Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,900 posts.
I wrapped up my job search recently, and I’m happy to say that I’ll be joining a YC-backed startup called “Heap.” I thought I’d share a little bit about my job search in case the information may benefit other job-seeking devs. I’ll go over the pipeline of places I applied to and the result of each application. I’ll…
Last week, our blog post and the removal of the Hot Reload capability from the .NET SDK repo led to a lot of feedback from the community. First and foremost, we want to apologize. We made a mistake in executing on our decision and took longer than expected to respond back to the community.
There's a bit more below, but I also wrote a follow-up 5 years after the illustrated guide which may be of interest -- HOWTO: Get tenure .
This article covers a gentle introduction to the shell nushell
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
On January 8, 2024, GitHub will remove support for Subversion.
From the Zed Blog: Agents turned the conversation into the real source of our software. DeltaDB is the version control built for it.
Many functional programming articles teach abstract functional techniques. That is, composition, pipelining, higher order functions. This one is different. I...
Xe Iaso's personal website.
Manus is joining Meta, and we’ll continue delivering our current services while accelerating product improvements to bring more powerful, reliable general AI agent capabilities to more users and businesses.
The soleus muscle in the calf can do big things to improve the metabolic health in the rest of your body if activated correctly. Now UH researchers are pioneering the “soleus pushup” which elevates muscle metabolism for hours, even while sitting.
I am now generating this website with Clojure (yes, right after rewriting it in GNU Make and shell ; I have a problem, ok?). In a personal tradition, I used writing a static site generator as the project to play with and learn Clojure as a new language. While I’ve long scoffed at Clojure for its copious syntax ( three…
SSH to machines in private networks using an SSH key, from anywhere in the world, using Cloudflare Tunnel.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums , an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer records stolen in some of the world’s largest data breaches since 2015. The DOJ also charged the alleged…
Nearly 5 years ago, Paul Graham first proposed the founder visa. There has been a lot of discussion since, but nothing has happened. Maybe he was too ambitious in asking for 10,000 startup...
There's something I love about opening a text-only webpage. They're a refuge from the GDPR cookie banners, the trashy ads, the email opt-ins, and the god...
Practical tips for how to run efficient sessions that get the most value from every token.
Thoughtworks is acquired by Apax Funds. The current management team will continue to run the company as before.
We’ve calculated Backblaze’s storage durability at 99.999999999%. What does that impressively large number mean, and does it actually matter for your data?
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Learn what's new with Microsoft Copilot and how it empowers people and organizations for AI-powered work.
Thoughts for Nov 19, 2023
Before ‘HTTP’, whenever a new kind of application was invented (say ‘file sharing’, or ‘address book’ or ‘messaging’) someone would sit down with a bunch of others and would discuss this problem at some length. Then they’d draft up a document describing the problem they intended to solve and the protocol layer they…
In React, we don't update the DOM directly, we tell React what we want the DOM to look like, and React tackles the rest. But how exactly does it do this? In this tutorial, we'll unpack exactly when and why React re-renders, and how we can use this information to optimize the performance of our React apps.
A new study found that a gene recently recognized as a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease is actually a cause of it, due to its previously unknown secondary function that triggers a pathway that disrupts how cells in the brain turn genes on and off.
