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What the interns have wrought, 2020 edition
It’s been an unusual internship season.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,087 posts.
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I Don’t Believe in Full-Stack Engineering
There, I said it.
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How does one get hired by a top cybercrime gang?
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot , a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware.
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DevOps: An idea so good, no one admits they don’t do it
The ideas behind the DevOps movements undeniably changed the software development world for the better - but by now, the term “DevOps” has lost all meaning. Sometimes an idea is so good, that you can’t argue with it. I’m not saying that the original idea behind “DevOps” was perfect - I’ve written about some of the…
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Reddit needs help
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Some personal news
An update about me, FiveThirtyEight and the future after the Disney layoffs
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Why you should take your 20's seriously
“Don’t take life too seriously, you’ll never get out alive.” – Van Wilder It seems like the prevailing advice today for anyone in their twenties is to live their lives…
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You’re not writing code, you’re solving problems
If you go beyond software, and frameworks, beyond test suites and sprints and Jira tickets, you will always find a problem that needs to be solved.
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Little Tasks, Little Trust
Why Delegating Responsibilities Beats Micromanagement
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Repeat Yourself, a Lot
Learn why successful venture capital leaders and startup CEOs repeat key messages 7+ times to drive brand recall and align teams around strategic priorities.
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The reverts will continue until morale improves
Many readers will be aware that an unusually high number of features have been reverted from the PostgreSQL 19 branch after the beta period began. Having some reverts is not unusual, maybe one per cycle could be expected. But this time around, about 8 to 10 significant features, depending on how you count, have been…
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Focus on building 10x teams, not on hiring 10x developers
There are a lot of posts out there about identifying and hiring 10x engineers. And a lot of discussion about whether or not these people even exist. At Spool, we’ve taken a very different app…
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Why I'm Doing It All Wrong
Discuss this post on Hacker News. Conventional wisdom for doing a startup as a young entrepreneur these days is something like the following: 1.Drop out of
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"Equal pay for equal work" in remote jobs
Tough questions to ask your remote employer who gives you Cost Of Living based compensation and some thoughts on how remote compensation will work in the future
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Jim Lehrer’s Rules of Journalism
The long-time host of PBS NewsHour Jim Lehrer died this week at the age of 85. In this age of news as entertainment and opinion as news, Lehrer seems like one o
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I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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Improving my productivity as a working programmer (2017)
For the past few weeks, I’ve been obsessed with improving my productivity. During this time, I’ve continuously been monitoring the amount of work I’ve been getting done and have been experimenting with changes to make myself more productive. After only two months, I can now get significantly more work done than I did…
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What we've learned about hiring engineering managers
Hiring a great engineering manager is not the same as hiring a great engineer. After hundreds of interviews and many great hires, here’s what we’ve learned.
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Why does writing matter in remote work?
In remote work, we communicate primarily through writing. We send messages in Slack. We document projects in Notion. We send meeting invites with a written description of the purpose. We’re writing all the time. Many organizations are working from home at the moment. Thus, writing is even