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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,909 posts.
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Creating Shazam in Java
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How I hijacked the top-level domain of a sovereign state
Here’s how I temporarily took over 50% of all DNS traffic for the TLD of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The Modern Guide to OAuth
Learn how OAuth 2.0 works with this simplified explanation and guide. Learn what it is, why it's essential for secure authorization, and best practices for implementation.
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2017 is not just another prime number
Good bye year 2016. Hello year 2017. We all know that 2017 is a prime number, but it is more than just another prime number. 2017π (roun...
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AWS Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
AWS is one of the most popular cloud computing platforms. It provides everything from object storage ( S3 ), elastically provisioned servers ( EC2 ), databases as a service ( RDS ), payment processing ( DevPay ), virtualized networking ( VPC and AWS Direct Connect ), content delivery networks ( CDN ), monitoring (…
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How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub
2008 is a leap year. That means that three hundred and sixty six days ago, almost to the minute, I was sitting alone in a booth at Zeke’s Sports Bar and Grill on 3rd Street in San Francisco. I wouldn’t normally hang out at a sports bar, let alone a sports bar in SOMA, but back then Thursday was “I Can Has Ruby” night…
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Surprising things that CSS can animate (2020)
When you think of animating CSS properties, which ones come to mind? I recently started wondering about the ones that don’t come to mind — properties that aren’...
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Use GPT-3 incorrectly: reduce costs 40x and increase speed by 5x
Cosine trains AI models and specialised coding agents for organisations that need frontier capability within secure environments.
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Never say “no,” but rarely say “yes.”
"Focus" requires saying "no" to most things, but there's a way to do it that allows you to say "yes" exactly when it matters most.
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QEMU 8.0
We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 8.0.0 release. This release contains 2800+ commits from 238 authors.
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Getting Press for Your Startup
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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SQLite Index Visualization
Explores SQLite B-Tree index structure with visualizations, explaining on-disk and in-memory storage mechanisms
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Understanding Transformers Using a Minimal Example
Visualizing the internal state of a Transformer model
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Facebook's software architecture
I had summarized/discussed a couple papers ( Haystack , Memcache caching ) about Facebook's architecture before. Facebook uses simple arch...
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California is chasing wealth that has feet
California has $8.14 trillion in land sitting right under its feet. It's chasing billionaires instead.
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EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little…
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High-income job losses are cooling housing demand
Which local economies sustain housing? We analyze Charlotte's job boom vs. Austin/Denver slowdowns. High-wage contractions impact for-sale demand.
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Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%
Earlier today, CEO Daniel Ek shared the following note about the company’s organizational changes with all Spotify employees. Team, As we say in our Band Manifesto, change is the only constant. For this reason, I continue to reiterate that speed is the most defensible strategy a business can have. But speed alone is…
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Database “sharding” came from Ultima Online? (2009)
Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups is a technical post about database scalability. What caught my eye was the term . What an odd term — “sharding.” Why would a database be described that way?
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A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
The Beav in all his geometric glory. Even though I have been using some Linux distribution or another pretty much daily for roughly two decades, I...
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Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market
Why is my $8 burger $23 after fees - An average reddit user
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Costco Capitalism
Can consumers at Costco really have their free sample and eat it too?
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Why I don't like Tailwind CSS
On paper, Tailwind CSS sounds like a great idea. In reality, it suffers from the same problems that it tries to solve.
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Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse”
Our future's so bright, we need ISO-approved shades. Find out what's shiny in our new Extended Security Release, Thunderbird 140 "Eclipse."