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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,419 posts.
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Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena
In this post, we show you how to export data from a DynamoDB table, convert it into a more efficient format with AWS Glue, and query the data with Athena. This approach gives you a way to pull insights from your data stored in DynamoDB.
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Machine Learning for Drummers
TL;DR: In this post, I build an app that classifies whether an audio sample is a kick drum, snare drum, or other drum sample with 87% accuracy using 🎉machine learning. 🎉
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How to read Plato (1995)
This page is part of the "e-mail archives" section of a site, Plato and his dialogues , dedicated to developing a new interpretation of Plato's dialogues. The "e-mail archives" section includes HTML edited versions of posts that I submitted on various e-mail discussion lists about Plato and ancient philosophy. Note: I…
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The Wisdom And/or Madness of Crowds
an interactive guide to human networks
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How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit
Lewis Van Winkle, he creator of F5Bot—a free service that emails you when selected keywords are mention on Reddit, Hacker News, or Lobsters—explains in detail how it works, and how it's able to scrape million of Reddit comments per day.
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Facebook Lenses
Facebook was down dramatically after its last earnings; to decide if it is justified it is worth looking at the company through many different lenses, both financial and strategic.
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Elastic TabStops: A Better Way to Indent and Align Code (2017)
Elastic tabstops - a better way to indent and align code
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Gamifying propositional logic: QED, an interactive textbook
About six years ago on this blog, I started thinking about trying to make a web-based game based around high-school algebra, and ended up using Scratch to write a short but playable puzzle game in …
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Java's Magic Sauce
Read Java blog posts to learn how to save on license fees, get better performance, use more secure Java, and optimize cloud costs.
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The Blockchain Bubble Will Pop, What Next?
Last week, I flew from London to Tel Aviv. The man sitting to my right was a road warrior, just this side of a late-night bender in London. He was rocking an ostentatious pair of
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A Spectre is Haunting Unicode
In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people noticed something strange - several of the added characters had no…
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Fear of Macros
Practical Racket macros
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Is Cobol holding you hostage with Math?
Face it: nobody likes fractions, not even computers.
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Administrative Purgatory
your case is still going through administrative processing and we don't know when that process will be completed. Last year I was denied to go to the US when I was about to travel to San Francisco. Me and my employer's legal team never got answers as to why this happened so I've personally tried … Continue reading…
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The mysterious heart of the Roland TR-808 drum machine
The strange story of a rejected batch of transistors at the heart of the world's most iconic drum machine - The Roland TR-808.
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Secure Boot and the 2018 MacBook Pro
the vent for my mind
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An ingenious vintage German cycle map (2014)
We cycled the Swiss part of the Rhine Cycleway last week, with our folding bikes neatly stowed in suitcases for the flight. A combination of cycle.travel (natch), the Cicerone guide, and the excellent MapOut app guided us safely along the way: a very modern combination of mapping styles.
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Vulnerability in Hangouts Chat: how Electron makes open redirect great again
A few mongth ago, Google released a new product - Hangouts Chat application, which is surely an answer to Slack . Hangouts Chat might be us...
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Macbook eGPU Redux: Sticking a GTX 1080 in an AKiTiO Thunder2
How I upgraded my Macbook's Thunder2 eGPU from a bus-powered GTX 1050 Ti SC to a PSU-powered GTX 1080.
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Transparent SLIs: See Google Cloud the way your application experiences it
By Jay Judkowitz, Sr. Product Manager Like all good IT organizations, you religiously measure the performance and availability of your ser...
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Mea culpa: there is a crisis in the humanities
NOTE 8/23: I've written a more thoughtful version of this argument for the Atlantic. They're not the same, but if you only read one piece, ...
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A response about dep and vgo
Peter Bourgon has a web site, and this is that web site.