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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,910 posts.
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Windows 11 will create heaps of needless trash
The latest announcements for Windows 11 have revealed that the next version of the Windows operating system will have very stringent hardware requirements. Some of them are, in my opinion, quite reasonable. For example, they’re finally dropping support for 32 bit X86 and legacy BIOS boot. These make sense, because…
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Comparing Svelte and React
Last year I created Pomodone , a small time tracking application based on the Pomodoro technique of working in 25 minute intervals. It's a pretty basic app; it has a 25 minute timer (that runs in a Web Worker) and saves a history of your "poms" to a small Firebase database. I initially built it using React (well…
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Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK
Running a development team for each mobile platform sucks up resources from other work. Flutter is the most popular way for one development team to build on all platforms.
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Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide
Or how cash would be described in the press if invented today. Full bitcoin series here : Bizarre Shadowy Paper-Based Payment System Being Rolled Out Worldwide New York, February 17, 2014 World governments announced a plan today to allow citizens to anonymously carry parts
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Bard is getting better at logic and reasoning
Two improvements are launching in Bard to help you get more accurate responses and export to Google Sheets.
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Spotify has shut down several API endpoints
To increase security we are limiting access to certain Web API endpoints for new applications.
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Amazon has ruined search and Google is in on it
A collection of my personal work, including essays, projects, and photos.
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How to Destroy the Earth (2006)
Preamble Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing...
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Certified 100% AI-free organic content
This is a last call to introduce a "made by an organically-sourced human" label.
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Build It Yourself
We need a vibe shift on dependencies in programming.
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CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)
Follow up: Cloudflare: Making the internet a little bit faster – for a select group of people CloudFlare is a very helpful service if you are a website owner and don’t want to deal with separate…
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Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptions (2014)
Interruptions are one of the biggest sources of inefficiency for programmers. Now, to be fair, they’re probably a big source of inefficiency for everyone, but relatively speaking, they’re worse for programmers. To understand what I mean, let’s take someone whose job is in sales. A lot of the day is probably spent on…
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My manager spent $1M on a backup server that I never used
A classically trained sysadmin shouting into the void.
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We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster
We rewrote our Rust WASM Parser in TypeScript - and it got 3x Faster
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How many lines of C it takes to execute a + b in Python
Understand the mechanics of dynamic dispatch implementation in CPython
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Candy Japan hit with credit card fraud
What is credit card fraud, how we noticed it and how it impacted our business.
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How to Be More Agentic
On a supposedly difficult thing
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Why Algebraic Effects?
Algebraic effects 1 (a.k.a. effect handlers) are a very useful up-and-coming feature that I personally think will see a huge surge in popularity in the programming languages of tomorrow. They’re one of the core features of Ante, as well as being the focus of many research languages including Koka , Effekt , Eff , and…
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We are like prisoners... We do not have a life, only work.
DropCatch.com helps you secure expiring domain names.
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Elixir for Humans Who Know Python
A guide to the Elixir programming language for programmers who know Python.
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November 2022 Progress Report
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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LTO Tape data storage for Linux nerds
Tape storage is surprisingly not dead! If you are here then you may be considering using LTO tape as part of your backup or your long term archiving strategy. I’m here to mostly talk you out of it, or at best make sure that you are aware of what you are walking into.
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Ruby adds a core class called Data to represent simple immutable value objects
The Data class helps define simple classes for value-alike objects that can be extended with custom methods.
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FBI Wants It to Be Impractical to Deploy Strong Encryption Without Key Escrow
The FBI wants strong encryption without key escrow, which is insecure at scale, to be illegal or impractical. Data breach risks rise as devices get less secure.
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I am mesmerized by our new robotic vacuum (2019)
Disclaimer: this is more a rant than anything else. Maybe more #crazydudewontstoptalkingavoidthewate...