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Consume less, create more
Modern technology makes us consumers instead of creators
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,802 posts.
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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 …
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Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
We asked 14 AI models for their most controversial opinion of humans, three times each. 35 of 41 answers were the same one: we care more about belonging than about the truth.
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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…
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OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
The journey from Clawd to Moltbot to OpenClaw—and why this name is here to stay.
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Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler
Dear Ruby community,
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Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request
Update 13th July: The DMCA notice was rescinded with no further comment. Our landing page appears to be listed in Google's search results again.
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Security issue related to the NPM registry
We're sharing details of recent incidents on the npm registry, our investigations, and how we’re continuing to invest in the security of npm.
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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…
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Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees
Introducing Cloudflare’s S3-compatible Object Storage service, with zero egress bandwidth charges and automatic migration from S3-compatible services.
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GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open source
Our top-tier SaaS and self-managed offerings are now free to educational institutions and open source projects. Find out how to apply.
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The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
Today's release by Wikileaks of what is believed to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most onerous provisions...
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Stolen Buttons
Every website I visit, I steal a button from it. Check out my stash!
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SQLite Internals: Pages and B-trees
Let's open a hex editor and see what this thing is made of
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Nobody wants to teach anymore
Everyone should know why.
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Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people
A guide to scaling product & engineering teams from $0 to past $100M ARR
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Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native
After years of native mobile development, we’ve decided to build all of our new mobile apps using React Native. As I’ll explain, that decision doesn’t come lightly.
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The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
Questioning the frame of inevitability in use of AI
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Tailscale Funnel
Public access to your device—without the security risks. Tailscale Funnel makes exposing services to the internet safe & simple.
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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...
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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,
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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 ...
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet—our most intelligent model yet. Sonnet now outperforms competitor models and Claude 3 Opus on key evaluations, at twice the speed.