Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,923 posts.
July 2009 Now that the term "ramen profitable" has become widespread, I ought to explain precisely what the idea entails. Ramen profitable means a startup makes just enough to pay the founders' living expenses. This is a different form of profitability than startups have traditionally aimed for. Traditional…
Harry was born in 1932 and died in 1996. He was a school teacher, educational consultant, inventor, and magician. A web search will tell you a little about his many talents but in summary:
Jonathan Smith was released from Talbot County DOC Wednesday, April 21, 2021 after 21 years of wrongful incarceration. He was greeted by his two sons, Jonathan pictured here picking him up. (Image: Eric Kayne/AP Images for the Innocence Project)
Recently Ben Hoyt published a blog post claiming that contrary to popular belief, I/O is not the bottleneck in typical programming interview problems such as counting word frequencies from a stream. Sequential read speed has come a long way, while CPU speed has stagnated.
Reimagining organisational structure for the digital age.
Anthology of sociology, statistical, or psychological papers discussing the observation that all real-world variables have non-zero correlations and the implications for statistical theory such as ‘null hypothesis testing’.
On Linux what can you turn into a file descriptor and then monitor with epoll?
Unless you live under one of the few rocks that still lack Internet access, you’ve probably already heard of an “event queue” . If not, maybe “message queue”, or “event loop”, or “message pump” rings a bell. To refresh your memory, let’s walk through a couple of common manifestations of the pattern.
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
Vulnerabilities in IBMs Bob AI allow attackers to trigger the download and execution of malware via indirect prompt injection if users select auto-approve for even one known trusted command.
In January, we open-sourced ChakraCore, the core of the Chakra JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows Platform. We expressed our ambition to bring our best-in-class, but Windows-only, JavaScript engine to other platforms, with Linux as the prioritized target. Today at NodeSummit, we are…
Jenkins – an open source automation server which enables developers around the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software
Air traffic control has been in the news lately, on account of my country's declining ability to do it. Well, that's a long-term trend, resulting from decades of under-investment, severe capture by our increasingly incompetent defense-industrial complex, no small degree of management incompetence in the FAA, and…
The Play Store does not run on my old devices; this led me to accidentally experience some joy while using Android.
Thoughts on the Elixir language and its Phoenix framework after two years of professional work.
This is what happens when you ban yourself from coding
Announcing Datomic Cloud: a fully AWS-integrated database, up and running from the Marketplace in minutes, delivering the complete Datomic information model.
The world is full of gatekeepers who think they have veto rights. Don’t believe them. Pitbull got it right when he said "Ask for money, get advice. Ask for advice, get money twice."
The new standard is almost here. Will it change how producers and performers make music?
Today we’re proud to announce RethinkDB 2.1 ( Forbidden Planet ). Download it now !
A proposal to add a "spin bit" to the QUIC protocol sparked much debate at IETF 101.
Team superiority is a myth.
More than 20 million U.S. households had unresolved complaints against their ISPs last year. Despite wanting justice, many didn't pursue.
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
