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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,748 posts.
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Deadlines are pointless – what to do instead
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Stanford CS enrollment increase "downright scary"
Eric Roberts just sent out a note of concern to the ACM Education Council, and he kindly allowed me to share it here as a guest post. When I read his note, I thought about my May 2009 CACM column …
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Advice for ambitious 19 year olds
“I’m an ambitious 19 year old, what should I do?” I get asked this question fairly often, and I now have a lot of data on what works, so I thought I’d share my response. Usually, people are...
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Sell it or run it, there is no middle ground
In the how to sell your company article I wrote at length on the process of how to go about selling your company once you’re ready for that. Which makes it seem as if there is no choice, either you sell your company, or you don’t. Simple as that.
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You and Your Research (1986)
Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar 7 March 1986
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The carefulness knob
A play in one act Dramatis personae EM, an engineering manager TL, the tech lead for the team X, an engineering manager from a different team Scene 1: A meeting room in an office. The walls are ado…
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If management isn't a promotion, then engineering isn't a demotion
I wrote a piece this week about what motivates people to become managers (tldr mostly org dysfunction), and Julian Dunn replied with some typically insightful tweets:
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PyCon US 2024 Recap
Unlocking the Parallel Universe: Subinterpreters and Free-Threading in Python 3.13
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The Human Side of Elixir
In this blog post, we take a look at the Elixir programming language from the engineer/business perspective.
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How to identify an immoral maze
Previously in sequence: Moloch Hasn’t Won, Perfect Competition, Imperfect Competition, Does Big Business Hate Your Family?, What is Life in an Immoral Maze?, Stripping Away the Protections, What is…
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Interview with Patrick Collison
In addition to being a friend and a Noahpinion subscriber, Patrick Collison is one of the world’s most successful founder-CEOs.
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It's easy to screw up on breaking news but you have to admit when you do
This week brought another self-inflected wound for trust in journalism.
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Refactoring has a price, not refactoring has a cost
We either refactor continuously as we build features -- paying the price. Or we slowly accumulate cruft until our codebase is impossible to change -- paying the cost.
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Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
A casual, roughly bimonthly Sunday coffee meetup for Hacker News posters in Helsinki. Open to anyone with 64+ HN karma.
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Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions
What's the first thing you do when you find a bug or see a missing feature in an open source project? Check out the project page and submit a patch!
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"Attrition is a group statistic. It doesn't apply to me."
10 years ago I sat down with my brother. He was about to attend a high attrition special forces course. The vast majority of candidates drop out. Aren't you concerned about the failure rate? ...
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When your manager isn't supporting you, develop a manager crew
In my years of coaching managers and individual contributors, I’ve routinely heard the following complaints about their bosses:
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