Top Hackernews posts from jvns.ca

1. Making Hard Things Easy (jvns.ca)
   1134 points by hasheddan 12 months ago | 197 comments
2. Mess with DNS (jvns.ca)
   958 points by im2nguyen almost 3 years ago | 87 comments
3. Some tiny personal programs I've written (jvns.ca)
   873 points by atg_abhishek over 2 years ago | 358 comments
4. New(ish) command line tools (jvns.ca)
   760 points by grappler over 2 years ago | 244 comments
5. Nginx Playground (jvns.ca)
   603 points by pradeepchhetri almost 3 years ago | 41 comments
6. Confusing Git Terminology (jvns.ca)
   602 points by soheilpro 11 months ago | 307 comments
7. When your coworker does great work, tell their manager (2020) (jvns.ca)
   572 points by vikrum about 1 year ago | 358 comments
8. Patterns in Confusing Explanations (jvns.ca)
   566 points by pabs3 about 3 years ago | 159 comments
9. Some tactics for writing in public (jvns.ca)
   566 points by hasheddan about 1 year ago | 189 comments
10. Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac (jvns.ca)
    516 points by jseliger about 1 year ago | 160 comments
11. Why is DNS still hard to learn? (jvns.ca)
    507 points by TangerineDream about 1 year ago | 254 comments
12. How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it (2014) (jvns.ca)
    501 points by tripdout 8 months ago | 87 comments
13. Learning DNS in 10 Years (jvns.ca)
    488 points by yarapavan over 1 year ago | 126 comments
14. Popular Git config options (jvns.ca)
    446 points by ingve 7 months ago | 149 comments
15. What happens when you press a key in your terminal? (jvns.ca)
    408 points by robenkleene about 2 years ago | 102 comments
16. In a Git repository, where do your files live? (jvns.ca)
    398 points by todsacerdoti about 1 year ago | 113 comments
17. The pocket guide to debugging (jvns.ca)
    394 points by guiambros over 1 year ago | 46 comments
18. Firecracker: Start a VM in less than a second (jvns.ca)
    381 points by ArmandGrillet over 3 years ago | 67 comments
19. Git Branches: Intuition and Reality (jvns.ca)
    376 points by tambourine_man 10 months ago | 261 comments
20. Things that used to be hard and are now easy (jvns.ca)
    371 points by pingiun over 2 years ago | 305 comments
21. Why does 0.1 and 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004? (jvns.ca)
    339 points by soheilpro over 1 year ago | 361 comments
22. How to use dig (jvns.ca)
    334 points by mfrw almost 3 years ago | 81 comments
23. Writing JavaScript without a build system (jvns.ca)
    334 points by panic over 1 year ago | 177 comments
24. tcpdump is amazing (2016) (jvns.ca)
    317 points by sandebert over 1 year ago | 83 comments
25. Why might you run your own DNS server? (jvns.ca)
    312 points by 0xedb over 2 years ago | 203 comments
26. A toy DNS resolver (jvns.ca)
    309 points by 0xedb over 2 years ago | 85 comments
27. Git rebase, what can go wrong (jvns.ca)
    306 points by kens 11 months ago | 394 comments
28. Tips for analyzing logs (jvns.ca)
    300 points by historynops almost 2 years ago | 134 comments
29. Reasons for servers to support IPv6 (jvns.ca)
    266 points by pingiun over 2 years ago | 310 comments
30. Should you be scared of Unix signals? (2016) (jvns.ca)
    257 points by gavinhoward 11 months ago | 155 comments
31. Examples of floating point problems (jvns.ca)
    255 points by grappler over 1 year ago | 169 comments
32. Things your manager might not know (2021) (jvns.ca)
    253 points by piinbinary almost 2 years ago | 108 comments
33. Some notes on using esbuild (jvns.ca)
    246 points by ingve almost 3 years ago | 199 comments
34. Some blogging myths (jvns.ca)
    245 points by GavinAnderegg over 1 year ago | 62 comments
35. How to use undocumented web APIs (jvns.ca)
    239 points by pingiun over 2 years ago | 91 comments
36. DNS doesn't “propagate” (jvns.ca)
    229 points by rg111 almost 3 years ago | 151 comments
37. Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3 (jvns.ca)
    224 points by jfarmer over 2 years ago | 48 comments
38. Monitoring tiny web services (jvns.ca)
    218 points by mfrw about 2 years ago | 76 comments
39. Notes on BPF and eBPF (jvns.ca)
    216 points by mlerner over 2 years ago | 43 comments
40. Open sourcing the Nginx playground (jvns.ca)
    216 points by thepbone about 1 year ago | 6 comments
41. Why bugs might feel “impossible” (jvns.ca)
    215 points by atg_abhishek over 3 years ago | 126 comments
42. Fear makes you a worse programmer (2014) (jvns.ca)
    213 points by thunderbong 6 months ago | 106 comments
43. How Git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge (jvns.ca)
    211 points by hasheddan 10 months ago | 123 comments
44. Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS (jvns.ca)
    211 points by chmaynard 10 months ago | 93 comments
45. Blog about what you've struggled with (jvns.ca)
    202 points by yesenadam over 3 years ago | 45 comments
46. Possible reasons for 8-bit bytes (jvns.ca)
    197 points by cpach over 1 year ago | 118 comments
47. Do we think of Git commits as diffs, snapshots, and/or histories? (jvns.ca)
    189 points by soheilpro 9 months ago | 210 comments
48. How to look at the stack with gdb (jvns.ca)
    187 points by yesenadam over 3 years ago | 37 comments
49. Making a DNS query in Ruby from scratch (jvns.ca)
    184 points by guiambros almost 2 years ago | 59 comments
50. Tools to Explore BGP (jvns.ca)
    168 points by mfrw almost 3 years ago | 26 comments
51. Notes on running a single-person Mastodon server (jvns.ca)
    165 points by hasheddan about 1 year ago | 36 comments
52. I think I found a Mac kernel bug (2018) (jvns.ca)
    164 points by goranmoomin almost 2 years ago | 66 comments
53. Ruby's Timeout is dangerous and Thread.raise is terrifying (2015) (jvns.ca)
    160 points by thunderbong 4 months ago | 126 comments
54. New zine: How integers and floats work (jvns.ca)
    153 points by signa11 about 1 year ago | 102 comments
55. How to teach technical concepts with cartoons (jvns.ca)
    151 points by Tomte over 3 years ago | 12 comments
56. Debugging a weird 'file not found' error (jvns.ca)
    145 points by ingve almost 3 years ago | 58 comments
57. How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers (jvns.ca)
    139 points by 0xedb over 2 years ago | 46 comments
58. Pages that didn't make it into “How DNS Works” (jvns.ca)
    136 points by zdw over 2 years ago | 13 comments
59. Why do domain names sometimes end with a dot? (jvns.ca)
    119 points by 0xedb about 2 years ago | 24 comments
60. Celebrate tiny learning milestones (jvns.ca)
    116 points by guiambros over 2 years ago | 17 comments
61. How to get useful answers to your questions (jvns.ca)
    114 points by ingve almost 3 years ago | 34 comments
62. Some ways DNS can break (jvns.ca)
    106 points by vinnyglennon over 2 years ago | 43 comments
63. New Playground: Memory Spy (jvns.ca)
    98 points by modinfo over 1 year ago | 5 comments
64. Some ways to get better at debugging (jvns.ca)
    94 points by mfrw about 2 years ago | 47 comments
65. New Playground: Integer.exposed (jvns.ca)
    86 points by duck over 1 year ago | 12 comments
66. Inside .git (jvns.ca)
    86 points by mfrw 8 months ago | 5 comments
67. Get your work recognized: write a brag document (2019) (jvns.ca)
    81 points by momentmaker 9 months ago | 69 comments
68. Behind “Hello World” on Linux (jvns.ca)
    76 points by HieronymusBosch about 1 year ago | 4 comments
69. The multiple meanings of “nameserver” and “DNS resolver” (jvns.ca)
    73 points by todsacerdoti over 2 years ago | 6 comments
70. Get better at programming by learning how things work (jvns.ca)
    72 points by jbernardo95 over 3 years ago | 2 comments
71. 2023: Year in Review (jvns.ca)
    62 points by matricaria 9 months ago | 3 comments
72. How do Nix builds work? (jvns.ca)
    59 points by todsacerdoti over 1 year ago | 12 comments
73. How HEAD works in Git (jvns.ca)
    59 points by guiambros 6 months ago | 18 comments
74. Some Notes on Using Nix (jvns.ca)
    57 points by todsacerdoti over 1 year ago | 6 comments
75. Some Miscellaneous Git Facts (jvns.ca)
    52 points by qsantos 11 months ago | 4 comments
76. How Git Works (jvns.ca)
    52 points by hasheddan 4 months ago | 4 comments