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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,939 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
Any year
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Turn And Face The Strange
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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A Brief History of Fish Sauce
A brief history of fish sauce, from Ancient Asian recipes, Roman times, and through to today's many (delicious) uses.
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GPT-3 Creative Fiction
Creative writing by OpenAI’s GPT-3 model, demonstrating poetry, dialogue, puns, literary parodies, and storytelling. Plus advice on effective GPT-3 prompt programming & avoiding common errors.
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Why does writing matter in remote work?
In remote work, we communicate primarily through writing. We send messages in Slack. We document projects in Notion. We send meeting invites with a written description of the purpose. We’re writing all the time. Many organizations are working from home at the moment. Thus, writing is even
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A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research
Baba Is You is a philosophical video game that facilitates the kind of thinking needed for frontier topics in the sciences of life and mind.
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Dear StackExchange: Thank You
Miami-based DJ, producer, and songwriter blending Dance-Pop, Tech House, and Festival energy. Latest single 'Somethin' Right' out now.
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Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists
An unhinged polemic
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I Nearly Lost All of My Data
My home server completely shit the best recently and I thought I'd lost all my data.
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Find a new city
There’s a very rom antic American story that I love, that lots of a rtists who are young and starting out love, too, and it goes like this: Move to the Big City with nothing, make friends, make art, struggle, but make it. That’s the kind of story told in Patti Smith’s wonderful memoir, Just Kids .
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“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful
It is not uncommon, in the context of academic debates over computer science and Web standards topics, to see the publication of one or more “considered harmful” essays. These essays have existed in some form for more than three decades now, and it has become obvious that their time has passed. Because “considered…
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My thoughts on the Framework laptop
Like many others in the open source community, I was very intrigued by the idea of the Framework laptop , a modular laptop designed to be repairable and upgradable. With a bunch of designs, schematics and documentation released as open source and a product that's legitimately competitive with the proprietary…
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Actually eat healthily for £1 per day
Last week, I stumbled across a BBC News article entitled How to eat healthily on £1 a day via a story on hacker news . Healthy eating on a budget is something I’m really interested in, but I was horribly disappointed by the article, because i) it didn’t show you how to eat healthily, and ii) it didn’t show you how to…
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No Easter Eggs in Curl
Easter egg; noun: An unexpected or undocumented feature in a piece of computer software, included as a joke or a bonus. There are no Easter eggs in curl. For the good. I've been asked about this many times. Among the enthusiast community, people seem to generally like the concept of Easter eggs and hidden treasures, ……
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TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe
So… Here we are again. Today, after a minor disaster with my Obsidian vault, I decided to restore from Time Machine, and… I realized that it had silently ...
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Why Do People Neglect Maintenance?
A big part of our job involves talking to other people about maintenance and how both maintenance and the lives of Maintainers can be improved in our culture today. Over time, we’ve noticed that different people tend to offer different explanations for why neglect of maintenance is so common. We thought we’d collect…
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Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)
What my father taught me.
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Your Thinking Rate Is Fixed
You can’t force yourself to think faster. If you try, you’re likely to end up making much worse decisions. Here’s how to improve the actual quality of your decisions instead of chasing hacks to speed them up.
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Reasons blog posts can be of higher scientific quality than journal articles
The Dutch toilet cleaner ‘WC-EEND’ (literally: 'Toilet Duck') aired a famous commercial in 1989 that had the slogan ‘We from WC-EEND a...
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Memorizing a programing language using spaced repetition software
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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A Few Rules
The person who tells the most compelling story wins.
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Calculate the day of the week for any date in your head
The Doomsday Algorithm gives the day of the week for any date (and you can do it in your head)