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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,838 posts.
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Running a fake power plant on the internet for a month
There is a lot more on the internet than just social media and banking websites…
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Things to know about the GDPR, Mozilla and Firefox
Has your email inbox been filling up with privacy policy updates? It seems like every service, app or subscription I’ve signed up for (including more tha
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Emoji Under the Hood
Detailed look into all the machinery involved in rendering Emoji
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Down the Rabbit-Hole
Posted by Tavis Ormandy, Security Research Over-Engineer.“Sometimes, hacking is just someon...
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Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL
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Update: YouTube-dl reinstated thanks to EFF (2020)
In October, the popular and famous archivist tool youtube-dl was taken down by GitHub due to a DMCA request by the Recording Industry Association of America. I posted a detailed analysis explaining the relation between international, US, EU and German law, and showing why this request was very different from what most…
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New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
Apple today announced the new MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip, taking its power-efficient performance and portability to a new level.
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Understanding the War in Ukraine
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2022429 points605 commentscited by 5History & Retro Computing details
This week, I want to break from our usual format and respond to the fairly unusual global events. I expect a lot of my readers are trying to get a grasp on what is happening right now in Ukraine an…
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Excel Never Dies
The Spreadsheet That Launched A Million Companies
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Don't forget Microsoft
Understanding the behemoth in Redmond teaches us valuable lessons in cloud infrastructure, startup strategy, and the future of software.
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The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla
Comparing the core values of our text editors, describing the history of Neovim's development, and discussing the rise of VSCode.
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Doomscrolling ourselves to death
James Marriott’s The New Dark Ages
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JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Study: Low Carb Diet May Prevent, Reverse Age-Related Effects Within the Brain
The news in brief: 1) Brain changes associated with aging become visible much earlier than would be expected, in the late 40's. 2) This is hypothesized to result from neurons’ loss of energy; if so, researchers may have found a way to prevent or reverse these effects. 3) This can be done with diet, by
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Standalone Signal Desktop
Signal Desktop is now available in a new, standalone form, and the Chrome App has been deprecated.
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I fell in love with low-JS
About 5 years ago I was working on a project written in style still common for today:
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I Love Ruby
I've done a lot in my career. From working on business support software to big backend systems and even robotics. If there's been a consistent through-line to my career, it's the Ruby programming language.
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Ending PHP Support, and the Future of Hack
Ending Support for PHP
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43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief
Personal blog and website of Lennart Koopmann.
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How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
A startup called Taalas , recently released an ASIC chip running Llama 3.1 8B (3/6 bit quant) at an inference rate of 17,000 tokens per seconds. That's like writing around 30 A4 sized pages in one second. They claim it's 10x cheaper in ownership cost than GPU based inference systems and is 10x less electricity hog…
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That time I told my wife I wanted to quit my job
It was midnight on May 22nd, 2016 that I pushed my first commit to GitHub for a new idea. Little did I know what would happen next.