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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,863 posts.
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A new Light Table experience
With our release of the 0.2.0 version of Light Table we laid the foundation we needed to continue moving forward. In this release we wanted to focus on making that foundation a joy to use by taking the time to really craft an experience. To that end, even though 0.3.0 is still an alpha, it will feel much better to…
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Competitive Self-Play
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished
15 years ago, a band called Salvage dropped an epic song, and then vanished without a trace. Until now.
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There are no secure smartphones
Modern smartphones have a CPU chip, and a baseband chip which handles radio network communications (GSM/UMTS/LTE/etc.) This chip is connected to the CPU via DMA. Thus, unless an IOMMU is used, the baseband has full access to main memory, and can compromise it arbitrarily.
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What to Learn
It's common to see people advocate for learning skills that they have or using processes that they use. For example, Steve Yegge has a set of blog posts where he recommends reading compiler books and learning about compilers. His reasoning is basically that, if you understand compilers, you'll see compiler problems…
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Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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What we need from Apple to make standalone Apple Watch podcast apps
The Apple Watch desperately needs standalone podcast playback, especially with the LTE-equipped Series 3, which was designed specifically for exercising without an iPhone.
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Interview with the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession
In April 2013, I received via U.S. mail more than a gram of pure heroin as part of a scheme to get me arrested for drug possession. But the plan failed and the Ukrainian mastermind behind it soon after was imprisoned for unrelated cybercrime offenses. That individual recently gave his first interview since finishing…
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How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic
A dive into the mechanics that allow Postgres to provide strong atomic guarantees despite the chaotic entropy of production.
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How JavaScript works: memory management and common memory leaks
PlaybookUX is an all-in-one software that allows you to recruit, conduct and analyze both qualitative and quantitative research, enhanced by AI.
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300k airplanes in five years
It’s no secret that the Allies won World War II on the back of the U.S.’s enormous industrial output.
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Shunning AI is the human choice
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
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Why physicists still use Fortran (2015)
“I don’t know what the programming language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” – Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, circa 1982 Fortran is rarely used today in industry — one ranking ranks it behind 29 other languages. However, Fortran is still a dominant language for the large scale…
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Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop
Contrasting how each language handles iteration helps understand how to work effectively in either.
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MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style
An MIT study on “legalese” suggests this convoluted language acts to convey a sense of authority in legal documents. The researchers also found that even non-lawyers use legalese when asked to write laws.
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Notes on Tajikistan
Over the summer, I spent about two weeks in Tajikistan, mostly in Dushanbe (the capital) and various points along the Pamir Highway, which borders Afghanistan and later leads into Kyrgyzstan. This …
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Everybody's Lost Their Minds
The AI brain worms have been spreading and I don't have a solution, I just want to get off this ride.
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Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps
Today, as part of Mobile World Congress 2018, we are excited to announce the first beta release of Flutter . Flutter is Google's new mobile UI framework that helps developers craft high-quality native interfaces for both iOS and Android. Get started today at flutter.io to build beautiful native apps in record time.
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It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp
I'm traveling back in time to explore an ancient development workflow that is somehow more modern than today's workflows.
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Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI
How to use AI coding assistants without letting your hard-earned engineering skills wither away.
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UniFi 5G
Discover the U5G Max and UniFi’s next generation 5G lineup featuring effortless setup, ultra fast speeds, rugged outdoor options, and advanced UniFi integration for unmatched performance.
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