Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,299 posts.
Prompted by your blog post this morning, I attach a plot from Figure 3 of They Still Haven’t Told You showing overnight and intraday returns to AIG (with logarithmic vertical scale, updated with data through the end of October).
So you’ve heard of blockchain. But how can you use it in your enterprise today? Vitaly Mzokov explores the benefits and security challenges.
There's no BBC News text-only site, even though everyone comes here looking for one – more info
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes
An interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about the impact of ChatGPT, Nvidia’s new cloud service, and how Nvidia is adapting to new geopolitical and competitive realities.
Funding In total urllib3 received $26,615 USD in financial support and distributed $18,622 USD to maintainers and community contributors. We're thankful for the financial support we receive from o...
To me, the golden era of being an open startup is gone. Some founders and early adopters are shutting down their open pages and changing their transparency practices. I don’t think they are doing it just because things change and we need to cope.
An ancient human foraging instinct, fueled by fructose, may hold clues to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers.
The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networking giant Meta , which alleged the free domain name provider has a long history of ignoring abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to…
# What is Onyx? **Onyx** is a new programming language featuring a modern, expressive syntax, strict type safety, blazingly-fast build times, and out-o...
The other day at work, we had a situation where we suspected a thread leak in one particular service, i.e. code which continuously starts new threads, without taking care of ever stopping them again. …
It’s astounding. Time is fleeting. Madness takes its toll…
Ollama can now run with Docker Desktop on the Mac, and run inside Docker containers with GPU acceleration on Linux.
Demystifying Apache Arrow - some observations from a data scientist. Learning more about a tool that can filter and aggregate two billion rows on a laptop in two seconds
Sixteen years ago to the day, I started RailsCasts, a screencast series teaching web development using Ruby on Rails. It began with free weekly episodes…
In the late 1980s, there were near a million new cases of guinea worm disease recorded worldwide. In 2021, there were only 15. How was this achieved?
I’ve made some modern games in retro style, and one thing people will always tell you is, make sure your pixels are the same size. When your base resolution ...
Apple today announced a new MacBook Pro lineup featuring the all-new family of M3 chips: M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max.
In this post, I'll show you a common pitfall you should avoid when teaching during code reviews.
This is the first in (maybe) a series of “Tales From Tech Support”, which are true stories from my point of view. I’ll probably only post these on a Friday. In the 1990s, I worked as a contractor for a large, well-established accounting firm. We’d often buy new equipment and unpack it at the helpdesk, throw away all…
While playing Factorio the other day, I was struck by the many similarities with Apache Kafka.
Progressive Web Apps can be submitted to app stores like the Android Play Store or the Microsoft Store and more.
You shouldn't bet against the bazaar or the GPU p̶o̶o̶r̶ hungry.
Observations in mice hint at role of daydreams in remodeling the brain
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
Productivity is one of my pet topics, because it's always dogged me a bit, especially early in my career. I'd pull long days and nights and then realize I only actually worked (as in, typing in code, debugging stuff, and thinking about problems and their solutions) maybe 20% of the time. Upon talking to coworkers…
