2071
Software Engineering Internship Amazon Interview Experience
is a geospatial, temporal, and linguistic analysis of recent tweets about U.S. presidential candidates. I used Pandas, TextBlob, and Cartopy. [source]
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,187 posts.
2072
I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel
Alaa Abdulridha — Engineering Director at SerpApi & Cybersecurity Researcher. Expert in web application penetration testing, reverse engineering, bug bounty programs, and secure code development. Passionate about discovering vulnerabilities, building scalable systems, and teaching practical cybersecurity techniques.
2073
Television is 100 years old today
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2074
CADmium: A local-first CAD program built for the browser
This project is discontinued. The github repos are still available as archives, but no deployment is maintained and no PRs will be accepted. You can still join the Discord if you want but it is not active.
2075
The Gift
It's often said that you should live every day as though it's your last. That always seemed a little impractical to me. But when my brothe...
2076
ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives
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2077
Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways
Personal website talking about some stuff I've made and technology
2078
Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We report what’s happened
2079
Google Cloud vs. AWS Onboarding Comparison
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
2080
Uber Is Ripping Off Frequent Riders and Here’s How to Avoid It
Drivers already know upfront pricing typically doesn't work in our favor. But what is upfront pricing, or variations of it, looking like for passengers? We had frequent traveler and RSG contributor Will analyze how Uber charges frequent riders.
2081
I decompiled the White House's new app
The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.
2082
Consume less, create more
Modern technology makes us consumers instead of creators
2083
Embeddings: What they are and why they matter
Embeddings are a really neat trick that often come wrapped in a pile of intimidating jargon. If you can make it through that jargon, they unlock powerful and exciting techniques …
2084
2085
My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga
Update 3, Nov 2 2015 (PM): Well, it’s been…strange. First, it seems my account was finally deleted by Livecoding.tv (thank you!) After being up all night with libel posted all over it, hours after Jamie Green (the other Livecoding co-founder) and Sam Altman (Y Combinator president) replied to the Hacker News thread…
2086
Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks (2011)
People have been comparing software components to LEGO blocks for a couple decades. We should be able to assemble applications by snapping together modular components, just like LEGOs. There has been progress, but for the most part we haven't realized the promise LEGO-style software development. Integrating two…
2087
Stolen Buttons
Every website I visit, I steal a button from it. Check out my stash!
2088
Nobody wants to teach anymore
Everyone should know why.
2089
Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people
A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
2090
The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
Questioning the frame of inevitability in use of AI
2091
What do executives do, anyway?
An executive with 8,000 indirect reports and 2000 hours of work in a year can afford to spend, at most, 15 minutes per year per person in th...
2092
2093
DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage
💡Update May 21, 2025: I've written a new detailed analysis of the heap dump dataset itself: TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more Update May 26, 2025: I've published the source code for TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool This morning,
2094
The Unix Magic Poster
I understand the classic UNIX Magic poster by Gary Overacre was distributed at past USENIX conferences, and I’ve known of it for years but now in confinement, I’ve decided I want one to hang in my ...
2095
The One-Person Product
In 2006, I moved to New York and started working for David Karp doing web development for various media companies . That fall, in a brief gap before starting a new client , David said that we were going to make a prototype of an idea he’d had for a while. He had already bought the domain: tumblr.com , because it was…
2096
The Google Squeeze
Google, the real Aggregator, is squeezing OTAs, which acted like Aggregators while depending on Google for demand. It’s easy to say Google is being unfair, but this may be better for consumer…
2097
I decided to disable AMP on my site
I have a long history with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project, but yesterday I drew the final straw. I was on Twitter (in Safari on iPhone 6) and I noticed that somebody linked to my site…
2098
Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table
2099
Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
2100
I Miss Rails
The world of tech moves fast, and there’s always new frameworks and paradigms popping up that make developers’ lives easier and allow us to build more and more powerful applications. But, these transitions don’t always just make things better for developers - sometimes we take steps backwards and undo the progress we…