Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,220 posts.
Whether you believe in preventing damage (the core aim of the aging field, though that's not the focus of this post) or treating damage as it arises, our current best efforts in both treatment and mechanism selection haven't yielded promising results. None of the approved drugs for age-related diseases reverse any…
This article offers tips and practical advice to help people maintain their weight loss more effectively over time.
On this day in 1687, Isaac Newton published the Principia—a book that explained why apples fall, why planets don’t wander off, and why NASA is still lighting enormous tubes on fire to fling humans into orbit 337 years later.
Over-privileged Azure Key Vault roles & API vulnerabilities let attackers steal credentials silently. Learn how Token Security detects & remediates these critical exposure paths.
WhatsApp users in Europe will soon have the possibility to message users of other services.
A two-week experiment building an app with full AI assistance, exploring both the promise and frustrations of LLM-based development workflows.
Hide your kids, hide your wife: how the Agile Industrial Complex has set us all up to be duped by AI codegen
The free DNS4EU resolver, for everyone in Europe. Get the addresses, set it up in minutes, and block malware and phishing with no tracking.
Roughly a year ago, I wrote a text about the effects of CRT screens on pixel art . It surprised me by becoming one of the most controversial pieces I've published here. In it, I propose the following:
Originally published May 20, 2015.
And how to fix it with RFCs
One of legal tech's clichés is that "lawyers live in Word". This is demonstrably incorrect. I, for example, am a lawyer and in fact live in London, England…
JPEG and AVIF are locked to 8, 10 or 12 bits. JPEG XL works in float32 with the XYB color space, so bit depth stops mattering. Here’s why that helps HDR.
Alternative configuration formats solve superficial problems. Configuration languages solve the deeper problem: the need for abstraction.
In .NET 9 we enabled DATAS by default. But .NET 9 is not an LTS release so for many people they will be getting DATAS for the first time…
I like slim and stupid servers, where each endpoint wraps a very dumb DB query. Dumb queries are fast. Fast queries make websites smooth and snappy. Keep those click/render loops sacred. Sweep complexity under a task table.
Published: 17-03-2025 20:33 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
The conventional wisdom is that hashing more entropy sources can't hurt: if H is any modern cryptographic hash function then H(x,y,z) is at least as good a random number as H(x,y), no matter how awful z is. So we pile one source on top of another, hashing them all together and hoping that at least one of them is good.
TigerBeetle is a financial transactions database built for correctness. Yet, building a correct system from correct components remains a challenge:
Designing new map styles for FlightAware
Designing a cheap two-port vector network analyzer with good measurement accuracy.
If you’re a developer rocking an Apple Silicon Mac and writing in Zig, congratulations - you’ve chosen the scenic route through the desert of profiling tools. It’s just you, your code, and a tumbleweed named Apple Instruments. But don’t worry - we’ll try to find some oases. Okay, it’s not that bad, but we’re far away…
A story of writing Clojure’s println alternative that works inside threading-first/last macros
This is a brief continuation of a previous post ( Repo ), which introduced such visualization for collatz sequences based on Langton’s Ant .
Years ago I spent a lot of time reviewing coding challenges. The challenge itself was very straightforward — building a CLI tool that hit an API and allowed the…
A perspective on continual learning, motivating our paper on sparse memory finetuning
