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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,916 posts.
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Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk
In "Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical Investigation," a trio of business researchers from Carnegie Mellon and Pamplin College investigate the difference between the goods purchased through highly targeted online ads and just plain web-searches, and conclude social media ads push overpriced junk:
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We’ve built a towering pile of shite
This a rant, written at midnight, after battling software errors. Set your profanity filters accordingly. I despair over the state of software engineering - specifically, stability. We seem to have lost the understanding that computers are there to do the hard work for us. And I don't think we ever believed in a…
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Downturn career decisions
When I joined Yahoo in 2008, I received a small number of options. I don’t remember how many–it was very few–but I do know my strike price was roughly $16. I don’t remember that because my strike price was particularly lucrative, but rather because some of my coworkers would complain about their underwater strike…
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Deno Is a Browser for Code
Explaining the different mental model Deno has about managing dependant code.
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No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users per month
To solve Bitcoin’s scalability challenge, many so-called layer 2 protocols have been proposed. All of these protocols operate on the same, relatively simple, principle:
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Reasonable expectation of effectiveness for large dog lifespan extension
A historic milestone in developing the first drug for healthy lifespan extension in dogs
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Systemd is bad parsing
Systemd has a remotely exploitable bug in its DHCPv6 client . That means anybody on the local network can send you a packet and take control...
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Godot for AA/AAA game development – What's missing?
Godot 4.0 is coming out soon. It includes major improvements all across the board in both features, performance and usability. Still, one of the biggest questions the community has is: How does it compare with mainstream commercial offerings?
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Beyond Passwords: 2FA, U2F and Google Advanced Protection
Last week I wrote a couple of different pieces on passwords, firstly about why we're going to be stuck with them for a long time yet [https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-insert-thing-here-is-not-a-password-killer/] and then secondly, about how we all bear some
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Intel x86 considered harmful – survey of attacks against x86 over last 10 years
Back in summer I have read a new bookpublished by one of the core Intel architects about the Management Engine (ME).I didn’t quite like what I read there. In...
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QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
Try the first release of the QNX Developer Desktop, a self‑hosted QNX development environment that eliminates cross‑compilation for faster workflows.
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One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meetings waste time
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I flagged two research papers for fake authors and both were accepted as orals
We reviewed 22 ML conference submissions this summer. Fifteen had fabricated citations, hallucinated authors, or clear LLM slop, so we complain about that a bit, and release the paper references audit we now run.
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Exploring CLI Best Practices
At Localytics we build command line interfaces that manage our infrastructure and processes. This is our list of best practices that we’ve learned.
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Google’s new Chat service shows contempt for Android users’ privacy
Google launches Chat - new messaging service for Android phones
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How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (2008)
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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Closing web browser windows doesn't close connections
Months ago I noticed something strange in the Little Snitch Network Monitor: Safari was still connecting to web sites after every window had been closed. At the time, I thought this was just a Safari bug. I brought the issue to the attention of some Safari engineers, who I had hoped would look into it. Since then…
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High-Level Is the Goal
Why should anyone care about low-level programming?
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Open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH (OPKSSH): integrating single sign-on with SSH
OPKSSH (OpenPubkey SSH) is now open-sourced as part of the OpenPubkey project. This enables users and organizations to configure SSH to work with single sign-on technologies like OpenID Connect, removing the need to manually manage & configure SSH keys without adding a trusted party other than your IdP.
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What’s a fire, and why does it burn?
I was staring at a bonfire on a beach the other day and realized that I didn’t understand anything about fire and how it works. (For example: what determines its color?) So I looked up some s…
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Emacs should become a Wayland compositor
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