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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/threads-edges-out-x-in-daily-mobile-users-new-data-shows/

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Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows | TechCrunch

Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Notes on Apple's Nano Texture

https://jon.bo/posts/nano-texture/

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

How the Lobsters front page works

https://atharvaraykar.com/lobsters/

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How the Lobsters front page works

Lobsters is a computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion. The code is open source, so I had a look at how the front page algorithm works. This is it: $$\textbf{hotness} = -1 \times (\text{base} + \text{order} \times \text{sign} + \text{age})$$ $$\text{hotness} \downarrow \implies \text{rank}
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering

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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

The Engineer to Executive Translation Layer

https://refactoring.fm/p/the-engineer-executive-translation

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The Engineer → Executive Translation Layer 🔀

A guest article by Anna Shipman
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Slop Is Everywhere for Those with Eyes to See

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/

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Slop is Everywhere For Those With Eyes to See

How mindless consumption is making our FYPs worse.
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Elasticsearch Was Never a Database

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/elasticsearch-was-never-a-database

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Elasticsearch Was Never a Database

Elasticsearch is a search engine, not a database. Here's why it falls short as a system of record.
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Every GitHub Object Has Two IDs

https://www.greptile.com/blog/github-ids

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Every GitHub Object Has Two IDs | Greptile Blog

How I reverse-engineered GitHub node IDs to avoid a database migration and discovered their dual ID system along the way.
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Are two heads better than one?

https://eieio.games/blog/two-heads-arent-better-than-one/

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Are Two Heads Better Than One? · eieio.games

A look at the surprising probabilities behind a simple coin flipping game
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Think of Pavlov

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Think of Pavlov

almost all interactions are repeat games
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LLM Problems Observed in Humans

https://embd.cc/llm-problems-observed-in-humans

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Two ways to crack a walnut, per Grothendieck (2025)

https://shreevatsa.net/post/grothendieck-approaches/

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Nike's Crisis and the Economics of Brand Decay

https://philippdubach.com/posts/nikes-crisis-and-the-economics-of-brand-decay/

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

A confession from a mainstream food delivery app engineer

https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/s/gbrh2zxeou

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

My role as a founder-CTO: year 8

https://miguelcarranza.es/cto-year-8

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My role as a founder CTO: Year Eight

2025. What a year it has been. If a normal year as a startup founder already feels like four or five regular years, this one felt closer to a full decade. Th...
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

A16Z Infra Reading List

https://a16z-infra.github.io/reading-list/

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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

SIMD City: Auto-Vectorisation

https://xania.org/202512/20-simd-city

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SIMD City: Auto-vectorisation — Matt Godbolt’s blog

Doing more with less: vectorising can speed your code up 8x or more!
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

When Compilers Surprise You

https://xania.org/202512/24-cunning-clang

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When compilers surprise you — Matt Godbolt’s blog

Sometimes compilers can surprise and delight even a jaded old engineer like me
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@h4ckernews@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

The Port I couldn't Ship

https://ammil.industries/the-port-i-couldnt-ship/

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The port I couldn't ship · ammil industries

Porting a venerable library on vibes. What started as a quick WebPerl success spiraled into weeks of failed attempts, mangled ASCII diagrams, and a hard lesson about respecting the craft embedded in battle-tested code.
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