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Everything's broken and nobody's upset
Software doesn't work. I'm shocked at how often we put up with it. Here's just ...
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 7,740 posts.
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Unexpected things that are people
panlegal expressions of personhood
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This website is for humans
I don't want Google's shitty AI-generated ramen
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Dario, Please
Your favourite ROP gadget
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Take more screenshots
If you do any sort of creative digital work, screenshots and screen recordings are a great way to remember it.
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My bad habit of hoarding information
A huge stream of information and FOMO
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Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
A personal piece about writing, self-doubt, and the quiet ways perfectionism can stall creative work.
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Jev meets the Trolley Problem
I asked Jev and 13 other decision models the Trolley Problem.
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MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
The 2018 MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy
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Poor sleep drove me insane, and my long path to recovery
I'm sharing my experience dealing with what might be the most underdiagnosed and under-treated health disorder today.
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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the …
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If I get hit by a truck...
This page was created by Aaron Swartz in 2003 detailing what, at the time, he would like to be performed in event of his decease. Aaron passed away in January 2013. This page was not updated between those dates, so it has now been updated to assist the general public.
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I’m a productive programmer with a memory of a fruit fly
A love letter to tools that changed everything for me.
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The Top Idea in Your Mind
July 2010 I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower in the morning is more important than I'd thought. I knew it was a good time to have ideas. Now I'd go further: now I'd say it's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower. Everyone who's worked on difficult…
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Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
In 2013, when it became clear, primarily through Edward Snowden’s heroic actions, that the level of snooping by the US and other governments was far greater than any of us would have thought, I moved all of my data out of the US and of course blogged about it (that blog post has been read almost 70000 times; I think…
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I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer
How I reverse-engineered PureGym's API to build a working Apple Wallet pass with PassKit, Vapor, and mitmproxy - end-to-end iOS reverse engineering walkthrough.
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Do quests, not goals
South Island, New Zealand, a.k.a. Middle-Earth If you were to...
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More German than many Germans
I just wanted to do an internship in Europe so it would be easier to find a job after graduation. That internship completely changed my life.
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Have attention spans been declining?
[This is one of the finalists in the SMTM Mysteries Contest, by a reader writing under the pseudonym Cennfaeladh. We’ll be posting about one of these a week until we have gotten through all th…
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Substack writers, you need a website
Substack is convenient, but treat it as a distribution tool for your content. Your content should live on an independently owned website, which has a domain name you control and own. This way, you …
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The Rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.
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Interview advice that got me offers
“What would you say if I asked you to design me a service capable of responding to thousands of user requests every second and latency was critical?”
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Writing a book: is it worth it?
My book, Designing Data-Intensive Applications , recently passed the milestone of 100,000 copies sold. Last year, it was the second-best-selling book in O’Reilly’s entire catalogue, second only to Aurélien Géron’s machine learning book . Machine learning is obviously a hot topic, so I am quite content with coming…