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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,859 posts.
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Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1
A few new features to help you feel close to friends and family even when you’re apart.
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Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
Why agents need project documentation instead of retrieval from old conversations.
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LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger
ChatGPT and LLMs amplify both insight and illusion. They are not knowledge engines, but confidence engines shaping how we think and learn.
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The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion (2023)
Resistor-based dividers, linear regulators, buck converters, and other ways to adjust voltages.
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Kafka is dead, long live Kafka
Chances are you probably had a strong reaction to the title of this post. In our experience, Kafka is one of the most polarizing technologies in the data space. Some people hate it, some people swear by it, but almost every technology company uses it.
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Endometriosis is an interesting disease
5k words, 23 minutes reading time
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My IQ
Mathematics, applications of mathematics to life in general, and my life as a mathematician.
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1Password for Linux
The wait is over. [1Password for Linux is officially here](https://support.1password.com/getting-started-linux/).
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Buck2: Our open source build system
Buck2, our new open source, large-scale build system, is now available on GitHub. Buck2 is an extensible and performant build system written in Rust and designed to make your build experience faste…
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Reddit takes a new direction
Several months ago, reddit shook with the news that longtime subreddit /r/jailbait -- dedicated to, well, you can probably guess …
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I’m not really a good web developer, I'm just good at Googling things
Dev diaries is a development community providing daily tips and tricks about web development. Learn about how to become a better dev, and get a refreshed perspective on what it means to be a web developer. We share daily web development tips on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, & Pinterest. Being a good web developer…
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PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
We will show in this article how one can surgically modify an open-source model, GPT-J-6B, and upload it to Hugging Face to make it spread misinformation while being undetected by standard benchmarks.
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Don't run 'strings' on untrusted files
Many shell users, and certainly most of the people working in computer forensics or other fields of information security, have a habit of ru...
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A look at my BBS Software from '93
The buzz around Mastodon’s federated social network has made me nostalgic about bulletin board systems in the early nineties. It was an era that is unknown to most people. It was social networking ...
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Web Scraping 101 with Python
Learn web scraping using Python in this step-by-step tutorial. Use Requests, Beautiful Soup, Playwright, Scrapy, Selenium, and scraping APIs with practical 2026 examples.
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IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology
IBM unveiled a major semiconductor breakthrough with the introduction of the world’s first sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip technology, featuring a revolutionary transistor architecture at the 0.7 nm, or 7 angstrom node.
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Postgres scaling advice
Planning to scale PostgreSQL? Learn when a single node is enough, how to prepare for sharding, and which scaling steps to consider first.
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How do I become a graphics programmer?
It is often difficult to know where to start when taking your first in the world of graphics. This guide is here to help with a discussion of first steps and a list of useful websites.
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Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows
Everyone collects utilities, and most folks have a list of a few that they feel ...
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How to get rich without getting lucky (2018)
A collection of all my interviews about my ‘How to Get Rich’ tweetstorm. Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep You probably know Naval from his Twitter account. We’re going to talk about his tweetstorm, “How To Get Rich (without getting lucky).” More
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Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations
Wikipedia is the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Learn how the Wikimedia Foundation is safeguarding it under the UK Online Safety Act.
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How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap
Multinational organisations are collaborating in the open on OpenStreetMap
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Automakers Say You Don’t Really Own Your Car
EFF is fighting for vehicle owners’ rights to inspect the code that runs their vehicles and to repair and modify their vehicles, or have a mechanic of their choice do the work. At the moment, the anti-circumvention prohibition in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act arguably restricts vehicle...
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How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards
How to use SPF, DKIM, and DMARC to improve your domain's email security and limit spoofing - but written for humans.
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Our lander’s asleep
Follow ESA's mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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Overengineered Anchor Links
Learn about the overengineered anchoring pattern, a technique to improve the user experience of scrollable content.