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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,456 posts.
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Why Registers Are Fast and RAM Is Slow
In the previous article on ARM64 , I mentioned that one advantage of the new architecture is the fact that it has twice as many registers, allowing code load data from RAM less often, which is much slower. Reader Daniel Hooper asks the natural question: just why is RAM so much slower than registers?
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"I have come to find out what it's like to be dumb."
I’m a smart guy. I’m not bragging. It’s not like I deserve any credit for being smart. I didn’t do anything to make that happen. I’m also tall, but nobody compliments me on that. (Good job being tall!) Intelligence is an immutable characteristic that I have at times capitalized on and at other times let […]
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CodeCombat in Y Combinator
Originally posted on the CodeCombat blog.What a crazy weekend! We launched our beta on Friday morning by posting to ...
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Investor Herd Dynamics
August 2013 The biggest component in most investors' opinion of you is the opinion of other investors. Which is of course a recipe for exponential growth. When one investor wants to invest in you, that makes other investors want to, which makes others want to, and so on. Sometimes inexperienced founders mistakenly…
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Today I saw the future
Mozilla and OTOY deliver the power of native PC applications to the Web, unveil next generation JavaScript video codec for movies and cloud gaming
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Switching from Gmail to FastMail
I switched from Gmail to FastMail a few months ago (in early 2013) and I’ve been meaning to write a post about how I did it.
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How GitHub No Longer Works
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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The unprofitable SaaS business model trap
Marketo filed for IPO. They have $60m in revenues and a nice growth rate; unfortunately they're *losing* $35m/year. Why do SaaS business fall into the trap of being forever unprofitable, and what is the secret to the ones who overcome this trap?
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Media Queries are a Hack
The big buzzwords in CSS these days are “modular” and “responsive”—and for good reasons. But we’re still trying to achieve those goals with the wrong tool: Media Queries. What we really need is a tool that doesn’t exist yet: Element Queries.
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The 7-bit Internet
When I first started digging into the bowels of the Internet, I was fascinated by how many of its protocols—like HTTP and SMTP, for example—were entirely text based.
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Dart 1.0 Is Out
Today we’re releasing the Dart SDK 1.0, a cross-browser, open source toolkit for structured web applications. In the two years since we ...
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Get Rid of the App Store’s “Top” Lists
At the bottom of my recent post on App Store pricing , I ended a three-paragraph footnote 1 with this:
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