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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,400 posts.
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Safari to Include DuckDuckGo as a Built-In Search Option
Link to: http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/apps/
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The URL shortener situation is out of control
I saw a URL today on Twitter to an article on Slate.com. It was a custom short ...
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Downloading All of Hacker News Posts and Comments
Shital Shah's personal website and blog. Research Engineer at Microsoft Research with interests in deep learning and reinforcement learning. Created AirSim, TensorWatch, archai, most recently worked on training Phi series of LLM models.
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Top Web Design Mistakes of 1999
New technology and conventions have led to several new classes of usability problems in Web design.
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Light Table 0.6.6
Happy to announce a new, and fairly big, release of Light Table today! The highlight of this release comes from moving LT to CodeMirror 4 , which gives us multiple cursors, tons of performance improvements, and a few other little editing niceties. Here’s a list of the new multiple cursors commands:
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Alfred and OS X 10.10 Yosemite
Apple announced OS X Yosemite today. Don't worry, Alfred is here to stay - and continues to grow beautifully.
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Common Server Setups For Your Web App
When deciding which server architecture to use for your environment, there are many factors to consider, such as performance, scalability, availability, reli…
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My journey into the Berlin startup scene
Six years as Heroku’s CTO was the greatest professional experience of my life. But what’s next?
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ZFS Gotchas
Things Nobody Told You About ZFS Yes, it's back. You may also notice it is now hosted on my Blogger page - just don't have time to deal w...
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Your next conference should have real-time captioning
I was one of the organizers of !!Con, a free conference about the joy, excitement and surprise of programming that happened two weeks ago in New York.
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Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi
Learning the lesson of vi
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An upgrade to attoparsec, Haskell parsing library: more speed, more power
I’m pleased to introduce the third generation of my attoparsec parsing library. With a major change to its internals, it is both faster and more powerful than previous versions, while remaining backwards compatible. Comparing to C Let’s start with a speed comparison between the hand-written C code that powers…
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Who or What Broke My Kids?
I am DesperateI am on a desperate search to find out who or what broke my students. In fact I am so desperate that I stopped class today to ask them who broke them. Was it their parents, a former…
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Why Ada isn't Popular (1998)
Rick Thorne writes: > In truth, I like Ada too. I'm a former Ada man myself, as I believe I > mentioned. There are great things about the language, and since we're all > aware of them there's no point in going into them. I also prefer Beta to > VHS. Mathew Heaney responds: This is actually a specious comparison…
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The Rise of the $8 Ice Cube
At $8 a piece (or $325 for 50), luxury ice cubes probably cost more than whatever you're drinking.
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How LEDs are Made
During the 2014 trip to China, our supplier YunSun was kind enough to pick us up in Shenzhen and give us a tour of their factory.
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OpenGL Is Broken
UPDATE (3/20/2015) If you read this, know that Vulkan has addressed every issue I raise in this article. See my postscript here .