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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. 153 posts.
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Systems design explains the world: volume 1
"Systems design" is a branch of study that tries to find universal architectural patterns that are valid across disciplines. You might thin...
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Sponsoring Open Source Developers
We are pleased to announce today that Cognitect and Nubank will be sponsoring dozens of contributors to the Clojure ecosystem with regular monthly support.
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Discipline Doesn’t Scale
If programmers were just more disciplined, more professional, they'd write better software. All they need is a code of conduct telling them how to work like those of us who've worked it out. The above statement is true, which is a good thing for those of us interested in improving the state of software and...
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PostgreSQL community impact of 2nd Quadrant purchase
This blog is about my work on the Postgres open source database, and is published on Planet PostgreSQL. PgLife allows monitoring of all Postgres community activity.
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Simple Analytics hits $4k MRR and shares its numbers
Simple Analytics open page shows an updated overview of key financial and customer-focused metrics.
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Eight Years at Roblox
I joined Roblox at the end of 2012 as a rendering engineer; I had just spent more than a year working on various titles from FIFA franchise after years of console game development and was becoming a bit tired of the “big game development”. My work on FIFA was as a contractor and I got an offer for a full-time…
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Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API
GPT-3 is indeed a large step forward for AI text-generation, but there are very many caveats with the popular demos and use cases.
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Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team
My quest is to build beautiful things that help change the world, and I’ve been fortunate to spend the last 15 years in Silicon Valley, working with some of the major players shaping all sorts of technology. Today, I’m super excited to join SiFive - the company I believe is best positioned to transform the silicon…
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Is Hacker News Bullshit?
The future of online media
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Now Open – AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The AWS Region in Africa that Jeff promised you in 2018 is now open. The official name is Africa (Cape Town) and the API name is af-south-1. You can start using this new Region today to deploy workloads and…
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Is revenue model more important than culture?
HN Discussion Here: I always loved getting problems of the type “What is the limit as x approaches infinity” type in high-school/college. You’re given an equation (of the classic y=x format), and a…
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Someone attacked our company
At the start of November, someone decided that they would try to attack and destroy our company. Here’s how we stopped them.
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GoDaddy and Felons.io – The life of an unregistered domain
GoDaddy never has and never will use customer search data to register domain names. Read on to learn more.
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Google Meet premium video meetings–free for everyone
To help businesses, schools, and others navigate remote work and life, we're making our premium video conferencing solution free for all.
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On not choosing WordPress for the W3C redesign project
Explaining the background of our choice on CMS platform and the response to a recent WordPress Tavern post
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Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots
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Wirecard – The “German Enron”, and a personal history
For those who just came back from a 15 year space mission: Wirecard is a German company that according to its website is ” one of the world’s fastest-growing digital platforms for fina…
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My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work
I’ve become increasingly disgruntled at the state of hiring, and now I’m mad enough to write this blog post.
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The GitHub Availability Report
What is the Availability Report? Historically, GitHub has published post-incident reviews for major incidents that impact service availability. Whether we’re sharing new investments to infrastructure or detailing site downtimes, our…
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Facebook acquires Mapillary
Today we're announcing that Mapillary has joined Facebook on the quest to improve maps everywhere and for everyone.
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A case for ending lockdown
Introduction [DISCLAIMER: The original author is a layperson without medical/scientific credentials and this post represents a best-effort attempt to synthesize relevant research and unpack the policy implications of the “lockdown” approach as compared with the proposed alternative.] [Note: See the very last section…
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Corporate Socialism: The Government Is Bailing Out Investors and Not You
(With Mark Spitznagel)
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Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade
For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a ...
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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
Apple reported its fourth quarter financial results for the fiscal year after the market close on Thursday, October 29, 2020.