Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,223 posts.
The email landed in my inbox around 10:05/am, alerting us of an all-hands meeting in 15 minutes. “Guess we got acquired”, we all thought. 16 minutes later, we were all laid off. This was February of 2001. I was first alerted of my uselessness in 1995, when ~ fresh out of college ~ I worked ... Read more
The state of California is currently holding over $6 billion in unclaimed property belonging to millions of people. What type of property a...
Taking a good look around (both inside and out) of my brand new MEGA65 computer system from Trenz Electronic GmbH.
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
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Burnout is on the rise again, with an ironic twist.
These are some technical tips for publishing a blog. These have nothing to do with good content, just how to share that content. The recommendations are roughly in order of importance and have rationale for why they are that important.
In the first half of 2020 we plan to launch an AWS Region in South Africa
A programming language gives us a way structure our thoughts . Each program, has a kind of internal structure, for example:
How do we embrace deep work and combat the unparalleled assault on our capacity to concentrate? Some tactics for doing valuable deep work in practice.
tl;dr CocoaPods is a popular package manager used by lots of iOS apps (among other Swift and Objective-C Cocoa applications). I found a remote code execution...
We were comparing two SaaS applications. One gave us a better quote, so we asked the second if they would match it. They wouldn’t, but their founder, wrote us an email explaining: Why their...
Solving a boot-time power challenge on PoE+ x86 systems by creating our own UEFI app to handle LLDP power negotiation at the firmware level, allowing our machines to request higher power from network switches before the OS loads.
My name and email address can be found in the VPN client application made by Cisco called AnyConnect. They are present there as part of the curl license, because this product - like thousands of others - uses libcurl. My name appears in many products. Apparently, people often have problems finding an appropriate…
This blog post explores many HTML5 APIs, including Fullscreen API, Page Visibility API, getUserMedia API, Battery API, and Link Prefetching!
One of my all-time favorite games is Halo: Combat Evolved that launched together with the original Xbox in 2001. One major part of the game was multiplayer, up to 16 people at a LAN party could play together by connecting four Xbox consoles over Ethernet , referred to as System Link .
Benchmarks and theoretical explanation of why and when hashed radix sort beats hash tables.
I've been making games on the iphone for a long time, almost since the beginning... and one thing that struck me early on was how differently I discovered iPhone games versus games on other platforms.
We all eventually suffer from "lazy expert syndrome." The best way to snap out of it and grow is to mentor someone new to your field.
I'm finishing a new edition of my Refactoring book. Here's details and periodic memos about my work.
Tools and techniques used to test coreutils
There’s a neat variation on open-addressing based hash tables called Robin Hood hashing . This technique isn’t very well-known, but it makes a huge practical difference because it both improves performance and space utilization compared to other “standard” hash tables (e.g. chaining ). It also eliminates the major…
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
Learn how to onboard engineers with an empathetic and structured approach. Includes a 30-60-90-day check-in template.
Over the past few years, we've seen that next-token prediction scales, denoising diffusion scales, contrastive learning scales, and so on, all the way to the point where we can train models with billions of parameters with a scalable objective that can eat up as much data as we can throw at it. Then, what about…
