Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,815 posts.
How I made $500k from high frequency trading using machine learning to optimize a trading algorithm for Russell 2000 and DAX futures, trading independently without working for a quant firm.
Every lisp hacker I ever met, myself included, thought that all those brackets in Lisp were off-putting and weird. At first, of course. Soon after we all came to the same epiphany: lisp’s power lies in those brackets ! In this essay, we’ll go on a journey to that epiphany.
How Pi's minimal harness improves coding-agent cost and performance, with examples from Databricks and Shopify's pi-autoresearch extension.
As one of the managers of the Digital Dissident Devroom , I invite you to be part of a conversation we cannot afford to ignore.
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.
Today, Mozilla announced more than 450 new extensions (software that adds new features or functionality to the browser) to users on Firefox for Android at
In which ChatGPT and I invent a fictional language spoken by slime-people
Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.
Learn how Discord optimizes its platform to respond to the high frequency of queries for all types of content and data as quickly as possible.
VideoLAN announces dav2d, an open source AV2 decoder — continuing the work started with dav1d for AV1.
Google workspace threatening to block firefox
When good regexes go bad
There are already very good lists of startup lessons written by really talented, experienced people (here and here). I’d like to add another one. I learned these lessons the hard way in the past four years. If you’re starting a company, I hope you have an easier path.
I had the opportunity to work on scaling a React rendering service, adapting a fixed hardware provision to deal with increasing load. Over the course of many months, incremental improvements were made to the system to enable it to cope with demand. I thought it might be useful to share the more interesting insights…
Denver legislators have just passed the first-ever agricultural Right to Repair bill. Today’s landslide 44-16 vote in the House follows successful votes in the Senate last month.
Lessons learned from building RAG systems for Usul AI and enterprise clients, processing over 13 million pages.
A guide to visual aesthetics, written by a nerd
In 2017, I went to Facebook on a sabbatical from my faculty position at Yale. I created a team to build a storage system called Delos at the bottom of the Facebook stack (think of it as Facebook’s version of Chubby). We hit production with a 3-person team in less than a year; and subsequently scaled the team to 30+…
POKEGB: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 62 lines of c++. source: https://t.co/AGt7RUTr9H pic.twitter.com/o0BUUmzNOt
The name SQLite is a nice name, but the "lite" part is misleading, it sounds like it is only useful for tiny things - which is very wrong. SQLite should be named AwesomeSQL, because that is what it is. SQLite is probably the only database you will ever need in most cases.
What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard.
<span style="font-weight: 400;">An attack has been found and exploited in <a href="https://etherscan.io/address/0xbb9bc244d798123fde783fcc1c72d3bb8c189413">the...
TomTom is redefining not just how maps are made, but the entire ecosystem around them too. It'll lay the foundation for a future of innovative location tech.
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