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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,763 posts.
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C++ on Embedded Systems
Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.
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NetBSD fully reproducible builds
I have been working on and off for almost a year trying to get reproducible builds (the same source tree always builds an identical cdrom) on NetBSD. I did not think at the time it would take as long or be so difficult, so I did not keep a log of all the changes I needed to make. I was also not the only one working on…
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Cross-Site Request Forgery is dead
After toiling with Cross-Site Request Forgery on the web for, well forever really, we finally have a proper solution, it's Same-Site Cookies.
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Running Costs of a SaaS app
A close look at the costs that go into running Cushion and the reasons why we use specific services.
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Starting an Internet Service Provider
The personal site of Chris Hacken — entrepreneur and operator who founded and sold Loop Internet. Essays and a podcast on building internet infrastructure, companies, and other hard things.
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How we built a back end system for Uber-like maps with animated cars
IT blog about developing and managing enterprise-level software solutions for blockchain, fintech, transportation & logistics, security, edtech, and advertising industries.
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Deleting Uber is the least you can do
Uber is what you get when you take Silicon Valley’s most toxic values, add billions of dollars in venture capital, and spice it with…
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From math to machine: translating a function to machine code
In this post I'm going to explore how a mathematical concept can be redefined in progressively more computer-oriented terms, all the way from high level languages down to machine code, ready for direct execution by a computer. To that end, I'm going to define the same logic in several different but related formats:
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Do we need a new heading element in HTML?
There's a proposal to add a new <h> element to the HTML spec . It solves a fairly common use-case. Take this HTML snippet:
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My Interview at Uber
A little less than a year ago I had the “pleasure” to interview at Uber. I didn’t know much about the company at the time, other than that they were big. I was looking for work already and Uber’s…
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How copying an int made my code 11 times faster
I have moved off Medium to a personal blog. Click here for the updated post.
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Adventures in /usr/bin and the likes
Digging up some useful and not so popular commands in Linux
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The Great Moon Hoax
On August 25, 1835 the <i>New York Sun</i> announced the discovery of life on the moon. It explained that the discovery had been made by the famous British astronomer Sir John Herschel, who had invented a new telescope of vast dimensions and an entirely new principle. Over the course of the next week the <i>Sun</i>…
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Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber
As most of you know, I left Uber in December and joined Stripe in January. I've gotten a lot of questions over the past couple of months about why I left and what my time at Uber was like. It's a strange, fascinating, and slightly horrifying story that deserves to be told while it is still fresh in
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Personal thoughts about Pyston's outcome
I try to not read HN/Reddit too much about Pyston, since while there are certainly some smart and reasonable people on there, there also seem to be quite a few people with axes to grind (*cough cou…
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'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Getting started with vim
Luca Pette's website
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Recommendations about coding in C++
Find software and development products, explore tools and technologies, connect with other developers and more. Sign up to manage your products.
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Geek Career Paths
Suppose you’re doing technology, and like doing technology, and your career’s going well, and you find yourself wondering what you’re going to be doing in twenty years. I’ve been down several of the roads you might decide to take, and it occurs to me that talking them over might amuse and inform.
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$5 Showdown: Linode vs. DigitalOcean vs. Amazon Lightsail vs. Vultr
Updated on March 6th, 2017 since Vultr has updated their $5 offering. The data tables have been updated and the applicable sections have updates near the end of the section.