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Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes
A top-down approach to addressing accidents fails to make streets safer. A local approach could change that.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,798 posts.
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Products I Wish Existed
Below is a list of products or startups that I am keeping an eye out for. I skipped listing things I wish existed that can *not* be implemented with today's technology in strong form - for example, the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - although weak forms of this may be possible today.
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Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule'
In Masters of Doom, a book about the game development company id Software and its influence on popular culture, David Kushner reflected on the...
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It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
A lot of people who were on the internet in the early 2000’s remember something called RSS. It stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it allowed conten
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Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date
nikitonsky: Why is nobody excited about these “yesterday”/“2 days ago”/“a week ago” labels?
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Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits
While I was leading PKC’s security practice, we did probably 20-30 code security audits, almost of all of them for startups that were just around their Series A or B (that was usually when they had cash and realized that it’d be good to take a deeper look at their security, after the do-or-die focus on product market…
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An easter egg for one user: Luke Skywalker
A few weeks ago a user on my site, cardgames.io , sent me a message saying that Mark Hamill had just tweeted a photo of himself playing Yahtzee . I looked, and sure enough, there it was:
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Investing for Geeks
A quick, opinionated guide to retirement planning and investing for software people.
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AWS is playing chess, Cloudflare is playing Go
AWS is playing Chess. Cloudflare is playing Go.
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Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks
Posted by Alexander Mordvintsev, Software Engineer, Christopher Olah, Software Engineering Intern and Mike Tyka, Software EngineerUpdate - 13/07/20...
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14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.
Hey gang, Lately a lot of young magicians have been asking me for advice, which has caused me to...
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The case for expanding rather than eliminating gifted education programs (2021)
Teach For America's blog—real change is within reach. Explore stories of our people, tools for making change, leadership development, and career resources.
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Hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job
Last weekend I had a chance to talk with some students who just got their degree. They are pursuing their first software engineer job. In conversation with them, I learned that they have a pretty wrong perception of this job.
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I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)
I was curious about the 51 Franklin Street address in the GPLv2 license notice so I wrote to them as they said
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AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
If you’re willing to use AI-generated images, how do I know the text isn’t AI-generated?
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Rewriting Bun in Rust
Why & how we rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust
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The world needs more search engines
There are only very few truly independent search engines in the world. Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu are the best known ones. Most other players only white label results from those four and are dependent on them and their business model. Or they are so localized and small that they do not offer a credible…
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Don't Feed the Thought Leaders
In this article, the author shares their experience as an engineering manager and the challenges they faced when trying to reach alignment and prev...
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Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
Mark Suzman announces the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a partnership between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard. The initiative aims to identify potential treatments for COVID-19, accelerate their development, and prepare for the manufacture of millions of doses for use worldwide.
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It's getting harder to focus every day
I’m feeling it right now. I had to set a timer for 15 minute on my computer and block all distractions to write this. If I didn’t force myself to focus I would easily get distracted by something after few minutes. Even when I’m doing things that I’ve been waiting to do it, I still feel the urge to do something else. I…
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Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
In collaboration with Signal, Microsoft is introducing a Private Conversations feature in Skype, powered by Signal Protocol.
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The Limitations of Deep Learning
This post is adapted from Section 2 of Chapter 9 of my book, Deep Learning with Python (Manning Publications).
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Investigating why Steam started picking a random font
Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil , the Excalidraw font.
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Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
The EU's new mandatory ADDW rules could make roads safer by altering distracted drivers, but its privacy safeguards and data handling rules remain a gray area.
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How far back in time can you understand English?
An experiment in language change
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Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
The curl project will not accept or otherwise handle any vulnerability reports during the month of July 2026. We call it the curl summer of bliss. curl's submission form on Hackerone will be paused starting July 1, 2026. Summer of bliss starts: July 1, 2026. 00:00 CEST Submissions resume: August 3 2026. 09:00 CEST The…