Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,567 posts.
The NY Times profile quotes me saying “We don’t really have an Amazon problem. What we have is a deep, societal problem with an unacceptable imbalance of power and wealth.” But the URL contained the string “amazon-critic-tim-bray” and the HTML <title> says “Tim Bray Is Not Done With Amazon”. I feel like I’m being…
tl;dr In the past 6 months I turned down multiple $3-5m offers and failed to close a $5m sale. In the past six years of Baremetrics' existence, I've
Learn more about GitHub for mobile—including highlights of its core features and how to get started.
Making a game where your enemies need to chase the player? This starts out easy, make the enemy run towards the player! But what happen...
Archived MIT Admissions blog post 'A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests,' published March 20, 2020. Preserved for historical context; not maintained as current admissions policy.
I was curious how long things stay frozen in the freezer when there is a power outage. U already gave Raspberry Pi computers with temperature sensors on them from things like this experiment , this one or this one
Posted by Tingbo Hou and Tyler Mullen, Software Engineers, Google Research Video conferencing is becoming ever more critical in people's work and p...
In this blogpost we’ll talk about the old Nginx-based traffic infrastructure, its pain points, and the benefits we gained by migrating to Envoy . We’ll compare Nginx to Envoy across many software engineering and operational dimensions. We’ll also briefly touch on the migration process, its current state, and some of…
Learn how we are building an open-source business in the cloud and why we added the Timescale License. Read the full article on the Tiger Data blog.
How we chose the Rust programming language to advance the state-of-the-art in real-time communication
For the past little while, we have been tracking some interesting WebRender bugs that people are reporting in release. Despite best efforts, we have been unable to determine clear steps to reproduc…
[German]In Windows 10 20H2 with installed cumulative update KB4592438, chkdsk causes massive issues. It destroys the file system during a disk check on SSDs, so Windows 10 can’t start after a reboot.
Microsoft Encarta came out in 1993 and was one of the first CD-ROMs I had. It ...
In 2018, my recommendation was to avoid AMP, to use AMP for the most relevant pages, or to use AMP only. In 2020 my recommendation is to ignore it, because AMP largely appears meaningless now. <cite>Upgrade Your HTML II</cite> gives an opinionated idea why.
Last week was the final week for this half's performance review at Facebook, where we write summaries of work and impact we and our peers had over the last h...
Classes previously only available to Amazon employees will now be available to the community.
A look into me, my awful procrastination habit, and how I fixed it. (spoiler alert: it was ADHD)
Linear algebra is to machine learning as flour to bakery: every machine learning model is based in linear algebra, as every cake is based in flour . It is not the only ingredient, of course. Machine learning models need vector calculus, probability, and optimization, as cakes need sugar, eggs, and butter. Applied…
The implementation and history of an iconic Unix feature, with excerpts from the v6 Unix kernel source code, Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen
If you have used tools like Google’s PageSpeed Insights, you probably have run into a suggestion to use “next-gen image formats”, namely Google’s WebP image format. Google claims that their WebP…
In my job as a scientific software developer, I tend to write a lot of code. And most people who haven’t been through a Computer Science degree tend to think that CS is “just” about slinging code at the screen and then running it. I have a good working relationship with many of my colleagues and co-workers with other…
On Tuesday the 7th of April 2020 , a remarkable contact was made with the FT8 digital mode on 432 MHz between D4VHF on the Cape Verde Is...
Bringing the Godot Editor to the web: lowering the barrier for newcomers while enhancing the HTML5 export.
A vulnerability in Safari allowed hackers to access the iPhone and Macbook cameras. (CVE-2020-3852, CVE-2020-3864, CVE-2020-3865, CVE-2020-3885, CVE-2020-3887 & CVE-2020-9784)
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
Seeing a program you wrote running directly on the bare metal is deeply satisfying to anyone who enjoys writing software. And it turns out that creating such a program from scratch is easier than it sounds. The hardest part is figuring out where to start. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to write, build and run the…
David shares 50 ideas that changed his life. Read here.
Fourier transforms are a tool used in a whole bunch of different things. This is a explanation of what a Fourier transform does, and some different ways it can be useful.
