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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,821 posts.
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How Websites Die
I recently started compiling a list of defunct blogging platforms . It’s been interesting to see how websites die — from domain parking pages to timeouts to blank pages to outdated TLS cipher errors, there are a multitude of different ways.
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The user experience problems of quadratic voting
In their seminal book, "Radical Markets," Eric Posner and Glen Weyl introduce quadratic voting to improve (or radicalize) democratic preference voting. They argue that by allowing voters to
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No, QuestDB is not Faster than ClickHouse
telegra.ph/no-questdb-is-not-faster-than-clickhouse-06-152022144 points63 commentscited by 3Databases & Data details
QuestDB created a minor stir in the small but active world of analytics database benchmarking with this blog article: https://questdb.io/blog/2022/05/26/query-benchmark-questdb-versus-clickhouse-timescale. This is the money quote: “QuestDB is an order of magnitude faster than both TimescaleDB and ClickHouse in this…
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Observations on 6 Years of Journaling
My thoughts and experiences on how writing a daily journal improved my memory and understanding of myself.
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Violence-as-a-Service: Brickings, Firebombings and Shootings for Hire
A 21-year-old New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with stalking in connection with a federal investigation into groups of cybercriminals who are settling scores by hiring people to carry out physical attacks on their rivals. Prosecutors say the defendant recently participated in several of these schemes …
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Big Time Public License
a FRAND-ly license for software
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But, aren't you folks web2?
And if you are, then why don't you convert to web3?
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Yet another hot take on “folders versus tags”
I like folders due to their cross compatibility, future proofing, interoperability, flexibility, focus, clarity, automation management &etc.
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Making Quieter Technology
I spent the last years making technology calm and pleasant to use. This is roughly how I did it.
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Home Made TPM2.0 Module
Introduction With the recent launch of Windows 11 Microsoft also made having a hardware TPM module mandatory. Although this technology is not new (it was introduced in Windows 10 and Windows Server…
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2022 Letter
Zhengdong Wang’s personal website
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Hand-optimizing the TCC code generator
I am on a number of different compiler mailing lists. One of those is the mailing list for the Tiny C Compiler . Imagine my surprise when a recent email mentioned our latest series and suggested trying a similar approach to improve the code generator in TCC. I was interested to see if there were any low-hanging fruit…
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How to Sell Your Startup
One year ago, my startup was acquired. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to run an acquisition process yourself.
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Is Europe just not good at innovating?
This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. Feedback is very welcome on bert@hubertnet.nl. I’d also like to thank the many proofreaders, but all mistakes remain mine! In the world of (high) technology, Europe is exceptionally weak at innovating. There are many ways to explain how this…
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The candy stores of Oxford Street
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Can Slack-mania be cured with systemized discipline?
On looking for alternatives to Slack culture.
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A brief reflection on Mac software stagnation
I’ve been feeling a certain stagnation in Mac software these past few years. In this piece I try to understand why.
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I Believe Zig Has Function Colors
Proponents of Zig claim that it does not have function colors. In this post, I attempt prove that it does.
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Can we make a black hole? And if we could, what could we do with it?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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People took some potassium and lost some weight
In November 2021, we finished our series A Chemical Hunger, where we argue that the obesity epidemic is the result of environmental contaminants, and that one of those contaminants might be lithium…
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Why wasn’t the steam engine invented earlier? Part III
You’re reading Age of Invention, my newsletter on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation.
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Can I have a smaller Prometheus
For the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about having a time series DB and visualization tool that is easy to use and light on resources, so it can be used locally for development. Tried se…