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As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)
Companies are willing to lay off employees despite being profitable.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,433 posts.
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All you need is Wide Events, not "Metrics, Logs and Traces"
This quote from Charity Majors is probably the best summary of the current state of observability in the tech industry - a total, mass confusion.
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Group chats rule the world
The importance and dynamics of private group chats in shaping tech discourse
1024
I hacked a train toilet
The other day I rode on a Class 800 train in the UK. This is the “Intercity Express” train designed to replace the venerable HST (Intercity 125 with Mark 3 coaches, a train of which I have many memories and which I will dearly miss).
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The best browser bookmarking system is files
(Thanks for getting this on front page of HackerNews!) Along the years I have tested various...
1026
What you've got is in fact a people problem
In which I provide you with hundreds of dollars worth of software consulting, for free, in a single blog post.
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SVG Triangle of Compromise
All rituals restricted. All rites reserved.
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The Third Atomic Bomb
After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the US Army Air Force had plans to drop a third bomb on August 19, 1945—with more to come if necessary. Fat Man bomb casing at the USAF Museum
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The Swift compiler is slow due to how types are inferred
How a 10 year old design choice for Swift’s type checker still haunts us to this day
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Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silico...
1032
Learning Solver Design: Automating Factorio Balancers
I built a Factorio belt balancer solver. From tiny 2x2 grids to a massive 16x16 monster, every step revealed new solver tricks, numeric hiccups, and devious debugging puzzles.
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What I've learned about flow fields so far
Noise functions and the tiniest bit of trigonometry can take you a long way towards making art.
1034
The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991)
I and just about every designer of Common Lisp and CLOS has had extreme exposure to the MIT/Stanford style of design. The essence of this style can be captured by the phrase the right thing . To such a designer it is important to get all of the following characteristics right:
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Does offering ChatGPT a tip cause it to generate better text?
Modern AI rewards being very weird.
1036
Opening Windows in Linux with sockets, bare hands and 200 lines of C
In this post I want to create a single file C file program to open a windows inside Linux without using xlib or any similar libraries. The idea is to explore X11 protocol and see how it is used to interact with X server to create windows.
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Sysadmin friendly high speed Ethernet switching
I’ve been on the lookout for a ethernet switch that I don’t hate, the problem with a lot of higher speed (10G and above) ethernet switches is that they are quite expensive new and if you buy the used then they rarely have many years left ( or none at all ) of software patches.
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Building Lego Machines to Destroy Tall Lego Towers
Brick Technology’s new video features increasingly powerful Lego machines designed to topple ever stronger towers. I love their iterative engineering videos (an
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8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production (2023)
Dmitrii Kovanikov's Personas Web Space
1042
The Moral Economy of the Shire
Who paid for this? There’s a certain meme that I see making the rounds on Facebook every so often about the bucolic nature of life in the Shire, from Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord o…
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Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question
In this short video Steve Ballmer talks about a puzzle question he would ask candidates interviewing at Microsoft. Solving it is based on b...
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How much memory do you need in 2024 to run 1M concurrent tasks?
Please refer to How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks? - Take 2 to check the latest result.
1045
Ask for Advice, Not Permission (2015)
The world is full of gatekeepers who think they have veto rights. Don’t believe them. Pitbull got it right when he said "Ask for money, get advice. Ask for advice, get money twice."
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I also hacked my car
Gonçalo MB. My personal website, projects, contacts and stuff.
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Making a Linux-managed network switch
Sometimes the custom 5-port gigabit switch _is_ the solution.
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Crafting Interpreters: 640 Pages in 15 Months
My book Crafting Interpreters on programming languages is done. OK, OK. I know I said it was done like fifteen months ago . But now it’s really done. And by that I mean, the print, e-book and PDF versions are done. You can buy it . You can hold it in your hands. And I do mean “hands” plural. Because this little…
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Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)
Over the last few months, Baker and I have been digging in deep on Heat Pumps . I'm putting my explorations here on pause but wanted to write up everything we've learned over the last few months.