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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,871 posts.
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New Apple TV 4K
Apple today announced the next generation of Apple TV 4K, delivering its most immersive home theater experience yet.
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What ORMs Have Taught Me: Just Learn SQL (2014)
I’ve come to the conclusion that, for me, ORMs are more detriment than benefit. In short, they can be used to nicely augment working with SQL in a program, but they should not replace it.
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Chemistry of Cast-Iron Seasoning (2010)
The post after this one on “black rust” describes why you should heat the pan before applying oil for seasoning. This helps the seasoning to adhere and makes the pan pleasantly black.
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Thoughts on the potato diet
Nine observations about what happens when you eat only potatoes
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Why aren't smart people happier?
A new way to think about brainpower.
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Won’t Subscribe
Since I’m lightly employed these days, I enjoy keeping up with the news. In recent weeks, I’ve been blocked by the paywalls of the Wall Street Journal , Globe & Mail (closest thing Canada has to a national newspaper), the Times/Sunday Times (of London), the Telegraph (also UK), Business Insider , and Bloomberg …
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An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets
Monopoly This is the difference between “pro-business” and “pro-market” policies which are often conflated. The former leads to concentration of
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The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system
Published December 2, 2020 Since autumn of 2019, I’ve been bearish on the dollar, meaning I have a longish-term outlook towards a weaker dollar. This view began forming when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates in summer 2019, and then the view solidified with a catalyst after an overnight repo rate spike in…
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Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts
thoughts, talks, docs and unpopular opinions
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The compiler will optimize that away
A lot of programmers believe that compilers are magic black boxes in which you put your messy code in and get a nice optimized binary out. The hallway philosophers will often start a debate on which language features or compiler flags to use in order to capture the full power of the compiler’s magic. If you have ever…
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Why are hyperlinks blue?
The internet has ingrained itself into every aspect of our lives, but there’s one aspect of the digital world that I bet you take for granted. Did you ev
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Leave Me Behind
Simplified Android Development
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Apple unveils new Mac Studio
Apple today announced the new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever made, featuring M4 Max and the new M3 Ultra chip.
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M1 Macs have another hidden boot mode
Apple has revealed the hidden Fallback Recovery OS mode available on M1 Macs. How to enter and use it, and why it’s another big plus.
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Firefox 82
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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How Apple Cheats
As every iOS developer knows, Apple can do whatever they want with their own native apps, meaning they can and do use private APIs. It’s not too surprising, ...
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Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
Two lawyers hid a white-on-white instruction inside a court filing telling the AI to go easy on their case. The court's AI caught it. The fine was $16,000.
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Tokamak Energy sets a temperature record among commercial fusion companies
Tokamak Energy has achieved a plasma temperature of 100m degrees Celcius, the threshold for commercial fusion energy.
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Tiny websites are great
Why building your own tiny website is a really great project that every coder should do.
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At SpaceX, work was taken away from me in case I “might retire or die.”
I was a “hardcore” Principal Engineer at SpaceX, achieving performance goals and working longer hours than most of my colleagues—yet I saw my work roles gradually transferred to younger engineers who fit the company’s “frat bro” mold.By John Johnson, former Principal Engineer at SpaceXI have watched the recent news…
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LLMs can be exhausting
Some days I get in bed after a tortuous 4-5 hour session working with Claude or Codex wondering what the heck happened. It's easy to blame the model - there'...