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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,925 posts.
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Electron 2.0.0 beta
Electron's latest releases, versions and release notes.
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Explaining Sex Rate Changes
According to the Post, polls say 28% of US men age 18-30 report not having sex in the last year, almost 3 times as many as a decade ago.
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Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations
Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations. An update on our exploratory research on model welfare.
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What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like
As we approach the 10 year anniversary of the 1.0 release of Kubernetes, let's take stock of the successes and failures of the project in the wild. Also what would be on a wish list for a Kubernetes 2.0 release.
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Why does nuclear power plant construction cost so much?
The source of clean energy shouldn't be displaying "negative learning" over time
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We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it
Large language models (LLMs) like the GPT family learn the statistical structure of language by optimising their ability to predict missing words in sentences (as in ‘The cat sat on the [BLANK]’). Despite the impressive technical ju-jitsu of transformer models and the billions of parameters they learn, it’s still a…
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Dell XPS 13 Review from a lifelong Mac user
I've used Macs as my primary computing devices my entire life. And though I continue to use a Mac for my primary workstation for both work and personal projects, my use of computers has evolved in the past few years quite a bit. With more of my stuff moving into the cloud and fewer software applications being…
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The Dollar Is Dead
When belief dies, fiat dies with it.
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Testing Ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
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Getting arrested in Japan
This is what happens when you get arrested in Japan and where you're sent off to will leave you speechless.
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Climbing the Wealth Ladder
On the 6 levels of wealth and why affluence increases in steps.
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Why does science news suck so much?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation
The rapid rise of remote work over the last two years has rippled through society and the economy in a variety of ways. Amid many other negative social disruptions from the pandemic, there has been one positive change: remote work has provided some individuals and families with more work-related flexibility and time…
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Wage Stagnation
[Epistemic status: I am basing this on widely-accepted published research, but I can’t guarantee I’ve understood the research right or managed to emphasize/believe the right people. Som…
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Half a decade with Go
Happy 5th birthday, Go!
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1k True Fans (2008)
This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim … Continue reading →
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Will R Work on Apple Silicon?
At WWDC 2020 earlier this year, Apple announced a transition from Intel to ARM-based processors in their laptops. This blog is about the prospects of when R will work on that platform, based on experimentation on a developer machine running A12Z, one of the “Apple silicon” processors.
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Usability Improvements in GCC 15
GCC 15 brings better error messages and diagnostics for your code, including prettier execution paths and easier-to-read compiler errors for C++ templates.
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Don't make me talk to your chatbot
It's fine that people talk to chatbots, but they shouldn't expect me to listen to theirs.
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After reading “Rails is yesterday’s software”, I need to reply
After reading a blog post provocatively called “Today I accept that Rails is yesterday’s software” I felt the need to reply. I’m not sure why, I’m not going to convince anyone of anything, definitely not the author of that post. I want to reply because Rails is my current platform of choice, and let’s be honest…
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Leveraging Rust and the GPU to render user interfaces at 120 FPS
From the Zed Blog: A deep-dive into the graphical underpinnings of GPUI, the hardware-accelerated framework that powers Zed's user interface.
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I program on the subway
Ever since moving to New York City, I've found my time to be in more demand than ever. Between work, meetups, and social events, I have noticeably less time for side projects than I had before moving here. At the same time, my commute is a massive time suck. It's 30 minutes each way, which doesn't sound that bad, but…
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Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work
A field guide to responsible AI-assisted development
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So you want to buy a farm?
I get a few calls every week these days from folks wanting to buy a small farm, start growing food, and even maybe settle down there now…