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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,211 posts.
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In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more
Venture capital is screwed. A bubble in AI is their last hope, and they’re betting everything on Sam Altman. It’s heartwarming. Today, we have the Pitchbook-NVCA Venture Monitor for Q1 2025. This i…
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Resurrect the Old Web
Recently a local news station in Maine reported a story of some middle schoolers calling their friends with landline telephones. Their parents thought they w...
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Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division
Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future
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The tech sector might be evil
Or at least, your employer might be. Over the years we in the tech sector have gotten used to being well-regarded. After all, we make people’s lives better, on balance. That’s changing. At the moment it’s rumblings from thought leaders, not pervasive popular anger. The other thing that’s new is that they’re thought…
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Site requests bank logins for online purchases
I’ve spent a lot of time trying to educate people on being careful with credentials. It really doesn’t help when I try to place a purchase with a “legitimate” supplier, and, after handing over valid credit card details, I get this:
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404 Deno CEO not found
The one where I mourn the best runtime and speculate idly.
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The cost of interrupted work (2023)
You’ve likely read lots of blog posts stating that it takes 23 minutes and 15 seconds to get back to work after an interruption, context switch, or meeting. Thus, “do you have five minutes” ends up not only costing those few minutes, but instead about half an hour. But where does that number come from?
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I've been merging microservices back into the monolith
Ben Nadel explains why his team has been hard at work merging "microservices" back into the "monolith". His team is not anti-microservices. And, in fact, both the expanding and the contracting of serv
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Not Using Zoom
Dear client, Setting aside the challenges of using Zoom under ChromeOS and Linux, I have mostly been declining invitations to Zoom calls...
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Artificial General Intelligence – A gentle introduction
[On-line document since 2007, last updated in September 2026] [Translations: 中文 , Español , lietuvių kalba ]
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C++ 17 is Done
The ISO C++ committee had its winter meeting in Kona, HI, USA from February 27 to March 4, hosted by Plum Hall and the Standard C++ Foundation. Over 100 people attended, officially representing 9 c…
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Less is more agile
Dave Farley and Allen Holub are two people that I respect hugely when it comes to Software Development. I’ve been following them on twitter for quite a while, and am always taken in about their takes on driving continuous delivery and “lowercase agile” forward. So when both came together for Dave’s Engineering Room…
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The Last Quiet Thing
Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.
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Low Code Software Development Is a Lie
I’ve been writing custom software for a long time and one of the things that annoys me most is when a client adopts the position that there is a silver bullet which will reduce or remove the inherent complexity of this task. This happens more often than you’d think and guess what? They are almost always wrong. Perhaps…
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Verb-Noun vs. Noun-Verb
Behind the scenes - how I'm making redblobgames.com - interactive explanations of game development algorithms and math
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My Life in E-Ink
Collection of odds and ends relating to e-readers including personal reminisces Background # Reading has been a huge part of my life. The written word has had arguably more of an impact on my life than anything I have experienced in person. As a kid back in early 2000’s; this meant a lot of library trips and saving…
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Gluten Free Antarctica
Far below the Antarctic circle, I watch a woman cry real tears because she can’t get gluten-free toast.
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RISC-V based single board computers are getting there
When putting the Raspberry Pi Zero vs a MangoPi MQ Pro, who wins? Can the RISC-V D1 chip hold its own?
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Your TV can see through walls (2025)
Walking between the receiver and TV station causes a slight disturbance to the signal, but it's nothing to write home about:
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How I Could Have Hacked Any Instagram Account
This article is about how I found a vulnerability on Instagram that allowed me to hack any Instagram account without consent permission. Facebook and Instagram security team fixed the issue and rewarded me $30000 as a part of their bounty program. Facebook is working constantly to improve its security controls on all…
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Hell is other people: performance management at Big Tech
The lofty theory and the sordid reality of "perf".