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Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:19PM (#50330933)
I, too, noticed the "A Little Bit of Slope Makes Up For a Lot of Y-Intercept" video (uploaded 9 months ago) by John Ousterhout mentioned in the recent comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50269776 not getting picked up either.
Re:How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
on Sunday August 02, 2026 @12:43AM (#49141177)
EFF recently pointed out to some RSS feed readers as part of below article:
Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algorithm-rss-one...
Re:What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
on Sunday July 19, 2026 @11:10PM (#48973957)
The Pulse #119: Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant? https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-134
The Fall of Stack Overflow https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overfl...
Re:Paxos Made Simple (2001)[pdf]
on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:23PM (#48912503)
"Paxos Simplified" (video & slides below) attempts to give a simple and clear explanation of Paxos. It is inspired by Leslie Lamport's paper "Paxos Made Simple".
- L9: Paxos Simplified https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRsK-ZXTeZ0
- Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ossDCdSERSZmJXKfiCwD...
Check out https://www.distributedsystemscourse.com/ by Chris Colohan for more info.
Re:I Like Small Keyboards
on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:01PM (#48823682)
I found the below two split keyboards very enticing. I haven't pulled trigger on either though.
- ElimKeys Elytra https://elimkeys.com/products/elytra, I Finally Found It: The Elytra Wireless Split Keyboard (VIAL, Bluetooth, RMK, travel friendly) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkULzKPmig
- Compose (Estimated delivery Feb 2027) https://read.compose.llc/, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlpeterman/compose-s...
Re:A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
on Thursday June 25, 2026 @02:13AM (#48669632)
Hak5 video that helped me understand many years ago about the practical usage of SSH forwarding
Hak5 - SSH Forwarding: Local vs Remote with examples, Hak5 1113 part1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Row8zEJZc
Re:U.S. kids no longer reading for pleasure
on Friday June 12, 2026 @12:18AM (#48499853)
C-SPAN: Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-_VDYit3U
Re:Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)
on Friday June 05, 2026 @11:56AM (#48414307)
Stanford University offered the course "CS146S: The Modern Software Developer" in Fall 2025. Check it out if interested. https://themodernsoftware.dev/
Re:Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and...
on Monday June 01, 2026 @10:15PM (#48365139)
Google’s Data Center Buildout Could Top $1 Trillion https://archive.is/kG3p4
Re:Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)
on Monday June 01, 2026 @08:26PM (#48364315)
Love both books by Daniel J. Barrett.
"The Linux Command Line" by William Shotts is pretty good book for new and experienced command line users. He has also written the supplemental book "Adventures with the Linux Command Line". The author has also generously provided them for free download at https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php.
Re:Interfaze: A new model architecture built for high accuracy at scale
on Monday May 11, 2026 @07:24PM (#48102113)
Interfaze.ai at YC Launch Live - May 8th, 2026 https://youtu.be/S9Lgp2hWBsE?t=4185
Re:Hosting a Site on a Raspberry Pi
on Friday May 08, 2026 @09:19PM (#48070798)
How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42712378
Re:GitHub Actions is the weakest link
on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @06:53PM (#47941943)
John Howard (one of the maintainers of Istio and currently with Solo.io) blogged about "Fast GitHub Actions with Blacksmith" [1]. The blog also contains a link to "GitHub Action Runner Alternatives" [2].
[1]: https://blog.howardjohn.info/posts/blacksmith-gha/
[2]: https://binhong.me/blog/github-action-runner-alternatives/
Re:Understanding the Go Runtime: The Scheduler
on Thursday March 12, 2026 @08:49PM (#47359371)
I enjoyed both these GopherCon talks:
GopherCon 2018: The Scheduler Saga - Kavya Joshi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHRO5WQGh0k
GopherCon 2017: Understanding Channels - Kavya Joshi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBZlN0izeiY
Re:Ubuntu 26.04 ends a 40-year old sudo tradition
on Saturday February 28, 2026 @11:28PM (#47203722)
sudo-rs is one of the initiatives of Prossimo https://www.memorysafety.org/
Wi-Fi 7's Best Feature Doesn't Work (Yet) [video]
Re:Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings
on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:33PM (#46967221)
Markdown reader using find, fzf and lnav
find . \( -path '*/vendor/*' -or -path '*/.git/*' -or -path '*/node_modules/*' \) -prune -or -type f -name "*.md" -print | fzf | xargs lnav
Re:The overlooked evolution of the humble car door handle
on Friday February 06, 2026 @11:11PM (#46921236)
Bloomberg Originals had recently published a video "The Dangerous Feature in Tesla's Doors"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lFzqBt3z0w
Re:The Book of PF, 4th edition
on Sunday February 01, 2026 @04:51AM (#46844919)
Per Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick (as announced in one of the recent BSD conferences), No Starch Press will be publishing the third edition of the Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System book sometime later this year.
Re:The Jeff Dean Facts
on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:46AM (#46542363)
New Yorker published an interesting article on Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat few years ago - The Friendship That Made Google Huge [0]
[0]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
Re:Why Twilio Segment Moved from Microservices Back to a Monolith
on Saturday December 13, 2025 @06:34PM (#46259286)
A recent blog post from Docker mentions about Twilio and Amazon Prime Video seeing gains by moving away from microservices to monolith
You Want Microservices, But Do You Really Need Them? https://www.docker.com/blog/do-you-really-need-microservices...
Stanford AI Club: Jeff Dean on Important AI Trends [video]
Re:CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects
on Thursday November 20, 2025 @02:21AM (#45989878)
"mr status" command gives status information of locally checked out repos. Refer https://myrepos.branchable.com/
Re:A Brief Look at FreeBSD
on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @05:52PM (#45908027)
FreeBSD has published a youtube video along with a blog post to run FreeBSD VM on Apple Silicon.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWuZLJkUBfw
- https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/three-ways-to-try-freebsd...
Re:Mosh (Mobile Shell)
on Thursday August 28, 2025 @06:33PM (#45057803)
Mosh is really great. When working on remote servers, I combine it with tmux.
Note: Mosh does not natively support agent forwarding similar to ssh. Creator of Mosh explained why in this comment https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/120#issuecomment...
Re:A visual introduction to big O notation
on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @05:19AM (#45024172)
I found https://www.bigocheatsheet.com/ and https://visualgo.net/en helpful in the past.
Re:Omarchy Is Out
on Monday August 25, 2025 @03:44PM (#45018120)
Free version of Rectangle is very good https://rectangleapp.com/
Re:Iterative DFS with stack-based graph traversal
on Monday August 25, 2025 @02:42AM (#45010956)
reminds me of how so many text books have an incorrect or overflowing version of binary search.
Extra, Extra - Read All About It: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken https://research.google/blog/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-n...
Re:Why Was Apache Kafka Created?
on Sunday August 24, 2025 @03:22AM (#45002089)
LinkedIn recently announced that it transitioned from Kafka to Northguard.
Introducing Northguard and Xinfra: scalable log storage at LinkedIn [1] & LinkedIn: Stream Processing 4.16.25 [2]
[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/infrastructure/int...