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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,929 posts.
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Aaron Swartz: What Happens in The Dark Knight
As we’ve discussed, in Batman Begins 1960s-style full employment and antipoverty programs lead to skyrocketing crime while in The Dark Knight Rises 1980s-style tough-on-crime policies and neoliberal economics lead to a revolt of the economic underclass. The films are mirror images, one about the failure of liberal…
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Observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
And other observations from our Joe Rogan Experience experience
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I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)
I originally posted this on Reddit so I could get a good sample of opinions from other engineers to see how they compared to mine before…
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Twitter locked my account for a nine year old tweet
I recently got an e-mail saying I had violated Twitter’s rules for hateful conduct. I immediately thought my account password had been compromised, o...
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Slack Files EU Competition Complaint Against Microsoft
Slack Technologies, Inc., (NYSE: WORK) today announced it has filed a competition complaint against Microsoft Corporation before the European Commission.
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700M users and Premium
Telegram now has over 700 million monthly active users. Today we're launching Telegram Premium – a subscription that lets you support Telegram's continued development and gives access to exclusive additional features.
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What async promised and what it delivered
The async/await saga is a story where each chapter solves the previous chapter's worst problem while introducing new structural costs. The sequential syntax that made async code readable also obscures the thing that matters: which operations actually depend on each other.
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Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)
How I started using Linux and the things I love about Arch Linux
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Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger
Pure scaling in shambles
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Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling
Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
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Public Apology to Jeremy Howard
NumFOCUS's Code of Conduct Committee's apology to Jeremy Howard
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Update on free software and telemetry
Telemetry services and GitLab. (GitLab CE will continue to be free software)
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Running a Law Firm on Linux
We are now three or so months into the world of running decoded.legal, and doing legal work, exclusively* on Linux 1 , so I thought I’d write about it.
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Apology
After talking to two team members who recalled our staff meeting at the 2018 Racket Summer School better than I did, I think I can put myself into your shoes now.
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Am I An Outlier, Or Are Apple Products No Longer Easy To Use?
I’ve been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year – almost 30 years ago – I was on an IBM PC…
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Global coalition to Facebook: “Authentic names” are dangerous for your users
Facebook claims its practice of forcing users to go by their "real names" (or "authentic identities" as Facebook spins it) makes the social network a safer place. In fact, the company has often claimed that the policy protects women who use the social media platform, even when faced with community...
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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.
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What the Goddamn Hell Is Going on in the Tech Industry?
Sweet merciful Jesus, I woke up this morning and my inbox was flooded with horrific stories about how employers treat people. I knew things were fucked, but this was so much worse than I imagined, and that's not even getting into the comments on Hackernews. I am going to dig into some of those emails, but first...
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UUIDs are popular, but bad for performance (2019)
MySQL UUIDs are still very popular despite a majority of posts warning against their usage. Learn what UUIDs are and why they are very bad for MySQL performance.
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USA Temperature: can I sucker you?
Suppose I wanted to convince people that temperature in the USA wasn’t going up, it was going down. What would I show? Let’s try yearly average temperature in the conterminous U.S., als…
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Chrome pushes forward with plans to limit ad blockers in the future
Google has set a date for the introduction of Manifest V3 which will hurt the capabilities of many ad blockers.
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Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
The membership has been shifed to a singuar donation.
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IntelliJ IDEA 13 is Released
Today we are thrilled to announce that IntelliJ IDEA 13, the next version of our award-winning Java IDE, is finally available for download.This year the IntelliJ IDEA team worked on building str