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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,857 posts.
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I've used all the notebooks
I jot, doodle, scribe, and scribble in several notebooks every day—it’s how I do my thinking.
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What if you didn't need money or attention?
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme
Amir Golestan , the 40-year-old CEO of the Charleston, S.C. based technology company Micfo LLC , has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud. Golestan’s sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to secure more than 735,000 Internet Protocol…
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Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia
A new trial conducted by the University of Oxford reveals that sildenafil, commonly known as Viagra, enhances blood flow to the brain and improves the function of brain blood vessels in patients at a heightened risk of vascular dementia.
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Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?
Lzon.ca. A personal blog, by a programmer and IT expert.2026395 points245 commentsTech Industry & Business details
A personal blog, by a programmer and IT expert. Essays, Articles, Guides, and Recipes. As well as Code, Quotes, and Links.
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Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack
The Open Sourced competitor to Slack
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I Hope Twitter Goes Away
About seven months ago, I abruptly quit Twitter. Though I’d been thinking about it for a while, ultimately leaving was a snap decision for me. Lately I’ve been reflecting on why I hate Twitter so much.
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Slack’s migration to a cellular architecture
Summary In recent years, cellular architectures have become increasingly popular for large online services as a way to increase redundancy and limit the blast radius of site failures. In pursuit of these goals, we have migrated the most critical user-facing services at Slack from a monolithic to a cell-based…
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Why GitHub Can't Host the Linux Kernel Community
A while back at the awesome maintainerati Ichatted with a few great fellow maintainers about how to scale really big opensource projects, and how github forc...
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GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
Developers can now bring their own data to customize GPT-3.5 Turbo for their use cases.
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How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers
How Facebook hides the word 'Sponsored' from ad blockers using per-character spans and DOM obfuscation, pulled apart piece by piece.
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Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries
If signed, Seattle will become the first city in the nation to prohibit the pricing tactic Seattle, Washington – The Seattle City Council today passed…
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Matter – Protocol to connect compatible devices and systems with one another
The Connectivity Standards Alliance has certified and released the first version of the Matter smart home interoperability protocol Tuesday and I couldn’t be happier. This means that member companies can now put their devices through the certification protocol and get a badge showing that their products are Matter…
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Batteries included with Emacs (2020)
Emacs has a reputation for being borderline unusable out of the box, of being bloated but somehow surprisingly bare. This is largely a discoverability problem1. The solution the Internet has settled on seems to be “Emacs distributions” like Doom, Spacemacs or Prelude that glue together dozens (sometimes hundreds) of…
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Effective Rust (2021)
A collection of specific ways to improve your use of Rust
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FreeBSD is an amazing operating system
This is a small article about some of my adventures with FreeBSD and why I believe it is an amazing operating system.
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Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell
Hello, I'm Sylvia. I like to hack on things.
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Little League wants all your information
To sign kids up for our city’s Little League baseball …
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Cryptic, allusive messages from Hong Kong's wealthiest tycoon
August 18, 2019 @ 12:31 am · Filed by Victor Mair under Decipherment , Language and history , Language and literature , Language and politics
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Behind the Tech with John Carmack: 5k Immersive Video
The following post from John provides more information on this technology and the making of its sample video: a 5k re-release of the award-winning Henry, from Oculus Story Studios for Oculus Go and...
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Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug
AI agents are getting very good at finding vulnerabilities in large-scale software systems.
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Elixir v1.7 released
Elixir v1.7 includes many quality of life improvements, focusing on documentation, Logger and ExUnit, as well as a new Elixir Core team member.
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Why Stack Overflow Doesn’t Care About Ad Blockers
Hi! I’m Steve Feldman, Senior Ad Ops Manager at Stack Overflow. My whole life I’ve been fascinated by advertising. Even as a kid, I wondered what a company was trying to tell me by using one word instead of another in an ad. Over time, I developed a strong (read: subjective) opinion of what makes an ad ’good,’ and…
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In praise of --dry-run
See how we improve software reliability with --dry-run modes. Learn best practices for tool development with insights from our expert, Patrick Stevens.