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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,192 posts.
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Winding down my Debian involvement
This post is hard to write, both in the emotional sense but also in the “I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn’t have the time” sense. Hence, please assume the best of intentions when reading it—it is not my intention to make anyone feel bad about their contributions, but rather to provide some insight…
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Dear JetBrains, Don't mess with your UI
So we have yet a new UI overhaul. This time, bringing consumer-grade UI practices to the world of professionals. Announcement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/05/take-part-in-the-new-ui-preview-for-your-jetbrains-ide/ We're professionals. We can handle the complexity and the density
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Most “mandatory requirements” in corporations are imaginary
In my day job I work as a consultant. Roughly six months ago my current client had a non-negotiable requirement that consultants are not all...
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The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy
Why I've gotten more and more pessimistic about my relationship with Twitter.
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
Note: This has been cross-posted to my company's blog, in case you think there is some use in sharing with someone in a format that looks more authoritative. Link here .
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Zig's comptime is bonkers good
Programming has obvious abilities to increase productivity through automated manipulation of data. Metaprogramming allows code to be treated as data, turning programming’s power back onto itself. Programming close to the metal has perhaps the most to gain from metaprogramming as high level concepts need to be mapped…
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Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?
People keep asking why Jepsen is written in Clojure , so I figure it’s worth having a referencable answer. I’ve programmed in something like twenty languages. Why choose a Weird Lisp?
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Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty
We have come to a point where end-to-end encrypting all your private data and private communications
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YouTube: filmmakers presumed guilty until maybe proven innocent
[ The following article, along with comments from Smartsound and Shockwave-Sound, was written by Tony Fleming and published with his permission. ]
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Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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I Got a Knuth Check for 0x$3.00
Donald Knuth is a computer scientist who is so committed to the correctness of his books that he offers one US hexadecimal dollar ($2.56, 0x$1.00) for any “bug” found in his books, where a bug is anything that is “technically, historically, typographically, or politically incorrect”. I wanted to get a Knuth check for…
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Has_not_been_viewed_much
Museum APIs and the art that hasn't been viewed much.
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I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews
Leetcode-style interviews do not reflect real-world software engineering problems.
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LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 percent of games and other apps available for download on LG’s…
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Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over
Algorithms are no longer a Get out of Jail free card. The Third Circuit ruled that TikTok must stand trial for manipulating children into harming themselves. The business model of big tech is over.
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I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster
I ordered a set of 10 Compute Blades in April 2023 (two years ago), and they just arrived a few weeks ago. In that time Raspberry Pi upgraded the CM4 to a CM5, so I ordered a set of 10 16GB CM5 Lite modules for my blade cluster. That should give me 160 GB of total RAM to play with. This was the biggest Pi cluster I've…
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What are you doing, WordPress.com?
Be sure to check out the update at the bottom. I recently wrote that I've stuck with WordPress.com for so long, for all its purported limitations, because its features fully suffice the committed blogger whose content is textual for the most part and because the company behind WordPress.com is running a good business…
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A case against security nihilism
This week a group of global newspapers is running a series of articles detailing abuses of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. If you haven’t seen any of these articles, they’re worth re…
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A 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badge of Honour
Your 60 hour work week is not a badge of honour. It is a problem. It means the business design has failed, or there's a breakdown in communication, or worse.
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As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook
Writing code is a part of being a software developer but often more important question is to figure what code to write and how and that I like to do away from computer with my notebook.
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I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation”
Organizing my thoughts regarding an argument about the Dunning-Kruger study and statistics in general
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Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments
Over the past few years, Apple seems increasingly willing to cooperate with authoritarian governments, uninterested in protecting its own users, and unwillin...
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Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level
[Sidney Harris cartoon used with permission. Copyright holder: ScienceCartoonsPlus.com .]
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PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
Introduction post to postmarketOS , a touch-optimized, pre-configured Alpine Linux with own packages, that can be installed on smartphones. (Not usable for most people yet!)
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Dynamic programming is not black magic
This year’s Advent of Code has been brutal (compare the stats of 2023 with that of 2022, especially day 1 part 1 vs. day 1 part 2). It included a problem to solve with dynamic programming as soon as day 12, which discouraged some people I know. This specific problem was particularly gnarly for Advent […]