1981
I don't care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,821 posts.
1982
1983
Home truths about macOS
True or false? Apple supports macOS for three years. Apple’s security updates are sufficient. New versions of macOS are full of bugs. It’s safer to delay upgrading.
1984
Lisp in Space
Have you ever had a unique approach to a problem and been excited to use it, but you're met with skepticism? Today's story: what happens if you take someone who's passionate about LISP and put them in an organization where that's just not how they write software. Today's story is about getting LISP into space. The…
1985
When going somewhere does a thing: on links and buttons
At the Fronteers conference, Manuel during his presentation did an exercise on building HTML that seemed fairly straightforward. On the site of Max Böck there's a thing you can click to open up a theme selector. What's that thing? Of course, it's a button! Because it opens the theme selector at the top of the […]
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Mergers ruin everything
Bad merger policy is why wealth and power is so consolidated in America. But last month, two government enforcers started to turn the table on the monopolies who run our economy.
1989
Wrap Up: Bicycle trip logistics
Now that the tour has ended, I want to share some concluding thoughts about the experience. My primary trip purpose was to learn more about urban planning in South America. I have a whole post worth of ideas on that. So, in this post, I’ll share everything that isn’t about urban planning! How did t
1990
Digging into a QEMU problem of slow data copying
The work on QEMU and this post was paid for by Determinate Systems, and the post was co-published on the Determinate Systems blog .
1991
How to grow green potassium ferrioxalate crystals from iron rust
Potassium ferrioxalate produces striking green crystals that are both beautiful and easy to grow. I'll show you how to grow them at home.
1992
1993
I can no longer compile my first Flash game
A tale about game development and techonlogy obsolescence
1994
Why can't you reverse a string with a flag emoji?
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Entitlement in Open Source
Homebrew experiences on entitled behaviour in open source, why boundaries matter for maintainers, and definitions for users, contributors and maintainers.
1998
Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (2020)
This is a great riff on how reading works and on the network effects of reading. Links below. Tyler says: … I go through five or ten books a day. And which parts of them I’ve read you can debate – maybe it washes out to be two or three books a day. Some good… Read More »Tyler Cowen on reading fast, reading well, and…
1999
Every modeler is supposed to be a great Python programmer
This post is by Phil Price, not Andrew. I’ve had a run of luck ever since I left my staff scientist position at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to become a freelance consultant doing statistical modeling and forecasting, mostly related to electricity consumption and prices: just as I finished a contract, another one…
2000
The story of the first “computer bug” is a pile of lies
A fun, endearing, delightful pile of lies.
2001
The New American Micro-SaaS Dream
Raise millions of dollars from Venture Capitalists, rent a fancy office in San Francisco, hire an expensive team of "superheroes," and get valued, on paper, as a "unicorn."
2002
Next C compiler is a D compiler: Introducing DMD's ImportC
In my never ending quest to have oksh support every C compiler in existence, I sometimes find C compilers in places you wouldn't expect them. Today, I'd like to demonstrate the C compiler built into the Digital Mars D compiler, or DMD for short. Recent versions of DMD have a complete C11 compiler built in named…
2003
My Favorite Liar (2008)
[the following recounts an exceptionally powerful teaching technique employed by an economics professor of mine at university; teaching fact-checking and skepticism by salting it into the content of his delivery]
2004
Only solve one new problem at a time
Ben Nadel discusses one of the lessons learned from 10 years of CodePen: solve only problem at a time - a message worth amplifying.
2005
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem in Bash
Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem states that there are mathematical statements that can neither be proven or disproven. His proof is fairly difficult to ...
2006
Timsort (2019)
Timsort: A very fast , O(n log n), stable sorting algorithm built for the real world — not constructed in academia. Timsort is a sorting algorithm that is efficient for real-world data and not created in an academic laboratory. Tim Peters created Timsort for the Python programming language in 2001.
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I was deceived about Covid vaccine safety
Covid vaccine injuries are being grossly underreported and censored: evidence from multiple, independent sources