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Y Combinator When No One Cared
Recently I came across one of the first pitch letters I sent to journalists about Y Combinator. It was from the first few months of YC’s existence and it’s a snapshot of what our thinking was way...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,859 posts.
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Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 engineering firefighter
Author's Note After Release I'm really blown away by the reception of this article. It has spread far wider than I could have ever imagined. The many comments and discussions it has prompted that essentially confirm what I believe is truth by not just fellow engineers but many
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ZSH Aliases
In ZSH you can increase your productivity with aliases. This post explains 5 types of aliases that you should know. Boost your shell productivity now and make ZSH your own
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Partnering with Mozilla
Mozilla announced that the Tor Project and the Center for Democracy & Technology will be part of...
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FunSearch: Making new discoveries in mathematical sciences using LLMs
We introduce FunSearch, a method for searching for “functions” written in computer code, and find new solutions in mathematics and computer science. FunSearch works by pairing a pre-trained LLM, whose goal is to provide creative solutions in the form of computer code, with an automated “evaluator”, which guards…
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My First Fifteen Compilers
We sometimes think of the number of passes in a compiler as a measure of the compiler’s complexity. But what if we could make compiler development more approachable by fully embracing the ide…
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Mitmproxy 11: Full HTTP/3 Support
We are excited to announce the release of mitmproxy 11, which introduces full support for HTTP/3 in both transparent and reverse proxy modes. We’re also bringing in a ton of DNS improvements that we’ll cover in this blog post.
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Better Git configuration
I like Git. I use it all the time. As I sometimes do, I recently took some time to really dig in, read through documentation, and review my global Git configuration. Welcome to my fourth stack...
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Hidden latency in the Linux network stack
Back in November we wrote a blog post about one latency spike. Today I'd like to share a continuation of that story. As it turns out, the misconfigured rmem setting wasn't the only source of added latency. It looked like Mr Wolf hadn't finished his job.
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Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock
With a heavy heart Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock, stalwart proponent of Free Open Source Software, Father, Son, and the 'ian' in Debian. Ian started the Debian project in August of 1993, releasing the first versions of Debian later...
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Java for Everything
I used to ask interviewees, “What’s your favorite programming language?” The answer was nearly always, “I just choose the right language for the job.” Duh. Does anyone ever deliberately pick the wrong language? This was clearly a way to avoid actually naming a language for fear of picking one I didn’t like.
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EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections
The move continues to expose communities across the country to toxic forever chemicals in tap water
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Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice.
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Idiot Proof Git
Aliases, etc that have made rebase-based workflows in Git much less advanced feeling.
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Bigger vehicles are directly resulting in more deaths of people walking
Smart growth is an approach to community design that connects housing, transportation, and land use to create healthy, prosperous, and resilient neighborhoods.
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Don't encode POST bodies like GitHub Copilot, use URLSearchParams
Don't do it like GitHub Copilot!
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Expanding Fuchsia's open source model
Today we are expanding Fuchsia’s open source model to welcome contributions from the public.
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Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling
On June 28, Samsung Electronics, together with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physic
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The Tyranny of Structurelessness (1970)
The Tyranny of Stuctureless by Jo Freeman
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Why I don't trade stocks and (probably) neither should you
This post is a more thought out version of my response to friends asking what stocks they should buy. The short answer is: none. Unless you...
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AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now wrong
One of the neat things about AWS is that it's almost twenty years old. One of the unfortunate things about AWS is... that it's almost twenty years old
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When patents attack Android
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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BankSimple invites first customers; rebrands itself as Simple
Insights and ideas for software startups
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Hy4 preview
Tencent has released and open-sourced Tencent Hy4 preview, a next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters and 49B active parameters, and a context window exceeding 1M tokens.
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Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design
I tried Claude Design yesterday and I have a theory for how this whole thing shakes out.
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WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
Today we're excited to announce WebContainers, a new type of WebAssembly-based operating system that boots instantly and enables Node.js environments to run natively in-browser.
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Vulnerability reports are not special anymore
We needed the insight and confidentiality to protect our users, but now that anyone can get the same results from LLM?
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Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court
A jury has ruled that Meta accessed sensitive information from women's reproductive health tracking app Flo without consent.