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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,307 posts.
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Hard Tech is Back
First of all, congrats to Kyle, Dan, and the rest of the Cruise team. You all have made amazing progress and we look forward to seeing more in the future. A popular criticism of Silicon Valley,...
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Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services
On March 14, 2016 it has been 10 years since the launch of Amazon S3, the first AWS service. Here are some lessons learned in those 10 years
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BMW and the GPL
I accidentally caused a little brouhaha last week - for which I would like to apologise. In my blog post about BMW's unencrypted software updates, I said: Judging from the files, it would appear that the infotainment system is made by Magneti Marelli with components by Wind River, AutoSAR, and Nvidia Tegra. Looking at…
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Please scan my towel
My friend Scott pointed out the towels in most hotels now have RFID tags to help with inventory control: I also knew that my RSA Conference badge would have an RFID tag in it so it could be scanne…
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Trackers
A couple of weeks ago I went to the local shopping centre looking for a thermometer. After entering one store upon leaving without buying anything a tracker was assigned to me. I didn’t think much of it at first, but he followed me dutifully around the shopping centre, took careful note of how I walked. Whenever I…
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Frameworks Don't Make Much Sense
Frameworks are one of the hugest anti-patterns in software development. They're hard to learn. They limit your creativity. They increase your project's complexity and dependencies. They go out of business and get abandoned. You have to maintain and upgrade your code to match the latest framework versions for no good...
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Playing “Moneyball” on EA FIFA 16
I'm an EA FIFA enthusiast. More than that, I’ve played since 1994. Last year, I was talking with a friend about the game and he asked me if I was playing Career Mode. My first answer was: "That is boring ... I want to play the real game and not play as a manager". From that day, he decided to convince me to play…
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Hacking with LaTeX
In this blogpost I want to outline basic attacks against web based LaTeX compilers. This inspired me to create the Web90 - TexMaker challenge.\n
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When Accessibility Gets Labeled Wasteful
Note on Accessibility There has been some concerns about the contrast on this blog, unfortunately some find it hard to read light text on a dark background while others prefer it. I am looking into…
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John Carmack on Idea Generation
Last year at an internal talk at Facebook I was fortunate to see [John Carmack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack) speak about his idea generation system. At first I was disappointed because...
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Ansible vs. Chef (2015)
I wrote an earlier post about evaluating Ansible as an alternative to Chef. So after spending many years with Chef, I’ve found that Ansible is a lot easier to manage with startups. It’s easier to train developers, it’s easier to manage inventory and orchestration, and it works reasonably well on the scale of thousands…
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What if You Only Invested at Market Peaks?
What happens when you only invest at the peaks of the market by being the world's worst market timer.
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Data Structures in JavaScript
Freelance web developer, lover of JS and all new stuff #reactjs, #redux, #docker #machinelearning... Co-founder and CTO @AppBubbleBD, involved in @AllOverSequins, @recursecenter alumni
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Pencil: A Microframework Inspired by Flask for Rust
Just create the static folder under your application root path, it just works. Now you can visit http://localhost:5000/static/example.png and get your file. You can customize the static folder and static url path.
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Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop
Ever since I upgraded to Windows 10 it’s felt like my battery life is worse. My suspicion was various scanning tasks that were springing to life more frequently, but it was just a hunch. So, …
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Interactive NBA Shot Charts with R and Shiny
Make your own NBA shot charts. Open-source, interactive dashboard interface to NBA Stats API built with R and Shiny
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A Brief Glance at How Various Text Editors Manage Their Textual Data (2015)
A blog about computing and other fun.
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Machine Learning in Rust
This post is aimed at readers who are familiar with Rust and want some insight into why it is great for machine learning.
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Python Patterns (2013)
python patterns diagram Over the past few months a number of people have come to me for guidance regarding various aspects of Python development, so I ...
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Big News for ZFS on Linux
Canonical announced a few weeks ago that ZFS will be included in the next release of Ubuntu Linux, on by default and fully supported. And it’s no exaggeration…
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How I could have hacked any Facebook account
Note: This is being published with the permission of Facebook under the responsible disclosure policy. The vulnerability is now fixed. ...
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How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?
Two weeks ago, Spotify announced it was migrating from its own datacentres to Google Cloud Platform.