Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,939 posts.
I spend a lot of time negotiating this in the software world: And if you're wondering why this happens, it's normally because: 1. people aren't talking to people 2. people aren't listening So lots of designers and product people have leapt onto 1, basically trying to
A caller phones Radio Erywan. “Is it true that in Moscow, on Red Square, they give out cars?” “True. Not in Moscow, however, but in St. Petersburg. Not on Red Square, but on Revolution Square. Not cars, but bikes. And they don’t give them out, but steal them”. Edit: Through the apparent magic of Hacker News, my Google…
It's time to stop drawing user interfaces with punctuation characters. Native UI is a completely solved problem.
Apple’s accidental moat
Cloudflare is collaborating on tsrs, a Rust port of TypeScript that is up to 8x faster and uses 70% less memory.
A 4B open-source model post-trained with Castform retrieved search results as accurately as GPT-5.6 Sol, while costing 100x less.
100% cotton paper. 100% crazy.
The current state of app bloat.
News and information from Gentoo Linux
What comes to mind when you hear "frontend optimization"? For most of us it's things like reducing network requests, shrinking the bundle,…
Search was 49.7% of Alphabet's revenue in Q3 2026, down from 62% in early 2019, as Google Cloud grew much faster. Every quarter since 2018, from Alphabet's earnings releases.
I used to love getting emails from people in response to things I’ve written online, blog posts or Hacker News comments, but in the last 2 years it’s changed from mostly signal to mostly noise. I’ve …
Apple is letting users build their own Wallet passes in iOS 27. After 14 years of PassKit, the supply-side problem is finally being solved from the demand side.
Loops, harnesses, and why even loop skeptics may end up with them.
What it takes to run 2 million lines of Haskell in production at a fintech company serving 300,000 businesses.
When companies get caught doing this sort of thing, the response is almost always the same: "we're using this technology to combat fraud," or "ensure positive user experience," or "save computing resources," or some other hog wash. The simple truth, there's no reason to be collecting data that can be used to identify…
Vim 9.2 brings significant enhancements to the Vim9 scripting language, improved diff mode, comprehensive completion features, and platform-specific improvements including experimental Wayland support.
I’ve been a self-employed contractor for about a decade now, and I’m bummed about Harvest .
The news isn’t getting preserved in the Wayback Machine anymore because major media outlets are blocking it.
Released at the Outline Demoparty in May 2026, Ommen, NL An exploration of algorithmic density in 16 bytes of x86 assembly.
OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about “the Hugging Face Incident” (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It’s short and information …
My old 2016 MacBook Pro has been collecting dust in a cabinet for some time now. The laptop suffers from a “flexgate” problem, and I don’t have any practical use for it. For quite some time, I’ve been thinking about repurposing it as a guinea pig, to play with FreeBSD — an OS that I’d aspired to play with for a long…
Sinister variations on the positive state of flow
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
[This is a guest post by Grant Sanderson. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] A sentiment echoing throughout the mathematics communit…
Claude Code has gotten extremely good at finding security vulnerabilities, and this is only the beginning.
Update (April 9, 2025): Since publishing this post, a human support agent from Anthropic has reached out to me. I appreciate them following up.
Somewhat devastating news today from CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they decided …
