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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,198 posts.
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How I built a keyboard by hand
I had spare mechanical keyboard switches and keycaps from other keyboard projects, and I wanted to see if it would be feasible to build a keyboard using only hand tools.
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How to create a Python package in 2022
How do you create a Python package? How do you set up automated testing and code coverage? How do you publish the package? That's what this article...
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First trans-Atlantic contact made on 432 MHz
On Tuesday the 7th of April 2020 , a remarkable contact was made with the FT8 digital mode on 432 MHz between D4VHF on the Cape Verde Is...
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How to think in writing
The thought behind the thought
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Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 Quintillion
Intel’s manuals for their x86/x64 processor clearly state that the fsin instruction (calculating the trigonometric sine) has a maximum error, in round-to-nearest mode, of one unit in the last place…
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Rust Performance Pitfalls
Overall, Rust is pretty good for performance. Write the most simple, naive stuff, and it will usually run within a factor of two from optimized C/C++ code, without any further performance work on the code. With some investment into optimizations, matching or exceeding C’s speed should be possible in most cases…
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FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies
For FastCGI's 30th birthday, let's look at how it avoids the security problems inherent in HTTP reverse proxying
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Unauthorized access to cameras in Safari on macOS and iOS
A vulnerability in Safari allowed hackers to access the iPhone and Macbook cameras. (CVE-2020-3852, CVE-2020-3864, CVE-2020-3865, CVE-2020-3885, CVE-2020-3887 & CVE-2020-9784)
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Isometric Pixel Art
Intro Isometric pixel art is based on the isometric projection, which is a method for accurately ‘projecting’ 3D objects into fancy 2D. Unlike perspective drawing, there is no vanishing point in isometric projection. Furthermore, the 3 coordinate axis have equal foreshortening, eliminating the need
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Making small games, which is fun in itself
Creating small games is an enjoyable endeavor in itself. So what constitutes a small game? According to the 'Small Game Manifesto', 1 it refers to games that conclude within 10 minutes and can be easily played on browsers.
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Apple squandered the Holy Grail
Why Apple Intelligence failed even though everything it's built upon is nearly perfect
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I quit. The clankers won
The one where I pack up my bags.
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Google Fights Back
At Google I/O, Google was the opposite of defensive: the company set out to make the case that its approach made for better products that makes people’s lives better
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Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
Discover how a single Raspberry Pi can speed up your home network by acting as a DNS server. Learn the steps to set up Pi-hole and enjoy faster, more secure internet today!
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What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications
I wrote recently about what Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple are doing to your email: how four providers stopped being transport layers and turned into active intermediaries between brands and their customers, parsing, ranking, summarising, and increasingly answering on the recipient's behalf.
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Save your eyes, start using f.lux
Software to warm up your computer display at night, to match your indoor lighting.
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How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works
Get the details on how the built-in ad-blocker in Google Chrome works. The ad-blocker only kicks in on websites in violation of the Better Ad Standards policies.
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Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
This has been on my mind for a while, and with a couple of things lately stoking my ire (the NFT resurgence, and Signal integrating MobileCoin), I’ve finally pushed myself to put it into words.
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Penny Arcade’s Insultingly Horrible Job
This is everything wrong with tech-startup culture, unreasonable expectations, and workaholism in one job posting, by a company with a massive audience that probably contains a very high percentage of young software developers.
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Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG
Long awaited first paper from Meta Superintelligence Labs is not a model layer innovation. What does this mean?
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AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please
Sergey Filimonov's blog
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There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station
For over thirty years, a dead rabbit has hung inside Seven Sisters tube station, and thousands of people walk past it every day without noticing.