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The whole thing was a scam
The fix was in, and Dario never had a chance.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,176 posts.
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The age of average
In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was intended to be a unique a colla
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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
How I wrote filter rules for YouTube
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The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing
On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable.
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Open Social
The protocol is the API.
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How to assess the quality of garments (2014)
What's the number one prerequisite to building a high-quality wardrobe? Exactly: You need to be able to recognize a quality garment when you see one. You need to be able to tell the difference between a durable, well-crafted piece and one that looks pretty on the rack but won't last more than half a
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Slow
What problems can human beings only solve over a very long period of time? And how can we build institutions that solve those problems?
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Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
The saga on Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange, and how tech always serves the ruling class.
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Do dentists know what they're doing?
After all, they’re just practicing
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I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
In which I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft… and give it to you.
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20 lines of code that beat A/B testing every time
<img src="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/bandits/MAB-2.jpg"/> A/B testing is used far too often, for something that performs so badly. It is defective by design: Segment users into two groups. Show the A group the old, tried and true stuff. Show the B group the new whiz-bang design with the bigger…
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What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023
Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky
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Going Critical
Learn how things spread with playable simulations
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Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
The past few weeks have seen a large number of new domain registrations beginning with the word “reopen” and ending with U.S. city or state names. The largest number of them were created just hours after President Trump sent a series of all-caps tweets urging citizens to “liberate” themselves from new gun control…
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I’m very excited to share that I’m investing in reddit (personally, not via Y Combinator). I have been a daily reddit user for 9 years—longer than pretty much any other service I still use...
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Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014)
This is the expanded version of a talk I gave on September 9, 2014 , at the HOW Interactive Design conference in Washington, DC.
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“Game Programming Patterns” is now finished
I’m here to help! Game Programming Patterns is a collection of patterns I found in games that make code cleaner, easier to understand, and faster .
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Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake
Trying to see the world more clearly
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Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining
Watching OpenAI’s new o3 model guess where a photo was taken is one of those moments where decades of science fiction suddenly come to life. It’s a cross between the …
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I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to find
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ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
Edit April 2, 2026: I've been getting inbound interest from researchers wanting to run their own queries. The MCP integration I use for my own research lets you analyze live mobile telemetry continuously collected from real devices in the wild, directly from Claude. To access it reach out at
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SQLite is not a toy database
Here is why SQLite is a perfect tool for you - whether you are a developer, data analyst, or geek.
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So I took a corporation to arbitration
I'm Shu. This site is mainly to document long distance running while on a ketogenic diet. Sometimes there are posts about technology.
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What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?
In August of 2015, my hands stopped working. This is what happened next.
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Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
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Apple broke up with me
Do not get too attached to your Apple account; it belongs to Apple, NOT YOU!