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Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 11,903 posts.
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Disney Lost Roger Rabbit
Gary K Wolf is the author of a fantastic 1981 novel called Who Censored Roger Rabbit? which Disney licensed and turned into an equally fantastic 1988 live action/animated hybrid movie called Who Framed Roger Rabbit? But despite the commercial and critical acclaim of the movie, Disney hasn't made any feature-length…
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HTTP-over-QUIC will officially become HTTP/3
The protocol that's been called HTTP-over-QUIC for quite some time has now changed name and will officially become HTTP/3. This was triggered by this original suggestion by Mark Nottingham. The QUIC Working Group in the IETF works on creating the QUIC transport protocol. QUIC is a TCP replacement done over UDP…
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Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools
While I was there, I thought a lot about tools – mechanical tools, software tools, tools that last, and tools that are fragile. The somber snow-covered scenery made me think about how quickly most of the tools we use today get outdated or replaced, and I thought about the kinds of tools that I’ve been building for…
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Wasmtime 1.0
As of today, the Wasmtime WebAssembly runtime is now at 1.0! This means that all of us in the Bytecode Alliance agree that it is fully ready to use in production.
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NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent
Yesterday (Feb 5 2014) On February 4th, NBC News ran a story claiming that if you bring your mobile phone or laptop to the Sochi Olympics...
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Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases
Apple uses Cassandra and FoundationDB for CloudKit, their cloud backend service. We take a look into how exactly each is used within their cloud and the problems they've solved.
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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world
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The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in …
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Hey advertisers, track this
If it feels like the ads chasing you across the internet know you a little too well, it’s because they do (unless you’re an avid user of ad blockers, i
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Why I'm Betting On Julia
The problem with most programming languages is they’re designed by language geeks, who tend to worry about things that I don’t much care for. Safety, type systems, homoiconicity, and so forth. I’m sure these things are great, but when I’m messing around with a new project for fun, my two concerns are 1) making it work…
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Pinboard Turns Five
Today marks five years since I launched the website that my mom still refers to as ' the other bedbugs '. Happy business birthday to me!
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VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
17 out of 20 popular VPNs exit traffic from different countries than they claim. Dig into what that means and why it matters in our VPN report.
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Pentagon and CIA shaped thousands of Hollywood movies into effective propaganda
Propaganda is most impactful when people don't think it's propaganda, and most decisive when it's censorship you never knew happened. When we imagine that the U.S. military only occasionally and slightly influences U.S. movies, we are extremely badly deceived.
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Comparing Elixir and Go
Compare Elixir and Go for high concurrency solutions. Understand their differences in programming styles, concurrency models, and error handling. Learn more!
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Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
Use Dagster, dbt, and BigQuery to analyze suspicious GitHub star activity and protect open-source credibility.
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How the Claude Code team does code review
How do you review code at the volume agents produce it? On the Claude Code team, once we had high coverage and deep reviews, we started optimizing for the minimum amount of human review time that doesn't raise reverts or incidents.
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I don't like NumPy
it’s too hard
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Second-Order Thinking
Second-order thinking is a mental model that smart people like Warren Buffett & Howard Marks use to avoid problems. Read this article to learn how it works.
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Update on Samsung SSD Reliability
We have been very public about how reliable Samsung SSDs have been in the past, so we wanted to explain why we are now moving part of our line to Sabrent.
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The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
The Pinboard Co-Prosperity Cloud is a startup self-incubator. Six successful applicants will receive a modest amount of funding and as much publicity as I can provide for their sustainable and useful business idea.
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Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria. That’s what shadow libraries do - collect and share as many
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Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers
A system for leveling up at Square
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Our self imposed scarcity of nice places
Why is it that when a place is [pick one: walkable, bikeable, beautiful, lovable, inviting, human-scale], it so often gets coded as being “gentrified” or “upscale”?
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CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University
Get ready for the CCPA compliance scams from Princeton.
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