Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 912 posts.
Welcome to this month’s community update. As many of you know, we have now entered the Chinese New Year (CNY) period, which means that all manufacturing and related business activities have ground to a halt. It is always a mad rush to complete ongoing work prior to CNY, but now that the festive period is upon us we…
Paper & pencil are the best tools for thinking. Let's enhance them!
New York Times op-ed recently decried tricks websites use to manipulate users… but have you ever tried to cancel your NY Times subscription?
I worked on Rust part-time for several years at Mozilla. During that period I regularly summarized how the compiler’s performance had improved. For example: 2017-11-12 to 2019-07-24.
There's been a lot of discussion recently about how "Safari is the new IE" (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). I don't want to rehash the basics of that, but I have seen some...
My inbox is stuffed with pitches from start-ups wanting to compete with Roblox, that plucky Lego-ish multiplayer game-creation platform currently valued at 41 billion dollars. They shouldn't try, but here's how to maybe not fail if they insist anyways.
One of my favorite questions to ask people is: what are some things that you used to strongly believe but have now changed your mind about?
A discussion of aggregation in PostgreSQL and how it integrates with the design of Timescale’s hyperfunctions.
Apps on Fly.io all get their own routable IPv4 addresses. Here's what that costs us.
Over the last 25 years, I’ve written a lot of event-driven code in C++. A typical example of event-driven code is registering a callback that gets invoked every time a socket has data to be read. Once you have read an entire message, possibly after many invocations, you parse the message and invoke another callback…
A brand new version of the best free open source office suite, based on the LibreOffice Technology platform for desktop, mobile and cloud productivity Berlin, February 3, 2021 – LibreOffice 7.1 Community, the volunteer-supported version of the best open source office suite for desktop productivity, is available from…
We rendered the top 1 million pages on the web, tracking every conceivable performance metric, logging every error, noting every requested URL. To our knowledge this produces the first dataset that connects performance, errors, and library use on the web. In this article we analyze what the data can tell us about…
Maybe I'm paranoid. But, I think there's a lot of smart people out there dedicating their life's work to make others keep watching videos. Since YouTube's incomprehensible decision to remove dislikes count it's become even easier to waste time on worthless content. In this blog post, I'll describe a simple trick that…
The trustworthiness of our platform is crucial, and our team is committed to developer productivity and Actions performing the way we intended.
Why media whisperer Margit Wennmachers is going direct.
I needed to list all files in a directory, but ls , find , and os.listdir all hung. This is my story.
The first half of this conversation is a searingly honest account of...
SERIES 1 The Vacuum Cleaner The Washing Machine The Sewing Machine The Refrigerator The Central Heating System The Television
WhatsApp's rise and recent PR efforts highlight a class of business models that I call "user domestication".
Since I work a lot with clustered VMs , I’ve ended up spending a lot of time trying to figure out how DNS lookups work. I applied ‘fixes’ to my problems from StackOverflow without really understanding why they work (or don’t work) for some time.
David shares the paradox of abundance and how to make a healthy information diet for yourself. Read here.
Let's play silly games with URLs...
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet
The story of its last-minute pivot and epic comeback.
