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The tragedy of running an old Node project
You want it to just work. But it resists.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,919 posts.
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Why even let users set their own passwords?
Today we seem to be living through a war on passwords. This is manifested in various ways; in its most passive form, it takes the form of people blogging about how passwords are bad. The more material changes are the general trend towards no longer treating passwords as a sufficient condition for access in favour of…
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Estimation of total mortality due to COVID-19
Our updated modeling strategy now estimates total COVID-19 mortality, including unreported deaths due to COVID-19.
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M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2
It’s limited to 5 Gb/s, giving read rates of about 400 MB/s and writes at about 430 MB/s. Fine for Time Machine backups, but bad with NVMe drives.
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Coding agents could make free software matter again
I've been vibe-coding a lot lately. Like, a lot a lot
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Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little
Pipenv is a Python packaging tool that does one thing reasonably well — application dependency management. However, it is also plagued by issues, limitations and a break-neck development process. In the past, Pipenv’s promotional material was highly misleading as to its purpose and backers.
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Adding crushed rock to farmland pulls carbon out of the air
Learn from UC Davis researchers how adding crushed volcanic rock to farmland removes carbon dioxide from the air.
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DoorDash from Application to IPO
DoorDash is the first company that I’ve had the opportunity to follow all the way from YC application to IPO, so to celebrate I thought it would be fun and interesting to share what a great company like DoorDash looks like at the earliest stages. Meeting startups at the very start of their journey is one of my…
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My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise
Three months ago, during my first Think Week, I realized that consistently working out would meaningfully improve my long term health and happiness.
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Telegram gains 1M users after Whatsapp ban
Brazil blocked Whatsapp for 48 hours, which benefits Telegram, it has gained more than 1 million new users and it seems like it keeps incre...
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Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
Why I chose Phoenix LiveView over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js
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Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019
Cloud-Native Full-Stack Software Engineer and Solutions Architect
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Anthropic, please make a new Slack
Slack will be the Waterloo of closed data.
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Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
Plus: How to save 100 million lives with 1/400th of our income
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Our approach to advertising
OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.
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Networking changes coming in macOS 27
We are under warning that macOS 27 is likely to remove support for AFP, and lately some additional requirements for connection to certain servers. This explains how these could affect you.
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Investing in lighting did great things for my mental and physical health
Controlling lighting is an extremely powerful force on your daily life satisfaction
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Building a Lightroom PC
Why I switched to Windows 10 from macOS and built a water-cooled and overclocked 5.2GHz 6-core PC for photo editing with Adobe Lightroom Classic CC.
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BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large
For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly terrifying and depressing place. It’s gotten harder and harder to concentrate on research, or even popular scienc…
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Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware
Both Butterscotch Varifocal and Flamera are very much in the research stage, and the technologies they’re investigating may never make their way into a consumer-facing product. And, as we hope you’ll come to see, that’s very much the point.
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Justice Stevens reads the fine print
Matthew Butterick
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Problems with RESTful APIs (2015)
Why you might benefit from letting this popular paradigm rest in peace.
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Meta's legal team abandoned its ethical duties
From Big Tobacco to Menlo Park — and the collapse of legal ethics
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A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?
A 30-game battle royale across eleven LLMs, $482 of inference, and one finding that should change how you read model benchmarks.
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COSMIC Alpha Released
How to install, first impressions, and what makes it ready.
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Ranking TV Shows That Got Canceled
What do the TV shows Firefly, Twin Peaks, and Freaks and Geeks all have in common?
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C++ Modules Might Be Dead-On-Arrival
In which I discuss a modules problem that is being ignored
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Software Developers: how to get a raise without changing jobs
Here’s how to boost your lifetime earnings by hundreds of thousands of dollars by getting periodic raises without changing jobs.