What a difference a year makes. The number of job postings in the "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread for November bounced back a bit from October's near all-…

The site was created by Paul Graham in February 2007. [2] Initially called Startup News or occasionally News.YC., it became known by its current name on A…

I understand that this is art. That said, I don't understand the hate for email. Especially post-Slack. Email seems to put my interlocutors in the mindset…

Hacker News was two years old last week. Initially it was supposed to be a side project—an application to sharpen Arc on, and a place for current and futu…

Besides questions about revenue and such, can I just say that I absolutely love the landing page. No gimmicks, no parallax, no videos, no fake testimonial…

I owe my career and livelihood to Ruby, Rails and the community. When I started learning programming I was overwhelmed because of c, c++ and JavaScript. T…

Microservices, while often sold as solving a technical problem, usually actually solve for a human problem in scaling up an organization. There's two tech…

On a technical level, they're doing something really simple -- take BLIP2's ViT-L+Q-former, connect it to Vicuna-13B with a linear layer, and train just t…

I have no problem with Curl being written in C (I'll take battle-tested C over experimental Rust) but this point seemed odd to me: >C is not the primary r…

I wish I had screencapped it, but at one point I found myself in the middle of the screen, watching four swarm-like quadrants of fellow ships (top-left, t…

I've seen this happen to many managers at FAANG. You're promised 10 people for a project next year, you get 4. So you cut, manage, optimize, engineer, an…

As Aaronson points out, PageRank has a few edge-cases when used to do this analysis, basically because it treats its graph as a closed, internally-solipsi…

I was itching for this announcement, not because I want to buy an iPhone, but because this will finally mean other manufacturers will start to make compac…

This is a nice start for allowing sending "coffee money" between persons. If however you want to drive Serious Money into actually funding OSS projects pl…

It would be one thing if Craigslist was doing their best to satisfy their customers and they wanted to shut down others who were scraping their site and l…

"XDD" for all X is overrated, in the sense that the ideas attract adherents who use them as the hammer for all nail-looking things. Yet the best way to p…

Technical Debt is a broken metaphor. It's almost right, which is why it resonates, but it's a bad mental model for the problem it tries to describe. There…

The title is very misleading... it's not an $11,185 connector, that's the price of setting up custom tooling for this component. After-which the factory …

This problem is known as "attribution" - you have a "no" or "without" in the sentence, but you don't know where it belongs. One could (and one does) argue…

I miss the Eudyptula Challenge [0], I never got around to complementing it. It was a series of 20 challenges to introduce you to Linux kernel development…

The GitHub issue I linked is basically "switch from data-has to RIO"; the issues with data-has come from its use of multi-parameter type classes. RIO avoi…

LiveView is such a game changer for Phoenix (and thus Elixir). From being “just another web framework” (albeit a very nice one), LiveView enables a whole …

On a related note for anyone interested in this and want better performance today: I messed with a combo of Whisper and ChatGPT. I took a whisper transcri…

There has been one realistic test that I know of, done by Microsoft Research, and they found pipelining to be basically equivalent to HTTP/2. But that doe…

A few days ago, I was lamenting to my co-founder Jake about a frustrating problem: my blog content had stopped making it to the front page of Hacker News …

* "The [French] CNIL's guidance reflects the position of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)."…

Hi, Litestream author here. I'm happy to answer any questions about the policy or the project itself. I was apprehensive about adding the closed-contribut…

Context: I teach at Princeton and study social media and recommendation systems. From a very quick skim of the repositories, this appears to be quite limi…

Any hacker will tell you that the latest news and exploits are not found on any web site—not even Insecure.Org . No, the cutting edge in security research…

Why? Political conflicts cause harm here. The values of Hacker News are intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation. Those things are lost when pol…

Hacker news , reddit TL;DR this post is full pain, theory and utopia. Don't mind to read if you don't care about better designed web. What are Cooki…

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the ans…

What a difference a year makes. The number of job postings in the "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread for November bounced back a bit from October's near all-…

The site was created by Paul Graham in February 2007. [2] Initially called Startup News or occasionally News.YC., it became known by its current name on A…

I understand that this is art. That said, I don't understand the hate for email. Especially post-Slack. Email seems to put my interlocutors in the mindset…

Hacker News was two years old last week. Initially it was supposed to be a side project—an application to sharpen Arc on, and a place for current and futu…

Besides questions about revenue and such, can I just say that I absolutely love the landing page. No gimmicks, no parallax, no videos, no fake testimonial…

I owe my career and livelihood to Ruby, Rails and the community. When I started learning programming I was overwhelmed because of c, c++ and JavaScript. T…

Microservices, while often sold as solving a technical problem, usually actually solve for a human problem in scaling up an organization. There's two tech…

On a technical level, they're doing something really simple -- take BLIP2's ViT-L+Q-former, connect it to Vicuna-13B with a linear layer, and train just t…

I have no problem with Curl being written in C (I'll take battle-tested C over experimental Rust) but this point seemed odd to me: >C is not the primary r…

I wish I had screencapped it, but at one point I found myself in the middle of the screen, watching four swarm-like quadrants of fellow ships (top-left, t…

I've seen this happen to many managers at FAANG. You're promised 10 people for a project next year, you get 4. So you cut, manage, optimize, engineer, an…

As Aaronson points out, PageRank has a few edge-cases when used to do this analysis, basically because it treats its graph as a closed, internally-solipsi…

I was itching for this announcement, not because I want to buy an iPhone, but because this will finally mean other manufacturers will start to make compac…

This is a nice start for allowing sending "coffee money" between persons. If however you want to drive Serious Money into actually funding OSS projects pl…

It would be one thing if Craigslist was doing their best to satisfy their customers and they wanted to shut down others who were scraping their site and l…

"XDD" for all X is overrated, in the sense that the ideas attract adherents who use them as the hammer for all nail-looking things. Yet the best way to p…

Technical Debt is a broken metaphor. It's almost right, which is why it resonates, but it's a bad mental model for the problem it tries to describe. There…

The title is very misleading... it's not an $11,185 connector, that's the price of setting up custom tooling for this component. After-which the factory …

This problem is known as "attribution" - you have a "no" or "without" in the sentence, but you don't know where it belongs. One could (and one does) argue…

I miss the Eudyptula Challenge [0], I never got around to complementing it. It was a series of 20 challenges to introduce you to Linux kernel development…

The GitHub issue I linked is basically "switch from data-has to RIO"; the issues with data-has come from its use of multi-parameter type classes. RIO avoi…

LiveView is such a game changer for Phoenix (and thus Elixir). From being “just another web framework” (albeit a very nice one), LiveView enables a whole …

On a related note for anyone interested in this and want better performance today: I messed with a combo of Whisper and ChatGPT. I took a whisper transcri…

There has been one realistic test that I know of, done by Microsoft Research, and they found pipelining to be basically equivalent to HTTP/2. But that doe…

A few days ago, I was lamenting to my co-founder Jake about a frustrating problem: my blog content had stopped making it to the front page of Hacker News …

* "The [French] CNIL's guidance reflects the position of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)."…

Hi, Litestream author here. I'm happy to answer any questions about the policy or the project itself. I was apprehensive about adding the closed-contribut…

Context: I teach at Princeton and study social media and recommendation systems. From a very quick skim of the repositories, this appears to be quite limi…

Any hacker will tell you that the latest news and exploits are not found on any web site—not even Insecure.Org . No, the cutting edge in security research…

Why? Political conflicts cause harm here. The values of Hacker News are intellectual curiosity and thoughtful conversation. Those things are lost when pol…

Hacker news , reddit TL;DR this post is full pain, theory and utopia. Don't mind to read if you don't care about better designed web. What are Cooki…

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the ans…