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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,813 posts.
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Cloudflare's Disruption
Cloudflare’s new storage offering is potentially disruptive both economically and strategically.
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The Most Revealing Job Interview Question
Not all SaaS referral programs are built the same. Learn how B2B SaaS, consumer SaaS, and partner programs each need a different approach, plus examples.
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Happy 20th Birthday, Django
Posted by Thibaud Colas & Benjamin Balder Bach on July 13, 2025
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Mammals dream about the world they are about to experience before they are born
Yale researchers observing the brains of closed-eyed baby mice found waves that help explain why mammals can navigate their environment so soon after birth.
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Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
Experiments with getting usable outputs out of local models on a standard Macbook
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A Git story: Not so fun this time
Linus Torvalds once wrote in a book that he created Linux just for fun , but it ended up sparking a revolution. Git, his second major creation, was also an accidental revolution. It’s now a standard tool for software engineers, but its origin story wasn’t so much fun this time, at least for Linus.
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The Illustrated DeepSeek-R1
A recipe for reasoning LLMs
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Twitter Contest Winning as a Service
This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight.
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Matz (creator of Ruby) joins Heroku
Japanese version here (日本語版はこちら). Today marks a very special occasion in the history of Heroku, as we are honored to announce that Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumot
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OK, Milt Olin, I'll start writing again
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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Choose Boring Technology
Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this. I would not have been free to become…
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Writing books is not really a good idea
Could the creator economy provide a better one?
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Rust: A Critical Retrospective
Since I was unable to travel for a couple of years during the pandemic, I decided to take my new-found time and really lean into Rust. After writing over 100k lines of Rust code, I think I am starting to get a feel for the language and like every cranky engineer I have developed opinions and because this is the…
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The Post-American Internet
On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled " A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet " for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech.
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Software Developers Should Have Sysadmin Experience
The differences between system administrators and software developers as well as why all software developers should have some amount of sysadmin experience.
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Should I use JWTs for authentication tokens?
Let’s talk about what we’re talking about. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens, a reasonably well defined standard for authenticated tokens. Specifically they have a header with format information, a payload, and a signature or message authentication code. The core idea is that whoever has the corresponding verification…
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My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)
I wrote about the new GLM-4.5 model family yesterday—new open weight (MIT licensed) models from Z.ai in China which their benchmarks claim score highly in coding even against models such …
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The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
That's the problem with deploying play-acting as "solutions:" play-acting doesn't actually fix the problems at the source, it simply lets th...
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I have seen things
I still don't have any idea what Instagram or Facebook stories is. Tried Googling and still don't have a good idea about it. — Murat Dem...
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Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...
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Discord is not documentation
I'm going to be slightly contrarian and say that I like Discord. It's great to be able to get real-time help on a problem. And it is fun to see, again in real-time, what other people are working on and struggling with. In truth, Discord is no harder to sign up to than Slack, Matrix, Gitter, IRC, or whatever. And of…
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You can now disable all AI features in Zed
From the Zed Blog: If you don’t want AI in your workflow, it won’t be there.
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The Hiring Post
The developer job interview doesn't work: it measures a basket of skills uncorrelated with job performance. Work-sample tests, warm-ups, and how to grade your own hiring process.
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AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding
Blindspots in LLMs I’ve noticed while AI coding. Sonnet family emphasis. Maybe I will eventually suggest Cursor rules for these problems.
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