Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,920 posts.
One of the great features of Phoenix is how easily it allows developers to include realtime functionality in applications. In this episode we'll use Channels to build a simple chat application in 8 minutes.
My grandpa -- my Missouri grandpa, who played slide guitar to me when I got homesick on the rare occasions I stayed with them -- grew up on a farm without electricity. He went past eighth grade, which really mattered to him. He loved that I played harp, which he always called "elegant," in an extremely Missouri…
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know. He made real the idea – revolutionary in its...
When deploying large language models in production, the inference engine becomes a critical piece of infrastructure.
A detailed look at the interesting LSM file organisation seen in BigTable, Cassandra and most recently MongoDB.
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2022 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2022.
In the past few years, CPUs have gotten really fast. Shockingly fast! Yet most people are stuck on previous generation mobile chips (whether by choice, or by their companies choice), at a huge detriment to their productivity. Meanwhile, AI coding subscriptions like Cursor are all the rage these days. I'll skip the…
The first question any thoughtful person might ask when reading the title of this essay is, "Hard for whom?" A reasonable question. After all, Chinese people seem to learn it just fine. When little Chinese kids go through the "terrible twos", it's Chinese they use to drive their parents crazy, and in a few years the…
Our landmark agreements with Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo will expand the operation of three nuclear power plants, boost the development of nuclear technology, and foster job growth in American communities.
a reminder for the relatively sane
Tailscale ditches passwords for passkeys, offering a secure, phishing-resistant, and convenient way to authenticate. Learn how passkeys work, why they’re better than passwords, and how to set them up on your tailnet.
If you’ve been on the internet at all lately, you’ve seen AI generated art and discussion of the impact of the tools. You’ve also probably seen a lot of hate for AI generated art. There’s a lot of drama going on, as art focused communities across the internet decide how to handle this. Does AI generated/assisted art…
Before Reddit added native image hosting, Imgur accounted for 15% of all submissions to Reddit. Now it’s below 9%.
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"Music schools have a unique problem,” John Barden, Yale University’s associate vice president and chief information officer, said.
Ten lessons for coding with agents, from implementing to learn to remembering that code is cheap but maintenance and security aren’t.
Amit Singhal in 2011 showing a comparison of search volumes from mobile and “early desktop years”. Photo by Niall Kennedy on Flickr. Amit Singhal, Google’s head of search, let sli…
Several years ago I actually cared about the differences between AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. Namely, that Terraform did not provide…
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