Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,211 posts.
I’ve been working in AI and search for a decade. First, I built Doctrine, the largest European legal search engine, and now I am building Fintool , an AI-powered financial research platform that helps institutional investors analyze companies, screen stocks, and make investment decisions.
There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
Conventionally, email addresses published on webpages may be protected from email-harvesting spambots via various HTML, CSS & JS-based techniques. This alternative technique is SVG-based.
Or, Why Google keeps killing products
Why ‘Strong Opinions, Weakly Held’ isn't as great a thinking tool as you might think.
Another Google antitrust trial starts on Monday. If Google loses, it'll be three strikes. At some point, they will give up and realize that the writing is on the wall for their current business model.
Deleting an S3 bucket is harder than you think, and may even cost you money.
Comparing a simple neural network in Rust and Python
Corporate branding and advertisements are ubiquitous in society today and almost impossible to avoid. What if we lived in a world where consumers were blind to this surplus of corporate branding? Brand Killer is a technology demonstration that envisions a future in which consumers can use augmented reality to opt out…
The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They're not the same. Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem; a perfect solution exists once the requirements are clear.
My book, Evidence-based software engineering , is now available; the pdf can be downloaded here , here and here , plus all the code+data . Report any issues here . I’m investigating the possibility of a printed version. Mobile friendly pdf (layout shaky in places).
The first article in a series where I explore aspects of systemd by creating small examples with the help of containers.
Let me introduce you to μMon, mypersonal, minimalist, opinionated take on host monitoring based onRRDtool, SNMP, some lightweightshell scripting, and a small...
I like learning about odd connections between disparate things. This probably is the oddest example that I know. Broadly speaking, mathemat...
I monitor the @CVENew Twitter feed to keep up with any interesting new vulnerabilities that are released. On December 11th CVE-2020-29589 was published claiming that “the kapacitor Docker ima…
I've never been known for my coordination, balance, or cardiovascular enthusiasm. In team sports, I was invariably the last one picked – probably only becaus...
For boring and totally not nefarious reasons, I want to read all the data contained in my passport's NFC chip using Linux. After a long and annoying search, I settled on roeften's pypassport. I can now read all the passport information, including biometrics. Table of ContentsBackgroundRecreating the MRZPython code to…
This short story is not really about htop, or about the feature request that I’ll use as an illustration, but about what are the core principles that drive the development of a bit of software, down to every last detail. And by “core principles” I really mean it.
The background story to why I built yet another static website generator in Python.
People are so sensitive these days! People are just offended by every little thing! Millennials, amirite?!
A prototype Raspberry Pi dashboard to save me talking to my smart assistant.
Snapchat's new gender-bending filter is a source of endless fun and laughs at parties. The results are very pleasing to look at. As someone ...
An overview of a secure web deployment with Let's Encrypt and Nginx. How to set up a valid HTTPS connection, harden it and get top security ratings.
I continue to have no time for big programming projects, so here is a short blog post. Two years ago I looked into a bug in the glibc implementation of condition variables: Sometimes pthread_cond_s…
Rotate a cube by 90 degrees around the \(x\)-axis, then rotate it by 90 degrees around the \(z\)-axis. This is equivalent to a single rotation. What is the axis and angle of this single rotation?
