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How to feel engaged at work: a software engineer's guide
On fighting the feeling of "blah".
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,908 posts.
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NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle
I’ve spent the last 48 hours completely falling down the rabbit hole of NVIDIA’s Q3 Fiscal 2026 earnings report . If you just skim the headlines, everything looks perfect: Revenue is up 62% to $57 billion, and Jensen Huang is talking about a "virtuous cycle of AI."
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How is Ruby different in Japan?
I've had a few conversations recently where I say things like, "the Japanese Ruby community uses Ruby for different things than in America"... and I get blank stares. Specifically, I mention that America is very centered on Rails and web apps with Ruby. No surprise, right? "But then,
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Code search is hard
Searching code at scale without employing a search team is hard
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Getting Started with Tmux
Sysadmin doing syadmin stuff
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Happy Birthday, Libera Chat
The state of the network after one year of operation.
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The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson's Get Back
A Special Edition of The Ruffian
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Working on complex systems: What I learned working at Google
This is why recognizing whether a system is complicated or complex is so important: it shapes how we should approach problem-solving.
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When Figma starts designing us
The subtle ways in which design tools shape how we think and what we make
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Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction
From the Global South to the Arctic, can machine learning-enabled weather prediction better protect communities and economies?
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The Deep Research problem
OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it. It’s another amazing demo, until it breaks. But it breaks in really interesting ways.
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C Macro Reflection in Zig
Zig’s reflection combined with Zig’s ability to import C header files means Zig can be used for C macro reflection.
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The Cold Email
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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How Can the New York Times Endorse an Agreement the Public Can't Read?
The New York Times' editorial board has made a disappointing endorsement of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), even as the actual text of the agreement remains secret. That raises two distressing possibilities: either in an act of extraordinary subservience, the Times has endorsed an agreement...
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Going Paper-Free for $220
It's 2011. Personal computers have been around and popular for well over a decade now, and yet we still have to deal with a huge amount of physical paper.
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Dodging S3 Downtime with Nginx and HAProxy
How we took eggs out of the S3 basket.
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I will not log in to your website
Two or three times a day, I get an email whose basic structure is as follows: Prof. Aaronson, given your expertise, we’d be incredibly grateful for your feedback on a paper / report / gr…
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Newsrooms, let’s talk about G Suite
If you work in a newsroom, there’s a good chance you work with colleagues on Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and more. Google Workspace software is simple and powerful. But anyone working in a newsroom has probably asked themselves: What can Google see? What about our most sensitive conversations and documents? What…
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1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse
Today, I loaded the 1,000th data breach into Have I Been Pwned. Reflecting on that milestone number, I pondered how to mark the occasion in writing, and what immediately came to mind was a very simple question: why is it still needed? Especially considering the emergence of privacy regulations
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2021 Williams F1 Computational Fluid Dynamics
Thanks to some clever people I was able to get a CAD model of the current 2021 Williams F1 car — that’s not something that happens every day, so of course I had to run CFD on it. CAD Ge…
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Security research on Private Cloud Compute
Private Cloud Compute (PCC) fulfills computationally intensive requests for Apple Intelligence while providing groundbreaking privacy and security protections — by bringing our industry-leading device security model into the cloud. To build public trust in our system, we’re making it possible for researchers to…
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When Solid State Drives Are Not That Solid
One night, one of the servers of our search API stopped processing indexing jobs for an unknown reason. See Algolia's process of diagnosing the problem.
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Thoughts on Python 3
My current thoughts on the state of Python 3 and where it’s heading.