Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,330 posts.
One day in the mid-1920s, a Moscow newspaper reporter named Solomon Shereshevsky entered the laboratory of the psychologist Alexander Luria. Shereshevsky's boss at the newspaper had noticed that Shereshevsky never needed to take any notes, but somehow still remembered all he was told, and had suggested he get his…
Datasette (previously) is my open source tool for exploring and publishing structured data. There are a lot of ideas embedded in Datasette. I realized that I haven’t put many of …
tl;dr - a collection of nearly 3k alleged data breaches has appeared with a bunch of data already proven legitimate from previous incidents, but also tens of millions of addresses that haven't been seen in HIBP before. Those 80M records are now searchable, read on for the full story:
A visual exploration of what The Four Color Theorem can say about software complexity.
You have heard of “zip bombs” (a tiny ZIP file that decompresses to multiple gigabytes) and “XML bombs” (small XML file abusing the entities to consume lots of memory), and …
How I finally decided what is better (for me), Lisp or Haskell?
Face it: nobody likes fractions, not even computers.
It was clear when Ouster started developing the OS-1 three years ago that deep learning research for cameras was outpacing lidar research…
In this essay, after a brief review of the work we’ve already done on the Mockingbird, we’ll derive the Why Bird, known most famously as the Y Combinator . The why bird provides all the benefits of the mockingbird, but allows us to write more idiomatic JavaScript. We’ll see that one of the benefits of writing…
Would you like to study a programming language but can’t quite make up your mind on what’s the best option for you?
A couple weeks ago, Galois and Immunant launched c2rust. Since I wrote one of the best-known C-to-Rust translation tools (Corrode), and since I worked for Ga...
I don’t know if it helps, but Illinois CS distinguishes the two kinds of programs with two different degrees: MS in CS for the research program, and MCS for the coursework program. Most of the MS students receive funding andtuition waivers, while I’m not sure if the MCS students are even eligible for support.
When the iPhone X launched, a lot of designers were put off about the screen shape. Those complaints have mostly died down, but I haven’t…
Let’s say you are the founder and CEO of a startup and you have now been at it for four years. The company is doing great, you’ve raised several rounds of financing, you have a product in the market that is solving a real problem, you have a bunch of customers, you have a growing […]
An update on my progress since going off to work on my own.
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In a stuffed apartment filled with hydrofluoric acid, oscilloscopes and a transistor curve tracer, Jeri Ellsworth carefully places a hand-cut silicon wafer into a 1000 degree furnace. The ambient noise of police sirens can be heard in the background: "Ugh, the police are coming... So the instructions for the…
ramblings by Adam Perry
Someone : Did you hear that Facebook/Google uses a giant monorepo? WTF! Me : Yeah! It's really convenient, don't you think? Someone : That's THE MOST RIDICULOUS THING I've ever heard. Don't FB and Google know what a terrible idea it is to put all your code in a single repo? Me : I think engineers at FB and Google are…
