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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,208 posts.
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Comments on the Sony Hack
I don’t have a lot to say about the Sony hack, which seems to still be ongoing. I want to highlight a few points, though. At this point, the attacks seem to be a few hackers and not the North Korean government. (My guess is that it’s not an insider, either.) That we live in the world where we aren’t sure if any given…
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Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system.
Fill this in yourself.
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How to feel engaged at work: a software engineer's guide
On fighting the feeling of "blah".
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NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle
I’ve spent the last 48 hours completely falling down the rabbit hole of NVIDIA’s Q3 Fiscal 2026 earnings report . If you just skim the headlines, everything looks perfect: Revenue is up 62% to $57 billion, and Jensen Huang is talking about a "virtuous cycle of AI."
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Getting Started with Tmux
Sysadmin doing syadmin stuff
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The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back
A Special Edition of The Ruffian
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Working on complex systems: What I learned working at Google
This is why recognizing whether a system is complicated or complex is so important: it shapes how we should approach problem-solving.
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The Deep Research problem
OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it breaks. But it breaks in really interesting ways.
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C Macro Reflection in Zig
Zig’s reflection combined with Zig’s ability to import C header files means Zig can be used for C macro reflection.
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The Cold Email
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Going Paper-Free for $220
It's 2011. Personal computers have been around and popular for well over a decade now, and yet we still have to deal with a huge amount of physical paper.
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I will not log in to your website
Two or three times a day, I get an email whose basic structure is as follows: Prof. Aaronson, given your expertise, we’d be incredibly grateful for your feedback on a paper / report / gr…
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1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse
Today, I loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned. Reflecting on that milestone number, I pondered how to mark the occasion in writing, and what immediately came to mind was a very simple question: why is it still needed? Especially considering the emergence of privacy regulations
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2021 Williams F1 Computational Fluid Dynamics
Thanks to some clever people I was able to get a CAD model of the current 2021 Williams F1 car — that’s not something that happens every day, so of course I had to run CFD on it. CAD Ge…
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Thoughts on Python 3
My current thoughts on the state of Python 3 and where it’s heading.
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Exit the Cave
Ain’t it fun, livin’ in the real world?
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Please, expose your RSS
I noticed a lot of people don't have a link to their RSS feeds on their sites or have the correct metadata for auto-discovery
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BB(3, 4) > Ack(14)
Pavel has found a new 3-state 4-symbol Busy Beaver champion which can compute an “Ackermann-level” function and halts with exactly
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Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers (2013)
Bayesian Methods for Hackers : An intro to Bayesian methods + probabilistic programming with a computation/understanding-first, mathematics-second point of view.
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I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
Why I stopped trying to give LLM agents a better memory and instead built Lemmalog, a Datalog engine that maintains an agent's knowledge as analysis state, with provenance, retractions and incremental evaluation, plus what happened when I benchmarked it on LongMemEval and LoCoMo.
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What I wish someone had told me about tensor computation libraries
I get confused with tensor computation libraries (or computational graph libraries, or symbolic algebra libraries, or whatever they’re marketing themselves as these days). I was first introduced to PyTorch and TensorFlow and, having no other reference, thought they were prototypical examples of tensor computation…
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50th Anniversary of the Mother of All Demos (2018)
I was asked to give a toast in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of [The Mother of All Demos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos) so I spent some time reflecting on Engelbart's w...
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Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals (2014)
This is the third of a series of four posts based on a presentation I did at the Barcelona Ruby Conference called “20,000 Leagues Under ActiveRecord.” (posts: one two four and video ).