Top Hackernews posts from danluu.com

1. Willingness to look stupid (danluu.com)
   1859 points by ZephyrBlu almost 3 years ago | 777 comments
2. Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT (danluu.com)
   950 points by 882542F3884314B 9 months ago | 465 comments
3. How web bloat impacts users with slow devices (danluu.com)
   932 points by jasondavies 6 months ago | 597 comments
4. Why is it hard to buy things that work well? (danluu.com)
   848 points by davidmckenna over 2 years ago | 518 comments
5. Individuals Matter (danluu.com)
   774 points by benfrederickson almost 3 years ago | 398 comments
6. In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022) (danluu.com)
   590 points by Brajeshwar 7 months ago | 436 comments
7. Suspicious discontinuities (2020) (danluu.com)
   525 points by explosion-s 6 months ago | 279 comments
8. Normalization of Deviance (2015) (danluu.com)
   447 points by akshaykarthik over 1 year ago | 219 comments
9. What to Learn (danluu.com)
   374 points by pyb almost 3 years ago | 111 comments
10. In defense of simple architectures (danluu.com)
    368 points by abzug over 2 years ago | 189 comments
11. Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation (danluu.com)
    329 points by davidmckenna 7 months ago | 210 comments
12. Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity (danluu.com)
    326 points by davidmckenna almost 3 years ago | 178 comments
13. Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed (danluu.com)
    324 points by _xivi 7 months ago | 356 comments
14. The Container Throttling Problem (danluu.com)
    255 points by rognjen over 2 years ago | 87 comments
15. What's new in CPUs since the 80s? (2015) (danluu.com)
    252 points by snvzz over 2 years ago | 106 comments
16. Computer Latency: 1977-2017 (danluu.com)
    244 points by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF almost 2 years ago | 101 comments
17. Misidentifying talent (danluu.com)
    230 points by akaij over 2 years ago | 161 comments
18. Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]? (danluu.com)
    224 points by firstSpeaker 8 months ago | 172 comments
19. The modern web on a slow connection (2017) (danluu.com)
    222 points by x14km2d over 3 years ago | 173 comments
20. How some good corporate engineering blogs are written (2020) (danluu.com)
    215 points by montyanderson 4 months ago | 60 comments
21. CPU branch prediction evolution over years (2017) (danluu.com)
    210 points by Keyframe over 1 year ago | 70 comments
22. The Value of In-House Expertise (danluu.com)
    210 points by ingve almost 3 years ago | 49 comments
23. Culturally transmitted skills and values (danluu.com)
    205 points by ramimac almost 3 years ago | 86 comments
24. Some Reasons to Measure (danluu.com)
    201 points by cdwhite about 3 years ago | 17 comments
25. Suspicious Discontinuities (danluu.com)
    191 points by apsec112 about 3 years ago | 54 comments
26. Cocktail party ideas (danluu.com)
    188 points by Naac over 2 years ago | 110 comments
27. The growth of command line options, 1979-Present (2020) (danluu.com)
    186 points by intrepidhero almost 3 years ago | 125 comments
28. Advantages of Monorepos (2015) (danluu.com)
    183 points by Naac over 2 years ago | 140 comments
29. Speeding up this site by 50x (2014) (danluu.com)
    180 points by Brajeshwar about 2 years ago | 71 comments
30. How I learned to program (danluu.com)
    174 points by swyx almost 3 years ago | 44 comments
31. Keyboard Latency (2017) (danluu.com)
    170 points by l0b0 about 3 years ago | 114 comments
32. 95%-ile isn't that good (2020) (danluu.com)
    166 points by DantesKite over 2 years ago | 156 comments
33. Verilog Is Weird (danluu.com)
    162 points by fzliu over 2 years ago | 128 comments
34. What's worked in Computer Science: 1999 vs. 2015 (2015) (danluu.com)
    159 points by not_a_boat 6 months ago | 147 comments
35. Why use ECC? (2015) (danluu.com)
    159 points by vsgherzi 4 months ago | 137 comments
36. Futurist prediction methods and accuracy (danluu.com)
    151 points by telotortium about 2 years ago | 94 comments
37. Some thoughts on writing (danluu.com)
    150 points by janvdberg almost 3 years ago | 62 comments
38. Keyboard Latency (2017) (danluu.com)
    143 points by warrenm almost 2 years ago | 110 comments
39. A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter (danluu.com)
    138 points by Smerity over 2 years ago | 26 comments
40. Let's Write a Malloc (2014) (danluu.com)
    129 points by yla92 10 months ago | 29 comments
41. I could do that in a weekend (2016) (danluu.com)
    121 points by defaulty about 3 years ago | 84 comments
42. We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters (danluu.com)
    120 points by 0x000042 10 months ago | 130 comments
43. How do cars fare in crash tests they're not specifically optimized for? (2020) (danluu.com)
    111 points by ndr almost 3 years ago | 101 comments
44. 95%-ile isn't that good (2020) (danluu.com)
    110 points by tosh 10 months ago | 181 comments
45. Notes on Cruise's Pedestrian Accident (danluu.com)
    105 points by kaycebasques 8 months ago | 136 comments
46. HN: The Good Parts (2016) (danluu.com)
    105 points by ra00l over 3 years ago | 82 comments
47. Programmer Moneyball (2016) (danluu.com)
    104 points by baobabKoodaa almost 3 years ago | 72 comments
48. Why’s that company so big? I could do that in a weekend (2016) (danluu.com)
    98 points by __natty__ 12 months ago | 141 comments
49. CPU Bugs (2018) (danluu.com)
    98 points by for_xyz over 3 years ago | 20 comments
50. Is Dev Compensation Bimodal? (2016) (danluu.com)
    94 points by ZephyrBlu over 3 years ago | 141 comments
51. Caches: LRU vs. Random (2014) (danluu.com)
    92 points by eatonphil 8 months ago | 26 comments
52. One Week of Bugs (2014) (danluu.com)
    89 points by defaulty about 3 years ago | 15 comments
53. Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice (2020) (danluu.com)
    82 points by Vadim_samokhin 4 months ago | 67 comments
54. Boring Languages Are Underrated (2015) (danluu.com)
    75 points by panic about 3 years ago | 96 comments
55. Some programming blogs to consider reading (danluu.com)
    71 points by parsd almost 2 years ago | 8 comments
56. Misidentifying Talent (2022) (danluu.com)
    70 points by _xivi about 1 year ago | 52 comments
57. Assembly vs. Intrinsics (2014) (danluu.com)
    69 points by lelf over 3 years ago | 9 comments
58. Notes on Concurrency Bugs (2016) (danluu.com)
    67 points by zdw over 2 years ago | 25 comments
59. Terminal Latency (2017) (danluu.com)
    66 points by merwanedr about 2 years ago | 41 comments
60. A discussion of discussions on AI Bias (danluu.com)
    63 points by davezatch 3 months ago | 24 comments
61. Filesystem Error Handling (2017) (danluu.com)
    54 points by wila over 3 years ago | 1 comments
62. Linear Hammer: PCA is not a panacea (2013) (danluu.com)
    53 points by PaulHoule over 2 years ago | 20 comments
63. Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice (danluu.com)
    52 points by program247365 almost 3 years ago | 8 comments