Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,962 posts.
Microsoft is losing Builders fast. They're switching to MacOS and Linux. The biggest pull keeping people on Windows, outside of shear inertia, is content creation and gaming. However, even these are falling to Linux.
When I started using computers, we had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum at home and a nano-reseau of Thomson MO5 s at elementary school. I distinctly remember how unpleasant it was to type with them. These must have been the worst keyboards I ever used [1] . Ever since, I have paid close attention to the keyboards I use. Here…
Rust struct serialization problem caused by many nullable SQL columns.
A question like this recently came up again. I once tried to find an answer, but only posted it in some "forum" a decade ago, and I think it's worth saving this little bit of trivia from digital nirvana.
This summary of Brad’s HIPS 2025 keynote looks at how HPC programming has (and has not) changed over the past 30 years
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I was reading Jason Gorman’s article “The Wall Confronting Reliable Coding Agent Autonomy” and he says: the journey from 90% to 99% reliability is just as hard…
The IPv4 "exhaustion" is not real. The addresses got hoarded and the market devolved into a wild sub-leasing economy where anyone can choose where their IPs appear from, who owns them on paper, and scrub them clean of any history.
Working on an international tech team comes with communication challenges that go beyond just language. Here’s some practical advice I’ve gathered in my ten years of working in Japan.
Abusing named pipes in proprietary software to get LocalSystem privileges in seconds.
A parallax effect built entirely in CSS with scroll-driven animations, no scroll listeners required.
The Picard team is happy to announce the new major version 3.0 of MusicBrainz Picard, now available to download . MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with data from MusicBrainz.
Meet North Mini Code, Cohere's first open-source agentic coding model: a 30B MoE that codes strongly on minimal hardware.
Pruning agent context down to what the answer actually needs, while keeping 96% of recall
There was a joke at the time that although the National Security Agency had opened up in recent years and started taking their defensive role more seriously, the one aspect of cryptography which they would never discuss publicly was side channel attacks — and this itself constituted a side channel, revealing the…
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE. This is the sixth release of the stable/14 branch.
Virtual reality for a 286 processor
Sometimes an article starts with a simple question or a single message on one of the available social platforms. This is the case today with this article where @ooberober asked: How small can the r…
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The Social Smolnet par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
A more explicit example
Elite circles have their own cultural knowledge. So does the bottom 40%. Here's some of mine.
In my previous post I talk about how I got rid of hundreds of thousands of lines of Objective-C code while at Audible and I explain why keeping Objective-C code around is a terrible idea. And I explain that…
This document contains a set of informal notes on how to build an alternative specification to the Web, in such a way that hopefully prevents many of its drawbacks while still preserves many of the good points. This document is not an specification, and is therefore subject to change over time.
I've been visiting the US a lot these days: for work, for conferences, and simply to see friends. Commensurately, I've been also thinking more about what Can...
Model Context Protocol has taken off as the standardized platform for AI integrations, but this popularity will be short-lived.
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For April First, a guide to replace everything with 555 ICs.
