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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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How Did Vim Become So Popular?
Short walk through Vim's origins and why is Vim so popular today
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Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
Xcode 26.3 introduces support for agentic coding, a new way in Xcode for developers to build apps, powered by coding agents from Anthropic and OpenAI.
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We Automated Bullshit
Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology2023369 points319 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit
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As Qualified Immunity Takes Center Stage, More Delay from SCOTUS
I fear I may have become trapped in a time loop, in which every week I am doomed to write the same blog post about how the Supreme Court has delayed consideration of its qualified immunity docket. Back in April , I noted that the Court had scheduled thirteen different qualified immunity cases for its May 15th…
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Various LLM Smells
Looks like this ended up on the HN front-page: HN Thread Late last year I started writing a math blog and decided to use LLMs to polish/enhance my writin...
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Updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing
Google Cloud is adjusting infrastructure product and pricing structure to give customers more choice in how they pay for what they use
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Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste
AUSTIN, Texas — An enzyme variant created by engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin can break down environment-throttling plastics
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Google unkills JPEG XL?
A quick summary of the format's road to stardom
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Google News to shut down in Spain
After 9/11, one of our engineers, Krishna Bharat, realized that results for the query “World Trade Center” returned nothing about the terror...
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Short fat engineers are undervalued
Professionals supposedly come in two shapes: either short and fat, or tall and skinny, meaning their skill set is either broad or deep.
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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash brings native 15-second video generation and editing, stronger consistency, and 30% lower pricing.
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The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood
Together, the Bitter Lesson and Scaling Laws reveal that the god of Compute we worship is yoked to an even greater one — the god of Data.
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Why it is Awesome to be a Girl in Tech
Why are there so few girls in tech? Okay, there are a lot of female project managers and girls doing creative stuff like design or UX, though the geekier it gets the less girls are involved.
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No, we won’t have a video call for that
Communications in distributed teams: a write-up of my talk from FrOSCon 2020, Cloud Edition.
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Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job
In Engineering, quarterly OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) can feel like a duplication of product planning. Basically, they say “Ship the Roadmap.” What new information are they comm…
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The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars
Prototyping a concept for simpler, physical climate controls
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Considerations on Cost Disease
I. Tyler Cowen writes about cost disease. I’d previously heard the term used to refer only to a specific theory of why costs are increasing, involving labor becoming more efficient in some ar…
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Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States
Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, has written to the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, to present the case for GDPR-like data protection standards in the United States.
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Van Life in Japan
As I got better experience about van life, I published a dedicated website covering tips and tricks to enjoy Japan with a van. Check Camp In Japan for more information and guide on how to enjoy Japan in a van. It’s been already 9 months and 10,000 kilometers we are living across Japan in our […]
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My Google Workspace account suspension
As the title suggests, I have finally become the victim of Google’s account suspension.
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The Greatest Educational Life Hack: Learning Math Ahead of Time
Learning math early guards you against numerous academic risks, opens all kinds of doors to career opportunities, and allows you to enter those doors earlier in life (which in turn allows you to accomplish more over the course of your career).
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Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam
I have not posted for a very long time. Writeups on this site often take dozens of hours. Time for something lower effort!