Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,710 posts.
I’ve been going round and round in my mind about a particular discussion around LLMs: are they really similar to compilers? Are we headed toward a world where people don’t look at the underlying code for their programs?
A few days ago, The new York Times (owner of Wordle) announced that from 2 February it would start reusing some words from previous years. Their announcem...
No, you're not going to code your own Jira
I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others about leaving Dis...
A simple personal website and blog
Verily, some of our brethren (and sistren) be afflicted with a sinister disposition. While the righteous scroll using the thumb of their right hand - as is good and proper - an accurs'd minority swing the other way. Look, you try writing an interesting bug report without sounding like a clanker, OK! I try to optimise…
A personal note for the non-tech people in my life on what AI is starting to change — why it's moving faster than you think, and what to do about it.
TLDR: Spanish traders in the 1600s did not want to count their thumbs, which influenced GnuCash's database design choices in 1997. Much like a horse's arse set the standard for railways . How seemingly odd design turns out to be a genius solution that serves people pretty well.
Scaling is a complex topic, but after working at big tech on services handling millions of requests and scaling my own startup (AlgoMaster.io) from scratch, I’ve realized that most systems evolve through a surprisingly similar set of stages as they grow.
Nitter gets a cease & desist from X while the atproto makes the Internet more open.
Personal website of Chad Arimura - My agent setup
Semaglutide is a peptide. Your stomach’s entire job is to destroy peptides.
Similar to the previous post, this post covers my analysis of a benchmark on RISC-V targets. Unlike the previous post, I was able to land a patch to eliminate the performance gap to GCC (for this benchmark)!
The Space Shuttle's five 1 general-purpose computers played a critical role in each flight: controlling the engines, monitoring thousands o...
In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point chip, a co-processor that made floating-point operations up to 100 times faster. This chip...
Why AI doom rhetoric from Anthropic, OpenAI and other tech leaders functions as hype, regulatory strategy, and a distraction from present harms.
America in 1926 was obsessed with technology, immigration, women, work, and money. Sound familiar?
It was a hot mess, but the myth is useful today.
People lined up around stores at midnight like they do for a new Apple product.
Make the Trump administration object. Make them defend the indefensible — in public. Make clear why the apps were removed from the app stores and force Musk — and Trump, if he chooses — to argue that those things are A-OK by them. In court.
Published: 05-07-2026 20:33 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
A visual and intuitive intro to complex number system providing a historical overview of how it was developed and why it is useful.
Back in 2005, when I first joined the SUNY Buffalo CSE department, the department secretary was a wonderful lady named Joann, who was over 6...
The truly No JavaScript web component.
The expanded form of a testimony I prepared for Congress.
(This is an adapted version of part of an article I wrote for the Dutch amateur radio magazine Electron , August 2016.)
I get kidnapped by the MIG while adding DDR3 to our CPU
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, providing lab space for astronauts and experiment...
