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10/24Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
08/24How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?
06/24A discussion of discussions on AI bias
05/24What the FTC got wrong in the Google antitrust investigation
03/24How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
02/24Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
02/24Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
01/24Notes on Cruise's pedestrian accident
01/24Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?
12/23How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT
09/22Futurist prediction methods and accuracy
04/22In defense of simple architectures
03/22Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
02/22Misidentifying talent
02/22A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
02/22Cocktail party ideas
12/21The container throttling problem
12/21Some thoughts on writing
12/21Some latency measurement pitfalls
11/21Major errors on this blog (and their corrections)
11/21Individuals matter
11/21Culture matters
10/21Willingness to look stupid
10/21What to learn
10/21Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
09/21The value of in-house expertise
08/21Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated
12/20Against essential and accidental complexity
06/20How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?
05/20A simple way to get more value from tracing
05/20A simple way to get more value from metrics
03/20How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written
03/20The growth of command line options, 1979-Present
02/20Suspicious discontinuities
02/2095%-ile isn't that good
01/20Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practice
07/19Files are fraught with peril
02/19Randomized trial on gender in Overwatch
12/17Computer latency: 1977-2017
11/17How good are decisions? Evaluating decision quality in domains where evaluation is easy
11/17How out of date are Android devices?
11/17UI backwards compatibility
10/17Filesystem error handling
10/17Keyboard latency
08/17Branch prediction
08/17Sattolo's algorithm
07/17Terminal latency
06/17The widely cited studies on mouse vs. keyboard efficiency are completely bogus
06/17Startup options v. cash
02/17How web bloat impacts users with slow connections
10/16HN: the good parts
10/16Programming book recommendations and anti-recommendations
10/16Hiring and the market for lemons
10/16I could do that in a weekend!
09/16Is dev compensation bimodal?
09/16How I learned to program
08/16Notes on concurrency bugs
04/16Some programming blogs to consider reading
04/16Google SRE book
03/16We only hire the trendiest
01/16Sampling v. tracing
01/16We saw some really bad Intel CPU bugs in 2015 and we should expect to see more in the future
12/15Normalization of deviance
12/15Big companies v. startups
12/15Files are hard
11/15Why use ECC?
11/15What's worked in Computer Science: 1999 v. 2015
11/15Infinite disk
10/15Why Intel added cache partitioning
09/15Slowlock
08/15Steve Yegge's prediction record
08/15Reading postmortems
05/15Slashdot and Sourceforge
05/15The googlebot monopoly
05/15A defense of boring languages
05/15Advantages of monorepos
05/15We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now that's where we build datacenters
03/15Reading citations is easier than most people think
03/15Given that we spend little on testing, how should we test software?
03/15What happens when you load a URL?
03/15Goodhearting IQ, cholesterol, and tail latency
02/15AI doesn't have to be very good to displace humans
02/15CPU backdoors
01/15Blog monetization
01/15What's new in CPUs since the 80s?
12/14A review of the Julia language
12/14Integer overflow checking cost
12/14Malloc tutorial
12/14Markets, discrimination, and "lowering the bar"
11/14TF-IDF linux commits
11/14One week of bugs
11/14Speeding up this site by 50x
11/14How often is the build broken?
11/14Literature review on the benefits of static types
11/14CLWB and PCOMMIT
11/14Caches: LRU v. random
11/14Testing v. informal reasoning
10/14Assembly v. intrinsics
04/14Data-driven bug finding
03/14Editing binaries
03/14That bogus gender gap article
03/14That time Oracle tried to have a professor fired for benchmarking their database
02/14Why don't schools teach debugging?
01/14Do programmers need math?
01/14Data alignment and caches
12/13PCA is not a panacea
11/13Why hardware development is hard
10/13How to discourage open source contributions
10/13Randomize HN
09/13Writing safe Verilog
09/13Verilog is weird

10/24Concussions and modern medicine/a>
07/24Exercises in benchmarking and experimental design, part 2
07/24What's wrong with Crockford's "universal number" DEC64 type?
06/24Exercises in benchmarking, part 1
06/24How the viral monthly "everything sucks" rant is wrong (draft)
06/24The cost of construction in Vancouver
05/24Greedy landlords, lazy athletes, and other simple moral explanations
04/24How long before formal methods are widely used in software engineering?
03/24Programmer moneyball in practice
03/24Notes on the 2012 FTC staff memo on a potential Google antitrust case (draft)
03/24How many people want low quality search results?
02/24Reports of Microsoft's death are greatly exaggerated
01/24Brotli curiosities
01/24Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]? (draft)
12/23How good are decisions, Elo edition
11/23Richsplaining
11/22Big company layoff stories
10/22A cloud migration story from a car company
10/22How do commenters coordinate their independent "obviously" wrong answers?
08/22Against epistemic learned helplessness
08/22You just have to be right, don't you?
04/22Stories of source code loss
02/22Pop analogies
02/22Ironic, self-refuting, rebuttals
01/22Doing good engineering with bad mental models
01/22The backlash against doing work (no, not that one)
12/21My style vs. monetization
12/21Phrases that mean their opposite
11/21Cost of living adjustments and location-based pay
11/21Writing down the most obvious things
08/21On Alan Kay's claim that computers would be 1000x faster if we listened to him
07/21Some reasons to measure (draft)
03/21What to learn? (draft)
01/21The glorification of elite teams
09/20What does it mean that some Google execs think they gave away the farm with k8s?
07/20You'd have to be very smart to come up with that
06/20Reactions to the NYT's potential doxxing of Scott Alexander
06/20Why are you still working?
05/20Blog posts I'm not publishing
02/20Another case against taking startup employee equity
12/19Working at an ad supported company (or not)
11/19Startup vs. big company compensation in practice
09/19We're just like a tech company
08/19Buying a house as an investment
07/19Kyle Petty on Danica Patrick
06/19The "production ready" duality
06/19Files, the talk
06/19A surprising thing (to me) about bay area groupthink
05/19Baseball scouting reports
05/19"Caisson", the company
04/19Interviews in practice, part 2
04/19A puzzle about prestige
03/19Dustin Curtis and Donald Knuth
02/19Algorithms interviews in practice
12/18What's so bad about JIRA?
11/18The fallacy of corporate intent
10/18Willful ignorance in management
09/18What's up with Google's Spanner SLA?
08/18What's going on with Qualcomm's server team?
08/18Why is bridge declining?
05/18Online games after a 20 year break
03/18On being in it for the money
02/18We can move as fast as any startup
01/18Linus's rants
01/18Internet comments
12/17Information asymmetry plus monopsony hiring power
11/17Concision vs. pre-emptive nitpicking defenses
10/17An unintended consequence of company propoganda
08/17What do interview questions actually measure?
07/17Bootcamp vs. College
07/17Attrition
07/17Relative vs. absolute
06/17Patreon "blog"