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351 blogs that at least 30 people linked on Hacker News and that no longer serve their writing: 153 are gone, 90 are parked or for sale, 108 now belong to someone else. Each links to the Wayback Machine in the year HN paid most attention, never to today's domain.
Short marketing and business essays by Seth Godin, posted almost daily.
- Getting ahead vs. doing well 167 points · 2016
- "All I do is work here" 138 points · 2009
- The secret of the web (hint: it's a virtue) 114 points · 2008
Adobe's company blog with posts on security, UX design, Photoshop and open source
- “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020” 1213 points · 2017
- Flash will be EOL by 2020 399 points · 2017
- Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source font family 386 points · 2012
Pamela Jones' legal blog analyzing software patent and open source court cases in detail
- Forced Exposure 1391 points · 2013
- Oracle v. Google - Judge Alsup Rules APIs Not Protected By Copyright 735 points · 2012
- Verdict for Google in Oracle's patent infringement case 723 points · 2012
Growth marketing and analytics blog from KISSmetrics with conversion, pricing, and SaaS advice.
- How Web Graphics Affect Conversions 98 points · 2012
- “Ugly” Sites that Make Millions (and What We Can Learn from Them) 71 points · 2010
- Secret Code Phrases to Get What You Want from Your Graphic Designer 65 points · 2010
JavaScript and ECMAScript deep-dive blog covering modules, iterators, types, and language proposals.
- Temporal: Getting started with JavaScript's new date time API 377 points · 2021
- Future JavaScript: what is still missing? 242 points · 2019
- WebAssembly: a binary format for the web 216 points · 2015
- Learn You a Haskell for Great GoodGonePersonal blog · learnyouahaskell.com · 260 people on HN · 2008–2024
Free, humorous online Haskell tutorial book, one chapter at a time.
- Learn You a Haskell for Great Good 322 points · 2018
- Learn You a Haskell for Great Good (2008) 189 points · 2015
- Learn You a Haskell is now in print 186 points · 2011
Official Amazon Web Services announcements and technical posts on EC2, S3, and IAM.
- Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3 315 points · 2011
- The New AWS Command-Line Interface 265 points · 2013
- Root Domain Website Hosting for Amazon S3 254 points · 2012
- Symantec Security Response blogChanged handsCompany blog · symantec.com · 224 people on HN · 2009–2019
Symantec security research and threat analysis posts on malware and zero-day exploits.
- Facebook Android app sends phone number to Facebook servers without consent 214 points · 2013
- Regin: Top-tier espionage tool enables stealthy surveillance 167 points · 2014
- Symantec Backs Its CA 153 points · 2017
Robert Scoble's personal tech blog on startups, social media, and Microsoft.
- Photo tour of Facebook’s new datacenter 208 points · 2011
- Why Google can’t build Instagram 137 points · 2010
- Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end) 128 points · 2011
- Google Webmaster Central BlogGoneCompany blog · googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com · 219 people on HN · 2008–2015
Official Google blog for webmasters on search, Webmaster Tools, and site speed.
- Changes in rankings of smartphone search results 293 points · 2013
- Google Releases mod_pagespeed for Apache 290 points · 2010
- Understanding web pages better 236 points · 2014
Scott Adams's Dilbert blog, known for political commentary, persuasion, and startup musings.
- Science’s Biggest Fail 295 points · 2015
- Goals vs. Systems (2013) 154 points · 2018
- Scott Adams Answers Your Questions About Predicting President 51 points · 2016
Michael Nielsen's blog on research, quantum computing, open science, and CS essays.
- How the Bitcoin protocol actually works 524 points · 2013
- How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours 323 points · 2012
- How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours (2012) 296 points · 2018
Long-form essays on markets, monetary policy, geopolitics, and AI by a single writer.
- Too Clever by Half 704 points · 2018
- Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life 632 points · 2021
- The AMA is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation 277 points · 2020
Haskell-focused software company's blog and learning site with long-form engineering posts.
- Monads and GATs in Nightly Rust 192 points · 2020
- Lenses 192 points · 2022
- School of Haskell Goes Beta 179 points · 2013
One author's essays on Lisp, startups, Y Combinator and engineering management.
- Startup idea checklist 1251 points · 2019
- Useful Mental Models (2016) 586 points · 2018
- Startup lessons 551 points · 2013
One author's blog on emulators, Bitcoin exchange reviews and essays.
- Why Hypercard Had to Die (2011) 206 points · 2019
- Why Hypercard Had to Die 184 points · 2011
- Why Hypercard had to die (2011) 158 points · 2021
ProgrammableWeb's blog on web APIs, mashups and API industry news.
- Jobseekers Invited to “Apply Via API” 211 points · 2012
- 1 in 5 APIs Say “Bye XML” - JSON gaining ground 138 points · 2011
- REST API Alternatives 116 points · 2013
Security vendor's threat research blog covering APT groups and malware analysis.
- Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain 669 points · 2020
- FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack 238 points · 2020
- New Java 0-day exploit spotted in the wild. 122 points · 2012
Arc90's experiments lab: Readability, password-masking experiments and web usability projects.
- Readability 132 points · 2010
- Readability 101 points · 2009
- Readability - Uncluter what you're reading 63 points · 2010
Patent-litigation blog covering smartphone and FRAND disputes among Apple, Microsoft, Motorola, and Qualcomm.
- Epic Games, others accuse Sundar Pichai of violating retention obligations 308 points · 2023
- Google: “Any harm Epic has suffered is not irreparable and is of its own making” 201 points · 2020
- Dutch antitrust authority fines Apple for fifth time 187 points · 2022
Mesosphere's engineering blog on Apache Mesos, DC/OS, Marathon, and running ML on clusters.
- Docker vs. Kubernetes vs. Mesos 303 points · 2017
- Containers and Distributed Systems: Where They Came from and Where They’re Going 288 points · 2017
- Running Java in a Container 212 points · 2018
- Matasano Security blog (Matasano Chargen)GoneCompany blog · matasano.com · 150 people on HN · 2008–2024
Security research company's blog on crypto, vulnerabilities, pentesting, and CTFs.
- Enough with the Salts: Updates on Secure Password Schemes 339 points · 2015
- Announcing The Matasano/Square CTF 297 points · 2014
- Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong 258 points · 2009
Angel investor's blog on startups, podcasts, and Web 2.0 business opinions.
- How much should I raise in my angel round? How should I spend it? 181 points · 2015
- The Big Game, Zuckerberg and Overplaying your Hand 159 points · 2010
- Yahoo committed seppuku today 140 points · 2009
Online coding course company whose blog posted tutorials and industry articles.
- Code School now open to the public 205 points · 2011
- Try Objective-C 176 points · 2013
- You can use Code School for free next weekend 118 points · 2013
Smart home device maker (thermostats, Protect, cameras) with product news and blog posts.
- Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API 936 points · 2019
- Nest introduces their Smoke Detector 539 points · 2013
- Nest - The Learning Thermostat 430 points · 2011
Personal site with PhD memoir, productivity essays, and Python tool writeups by Philip Guo.
- Please don't denigrate what a beginner is currently learning 370 points · 2014
- Migrating a 10,000-line legacy JavaScript codebase to TypeScript 311 points · 2016
- The Ph.D Grind: A Ph.D Student Memoir 285 points · 2012
Personal blog by Graydon Hoare, creator of Rust, on compilers, type theory, and software.
- The Rust I wanted had no future 868 points · 2023
- Always Bet on Text (2014) 570 points · 2021
- Rust is mostly safety 487 points · 2016
Open-source, privacy-focused voice assistant company with blog posts on its software and hardware.
- Our first patent troll 455 points · 2020
- Mycroft – An open-source voice assistant 431 points · 2020
- Mimic 3 by Mycroft 334 points · 2022
Carsonified's web design and development magazine with long-form tutorials and business advice.
- Let’s mug a startup founder 326 points · 2011
- Office comparison: 37signals vs Zappos 158 points · 2011
- Advanced Google Analytics for Startups 155 points · 2011
Security consultancy's research blog on pentesting, crypto reviews and vulnerability write-ups.
- Private Key Extraction from Qualcomm Hardware-Backed Keystores 305 points · 2019
- Downgrade Attack on TLS 1.3 and Vulnerabilities in Major TLS Libraries 227 points · 2019
- Understanding and Hardening Linux Containers [pdf] 196 points · 2016
Hosting provider's blog covering product launches, datacenter news and sysadmin tutorials.
- The New Linode Cloud: SSDs, Double RAM and much more 584 points · 2014
- Linode NextGen: RAM Upgrade 395 points · 2013
- Linode Nextgen: The Network 342 points · 2013
- Revolutions (Revolution Analytics blog)ParkedCompany blog · blog.revolutionanalytics.com · 123 people on HN · 2010–2024
Revolution Analytics company blog about R programming, statistics and data science.
- The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence (2014) 483 points · 2023
- The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence 364 points · 2014
- Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics 210 points · 2015
Skype's official blog announcing product releases, platform APIs and company news.
- Skype group video calling becomes free 362 points · 2014
- Skype 4.0 for Linux 234 points · 2012
- Skype blog hacked 86 points · 2014
Simple online bank's blog with engineering posts on Kafka, Postgres and banking infrastructure.
- Give Django your time and money, not your tokens 442 points · 2026
- BankSimple invites first customers; rebrands itself as Simple 387 points · 2011
- The Next Chapter 78 points · 2014
Opinionated essays on startups, web tech, and programming by Ted Dziuba.
- Node.js is Cancer 189 points · 2011
- Taco Bell Programming (2010) 172 points · 2016
- I Don't Code in my Free Time 167 points · 2009
Sun employees' engineering and strategy blogs, covering DTrace, ZFS, Java and storage.
- 128-bit storage: are you high? 139 points · 2010
- Unusual disk latency 106 points · 2009
- Creator of ZFS, Jeff Bonwick, leaves Oracle 96 points · 2010
NewCo's essay publication on tech, AI, and Silicon Valley culture, with multiple writers.
- Lost Diamonds: How our current system is failing underprivileged talent 320 points · 2016
- I Only Work Remotely 252 points · 2017
- Yes, organic farming will kill us all 231 points · 2017
Fog Creek Software's blog on developer careers, management, and software practice.
- We spent a week making Trello boards load fast 445 points · 2014
- The Trello Tech Stack 431 points · 2012
- “Our Marketing Is Up Fog Creek” And What We Did About It 393 points · 2011
Hiring marketplace whose salary reports and engineer job-market research were shared on HN.
- 2017 State of Global Tech Salaries 291 points · 2017
- State of U.S. Salaries Report [pdf] 127 points · 2015
- What I learned from reading 8,000 recruiting messages 110 points · 2014
Merlin Mann's productivity blog on GTD, inbox zero, and paperless work.
- Cranking 181 points · 2011
- The Hipster PDA (2004) 114 points · 2022
- Better 105 points · 2009
Steve Klabnik's personal blog on Rust, programming languages, and C misconceptions.
- A Sad Day for Rust 1243 points · 2020
- Thank u, next 537 points · 2019
- Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash? 509 points · 2018
Helpdesk software company blog with long-form posts on startup growth, remote work, and marketing.
- Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter 594 points · 2016
- Lessons Learned Going from Zero to $30k/Month in a Year 458 points · 2013
- Why I Turned Down $5 Million in VC Funding 242 points · 2013
Outdoor apparel company's environmental essays, activism pieces, and corporate responsibility writing.
- Repair is a Radical Act 214 points · 2015
- Patagonia donating 100% of Black Friday sales to environment organizations 140 points · 2016
- Earth is now our only shareholder 126 points · 2022
Corporate research lab publishing papers, tools, and talks on C++, graphs, and speech.
- F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Coding Standard Documentation 133 points · 2012
- Netflix Prize 10% barrier broken 80 points · 2009
- C++0x - the next ISO C++ standard 26 points · 2010
Kathy Sierra's blog on user passion, product design, and developer motivation (Code Like a Girl).
- "Dignity is deadly." - Paul Graham 41 points · 2008
- Creating Passionate Users 36 points · 2022
- Don't Make the Demo Look Done (2006) 31 points · 2010
Fritz AI's publication on mobile machine learning, on-device models, and tutorials.
- Using a Keras Long Short-Term Memory Model to Predict Stock Prices 296 points · 2018
- Introduction to Decision Tree Learning 294 points · 2018
- OpenCV-Python Cheat Sheet: From Importing Images to Face Detection 177 points · 2019
Git tips, the Poignant Guide book, and web development posts by Mislav Marohnić
- Vim: revisited 359 points · 2011
- Git Tips 179 points · 2011
- Every line of code is always documented 158 points · 2014
Mark Pilgrim's blog, known for video encoding series and essays on tech and Linux
- Simplicity is hard. Let’s go shopping 282 points · 2010
- Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you 254 points · 2009
- Tinkerer’s Sunset 196 points · 2010
- The Next Big Thing (Don Dodge)ParkedPersonal blog · dondodge.typepad.com · 100 people on HN · 2007–2023
Don Dodge's blog on startups, investors, and Microsoft vs Google platform strategy
- How to get a job at Google, interview questions & process 123 points · 2010
- Don Dodge: fired from Microsoft, hired by Google 114 points · 2009
- Don Dodge is Leaving Microsoft 82 points · 2009
Paul Thurrott's Windows, Surface and Microsoft news and analysis site
- What the Heck is Happening to Windows? 100 points · 2014
- Rethinking Ray Ozzie 66 points · 2013
- Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays 63 points · 2013
Cloud IDE company's blog on engineering practices, continuous integration and cloud dev tools
- Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon 627 points · 2016
- The new Cloud9 development environment 190 points · 2014
- Ace – an embeddable code editor 86 points · 2018
Cloud development environment company's blog on cloud IDEs, dev productivity and containers
- We're Leaving Kubernetes 517 points · 2024
- Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces 237 points · 2021
- VS Code in the Browser for Everyone 73 points · 2021
Florian Mueller's blog tracking smartphone patent lawsuits like Apple, Lodsys, Motorola and HTC
- Microsoft and Google jointly sue a patent troll who has sued 397 companies 275 points · 2011
- Western civilization runs on the mainframe 154 points · 2010
- Texas jury finds Google infringes a patent: $5,000,000 damage award 68 points · 2011
Research company's blog on Hierarchical Temporal Memory, the Thousand Brains theory and brain-inspired AI
- The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence 206 points · 2019
- The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence (2019) 189 points · 2021
- A Machine Learning Guide to Hierarchical Temporal Memory 105 points · 2019
Ebook and e-reader news blog, known for Amazon, Kobo, Adobe DRM and privacy coverage
- iBooks DRM has been cracked. 173 points · 2012
- Adobe to Require New Epub DRM in July, Expects to Abandon Existing Users 160 points · 2014
- Feedly Found a New Way to Steal Page Views From Publishers 144 points · 2014
Dice's career and tech-salary blog covering developer jobs, skills, and hiring trends.
- Study Finds No Gender Gap in Tech Salaries 683 points · 2016
- Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries 306 points · 2020
- Earnings Ceiling for Tech Professionals over 40 141 points · 2019
Axel Rauschmayer's free books and chapters on JavaScript, ES6, and Deep JavaScript.
- Deep JavaScript 337 points · 2021
- JavaScript for Impatient Programmers 284 points · 2021
- JavaScript for Impatient Programmers 239 points · 2020
Pivotal Labs consultancy blog on agile development, pair programming, testing, and Rails.
- Pivotal Tracker will no longer be free in 6 months 115 points · 2011
- How Pivotal Labs use Tmux for remote pair programming 113 points · 2012
- Dropbox + git = Designer Luv 83 points · 2011
Nokia's corporate blog on phones, Qt SDK, camera tech, and developer news.
- Nokia Treasure Tag: Never lose your valuables again 78 points · 2014
- Nokia announces Asha 210 with World's First Dedicated WhatsApp Button 43 points · 2013
- Nokia releases Symbian Anna update. 18 points · 2011
Jeff Knupp's Python blog on metaclasses, Django setup, exceptions, and book launches.
- How 'DevOps' Is Killing The Developer 318 points · 2014
- Python and Flask Are Powerful 260 points · 2014
- What is a Web Framework? 147 points · 2014
- Grasping Reality (Brad DeLong's blog)ParkedPersonal blog · delong.typepad.com · 90 people on HN · 2007–2022
Economist Brad DeLong's blog on macroeconomics, Treasury rates, and economic history.
- Mr. 'Deling' Responds to 'I make 500K/yr and am not rich' 58 points · 2010
- Why the Twentieth Century Was Not a Chinese Century 58 points · 2013
- The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of "writer's block" (1974) 24 points · 2010
Programmer's blog on Learn Python The Hard Way, NoNoSQL, Mongrel2, and Lua projects.
- Common Programmer Health Problems 394 points · 2010
- There Are No Famous Programmers 303 points · 2010
- Zed Shaw: Github's Favorite Joke 286 points · 2011
Personal blog on startups, landing pages, startup advice, and business ideas.
- The Bomb That Changed My Life 460 points · 2011
- Successful people are successful 295 points · 2012
- Money and wealth 268 points · 2014
Chip Morningstar's blog on Habitat, online worlds, REST, software crisis, and LLMs.
- You can't tell people anything (2004) 440 points · 2023
- You can't tell people anything (2004) 405 points · 2020
- You can't tell people anything (2004) 272 points · 2018
Scott Adams's blog of career advice, writing tips, and commentary, popular on HN in 2007-2008.
- Career Advice from Scott Adams (2007) 172 points · 2016
- Rules of good writing (2007) 113 points · 2025
- What’s Your Permanent Age? (2007) 103 points · 2012
Personal tech blog with posts on Python, Vim tips, memcached internals, and startup engineering.
- How Hacker News ranking algorithm works 311 points · 2010
- How Reddit ranking algorithms work 241 points · 2012
- CoffeeScript: The beautiful way to write JavaScript 156 points · 2011
Harvard Business Review blog network with management, innovation, and corporate culture essays.
- I Want You to Apologize 65 points · 2009
- Why Doing Things Half Right Gives You the Best Results 49 points · 2009
- The Real Pirate Bay 48 points · 2009
Xamarin company blog on cross-platform C# mobile development, .NET Standard, and Monotouch.
- Android Ported to C# 516 points · 2012
- Microsoft and Xamarin partner 217 points · 2013
- Announcing Xamarin 2.0 217 points · 2013
Small VPS hosting company whose blog posted Xen, OpenBSD, and gopher-history technical write-ups.
- "If you want to order it, use 'view source' to find the commented-out link." 217 points · 2012
- Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs 57 points · 2019
- Support Diary: The LAN of 16M Hosts 48 points · 2020
Mobile app company behind Titanium, linked for JavaScript cross-platform apps and acquisitions.
- Licensing of Titanium chaotic and unclear 134 points · 2012
- Parse (YC S11) – A Simple Back End for Mobile Applications 56 points · 2011
- Appcelerator Acquires Aptana 34 points · 2011
Swiss bank whose research reports (wealth, oil, economics) were shared on HN.
- Fat: The New Health Paradigm [pdf] 80 points · 2015
- The Future of the Monetary System [pdf] 59 points · 2024
- Switzerland's Answer to Silicon Valley 30 points · 2014
Geopolitical intelligence firm known for its Weekly analysis and forecasts.
- The Geopolitics of the United States 103 points · 2012
- The Crisis of the Middle Class and American Power 100 points · 2013
- The Roots of the Government Shutdown 96 points · 2013
Web design and dev agency blog with startup, developer, and community posts.
- Steve Huffman on Lessons Learned at Reddit 202 points · 2010
- Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating Web Apps 115 points · 2009
- Your Web App has Launched – Now What? 89 points · 2010
Security blog covering web vulnerabilities, curl-pipe-bash detection, and VMware exploits.
- Detecting the use of "curl | bash" server-side 500 points · 2018
- Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side (2016) 373 points · 2022
- Detecting the use of “curl – bash” server side 352 points · 2016
Design software company whose blog published long-form design and accessibility guides.
- InVision design collaboration services shutdown 131 points · 2024
- An oral history of the AIM away message 120 points · 2019
- An oral history of the hamburger icon (2019) 87 points · 2020
Software consultancy blog with long-form Android, iOS, and developer-tooling tutorials.
- Where is Ruby Headed in 2021? 299 points · 2021
- Neural Networks in iOS 10 and macOS 152 points · 2016
- Async JavaScript Generators 119 points · 2017
Pivotal Labs project-tracking tool's blog with agile, GitHub flow, and engineering experience reports.
- Pivotal Tracker will shut down 311 points · 2024
- Diaspora* Project on Pivotal Tracker 22 points · 2011
- Velocity Is a Measure of Pace, Not Productivity 9 points · 2016
Node.js hosting company blog with posts on npm private packages, CI, and Node tooling.
- Using jQuery and node.js to scrape html pages in 5 lines 133 points · 2010
- Keeping node.js servers up forever 84 points · 2010
- Nodejitsu joins GoDaddy 64 points · 2015
Conversion rate optimization agency blog with long-form articles on A/B testing and UX design.
- Lesser Known Ways to Persuade People 310 points · 2011
- Pricing Experiments You Can Learn From (2011) 270 points · 2019
- Pricing Experiments 202 points · 2012
- Dan Simanek's physics pages (Lock Haven)Changed handsPersonal blog · lhup.edu · 76 people on HN · 2010–2024
Physics professor's pages debunking pseudoscience: perpetual motion, cargo cult science, misused terms.
- "It'll never work": a collection of failed predictions 224 points · 2011
- Fibonacci Flim-Flam. 168 points · 2011
- Richard Feynman’s Caltech Graduation Address on Integrity 136 points · 2012
Coding bootcamp whose blog posted program updates, ISA financing news, and student stipend announcements.
- Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month 298 points · 2019
- Lambda School lays off 65 employees 232 points · 2021
- Show HN: Learn Functional Programming Using Haskell 220 points · 2016
Node.js company blog covering Express, LoopBack, and Node C++ API changes.
- What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community 244 points · 2015
- Apple’s iOS7 Native JavaScript Bridge 116 points · 2013
- Managing Node.js Callback Hell with Promises, Generators and Other Approaches 92 points · 2014
Software consultancy's engineering blog on Rails, Cucumber, iOS, Go, and team practices.
- Vim Text Objects : The Definitive Guide 198 points · 2011
- Deploying Node.js on Amazon EC2 89 points · 2011
- Up and Running with Clojure 52 points · 2011
- David Heinemeier Hansson's blogGonePersonal blog · david.heinemeierhansson.com · 74 people on HN · 2011–2018
Personal blog of DHH, Rails creator, with opinionated posts on testing, dependency injection, and Rails.
- TDD is dead. Long live testing. 351 points · 2014
- Rails is omakase 251 points · 2012
- Test-induced design damage 243 points · 2014
Personal blog of Steve Klabnik on Ruby, Rails, Rust, hypermedia APIs, and developer community topics.
- Nobody Understands REST or HTTP 520 points · 2011
- Some People Understand REST and HTTP 191 points · 2011
- Introducing the Rails API Project 174 points · 2012
Intel's corporate blogs on research, policy, and developer technology announcements.
- Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council 285 points · 2017
- Bringing Intel Xeon to notebook PCs 116 points · 2015
- The Tricky World of Securing Firmware 51 points · 2015
Satirical blog written as a fake Steve Jobs, mocking Apple, Google, and the tech press.
- Coin-operated Borgocrat goes to Google, acquires whole new set of opinions 175 points · 2009
- Why the mainstream media is dying 83 points · 2009
- An open letter to the people of the world 57 points · 2010
Typography blog by a single writer covering web type, typeface design, and history of letterforms.
- The Design of a Signage Typeface 127 points · 2012
- The First Roman Fonts 122 points · 2016
- Death of a Typeface 79 points · 2020
Matt Maroon's blog on startups, Hacker News, and Y Combinator founder advice.
- I Quit Hacker News 261 points · 2010
- Hacker News Disease 215 points · 2009
- Google Will Become an AI Company 187 points · 2011
Weaveworks engineering blog on Kubernetes, GitOps, Prometheus monitoring, and container networking.
- Linux Namespaces and Go Don't Mix 266 points · 2017
- Kured – A Kubernetes Reboot Daemon 85 points · 2017
- CNI for Docker Containers with Weave and Calico 57 points · 2016
Rust core developer's blog on async/await, pinning, error handling, and language design.
- Async and Await in Rust: a full proposal 388 points · 2018
- A final proposal for Rust await syntax 352 points · 2019
- Zero Cost Abstractions 350 points · 2019
DNS and internet infrastructure company blog on DDoS, outages, and internet intelligence reports.
- Shutting Down the BGP Hijack Factory 218 points · 2018
- Dyn Analysis Summary of Friday October 21 Attack 187 points · 2016
- ACE Submarine Cable Cut Impacts Ten Countries 166 points · 2018
Dave McClure's blog on startup metrics, social networks, Facebook platform, and early-stage investing.
- Dave McClure responds to Arrington's post 251 points · 2010
- Flipping is Good. (aka Memo to Jason Fried: Sorry, You're Fucking Wrong.) 127 points · 2009
- How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. 77 points · 2010
Daniel Spiewak's blog on Scala, functional programming, build tools, and language design.
- What is Hindley-Milner and why is it cool? (2008) 185 points · 2017
- Operational Transformation (algorithm behind Wave, Google Docs) 125 points · 2010
- Monads Are Not Metaphors 96 points · 2010
FaunaDB company blog on distributed database architecture, transactions, consistency, and Calvin.
- Demystifying Database Systems: An Introduction to Transaction Isolation Levels 202 points · 2019
- Control theory for fun and profit 195 points · 2020
- Consistency Without Clocks: FaunaDB's Distributed Transaction Protocol 171 points · 2018
Film critic Roger Ebert's blog on the Chicago Sun-Times site, covering movies and personal writing.
- Why 3D doesn't work and never will. 411 points · 2011
- Roger Ebert: The dying of the light 297 points · 2011
- All the lonely people 125 points · 2010
- Y Combinator Blog (Posterous)GoneCompany blog · ycombinator.posterous.com · 69 people on HN · 2009–2013
Y Combinator's announcements and startup news, hosted on Posterous.
- Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar 344 points · 2010
- Welcome Garry and Aaron 281 points · 2012
- YC has just closed a new $8.25 million fund 238 points · 2010
Authentication company's engineering blog on API security, login design and developer practices.
- Sales for Hackers 119 points · 2014
- Secure Your REST API 115 points · 2013
- Solving the Flask Authentication Problem 87 points · 2014
Fred Wilson's venture capital blog, known for startup investing and web industry essays.
- Can The Y Combinator Idea Turn Into A Movement? 47 points · 2008
- We Need A New Path To Liquidity 46 points · 2008
- I Got Lucky 45 points · 2008
Arthur Whitney's personal site for his k language, B interpreter and tiny editors.
- The K Language 161 points · 2016
- Arthur Whitney's 'B' Language 151 points · 2019
- The K Programming Language 134 points · 2021
Greg Lindahl's personal archive of classic programming essays, stories and talks.
- The Construction of a Yurt (1995) 101 points · 2018
- The story of Mel (1983) 80 points · 2009
- Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal - Letter to the editor, Datamation July 1983 65 points · 2012
Linode's hosting guides and tutorials on Linux, databases and server administration.
- Linux System Administration Basics 108 points · 2009
- Linux package management review 4 points · 2009
- Linux Security Basics 3 points · 2013
Physics and politics commentary blog by theoretical physicist Lubos Motl, often posted on HN.
- Tevatron confirms a 115-135 GeV Higgs 98 points · 2012
- 100 years of general relativity 49 points · 2015
- Climate science document hacked 47 points · 2009
Fitbit's corporate and product site, linked for device launches and privacy policy.
- Fitbit is now officially part of Google 293 points · 2021
- How Much Sleep Do Fitbit Users Really Get? 173 points · 2017
- Fitbit Charge, Charge HR and Surge 109 points · 2014
Internet routing and censorship analysis from the Renesys research team.
- Syrian Internet Is Off The Air 301 points · 2012
- Mystery Cable Activated in Cuba 93 points · 2013
- Why Far-Flung Parts of the Internet Broke Today 51 points · 2014
Fredrik Lundh's Python essays and tutorials on language internals and idioms.
- Compiling Python Code 27 points · 2010
- Simple Top-Down Parsing in Python 20 points · 2009
- Simple Top-Down Parsing in Python 5 points · 2008
AI code-completion company's blog posts on deep learning and developer tooling.
- Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages 607 points · 2018
- Next-generation AI models 231 points · 2022
- Autocompletion with Deep Learning 162 points · 2019
Limor Fried's personal site of DIY electronics, hardware hacks and open-source gadget projects.
- Hacking the Kinect - How to hack USB device drivers 245 points · 2010
- PIC vs. AVR 64 points · 2011
- The mysteries of Apple's secret battery charging methods 20 points · 2010
Airbnb's company blog with announcements, host tips and growth milestones.
- Our Commitment to Trust & Safety 416 points · 2011
- Rent the country of Liechtenstein for $70,000 a night with Airbnb 193 points · 2011
- I am now homeless - living on Airbnb for months 170 points · 2010
Andreessen Horowitz's crypto research blog covering web3, zero-knowledge proofs and policy.
- Introducing A16Z Crypto 347 points · 2018
- Status Traps: Learning from Web2 Social Networks 50 points · 2022
- Cicada: Private on-chain voting using time-lock puzzles 44 points · 2023
Economics blog of commentary and link roundups on macro policy, banking and finance.
- IT is the cause of rising income and wealth inequality since the 1970s [pdf] 160 points · 2017
- Economist's View: "The Mathematics Generation Gap" 96 points · 2011
- The Effect of Payday Lending Restrictions on Liquor Sales 17 points · 2015
- Braintree BlogChanged handsCompany blog · braintreepaymentsolutions.com · 61 people on HN · 2007–2011
Braintree payments company blog on payment processing, fees, mobile payments and engineering.
- Our Git Workflow: Private Development, Public Releases 89 points · 2010
- Paypal and Authorize.net: Help End the Credit Card Hostage Situation 68 points · 2010
- A DSL in 5 Languages: Ruby, Python, PHP, C#, Java 60 points · 2010
Official AngularJS team blog announcing releases, roadmap and versioning from the Google-led project.
- Angular 2 Beta released 418 points · 2015
- Angular 4.0.0 Now Available 329 points · 2017
- Angular 1 and Angular 2 integration: the path to seamless upgrade 202 points · 2015
Personal programming blog with essays on C, bugs, interviews and software careers.
- How the Atari ST Almost Had Real Unix (2011) 153 points · 2015
- Patching the Newton 106 points · 2014
- 30 years of C 101 points · 2009
Startup blog of iDoneThis on team productivity, remote work and management.
- Silicon Valley’s Productivity Secret 221 points · 2012
- Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient 161 points · 2012
- How we got to $1,000 in recurring revenue 160 points · 2013
Coach.me publication on productivity, habits, mindfulness and self-improvement essays.
- Cognitive bias cheat sheet 684 points · 2016
- Joseph Campbell’s daily routine for “the most important period of my study” 248 points · 2017
- How George Lucas Lost His Integrity…and Why It’s So Important 53 points · 2016
Rob Conery's blog on ASP.NET MVC, NoSQL, Rack and building your own blog tutorials.
- Open ID Is A Nightmare 311 points · 2010
- The Hubble Blew My Mind 180 points · 2011
- OK Seriously What Is BizSpark? 68 points · 2010
Startup offering browser-based cloud dev environments and collaborative web IDE.
- Nitrous Service Shutdown – November 14th 141 points · 2016
- Yehuda Katz and Tilde.io 46 points · 2013
- Nitrous.IO for Mac - Edit Code Locally, Run In the Cloud 29 points · 2013
Personal blog of a developer with humorous programming essays on interruptions and languages.
- Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer 607 points · 2013
- If programming languages were Harry Potter characters 129 points · 2015
- This Is Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer (2013) 67 points · 2018
Light-field camera maker's product pages, demos and technical write-ups.
- Lytro cameras are ready for preorder. 207 points · 2011
- Lytro Announces New Light Field Camera 159 points · 2014
- Lytro Lightfield Gallery 158 points · 2011
Stanford professor Bob Sutton's blog on bosses, management, evidence and workplace behavior.
- United Airlines Lost My Friend's 10 Year Old Daughter And Didn't Care 242 points · 2012
- On Testosterone: Driving a Porsche vs. Camry 53 points · 2009
- Why Management is Not a Profession 29 points · 2009
Math and game theory blog with puzzles, brain teasers and decision-making explainers.
- Hotelling’s Game, or Why Gas Stations Have Competitors Nearby 128 points · 2011
- How Game Theory Solved a Religious Mystery 104 points · 2010
- An 'impossible' card puzzle 91 points · 2010
Yahoo engineering blog on Hadoop, performance, bandwidth, DNS and web APIs.
- An Engineer's Guide to Bandwidth 112 points · 2009
- An Engineer's Guide to DNS 97 points · 2009
- Multi-core HTTP Server with Node.js 67 points · 2010
Rap Genius's blog on annotation, startup growth, and engineering (e.g., PostgreSQL tuning).
- N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section 250 points · 2013
- Rap Genius is Back on Google 242 points · 2014
- Rap Stats: Breaking Down The Words in Rap Lyrics Over Time 178 points · 2013
Dating-site founder Markus Frind's blog on POF traffic, ad revenue, and startup lessons.
- Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days 483 points · 2014
- Match.com no longer top dating site, sends in the lawyers 165 points · 2010
- Plenty of Fish Hacked 164 points · 2011
Ian Bicking's essays on Python, web frameworks, deployment, and web standards.
- Ian Bicking: My Unsolicited Advice For PyPy 121 points · 2011
- Sister of Python Hacker arrested for protest - His essay on protest and change 62 points · 2008
- The Web Server Benchmarking We Need 46 points · 2010
Independent tech blog with long analysis of Apple, Amazon, Android, and mobile strategy.
- Before Apple introduced the iPhone 113 points · 2009
- Apple to developers: We're no longer suicidal 93 points · 2010
- Google Chrome: Bad news for Adobe 38 points · 2008
Compose hosted-database company's long-form articles on MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, and RethinkDB.
- What's Coming in PostgreSQL 9.5 287 points · 2015
- What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases: Part II 278 points · 2015
- Compose Is Joining IBM 172 points · 2015
Compose hosted-database company's articles on MongoDB, RabbitMQ, and database engineering.
- PostGraphQL: PostgreSQL meets GraphQL 339 points · 2016
- RethinkDB and Compose: Where Next 131 points · 2016
- Easy PostgreSQL Performance Stats with PgHero and Docker 21 points · 2018
Personal design blog with reviews of gadgets, product design portfolios, and vehicle interfaces.
- The Next Microsoft 1183 points · 2012
- Microsoft hires designer behind "The Next Microsoft", Andrew Kim 233 points · 2013
- Apple (Pro) Mouse (2014) 171 points · 2020
Programming essays and opinions on Hacker News culture, JavaScript, and coding craft.
- I hereby resign 1175 points · 2012
- Why the Fuck? 911 points · 2013
- Suicide 880 points · 2011
Asteroid-mining company's blog on spacecraft, asteroid resources, and space policy.
- Out of this world kickstarter campaign 8 points · 2012
- Fuel in Space from Asteroids 6 points · 2014
- Planetary Resources Announces Agreement with Virgin Galactic 5 points · 2012
Maker of 1Password; posted product announcements and security writing, including Heartbleed response.
- 1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders 1004 points · 2017
- 1Password for Linux development preview 612 points · 2020
- Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store 364 points · 2018
Official Meteor framework blog with release announcements and tutorials on building JavaScript apps.
- Announcing Meteor 1.2 – ES2015, Angular, React, and More 297 points · 2015
- Meteor Galaxy, a cloud platform for Meteor applications 168 points · 2015
- Reactive GraphQL 158 points · 2016
Digg's official engineering and product blog, covering architecture, data, and site changes.
- Digg Reader Update 159 points · 2013
- We're Building A Reader 156 points · 2013
- Looking into the future with Cassandra 126 points · 2009
Bill Clementson's blog of Lisp, Clojure, and Emacs posts and link roundups.
- Y Combinator in Erlang 174 points · 2009
- Clojure could be to Concurrency-Oriented Programming what Java was to OOP 53 points · 2008
- The Most Important Idea in Computer Science from Alan Kay 39 points · 2008
Freelancer business advice blog on clients, rates, marketing, and design work.
- Moleskine Tips, Tricks and Hacks 51 points · 2008
- How I Make $2,000 Every Year Without Doing Very Much 50 points · 2008
- The Monster List of Freelance Job Sites 31 points · 2009
WooThemes company blog on running a WordPress theme business, team culture, and startup lessons.
- WooThemes joins Automattic 226 points · 2015
- The Most Lucrative Business: Repeated Purchases 34 points · 2011
- The Cost & Implications of Free(mium) 28 points · 2011
Personal site of Mascheck with deep technical notes on Unix shells, shebang, and argument limits.
- Useful use of cat(1) 115 points · 2012
- Details about the shebang/hash-bang mechanism on various Unix flavours (2001) 87 points · 2025
- Ash (Almquist Shell) Variants 69 points · 2025
Cooper design consultancy's journal on interaction design, UX practice, and product strategy.
- The best interface is no interface 215 points · 2012
- The best interface is no interface 214 points · 2012
- The Cooper Journal: The best interface is no interface 121 points · 2012
Personal game developer blog on WebGL, asm.js, C++ vs JavaScript, and mobile game sales.
- Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow 357 points · 2021
- Why is Windows so slow? 337 points · 2011
- Zip – How not to design a file format 274 points · 2021
Larry Wall's essay on the three great virtues of a programmer: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
- The Three Virtues of a GREAT Programmer 23 points · 2016
- Three great virtues of a programmer 4 points · 2014
- Three Great Virtues of a Programmer 3 points · 2020
Cloud training company's publication on serverless, AWS Lambda, AppSync, and cloud architecture.
- Things to know before using AWS’s Elasticsearch Service 282 points · 2017
- The hidden costs of serverless 176 points · 2018
- Things I’ve learned using serverless 163 points · 2018
Font foundry site for PragmataPro and other typefaces, with release announcements.
- PragmataPro Fraktur, possibly the only monospaced Fraktur, is now completed 4 points · 2023
- PragmataPro 0.903 Out Now 4 points · 2025
- PragmataPro 3 points · 2015
Systems and distributed storage engineering blog covering Gluster, consistency, and databases.
- It’s Faster Because It’s C 200 points · 2010
- A Gluster developer's thoughts on Torus 164 points · 2016
- Availability and partition tolerance explained and diagrammed 40 points · 2010
Security research blog from Trustwave's SpiderLabs on vulnerabilities, malware, and pentesting.
- How I Cracked a Keylogger and Ended Up in Someone's Inbox 468 points · 2016
- A Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X 373 points · 2016
- Security disclosure about a Bluetooth toilet 98 points · 2013
Tutorials and history posts from the Eager.io web app builder, e.g. digital communication history.
- Languages Which Almost Became CSS 586 points · 2016
- The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth 333 points · 2016
- The History of the URL: Domain, Protocol, and Port 185 points · 2016
Mobile analytics company blog publishing app usage and iOS vs Android market data reports.
- China Now Leads the World in New iOS and Android Device Activations 33 points · 2012
- Amazon Lights the Android World on Fire 8 points · 2012
- Mobile usage is starting to catch up with television 6 points · 2012
Security researcher Dan Kaminsky's blog on DNS, vulnerabilities, and actionable intelligence.
- The cryptographically provable con man 160 points · 2016
- Validating Satoshi (Or Not) 116 points · 2016
- A Skeleton Key of Unknown Strength (CVE-2015-7547) 115 points · 2016
AI coding assistant company's blog on code completion, context retrieval, and AI tooling.
- GitHub Copilot emits GPL code 586 points · 2023
- We compete with GitHub. Bing does not show our website 184 points · 2023
- Show HN: Windsurf – Agentic IDE 101 points · 2024
Teardowns and bill-of-materials cost estimates for phones, tablets and other consumer electronics.
Mobile app download, revenue and ranking data, plus market reports on app stores and gaming.
- Google Play revenue grew 17%, iOS revenue contracted 0.7% in Nov 2012 24 points · 2012
- Google Play Revenue Surpasses iOS in Germany 11 points · 2015
- AppAnnie users are getting their Apple ID's locked 3 points · 2012
Bitcoin developer company selling the 21 Bitcoin Computer and publishing bitcoin tutorials.
- 21 Makes Bitcoin Useful to Developers 115 points · 2016
- Contact Ben Horowitz for $20 108 points · 2017
- Quantifying Decentralization 74 points · 2017
Python blog on concurrency, multiprocessing, the GIL and the Python community.
- A lot happens 268 points · 2015
- The Great Python.org Redesign 200 points · 2012
- Unladen Swallow: Python 3’S Best Feature 125 points · 2010
Posts on building a PostgreSQL document API, Node.js with Postgres, and Azure.
- RethinkDB 2.0 is amazing 348 points · 2015
- Embracing SQL in Postgres 273 points · 2015
- Mod and remainder are not the same 165 points · 2018
Engineering and developer posts from the OpenTok WebRTC video API company.
- Firefox 34 includes WebRTC videochat client “Firefox Hello” 184 points · 2014
- Can Someone Turn Me On? 94 points · 2013
- Rise of the Hack 76 points · 2012
Personal finance blog on frugality, careers, debt and building a meaningful life.
- Frugality won’t make you rich, it makes it possible for you to get rich 75 points · 2011
- Most time management is rubbish 71 points · 2009
- 25 Questions to Think About Before Your Next Job Interview 14 points · 2008
- Pete Warden's Searchbrowser blogParkedPersonal blog · petewarden.typepad.com · 49 people on HN · 2009–2013
Pete Warden's blog on data, web scraping, startups, and running a tech company.
- How I got sued by Facebook 336 points · 2010
- How I got sued by Facebook (2010) 175 points · 2011
- The social graph of the whole US 133 points · 2010
Chuck Moore's writing on Forth, colorForth, and programming language design.
- 1% the Code (2001) 143 points · 2015
- Chuck Moore: The Invention of Forth 106 points · 2013
- Forth – The Early Years (1991) 98 points · 2015
Personal programming blog on Emacs, Vim, Lisp, Clojure, and book reviews.
- Making an RPG in Clojure (2010) 191 points · 2016
- Emacs isn't for everyone 160 points · 2010
- Practicality: PHP vs Lisp 157 points · 2010
Deis company blog on Docker, Kubernetes, and PaaS infrastructure.
- Deis to Join Microsoft 464 points · 2017
- The Children's Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes 402 points · 2016
- Run Kubernetes on a Mac with Kube Solo 119 points · 2016
Level 3 Communications company blog on networking, CDNs, security, and internet policy.
- Verizon's accidental mea culpa 776 points · 2014
- Observations of an Internet Middleman 424 points · 2014
- “Not” Neutrality? 221 points · 2014
Server monitoring company blog with long-form posts on MongoDB, ops, and databases.
- Does everyone hate MongoDB? 393 points · 2012
- Launching an Apple TV App: What We’ve Learned So Far 159 points · 2016
- Goodbye global lock – MongoDB 2.0 vs 2.2 79 points · 2012
Mark Pilgrim's book-style guide to HTML5 features and web standards history.
- Diveintohtml5 lives 153 points · 2011
- Dive Into HTML5 66 points · 2013
- Dive into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim 4 points · 2016
Personal essays on Tree Notation, programming ideas, and the creator's projects.
- Storing knowledge in a single long plain text file 320 points · 2024
- Write thin to write fast 305 points · 2021
- Blog posts, sorted by sleep 246 points · 2024
Oracle's official MySQL engineering blog on releases, optimizer internals, and features.
- MySQL 8.0 is now generally available 221 points · 2018
- MySQL 8.0: Retiring Support for the Query Cache 144 points · 2017
- MySQL InnoDB Cluster GA 92 points · 2017
Object Mentor consultancy blog, known for Uncle Bob's essays on programming and agile.
- Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) 358 points · 2011
- Papers Every Programmer Should Read 189 points · 2009
- The Duct Tape Programmer (Response from Uncle Bob Martin) 118 points · 2009
Posterous's official blog with product announcements and how-to posts
- Posterous acquired by Twitter 612 points · 2012
- Posterous will turn off on April 30 301 points · 2013
- Launching Posterous Groups: Smart email lists made easy 113 points · 2010
- Context Information Security BlogChanged handsCompany blog · contextis.com · 47 people on HN · 2011–2019
Security consultancy research on Bluetooth LE, Steam client bugs, and reverse engineering
- Binary SMS – The old backdoor to your new thing 213 points · 2018
- Comma Separated Vulnerabilities 201 points · 2017
- Basic Electron Framework Exploitation 169 points · 2019
HP security researchers' posts on ZDI bugs, Stuxnet exploits, POS hacking, and app security
- Pwn2Own owned all major browsers 111 points · 2013
- Zero-day vulnerability in Chrome on Nexus 4 and Samsung Galaxy S4 95 points · 2013
- Full details on CVE-2015-0096 and the failed MS10-046 Stuxnet fix 82 points · 2015
Marcus Ranum's computer security editorials on dumb ideas, disclosure, and log analysis
- The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005) 267 points · 2024
- The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005) 265 points · 2023
- Dumb Ideas in Computer Security (2005) 114 points · 2015
Curt Monash's analyst blog on database systems, Hadoop, data warehouses, and privacy
- Details on the Oracle failure at JPMorgan Chase 66 points · 2010
- Notes on indexes and index-like structures 48 points · 2015
- EBay’s two enormous data warehouses 23 points · 2009
Essays on programming, Rails debugging, autodidactism, and marketing for developers.
- Why Bother With Cucumber Testing? 80 points · 2014
- How Payments Providers Screw You (2015) 77 points · 2020
- Textmate To Vim: 100 Textmate keyboard shortcuts translated to VIM 47 points · 2011
Adobe's corporate blog covering design, UX, PDF, and product and company news.
- The 12 Do’s and Don’ts of Web Design 46 points · 2018
- Adobe XD now free through starter plan 18 points · 2018
- Adobe Acquires Allegorithmic (maker of Substance Designer) 10 points · 2019
Reddit co-founder's personal site with essays, open letters, and his commencement speech.
- Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story 776 points · 2010
- Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage 225 points · 2010
- The book that inspired the birth of reddit 188 points · 2013
Official Qt framework company blog with release announcements and technical posts on Android and mobile.
- The Qt Company Introduces a Unified Website 198 points · 2014
- Defragmenting Qt and Uniting Our Ecosystem 134 points · 2014
- Introducing the Qt WebEngine 106 points · 2013
Security consultancy blog with long-form posts on vulnerabilities, crypto attacks, and pentesting.
- Enough with the Salts: Updates on Secure Password Schemes 339 points · 2015
- Typing the Letters A-E-S Into Your Code (2009) 168 points · 2015
- If You're Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code, You're Doing It Wrong 94 points · 2010
Personal blog of designer Cap Watkins on UX, design culture, product critiques, and writing.
- Quitting LinkedIn 165 points · 2013
- Formspring - A Postmortem 94 points · 2013
- The Dark Corners of Your UI 32 points · 2014
A researcher's blog on distributed systems, refinement types, and browser extension security
- My first fifteen compilers 387 points · 2017
- What do people mean when they say “transpiler”? 77 points · 2017
- Why does a Turing-complete type system make type checking undecidable? 69 points · 2017
Crypto research firm publishing long-form articles, reports, and asset profiles.
- MakerDAO gets stress tested as ETH price plummets 146 points · 2020
- Crypto Theses for 2022 [pdf] 39 points · 2021
- Messari Report Crypto Theses for 2022 [pdf] 18 points · 2021
YC-backed office-search startup's blog, with founder essays on startup life and hiring.
- The Absurdity of LinkedIn 803 points · 2014
- You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company. 710 points · 2012
- Email Introduction Etiquette 402 points · 2013
Single-author blog of long essays on software architecture, containers, Kafka, and startup advice.
- Docker is a dangerous gamble 406 points · 2018
- Why would anyone choose Docker over fat binaries? 297 points · 2017
- One-on-one meetings are underrated, whereas group meetings waste time 276 points · 2017
Oculus VR's official news on Rift dev kits, Connect, and VR launch titles.
- John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO 993 points · 2013
- Introducing Michael Abrash, Oculus Chief Scientist 396 points · 2014
- Oculus Joins Facebook 289 points · 2014
WebAssembly company's blog on Spin, serverless, containers, and Wasm security.
- Spin – WebAssembly Framework 189 points · 2022
- Spin 2.0 – open-source tool for building and running WASM apps 188 points · 2023
- Spin 3.0 – open-source tooling for building and running WASM apps 175 points · 2024
Online coding bootcamp's tutorials on HTML, Python, design, and data science.
- 11k Citi employees fired. Help get them hired in tech. 65 points · 2012
- Intro to jQuery: Learn jQuery with Street Fighter and Hadoukens 35 points · 2013
- The rise of the "/Developer" — boosting your career with code 26 points · 2013
Ken Silverman's personal site for his Build and Voxlap game engines and demos.
- Ken Silverman's Official Home Page 20 points · 2024
- Ken Silverman's PND3D engine 8 points · 2014
- Ken Silverman's Projects Page 4 points · 2017
Seth Roberts' blog on self-experimentation, personal science, diet, and health studies.
- Seth Roberts has died 168 points · 2014
- Does Bedtime Honey Improve Sleep? Reasons to Think So 54 points · 2013
- The GrownChildCam 50 points · 2008
Cosma Shalizi's University of Michigan homepage with weblog, book reviews, and notebooks.
- So You Think You Have a Power Law 83 points · 2013
- NSA security guidelines (1994) 50 points · 2013
- What Is the Scientific Literature, Chopped Liver? (2010) 3 points · 2014
Static web hosting and dev tools company blog, known for remote-team and culture posts
- A timeless Twitter Bootstrap theme built for the modern web 239 points · 2017
- Divshot 207 points · 2012
- Divshot 1.0: Visual Front-End Development for Bootstrap and Beyond 82 points · 2013
Mozilla's WebVR and Hubs announcements, A-Frame and Firefox Reality updates
- A browser plugin for Unity 154 points · 2020
- A-Terrain - a cartography component for A-Frame 57 points · 2018
- Show HN: A-Painter: Paint in VR in Your Browser 19 points · 2016
Release announcements and articles for Deis, an open-source Heroku-style PaaS on Docker and Kubernetes.
- Deis v1.0 – Production Ready 188 points · 2014
- Deis: Open Source PaaS based on Docker, Chef, and Heroku Buildpacks 131 points · 2013
- Deis 0.8.0 – CoreOS Integration 94 points · 2014
Payments startup Dwolla's blog on its bank-transfer API, ACH payments and engineering.
- Dwolla: transactions under $10 are free 333 points · 2011
- Dwolla is going to eliminate ACH 219 points · 2012
- It’s Instant 151 points · 2011
Security firm's research blog on Windows internals, modem vulnerabilities and Active Directory attacks.
- Disabling Intel ME 11 via undocumented mode 734 points · 2017
- Intel patches new ME vulnerabilities 633 points · 2018
- Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust 486 points · 2020
Startup Xobni's company blog on its Outlook contacts product, funding and office life.
- Xobni Closes $7 Million Series B Financing 63 points · 2009
- What Open Source Can’t Do 59 points · 2008
- A 4 year progression of startup offices 54 points · 2010
Tech and culture news blog network, linked for viral tech stories, closed in 2011.
- Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone 271 points · 2011
- Mark Bao tracks down his stolen laptop and has the last laugh 269 points · 2011
- Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011 188 points · 2011
Cloud benchmarking and status-monitoring service comparing AWS, Google, and other providers.
- Comparing Cloud Compute Services 70 points · 2014
- Benchmarking cloud video encoding: Zencoder, Encoding.com, Sorenson, & Panda 43 points · 2011
- CDN/cloud download performance comparison (26 providers) 36 points · 2010
Security company threat research blog on ransomware, botnets, and APT campaigns.
- Wire Wire: A West African Cyber Threat 28 points · 2016
- Botnet protects code with hardware-based licensing system 13 points · 2010
- Inside the "Ron Paul" Spam Botnet 10 points · 2007
Dave Winer's blog threads on RSS, blogging, social media, and the open web
- Hacker News is depressing 463 points · 2013
- My one talk with Marissa Mayer 321 points · 2013
- We expect too much of geeks 187 points · 2013
Java and JVM performance, debugging, and monitoring articles from a dev tools company
- Java Micro Frameworks 123 points · 2015
- AWS Olympics: Speed-Testing EC2 and S3 Across Regions 55 points · 2013
- Sublime VS. Atom: Will GitHub's Text Editor Beat the Standing Champion? 51 points · 2015
Fractal tree index database benchmarks and MongoDB/MySQL performance posts
- 532x Performance Increase for MongoDB with fractal tree indexes 112 points · 2012
- TokuDB open sourced 89 points · 2013
- TokuMX 1.0: MongoDB with transactions, compression, MVCC, clustering indexes 71 points · 2013
Smalltalk, JavaScript language design, and software design essays by a language designer
- The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk 202 points · 2020
- The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk (2020) 148 points · 2021
- Smalltalk-87 115 points · 2020
- Lightspeed Venture Partners BlogParkedCompany blog · lsvp.wordpress.com · 42 people on HN · 2007–2012
VC firm blog on startups, ad networks, social media, and enterprise tech
- What entrepreneurs need to know about founders' stock 41 points · 2008
- Apple has made less than $45m in revenue from the app store 36 points · 2009
- Business models for games 36 points · 2009
Gensim author's posts on Python data streaming, word2vec, and topic modelling
- Practical Data Science in Python 260 points · 2015
- Google's word2vec deep learning, in Python 5 points · 2013
- Gensim: Models.ldamulticore – Parallelized Latent Dirichlet Allocation 4 points · 2014
Balsamiq company blog on mockup tool releases, UX, and running a software business
- Balsamiq integrates with UX.StackExchange.com 395 points · 2012
- Our Vacation Policy: Take Some 137 points · 2011
- Balsamiq : Salary Policy 122 points · 2011
Code quality and refactoring articles from the Code Climate company
- Rails' Insecure Defaults 226 points · 2013
- Applying the Unix Philosophy to Object-Oriented Design 135 points · 2012
- Ways to Decompose Fat ActiveRecord Models 85 points · 2012
Google's official developer blog announcing APIs, Google I/O, and developer tool updates.
- Google Code now supports Mercurial 118 points · 2009
- Mibbit (axod's startup) video featured on Google Code Blog 76 points · 2009
- Google releases web browser plugin allowing the creation of interactive 3D applications 57 points · 2009
Consultancy engineering blog on RabbitMQ, Clojure, Scala, and real-time systems.
- Python quirks 111 points · 2013
- Optimizing loops in C for higher numerical throughput and for fun 70 points · 2013
- Memory matters, even in Erlang (2010) 63 points · 2015
- David Moon's pages on users.rcn.comChanged handsPersonal blog · users.rcn.com · 41 people on HN · 2009–2024
Personal pages on David Moon's Lunar and PLOT programming languages and related old-computing docs.
- David Moon's Programming Language for Old Timers 91 points · 2009
- Lunar Programming Language (2018) 58 points · 2021
- All Programming Languages are Wrong (2018) 57 points · 2020
Security research company blog posting vulnerability analyses and hacking write-ups.
- How taking pictures through windows can inadvertently reveal your location 161 points · 2014
- Stripe CTF Writeup 126 points · 2012
- Car Hacking Whitepaper and tools released 97 points · 2013
- Sony Mobile Developer WorldGoneCompany blog · developer.sonymobile.com · 41 people on HN · 2012–2017
Sony Mobile developer site with Xperia open-source news, tools, and SmartEyeglass docs.
- Access UART ports 67 points · 2015
- Sony Mobile: Build AOSP Nougat 7.0 51 points · 2016
- Android Devs: Borrow a phone, for free, courtesy of SONY 23 points · 2012
Design company blog with long-form essays on product design and team workflows.
- Jaco – Creating a tool that records user interactions 31 points · 2015
- Jaco – Creating a tool that records user interactions 19 points · 2015
- Pull live sites into InVision for development feedback 9 points · 2014
Personal programming blog on compilers, LLVM, Swift-style language design, and tooling.
- Swift on Mac OS 9 272 points · 2020
- So you want to be a compiler wizard (2016) 247 points · 2020
- CellLVM: A proof-of-concept LLVM to Excel spreadsheet compiler 226 points · 2024
News-recommendation startup's engineering blog on Clojure, ClojureScript, and content analysis.
- Om Sweet Om: functional front-end engineering with ClojureScript and React 262 points · 2014
- Faster, Better DOM manipulation with Dommy and ClojureScript 162 points · 2013
- Graph: Abstractions for Structured Computation 143 points · 2013
- substack.net (James Halliday's posts)ParkedPersonal blog · substack.net · 40 people on HN · 2010–2026
Node.js developer's posts on npm modules like bouncy, browserify, and DNode.
- The node.js aesthetic 136 points · 2011
- Serial over webaudio 127 points · 2015
- Analog Television Simulation 95 points · 2022
- Stumbling and MumblingParkedPersonal blog · stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com · 40 people on HN · 2009–2025
Economics blog with essays on capitalism, basic income, and political assumptions.
- Basic income vs. Capitalism 96 points · 2013
- Costs of under-confidence 92 points · 2015
- On Britain's Intellectual Decline 69 points · 2018
John Robb's blog on bitcoin, cyberwarfare, networked terrorism, and startups.
- The Flaw that May Bring Down Bitcoin or Change it Forever 75 points · 2013
- The Race to Weaponize Empathy 51 points · 2017
- Cognitive slavery 38 points · 2010
Short educational videos and articles, such as surprising science and history explainers.
Explainer articles on medical procedures, drugs, and health topics.
- Some People Are Smoking Scorpions to Get High 9 points · 2017
- How Tooth-in-Eye Surgery Works 3 points · 2025
- Unsolved Brain Mysteries 1 points · 2008
Mathematical analysis of casino games, odds, and optimal strategies for gamblers.
- Wizard of Odds ᐈ Guide to Online Casinos and Gambling Games 1 points · 2024
Gina Trapani's blog on ThinkUp, web apps, open source, and tech industry commentary.
- What Google Learned from Wave and Buzz 152 points · 2011
- Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script 122 points · 2010
- Designers, Women, and Hostility in Open Source 61 points · 2011
Engineering and product posts on email security, IMAP, and running a hosted mail service.
- FastMail’s servers are in the US – what this means for you 292 points · 2013
- When two-factor authentication is not enough 284 points · 2014
- FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera 238 points · 2013
Company blog for the Path social app, covering engineering posts and product announcements.
- We are sorry 533 points · 2012
- Path — Introducing The Personal Network 115 points · 2010
- Path 3 is out 48 points · 2013
Data science tutorials on R, Python, SQL, and deploying models, from the Yhat company.
- Datasets You've Likely Never Seen 116 points · 2015
- R packages I wish I'd known about earlier 104 points · 2013
- R and pandas and what I've learned about each 103 points · 2013
Companion site for Amit Singh's Mac OS X internals book, with technical history and hacking notes.
- XNU: The Kernel (2003) 29 points · 2015
- A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems 6 points · 2008
- A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems (2006) [pdf] 3 points · 2014
Theranos corporate site with news statements and posts about its blood-testing claims and disputes.
- An Open Letter From Elizabeth Holmes 287 points · 2016
- Theranos 211 points · 2013
- Theranos Reaches Settlement with Walgreens 88 points · 2017
HubSpot's engineering blog on interviewing, Backbone/React, and dev tooling lessons.
- Bulletproof demos using Chrome's playback mode 222 points · 2013
- Evolution of a Web Developer: From PHP Newbie To Python Ninja 99 points · 2012
- Make the web "flat" with this bookmarklet 95 points · 2013
Game developer Chris Hecker's essays and technical articles on game physics and making games.
- Kurt Gödel is Laughing His Ass Off Right Now 96 points · 2009
- How Spore's Creature Creator was made, 2003-2008 24 points · 2024
- Liner notes for Spore from one of the game developers 15 points · 2009
ProfitWell's SaaS pricing blog with long-form analyses of pricing strategy and subscription data.
- The Saddest SaaS Pricing Pages of the Year 171 points · 2014
- The Anatomy of SaaS Pricing Strategy (2017) [pdf] 101 points · 2022
- Forget Freemium 48 points · 2012
Algorithmia's company blog on machine learning APIs, AI infrastructure and algorithm development.
- Introduction to Machine Learning for Developers 547 points · 2016
- Data science tips and tricks from the developer community 204 points · 2017
- Object Detection with Open Images using Tensorflow 154 points · 2017
- Business of Software BlogGoneCompany blog · blog.businessofsoftware.org · 39 people on HN · 2008–2012
Blog of the Business of Software conference, featuring talks and essays on running software companies.
- Paul Graham on trends for the future 184 points · 2010
- From $0-100million with no sales people. Atlassian's commandments for startups. 166 points · 2011
- Derek Sivers on a different way to be an entrepreneur 108 points · 2011
FloydHub's deep learning blog with tutorials on RNNs, Q-learning and ML infrastructure costs.
- Turning web design mockups into code with Deep Learning 580 points · 2018
- My story as a self-taught AI researcher 364 points · 2020
- A Gentle Introduction to Text Summarization in Machine Learning 325 points · 2019
Personal self-improvement blog offering life lessons, productivity tips and famous-person quote lists.
- Life Lessons From Albert Einstein 69 points · 2010
- Michael Jordan's 10 Secrets To Reaching the Top 34 points · 2008
- 9 Ways To Jumpstart Your Writing Goal (Surprisingly applicable to programming.) 19 points · 2008
Startup blog on split testing, startup culture and company life
- The Absurdity of LinkedIn 803 points · 2014
- Email Introduction Etiquette 402 points · 2013
- Thirty Percent Feedback 320 points · 2014
- Appcelerator Developer CenterGoneCompany blog · developer.appcelerator.com · 38 people on HN · 2010–2013
Titanium mobile SDK tutorials, release notes, and company news
- Licensing of Titanium chaotic and unclear 134 points · 2012
- Parse (YC S11) – A Simple Back End for Mobile Applications 56 points · 2011
- New app restriction might kill Titanium and Air on iPhone OS 26 points · 2010
Free introductory programming tutorial for beginners, written by one author
- A Place to Start for the Future Programmer 6 points · 2011
- Chord Gear 1 points · 2023
Startup-focused essays and advice posted on a Posterous blog
- How Steve Jobs handles trolls (WWDC 1997) 244 points · 2011
- Garry Tan moving on from Posterous and joining YC 201 points · 2011
- If you can't remember why onions are in there, take 'em out. 151 points · 2011
Internet routing (BGP) monitoring company blog covering hijacks and outages
- Internet traffic for Google, Facebook, Apple was briefly rerouted to Russia 333 points · 2017
- BGP leaks causing internet outages in Japan and beyond 311 points · 2017
- What caused today's Internet hiccup 188 points · 2014
Popular-science blog on innovation, progress and contrarian takes like Amara's Law
- Badgers are driving hedgehogs extinct 54 points · 2016
- Why most resources don't run out 48 points · 2014
- The Censorious Age 14 points · 2018
Maker of magnetic snap-together electronics kits; HN linked its launches and company news.
- LittleBits: Easy way to get started with electronics 52 points · 2013
- LittleBits: DIY Electronics for Prototyping and Learning 8 points · 2015
- Little Bits: The Lego Block of Electronics 8 points · 2012
Energy blog by Euan Mearns on nuclear, renewables, CO2, and electricity pricing debates.
- The Wind in Spain Blows 35 points · 2015
- How much battery storage does a solar PV system need? 24 points · 2015
- Comparison of Molten Salt Thorium Reactors to Other Gen IV Reactors 3 points · 2016
Mike Duncan's podcast blog narrating the history of Rome episode by episode.
- Rome Podcast (2007) 4 points · 2025
- The History of Rome 2 points · 2012
Open-source chip design platform offering shuttle runs and custom chip services; HN covered its programs.
- Efabless – Shutdown Notice 161 points · 2025
- Make Your Own Chips for Free 127 points · 2022
- Efabless: Open-Source MPW Shuttle Program 33 points · 2021
Brad Frost's blog on responsive design, atomic design, mobile testing, and front-end development.
- Float Label Pattern 162 points · 2013
- Redesigning Techcrunch 72 points · 2013
- How much does a responsive web design cost? 40 points · 2012
Blog on Asian mobile, social media, and startup trends, especially China and Baidu.
- India's $35 tablet ready to ship 111 points · 2011
- Chinese official mistakes Twitter clone for private chat tool 57 points · 2011
- Singapore Still the Best Place for Entrepreneurs 46 points · 2012
Baidu's research lab blog posting AI papers, open-source releases, and deep learning results.
- Deep Voice: Real-Time Neural Text-To-Speech 244 points · 2017
- Using Deep Learning to Help Pathologists Find Tumors 89 points · 2018
- Neural Voice Cloning with a Few Samples 38 points · 2018
Company behind the Paper drawing app and Pencil stylus; HN followed its product and hiring news.
- Pencil 882 points · 2013
- A letter from Paper (FiftyThree) to Paper (Facebook) 423 points · 2014
- Paper 392 points · 2012
Demos of 3D graphics in tiny JavaScript and pure CSS, like the 1k Rose and CSS Paper Bird.
- 1k Rose - How a 3D Rose was made in under 1K of javascript 290 points · 2012
- Pure CSS new 3D effect 252 points · 2010
- The Making of Nefertiti 1kb (2018) 195 points · 2019
Company blog of the Mashape API marketplace, with API roundups and Kong release notes.
- US Immigration System Sucks, if you are a Founder 54 points · 2010
- The 11 rules of the HP Garage (where all began) 34 points · 2011
- Facebook has surpassed Google.com (just visits, just USA) 32 points · 2010
Web application security research from WhiteHat Security, including the Aviator browser.
- North Korea’s Naenara Web Browser: It’s Weirder Than We Thought 117 points · 2015
- Interview with a Blackhat (Part 3/3) 90 points · 2013
- Password Cracking AES-256 DMGs and Epic Self-Pwnage 75 points · 2013
Mobile security vulnerability research from Zimperium, covering Android and iOS exploits.
- New critical vulnerability in multiple high-privileged Android services 233 points · 2018
- How I Hacked Telegram’s “Encryption” 40 points · 2015
- 950 Million Android phones can be hacked via a single unopened MMS 13 points · 2015
Sun Microsystems research lab pages: papers, talks and projects like Lively Kernel and Fortress.
- ICFP '09: "Get rid of cons!" Guy Steele on parallel algorithms & data structures 99 points · 2009
- Java directly on Xen 76 points · 2009
- Foldl and foldr considered slightly harmful 48 points · 2010
Statistician's blog on forecasting, time series, COVID modeling and academic publishing.
- Interpreting Noise 47 points · 2014
- The difference between prediction intervals and confidence intervals 13 points · 2021
- Twenty rules for good graphics 8 points · 2010
Helpdesk vendor blog on customer support and startup stories
- How a simple comment on Hacker News made me quit my job and launch a startup 504 points · 2011
- How to incorporate a US Corporation from outside the USA? 109 points · 2012
- How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011) 90 points · 2012
Official Yahoo corporate blog with product and leadership announcements
- Introducing the New Yahoo Mail 81 points · 2012
- Yahoo shuts down six products 58 points · 2013
- Yahoo shutting down Message Boards and other services 44 points · 2013
Company blog on Flocker and data persistence for Docker and Kubernetes
- ClusterHQ is shutting down 248 points · 2016
- The State of ZFS on Linux 201 points · 2014
- File Systems, Data Loss and ZFS 128 points · 2014
Camera+ iOS app developer's blog on App Store sales and Apple policy
- Heisting the App Store: 500,000 Paid Downloads in 1 Week 99 points · 2011
- Camera+: The Road to 3 Million (infographic) 92 points · 2011
- Fuck the VCs 83 points · 2008
Essays on testability, dependency injection and AngularJS design
- Guide: Writing Testable Code [pdf] 62 points · 2014
- What Pair-Programing is Not 44 points · 2009
- Singletons are Pathological Liars 7 points · 2009
Personal site on lock-free algorithms, fibers and multicore programming
- Lockfree Algorithms (2010) 131 points · 2022
- Lockfree algorithms 96 points · 2012
- 1024cores 71 points · 2010
Project management company's blog on team leadership, focus, and startup culture.
- MetaLab launches "Flow" Asana competitor 125 points · 2011
- How to Build Deep Focus Into Your Organizational Culture 84 points · 2016
- MetaLab launches Flow Concierge personal assistant service 39 points · 2012
Venture investor's essays on startups, bitcoin, web search and early-stage investing.
- AngelList and Y Combinator Continue To Shake The Trees 129 points · 2015
- The 2018 Seed Stage Reset 71 points · 2018
- Twitter and Loneliness 33 points · 2013
Personal site with Montulli's account of the origin of the blink HTML tag.
- The origins of the blink HTML element 237 points · 2012
- The Origin of the <blink> Tag 158 points · 2010
- The short history of the “about:” URL (2013) 143 points · 2018
Software management and agile blog with lists of books and posts on developer management.
- How a 3 week business trip to the US got reduced to 3 hours 162 points · 2011
- Top 100 Blogs for Developers 44 points · 2008
- Some Day Kanban Will Fail 75% of the Time 18 points · 2010
Data science company's site with posts on data versioning, pipelines, and Pachyderm releases.
- Pachyderm Raises $10M to Bring Data Provenance to the Enterprise 102 points · 2018
- Pachyderm 1.9 enables users to “version control” streaming data 14 points · 2019
- Do MapReduce with Docker containers in pfs v0.3 8 points · 2015
Consensys publication on Ethereum, blockchain, smart contracts, and crypto markets.
- I Fell Out of Love with the Internet 5 points · 2019
- 18 Blockchain Predictions for 2018 4 points · 2018
- Enterprise Ethereum: Blockchain Use Cases and Applications by Industry 4 points · 2018
Mathematician's blog on LaTeX note-taking, Inkscape figures, and research workflow.
- How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim 703 points · 2019
- I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape 542 points · 2019
- I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape (2019) 312 points · 2022
Startup making terminal autocomplete; its blog covered CLI tools, curl, and the sunset.
- Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal 587 points · 2022
- Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal 559 points · 2021
- Amazon acquires Fig 380 points · 2023
Single-author Substack essays on AI, Silicon Valley, and software.
- Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy 176 points · 2025
- How the Feds bounced Binance 83 points · 2023
- US is making Europe pay dearly for its half-hearted electrification 25 points · 2026
Robotics lab blog on ROS, robot research, and open-source robotics software.
- 'sudo make me a sandwich' has become a reality 127 points · 2011
- Willow Garage shutting down 72 points · 2013
- Willow Garage - A Robotics Startup 6 points · 2007
Long-running web design and agency-business blog by a single consultant.
Security firm known for its vulnerability advisories and secunia blog posts.
- VLC threatens to sue Secunia over full disclosure 118 points · 2013
- Shooting the messenger (Secunia and VLC) 38 points · 2013
- New zero day vulnerability in Flash player 9 points · 2011
Programming essays on paradigms, Python, and encapsulation by Luke Palmer.
- IDE WTF 173 points · 2010
- Disrespect in Education (2014) 78 points · 2015
- What I don’t like about Python 48 points · 2009
Roundups and reviews of web apps, tools, and marketing resources.
- 10 Marketing Resources Every App Should Provide 6 points · 2010
- 10 Marketing Resources Every App Should Provide 6 points · 2010
- Saved.io is the Simplest Bookmarking Tool Ever 5 points · 2013
Economist's papers and essays arguing against intellectual property and monopoly.
- Against Intellectual Monopoly 84 points · 2014
- The Case Against Intellectual Property 4 points · 2013
- Against Intellectual Monopoly 3 points · 2015
Web traffic analytics posts on top sites, rankings, and online audience trends.
- Myspace acquires Photobucket for $300 Million 34 points · 2012
- Instagram vs. Picplz – The Tale of Two Photo Apps 6 points · 2012
- Internet Allstars '01: What happened to the most popular sites of 2001? 5 points · 2007
Niantic's news and research posts on AR platforms, Pokémon GO, and company updates.
- Niantic plans a “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data 430 points · 2024
- Pokemon Go – Permissions Update 335 points · 2016
- The metaverse is a dystopian nightmare – let’s build a better reality 161 points · 2021
Essays on careers, startups, software management, and Java development practices.
- Next-gen Java Programming Style 99 points · 2009
- The dark side of NoSQL 67 points · 2009
- A Little Guide on Using Concurrent Futures for Web Developers 63 points · 2015
Personal blog of essays on web applications, communities, and work ethic.
- Apache considered harmful 300 points · 2011
- MongoDB Performance & Durability 81 points · 2010
- Face of the Faceless 48 points · 2012
Semiconductor reverse-engineering firm's teardown posts on iPhone, A-series chips, and cables.
- Hidden warning message found in Samsung’s Galaxy tablet 161 points · 2011
- Inside the iPhone 6s 96 points · 2015
- The Apple Pencil; a lot of semiconductor content in something so small 83 points · 2016
Wagner James Au's blog on virtual worlds, metaverse, and online game economics.
- Richard Bartle releases his classic “Designing Virtual Worlds” book for free 424 points · 2021
- Facebook Use Has Been Dropping Since the 2016 Election, According to SimilarWeb 370 points · 2018
- Facebook monthly visits down 5% in April 250 points · 2018
Business and tech explainers on companies like Chrome, Notion, Airtable, and Basecamp.
- People love working remotely 422 points · 2019
- Why Evernote failed to realize its potential 347 points · 2019
- Airtable Became a Unicorn by Reinventing the Spreadsheet 44 points · 2019
Obie Fernandez's blog on Rails, consulting contracts, and technical book writing.
- Why Pair Programming Is Not For the Masses 93 points · 2009
- Obie Fernandez: My Reasoned Response about Scala at Twitter 45 points · 2009
- MagLev is Gemstone/S for Ruby: 6x-60x faster VM, OODB, and more... 33 points · 2008
AI coding editor's product updates, pricing changes, and blog posts.
- Windsurf SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models 190 points · 2025
- An update to our pricing 127 points · 2025
- Statement on Anthropic Model Availability 8 points · 2025
Bare metal cloud provider's blog on ARM servers, CoreOS, storage, and OpenStack.
- CoreOS and the the Future of the Internet 116 points · 2015
- How We Failed at OpenStack 113 points · 2015
- ARMv8 in the Datacenter – 96 physical cores 0.50/hr 39 points · 2016
Daily bite-sized Git tips and tutorials, learning Git one commit at a time.
- What git is not 52 points · 2009
- Learn git one commit at a time 41 points · 2010
- Learn Git one commit at a time 40 points · 2009
Web hosting company blog with design, CSS and labs posts.
- A Letter From Media Temple Founder 50 points · 2013
- Media Temple's stand on SOPA 27 points · 2011
- Momentous news: GoDaddy & (mt) Media Temple 26 points · 2013
Neal Stephenson's site hosting 'In the Beginning Was the Command Line' essay.
- In the Beginning was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson 24 points · 2008
- In the beginning was the command line by Neil Stephenson 16 points · 2008
- In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999) 2 points · 2014
Gatto's online book 'The Underground History of American Education' and critiques of schooling.
- Underground History of American Education 27 points · 2009
- The Underground History of American Education 4 points · 2009
- Underground History of American Education 1 points · 2010
Startup BankSimple's blog covering launch news, banking critiques and engineering.
- A First Look at BankSimple 477 points · 2011
- BankSimple: We have cards 346 points · 2011
- BankSimple Launches Preview Site 192 points · 2010
App.net company blog announcing its API, developer program and platform updates.
- App.net is shutting down 339 points · 2017
- App.net State of the Union 199 points · 2014
- As of today, App.net is a freemium service 115 points · 2013
Erica Sadun's Swift language blog covering Swift Evolution and design discussions.
- ISO-8601, YYYY, yyyy, and why your year may be wrong 222 points · 2018
- Swift: Things I really wanted that won’t make it 102 points · 2016
- In which Apple destroys my daughter’s iPad forever 101 points · 2018
Basho company blog for Riak, covering MapReduce, clients and releases.
- Basho Releases Riak v1.0.0 122 points · 2011
- It's Time to Drop the "F" Bomb - or "Lies, Damn Lies, and NoSQL." 115 points · 2011
- Riak 0.13 released, includes full text search 78 points · 2010
MagicStack blog on uvloop and asyncpg, with fast Python networking benchmarks.
- Uvloop: Fast Python networking 456 points · 2016
- Show HN: 1M rows/s from Postgres to Python 296 points · 2016
- Uvloop: Make Python Networking Great Again 15 points · 2016
Marc Andreessen's archived essays on startups, hiring, management and venture capital.
- Marc Andreessen - Guide to personal productivity 155 points · 2009
- The Pmarca Guide to Startups: product/market fit 21 points · 2009
- The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity 8 points · 2012
Blockchain company Chain's blog, with explainers on cryptocurrency and Bitcoin.
- Introducing Ivy: a new smart contract language 60 points · 2017
- Ivy for Bitcoin: a smart contract language that compiles to Bitcoin Script 24 points · 2017
- Bitcoin's Killer Apps 18 points · 2014
BJ Fogg's behavior change site on building habits through tiny, small steps.
- Tiny Habits 18 points · 2015
- Tiny Habits w/ Dr. BJ Fogg 2 points · 2012
- Tiny Habits w/ Dr. BJ Fogg - Behavior Change 1 points · 2012
Venture capitalist's blog on startups, funding, ecommerce, Europe, and VC practice.
- Three things you should never tell a VC when fundraising 58 points · 2009
- VC: How a great entrepreneur deals with complexity 26 points · 2009
- The Arrogant VC: A View From the Trenches 18 points · 2009
- A Computer Scientist in a Business SchoolGonePersonal blog · behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com · 33 people on HN · 2008–2011
Academic's blog on crowdsourcing, Mechanical Turk, and review usefulness research.
- Why I will never pursue cheating again 691 points · 2011
- Web page assignment leads to cease and desist letter. 192 points · 2010
- Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% Spam. 162 points · 2010
Voice synthesis startup offering a digital voice clone API and related ethics posts.
- Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone 1401 points · 2017
- Lyrebird: ultra-realistic artificial voices 20 points · 2018
- Lyrebird beta – Create your voice avatar 17 points · 2017
Pay-per-minute programming help marketplace whose blog ran tutorials on Ember, Rails, and Python.
- How Lazy Evaluation Works in Haskell 69 points · 2014
- Overview of reactive programming 54 points · 2014
- Top developers and coding charities unite for hack.summit() 38 points · 2014
Engineering and database blog from the MemSQL company, covering benchmarks, Kafka, and performance.
- Cache is the new RAM 438 points · 2014
- How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database 253 points · 2018
- MemSQL Launches Unlimited Community Edition 198 points · 2015
Consultancy blog with long-form tips on PostgreSQL, Nginx, Rails, Perl, and cron.
- Bucardo 5, async replication for PostgreSQL with true multi-master 147 points · 2014
- State of the Postgres project 70 points · 2010
- Mysql and psql command equivalents table 21 points · 2009
Company blog on Leap Motion hand tracking, VR, Orion, and developer projects.
- Leap Motion Has Launched 153 points · 2013
- Leap Motion Goes Mobile 49 points · 2016
- Leap Motion: Our Journey to the North Star 7 points · 2018
Personal blog on Java, multithreaded servers, interviewing, and negotiation essays.
- A Google Interviewing Story 201 points · 2010
- How to: Pass a Silicon Valley Software Engineering Interview 136 points · 2011
- Why We'll Never Meet Aliens 96 points · 2013
Personal site of a developer, known for Command-T, Vim plugins, and retro essays.
- Grieving for Apple 129 points · 2020
- Git: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds 118 points · 2009
- A look back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds (2007) 97 points · 2014
Kenta Cho's personal games site with shooters, BulletML, and experimental game projects.
- I Have Created 50 Games in 2014 237 points · 2016
- BulletML is a markup language that describes the barrage of bullets in shooting games. 9 points · 2008
- Tokyo Toilet Map (1997) 3 points · 2023
Blog from a unified API company covering integrations and developer tooling.
- Show HN: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze via a Single API 191 points · 2016
- Best Android Libraries for Developers 89 points · 2016
- Dropbox Owns Cloud Storage on Mobile 88 points · 2016
Threat research on Magecart skimming, malware, and e-commerce attacks.
- Another Victim of the Magecart Assault Emerges: Newegg 79 points · 2018
- jQuery.com Malware Attack Puts Privileged Enterprise IT Accounts at Risk 78 points · 2014
- The British Airways Breach: How Magecart Claimed 380,000 Victims 24 points · 2018
Bitemporal open-source database project blog with dev diaries and benchmarks.
- Crux: Open-source document database with bi-temporal graph queries 161 points · 2020
- The Strength of the Record 5 points · 2021
- Crux: The Strength of the Record 3 points · 2021
Michael Foord's Python articles, weblog, and cyberpunk writing.
- PyPy and Psyco 39 points · 2009
- Running Python in a linux browser with moonlight 16 points · 2009
- Current State of Unladen Swallow (Towards a Faster Python) 15 points · 2010
Crowdsourced logo and design marketplace, with a blog on branding and IP.
- 558,000 small businesses. Why we should thank the recession. 30 points · 2010
- Naming Your Company 21 points · 2010
- Saying “thank you” – why startups and small businesses should listen to mom 17 points · 2010
- Worthwhile Canadian InitiativeParkedPersonal blog · worthwhile.typepad.com · 32 people on HN · 2010–2024
Economics blog with posts on macroeconomics, Keynesian models, and monetary policy debates.
- Milton Friedman's Thermostat 123 points · 2012
- The mathematics generation gap 90 points · 2011
- Do Keynesians understand their own models? (2011) 23 points · 2022
Personal notebook with essays on programming, security, startups, and odd science links.
- How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing (2009) 354 points · 2011
- A “short squeeze” sounds innocuous enough... 224 points · 2009
- Nicholas Negroponte's sweet nonsense omelet 57 points · 2009
Security research blog with Android, web, and iOS vulnerability write-ups and advisories.
- Alexa, are you listening? 182 points · 2017
- Windows 8 Kernel Memory Protections Bypass 77 points · 2014
- Analyzing honeypot interactions 48 points · 2017
AI company research posts on schema networks, concept learning for robots, and game-playing AI.
- RCN is much more data efficient than traditional Deep Neural Networks 235 points · 2017
- General Game Playing with Schema Networks 42 points · 2017
- Schema Networks from Vicarious: Zero-Shot Game Playing AI [pdf] 21 points · 2017
Backend-as-a-service company blog covering mobile app development and backend architecture.
- Surviving AWS Failures with a Node.js and MongoDB Stack 34 points · 2012
- How to Set Up Metric Collection Using Graphite and Statsd on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 30 points · 2012
- How to Code Four iOS 6 Features into Your App Today 30 points · 2012
Blog of the company behind Wunderlist, covering product news, funding, and startup lessons.
- Meet The Team 103 points · 2010
- Atomico invests $4,200,000 in 6Wunderkinder 22 points · 2011
- Show HN: Wunderlist celebrates 1M Android downloads, Open Sources key UI element 19 points · 2013
Software security consultancy blog and papers, including the 1999 online poker cheating study.
Crowdsourcing data company blog with data science studies, reports, and AI training posts.
- D3 - Languages and Color 64 points · 2012
- Designing Incentives for Crowdsourcing Workers 34 points · 2011
- Mechanical Proust: An automated crowd-written blog 15 points · 2010
Identity company blog on social sign-in, OpenID, and developer posts including Haskell and JavaScript.
- End of life for myOpenID.com 11 points · 2014
- 66% of Online Consumers Prefer Social Sign-In 4 points · 2011
- Building a Sample Application with Haskell Snap and PostgreSQL 3 points · 2013
A personal rant blog on programming languages, Ruby, and tech culture.
- Get Your Fucking Feet Off The Table 161 points · 2010
- Zed Shaw on Flash 100 points · 2010
- Steve Jobs Says, "Fuck You Ruby Fanbois" 82 points · 2010
A personal site hosting the 'Extended Validation Is Broken' essay on SSL certificate UI.
- Extended Validation is Broken 176 points · 2017
- Extended Validation Is Broken 32 points · 2017
- Extended Validation is Broken 17 points · 2017
- Cancer Research UK Science BlogGoneCompany blog · scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org · 31 people on HN · 2008–2018
Cancer Research UK's science blog debunking cancer news and explaining research.
Online video network known for tech and web shows, and its 2008 attack postmortem.
- Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3 52 points · 2008
- Kevin Rose denounces Trueveo's iFrame use 41 points · 2009
- Kevin Rose interviews Trent Reznor 37 points · 2009
Law professor's blog on tax policy, law school rankings, and nonprofit finances.
- Jan. 1: A Good Day to Die 32 points · 2010
- Price of Law School Hits New High at Columbia ($110,450), Others Close Behind 12 points · 2022
- Tenured, Trapped, and Miserable 12 points · 2021
Marketing and social media blog posts on web trends, ad dollars, and Google Reader.
- Is Google Reader next on the chopping block? 19 points · 2009
- Zinio Inside Opens 50,000 Magazines to Searching and Sharing 13 points · 2008
- Page Rank is the Ultimate Measure of Online Influence 7 points · 2008
Venture capital essays on startups, entrepreneurship, Groupon's S-1, and scaling.
- Built to Last vs. Built to Flip 26 points · 2008
- Why VC's invest in Pigs not Chickens 13 points · 2011
- Depressing Thoughts About Groupon’s Model 8 points · 2010
Tech blog covering Firefox betas, Nokia, Azure, and gadget news from Switched.
- Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone 271 points · 2011
- Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011 188 points · 2011
- A brief glimpse of Nokia's popularity outside the Western world 139 points · 2011
Company blog for the AppFog PaaS, covering deployments, AngularJS, and CenturyLink acquisition.
- PHP: the quiet powerhouse 89 points · 2012
- What the Obama IT team teaches us about polyglot programming 88 points · 2013
- AppFog acquires Nodester 62 points · 2012
Blog of IT project failure case studies such as Knight Capital, Hertz and TSB.
- Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019) 617 points · 2022
- The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019) 294 points · 2022
- The $440M Software Error at Knight Capital (2019) 3 points · 2024
Startup and growth writing on viral marketing, Facebook apps, and mobile and social metrics.
Godot Engine company blog covering its multiplayer cloud, console porting, and funding news.
- W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth 464 points · 2022
- W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine 445 points · 2023
- W4 Games formed to strengthen Godot ecosystem 173 points · 2022
Database tuning startup blog with long posts on Postgres performance and yearly database reviews.
- Databases in 2022: A Year in Review 365 points · 2023
- Databases in 2021: A Year in Review 323 points · 2021
- The part of Postgres we hate the most: Multi-version concurrency control 257 points · 2023
Adblock research company blog with reports on adblock usage and GDPR consent design.
- How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook 371 points · 2017
- Leading 'anti adblock' provider gets hacked- pushed malware to end users 93 points · 2015
- GDPR consent design: how granular must adtech opt-ins be? 67 points · 2018
Personal WebGL tutorial blog with lessons, FAQ, and GPU computation experiments.
- Learn WebGL in 16 lessons 76 points · 2011
- Learning WebGL 47 points · 2011
- Learning WebGL 46 points · 2011
Coding bootcamp blog with alumni interviews, career stories, and learn-to-code essays.
- DevBootCamp: Learn Ruby on Rails in 9 Weeks 51 points · 2012
- Learning how to attract women to web development 34 points · 2013
- Is Devbootcamp a legit way to learn how to code? 23 points · 2012
Solar electric car company site for the Sion car, linked for its solar integration news.
- Electric car that charges itself 146 points · 2021
- Electric car – charged by the sun 37 points · 2017
- Sono Motors 3 points · 2017
Online shop selling Georgi and Gergoplex stenography keyboards and group buys.
- Weird Keyboards, Programmable Keyboards 138 points · 2020
- Adventures in Obscure C Features 7 points · 2020
- Georgi: Stenography keyboard for less than $100 4 points · 2019
Founder blog with lessons from starting tech companies, Fab.com and e-commerce growth tactics.
- Things I Learned From Founding Technology Companies 420 points · 2012
- Things You Must Do Every Week As Startup CEO 157 points · 2011
- How Fab Raised $40 million with a lot of data and not much pain 89 points · 2011
Long-form narrative journalism magazine stories, such as death redesigned and Mexico's disappeared.
- A town of about 200 people, almost all of whom live in the same building 673 points · 2015
- How I met my identity thief 138 points · 2015
- Profile of Ted Chiang: The Perfectionist 89 points · 2015
Blog of UK digital bank Mondo covering its API, card networks, engineering and launch.
- How do bank payments actually work? 290 points · 2016
- Startup bank Mondo raised £1m crowdfunding in 96 seconds 83 points · 2016
- Mondo bank taking £1m crowdfunding investment 81 points · 2016
Research group publications on microkernels, verified OS design, and time protection.
- L4 microkernels: The lessons from 20 years of research and deployment 218 points · 2016
- The Jury Is In: Monolithic OS Design Is Flawed [pdf] 172 points · 2018
- Verified seL4 on secure RISC-V processors 155 points · 2020
- Odlyzko papers, University of MinnesotaChanged handsPersonal blog · dtc.umn.edu · 30 people on HN · 2009–2021
Andrew Odlyzko's essays and papers on Metcalfe's Law, bubbles, and network economics.
- The decline of unfettered research (1995) 197 points · 2021
- Newton’s Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble [pdf] 96 points · 2018
- Collective hallucination and inefficient markets: The Railway Mania of the 1840s [pdf] 93 points · 2018
Blog on dark patterns, usability testing, and UX design critiques.
- Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK 653 points · 2014
- The slippery slope 520 points · 2013
- CAPTCHAs decrease conversion rates 185 points · 2011
FriendFeed co-founder's blog on App Engine, MySQL schema design, and Tornado.
- How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data 347 points · 2009
- Tornado: FriendFeed's non-blocking Python web server is now open source 291 points · 2009
- We need a Wikipedia for data 66 points · 2008
Why the Lucky Stiff's blog on Shoes, Ruby, and whimsical programming writing.
- Potion: A Short Pamphlet 214 points · 2009
- A Costly Parade, by Why the Lucky Stiff, and that NodeBox pong game -- in Shoes 86 points · 2008
- A Selection Of Thoughts From Actual Women (regarding GoGaRuCo) 66 points · 2009
Observability vendor's blog on distributed tracing, APM, and OpenTelemetry.
- The End of Microservices 258 points · 2016
- Observability is not only for SREs 71 points · 2022
- Serverless Still Runs on Servers 24 points · 2018
- Three Rivers Institute blogChanged handsPersonal blog · threeriversinstitute.org · 30 people on HN · 2009–2022
Kent Beck's blog on refactoring, optimistic typing, and software design ideas.
- "Joel Spolksy is wrong about my work" - Kent Beck 85 points · 2009
- Why programming and musical talent go together: enjoying seeing patterns 46 points · 2010
- Approaching a Minimum Viable Product for a Startup 44 points · 2009
Anand Rajaraman's blog on data, search, social media and startups.
- More data usually beats better algorithms 64 points · 2008
- India's SMS GupShup Has 3x The Usage Of Twitter And No Downtime 54 points · 2008
- Are Human Experts Less Prone to Catastrophic Errors than Machine-Learned Models? 25 points · 2008
Vox Media engineering blog on building Polygon and The Verge sites, video players and grids.
- Drop Caps and Design Systems 57 points · 2019
- Building an S3 powered liveblog platform 13 points · 2012
- It’s easier to go downhill than up 9 points · 2014
UK aerospace company's site covering its Skylon spaceplane and precooler engine news.
- Reaction Engines begins construction of UK rocket engine test facility 82 points · 2017
- Reaction Engines Test Programme Fully Validates Precooler at Hypersonic Heat 3 points · 2019
- Reaction Engines 2 points · 2019
Blog critiquing misleading charts and statistical fallacies in news and business data.
- Junk Charts 4 points · 2011
- One of the most frequently produced maps is also one of the worst 3 points · 2021
- Statistical Significance Explained 2 points · 2019