1333
565
The Lesson to Unlearn
http://paulgraham.com/lesson.html
6 years ago
622
268
Ask HN: What mistakes did you make when starting as a consultant/freelancer?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728436
616
142
The Product-Minded Software Engineer
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-product-minded-engineer/
322
191
Great White Sharks Are Terrified of Orcas
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/great-white-sharks-are-completely-terrified-orcas-180972009/
283
169
The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/3/20984028/playstation-supercomputer-ps3-umass-dartmouth-astrophysics-25th-anniversary
275
51
Deploy-your-own-SaaS: “only yours” cloud services for everyday needs
https://github.com/Atarity/deploy-your-own-saas
252
40
Indexing Billions of Text Vectors
https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-07/indexing-billions-of-text-vectors.html
244
222
“I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code”
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/dec/07/i-lost-my-193000-inheritance-with-one-wrong-digit-on-my-sort-code
138
Reducing the Performance Gap of Intel's MKL on AMD Threadripper
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/How-To-Use-MKL-with-AMD-Ryzen-and-Threadripper-CPU-s-Effectively-for-Python-Numpy-And-Other-Applications-1637/
216
208
Google management shuffle points to retreat from Alphabet experiment
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-management-shuffle-points-to-retreat-from-alphabet-experiment-11575579677
209
34
File systems unfit as distributed storage back ends: 10 years of Ceph
http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2019/11/sosp19-file-systems-unfit-as.html
200
175
Ask HN: How to improve code quality while maintaining decent velocity?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21730125
198
163
Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young (1989) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVqMAlgAnlo
194
81
A walk through the Magit interface
https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/magit-walk-through/
192
117
New Features in ES2019
https://javascript.christmas/2019/7
186
37
Structuring Your Project
https://docs.python-guide.org/writing/structure/
164
203
Rolls-Royce Touts Nuclear Reactors as Key to Clean Jet Fuel
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/rolls-royce-pitches-nuclear-reactors-as-key-to-clean-jet-fuel
38
Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing
https://source.wustl.edu/2019/10/brain-tunes-itself-to-criticality-maximizing-information-processing/
161
73
Australia’s status as an open democracy downgraded by The CIVICUS Monitor
https://www.hrlc.org.au/news/2019/12/5/downgrading-of-australias-open-democracy-status-a-stark-reminder-of-the-need-to-create-an-australian-charter-of-human-rights-and-freedoms
159
3
PracticalAI 2.0: A New Platform to Learn ML Using Python, Keras and Tensorflow
https://practicalai.me/
148
78
Drugs that tamp down inflammation in the brain could slow cognitive decline
https://news.berkeley.edu/2019/12/04/drugs-that-quell-brain-inflammation-reverse-dementia/
123
Robots in Finance Could Wipe Out Some of Its Highest-Paying Jobs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/robots-in-finance-could-wipe-out-some-of-its-highest-paying-jobs
139
9
Rust implementations of abstract algebraic structures
https://gitlab.com/ornamentist/un-algebra
130
49
What Is Systems Programming, Really? (2018)
http://willcrichton.net/notes/systems-programming
129
47
Show HN: GoCode.io – A Golang Game in the Browser
https://www.gocode.io/operation-go
128
7
Studying the effects of interruption on motivation
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191205-how-to-conquer-work-paralysis-like-ernest-hemingway
120
67
Google Cloud Is Having IO Issues in US-EAST1
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/19012
119
90
Fed Adds $72.8B to Markets, Balance Sheet Moves to $4.07T
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-adds-72-8-billion-to-markets-balance-sheet-moves-to-4-07-trillion-11575642409
108
21
A 6k-year-old fruit fly gave the world modern cheeses and yogurts
https://theconversation.com/a-6-000-year-old-fruit-fly-gave-the-world-modern-cheeses-and-yogurts-128165
Hash – Complex Systems Simulation
https://hash.ai/
16
Understanding “Deep Double Descent”
https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/FRv7ryoqtvSuqBxuT/understanding-deep-double-descent
106
77
FDA Approving Drugs at Breakneck Speed, Raising Alarm
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/money/fda-is-green-lighting-drugs-at-breakneck-speed-and-raising-alarm/ar-BBXRMmR
104
27
Attackers Used Look-Alike Domains to Steal $1M from a Chinese VC
https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/how-attackers-used-look-alike-domains-to-steal-$1-million-from-a-chinese-vc-/d/d-id/1336547
55
Which Areas Will Be Flooded with Homes Once Boomers Start Leaving Them?
https://www.zillow.com/research/silver-tsunami-inventory-boomers-24933/
Android’s Commitment to Kotlin
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/12/androids-commitment-to-kotlin.html
95
11
How to Match “A B C” where A+B=C: The Beast Tamed (2018)
http://www.drregex.com/2018/09/a-regex-i-submitted-to-reddit-climbed.html?m=1
76
Two Years Working at Dropbox
https://chadaustin.me/2019/11/two-years-at-dropbox/
93
57
The Ketamine Chronicles, April 2019
https://humanparts.medium.com/30-years-of-depression-gone-3dffafabc7cf
92
105
Psychological Constellations Assessed at Age 13 Predict Success 35 Years Later
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30694728
39
Joel Spolsky is (semi-)retired
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2019/12/05/so-hows-that-retirement-thing-going-anyway/
86
31
House Passes Bill Establishing a Clear Definition of Insider Trading
https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-passes-bill-establishing-a-clear-definition-of-insider-trading-11575586960
52
Why smallpox is no more, but polio and other diseases persist
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-smallpox-is-no-more-but-polio-and-other-diseases-persist-20191203/
83
Save .ORG from Arbitrary Censorship by Halting the Private Equity Buy-Out
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/12/we-need-save-org-arbitrary-censorship-halting-private-equity-buy-out
82
HackerOne breach lets outside hacker read customers’ private bug reports
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/12/hackerone-breach-lets-outside-hacker-read-customers-private-bug-reports/
8
Bloomberg Beta Investment Documents
https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Investment-Documents
72
35
The World's Dumbest Idea: Maximizing Shareholder Value (2014) [pdf]
https://www.gmo.com/globalassets/articles/white-paper/2014/jm_the-worlds-dumbest-idea_12-14.pdf
70
10
Collaborative Software That’s Wary of the Cloud
https://www.wired.com/story/collaborative-software-wary-cloud/
12
String Algorithms in Lisp
http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2019/11/programming-algorithms-strings.html
68
13
John Wheeler’s H-bomb blues
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4364
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