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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,905 posts.
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Why American Mothers are Superior
I really did not have time to write this today, but two articles I read made me drop what I was doing. First was the Wall Street Journal article by a Yale law professor who says Chinese mothers are superior because they produce more mathematical and musical prodigies.
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Why linux doesn't have a "wheel" group
The wheel group is, perhaps, not widely used today, or is seen as “archaic” and irrelevant. Nothing could be further from the truth. The wheel group is a group which limits the number o…
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The “walled garden” becomes a prison for reality
A British tabloid revealed today that Apple has filed for a patent on a system for disabling the video camera on an iPhone or iPad when its user attempts to film a concert or other interdicted live event. This is a much more threatening development than most may realize.
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Finance for Geeks
Summary: Eric Sink provides a geek-oriented overview of accounting and company funding.
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Golden Ratio for Readable Web Typography
This is the original introductory article to Golden Ratio Typography (GRT). The basic concepts you’ll find on this page are important for understanding GRT, but much of the math is now outdated (and has been replaced by updated formulae). For a more current and comprehensive look at all things GRT, check out the Golden
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Timeboxing: You Will Work Like Never Before
Don’t miss the latest posts Learn to Remember Everything: The memory palace technique or Remembering Facts: USING Mental associative chains If you are an avid self-improvement reader, you know already what timeboxing is. But maybe you don’t harness all its potential For the rest, timeboxing is a time management…
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JQuery 1.5 promises a better future.
One of the new features of the unreleased JQuery 1.5 is a new $.ajax module. Apart from many bug fixes, the most interesting, and useful par...
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Eric Meyer's Reset Revisited
It was close to four years ago now that I first floated (ha!), publicly refined, and then published at its own home what's become known as the
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So you want to be a video game programmer? - The Specs
There are a couple of broad categories of programmers working on video game teams. If programmer is your player class, then the following types are your spec. Programmers are all warlocks and mages…
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What Stops Female Founders?
The lack of women in tech startups seems a perennially hot topic. I’m keenly aware of this problem because I see so many founders, and so few of them are women. I’m delighted to have 6 women at...
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The Conclusion: A 6 Figure Business That Fell Apart When I Was 16
Hi Mat, Its “there are 23 paragraphs”, theirs means someone possesses it. their bike. there is a bike is different.
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An open letter to Mike Arrington: Please stop investing in startups
Hi Mike, I’m one of your customers. We don’t really know each other. We’ve chatted at a few events, you’ve covered some of my antics, but I’m mostly just a guy who reads TechCrunch a lot. I find it’s a pretty good place to see what’s important in the industry. And you and your team do some damn fine reporting on…
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Why code review beats testing: evidence from decades of programming research
tl;dr If you want to ship high quality code, you should invest in more than one of formal code review, design inspection, testing, and quality assurance. Testing catches fewer bugs per hour than human inspection of code, but it might be catching different types of bugs.
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The 2-step trick to getting sweet-ass job referrals
I talked with an uber-talented 27-year old the other night. She’s been working at the same startup for 3.5 years, helping it grow from 7 employees to over 100. While she started as a utility infielder, helping out with everything that needed doing, she’s now become a sophisticated online marketer. She’s ready to try…
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Google+ launches ‘Ripples’ visualisation
After what appears to be have been a rapid and widespread take-up of its Google+ social media service, Google has now launched details of its 'Ripples' feature. Significantly, news of the release was made by Fernanda Viegas, one of the most prominent names in the field and co-leader, with Martin Wattenberg, of…