo E-Reader

https://mattgreer.dev/blog/balatro-for-the-nintendo-ereader/
106•arantius•11h ago•22 comments

Show HN: MMOndrian

https://mmondrian.com/
54•neural_thing•18h ago•33 comments

Weave (YC W25) is hiring a founding AI engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/weave-3/jobs/SqFnIFE-founding-ai-engineer
1•adchurch•11h ago

Cross-Compilation Toolchains for Linux

https://toolchains.bootlin.com/
16•jstrieb•3d ago•0 comments