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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,273 posts.
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How to hire low experience, high potential people
Finding diamonds in the rough
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Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)
Learn how liquidation preferences and drag-along rights can leave startup founders with zero payout—even in a half-billion dollar exit
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How Meta trains large language models at scale
As we continue to focus our AI research and development on solving increasingly complex problems, one of the most significant and challenging shifts we’ve experienced is the sheer scale of co…
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7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025
7 databases to explore in 2025.
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Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud
Customers discontinuing their use of Google Cloud can move their data without incurring any network data transfer fees.
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Engineering principles for building financial systems
Best practices and principles to create accurate and reliable software based financial systems.
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Conway's Gradient of Life
What happens if we start from this configuration and take a single step of the game? Here is a snapshot of the next generation:
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Do AI companies work?
The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent.
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MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates
We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it. We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.
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Just disconnect the internet
So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of their Windows install base with a poorly tested content update. Rough day at the office, huh? There are lots of things you could say about this, lots of reasons it happens this way, lots of people to blame and not to…
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How Home Assistant is being used to protect from missile and drone attacks
🏡 My home automation setup built with Home Assistant
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Can solar costs keep shrinking?
The costs of some parts of solar farms will drop to near zero. But some obstacles remain to make this energy cheaply available everywhere. As a result, the entire energy industry will change. What are those obstacles? How will the industry change?
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Zed AI
From the Zed Blog: Powerful AI-assisted coding powered by Anthropic's Claude, now available.
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“Attention assault” on Fandom
Stop Using Fandom 2024-06-16 fandom is a wiki website (allegedly) if you are unfortunate enough to browse a fandom wiki without an ad blocker, you will experience what i like to call "attention assault" upon opening a fandom page (for me, it was the hollow knight wiki), you will note the very subtle aroma of a 1/3…
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Jepsen: Datomic Pro 1.0.7075
Datomic is a general-purpose database intended for systems of record. In many ways, Datomic is unusual. At any instant in time, the state of the database is represented by a set of [entity, attribute, value] ( EAV ) triples, known as datoms . Each datom declares that some entity (like a person) has a particular…
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The meme-ification of the “Demon Core”
The strange transformation of a criticality accident into dark Internet humor
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YouTube embeds are heavy and it’s fixable
Which one makes more sense to use, big and slow or small and fast? Especially with the same appearance and functionality, the youtube-lite component is a no-brainer.
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How I run LLMs locally
I document how I run Large Language Models locally.
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Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users
Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. In this scenario, a target’s Apple devices are forced to display dozens of system-level prompts that prevent the devices from being used until the recipient…
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How to Lead Your Team When the House Is on Fire
Wartime can be extremely demanding for Engineering Managers. But by ruthlessly focusing on delivery, building a resilient team, investing in individuals, and maintaining their own strength, an EM can lead their people to not just survive but thrive under pressure.
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Eagle 7B: Soaring past Transformers
A brand new era for the RWKV-v5 architecture and linear transformer's has arrived - with the strongest multi-lingual model in open source today
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Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates
A new study published today in Nature Geoscience by Dr Andrew Jarvis at Lancaster University and Professor Piers Forster at the University of Leeds shows that humans may have already caused 1.5 °C of global warming when measured from a time genuinely before the industrial revolution and the start of large-scale carbon…
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My Time Working at Stripe
Jon's personal site.
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Free Godot engine port for Nintendo Switch
RAWRLAB Games, as an official middleware Nintendo developer, provides an unofficial Godot port for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 development at no cost to approved Nintendo developers that qualify as "Godot Ecosystem Contributors" according to the terms mentioned in this announcement . This port is intended…
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FireDucks: Pandas but Faster
Introduction My main background is a hedge fund professional, so I deal with finance data all the time and so far the Pandas library has been an indispensab...
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Hello OLMo: A truly open LLM
Introducing OLMo 7B, a truly open, state-of-the-art large language model.