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Job interview questions engineers should ask, but don't
Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people. What's one thing I've taken from this? It's normal for candidates not to ask harder…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,817 posts.
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Work for only 3 hours a day, but everyday
I am an indie iPhone developer, and I’ve been working for 3 hours everyday for almost 2 years now. It may not work for everybody, but I started this habit in early 2014, and I have continued to do it since have I found that this is the most productive way to work for me.
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AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
A compressed 8KB docs index in AGENTS.md achieved 100% on Next.js 16 API evals. Skills maxed at 79%. Here's what we learned and how to set it up.
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An Introduction to Meshtastic
Discover Meshtastic: a community-driven, open-source project using LoRa radios for long-range, off-grid communication.
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Amazon S3 Adds Put-If-Match (Compare-and-Swap)
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 adds new functionality for conditional writes
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Idea Generation
The most common question prospective startup founders ask is how to get ideas for startups. The second most common question is if you have any ideas for their startup. But giving founders an idea...
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Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features needed for 3D games. Some additions: Triangle mesh collision Height-field collision Baked compound collision The core…
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Render mathematical expressions in Markdown On GitHub
You can now use LaTeX style syntax to render math expressions within Markdown inline (using $ delimiters) or in blocks (using $$ delimiters). Writing expressions as blocks To add math…
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Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
Exploring a new layout algorithm for control flow graphs.
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iPhone Pocket
ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket, designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
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Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation
This page is no longer available. Order to comply or sanctions issued by the CNIL may be made public. In this case, a time limit shall be specified in the decision. Once this time period has expired, the organisations that have been given formal notice or sanctioned are no longer identified in the public decision. For…
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We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails
A look at how and why we migrated from Next.js to Ruby on Rails.
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I'm becoming AI-blind
Recently I've been catching myself having these little moments at work, when I'm trying to read a document someone has sent me and my brain somehow refuses to analyze it. It feels like I'm reading it, but I'm unable to focus on its content. I sat down to analyze these situations and realized they all have a common…
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Startup Winter: Hacker News Lost Its Faith
In 2013, a failing founder posted their story on Hacker News (link). The responses were overwhelmingly supportive: "Failure is just an event, not who you are." "Get back up and try again!"
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ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood
Last week, someone leaked a spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors to Wired . You are probably asking "What is SoundThinking," because the company rebranded last year. They used to be called ShotSpotter, and their outdoor acoustic gunfire detection system still goes by the ShotSpotter name.
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Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1
From the announcement made on November 10th, 2020, users have had high hopes for the new Apple M1 devices. With its powerful Apple Silicon processor smashing benchmarks all over the place, users and developers were both asking if a native Dolphin build would be possible. Now we have the answer. Apple's M1 hardware is…
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We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else
One of the most common pieces of advice you’ll get as a startup is this: Only hire the best. The quality of the people that work at your company will be one of the biggest factors in your success – or failure. I’ve heard this advice over and over
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I am worried about Bun
Bun is excellent software. Anthropic owns it now, Bun sits under Claude Code, and Claude Code getting worse makes me worried Bun could follow the same enshittification path.
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Against 3x Speed
It’s okay to not know everything. The world rewards people who develop expertise. When that expertise is unique, it’s developed through direct experience and deliberate reflection.
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We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)
Or: How JPEG Screenshots Defeated Our Beautiful H.264 WebCodecs Pipeline
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One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software
One-Click RCE in ASUS’s Preinstalled Driver Software Part Two of the ASUS series is out, read it here. Introduction This story begins with a conversation about new PC parts. After ignoring the advice from my friend, I bought a new ASUS motherboard for my PC. I was a little concerned about having a BIOS that would by…
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The startup's Postgres survival guide
A guide to preventing Postgres from toppling over.
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How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
In 1978, Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn't the first ambient