Top Hackernews posts from medium.com

Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies (medium.com)

1107 points by Robadob over 3 years ago | 402 comments
My full statement regarding DOOM Eternal (medium.com)

922 points by bangonkeyboard almost 2 years ago | 276 comments
Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on (medium.com)

839 points by ingve almost 2 years ago | 352 comments
“User engagement” is code for “addiction” (medium.com)

711 points by rbanffy over 3 years ago | 266 comments
Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts (medium.com)

699 points by mooreds over 2 years ago | 186 comments
The maze is in the mouse: what ails Google (medium.com)

603 points by npalli over 1 year ago | 341 comments
The Cult Inside Google (medium.com)

597 points by darrelld over 2 years ago | 6 comments
Success and Failure at Pebble (medium.com)

557 points by zsid over 2 years ago | 311 comments
“Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless (medium.com)

537 points by rsbadger about 2 years ago | 233 comments
Volvo is using Rust for its in-vehicle software (medium.com)

529 points by georgehill almost 2 years ago | 339 comments
Google destroyed our startup by terminating our Play Developer Account (medium.com)

499 points by busymom0 almost 3 years ago | 303 comments
$7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt (medium.com)

494 points by ilamont almost 2 years ago | 267 comments
Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub (medium.com)

492 points by 101008 over 1 year ago | 302 comments
Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick (medium.com)

488 points by kevingadd over 2 years ago | 350 comments
G-3PO: A protocol droid for Ghidra, or GPT-3 for reverse-engineering (medium.com)

485 points by AlbertoGP over 1 year ago | 44 comments
Every map of China is wrong (medium.com)

482 points by bschne 5 months ago | 263 comments
The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal (medium.com)

477 points by nateb2022 about 2 years ago | 780 comments
Addiction to Outrage (2020) (medium.com)

465 points by prostoalex over 3 years ago | 240 comments
JavaScript and TypeScript features of the last 3 years (medium.com)

464 points by Killusions over 1 year ago | 265 comments
How I made Google’s data grid scroll faster with a line of CSS (medium.com)

454 points by mankz almost 3 years ago | 217 comments
Illegal host, electric shocks, slugs, leaks and no support – How Airbnb failed (medium.com)

352 points by shivinski almost 2 years ago | 409 comments
Wasmer 1.0 (medium.com)

342 points by wiqar over 3 years ago | 161 comments
Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income (medium.com)

329 points by heavyset_go over 2 years ago | 252 comments
Plane accidentally flew around the world (2018) (medium.com)

327 points by omnibrain over 2 years ago | 77 comments
Hypersonic missiles are misunderstood (medium.com)

311 points by abudabi123 over 1 year ago | 439 comments
How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode (medium.com)

311 points by macok 5 months ago | 111 comments
Google destroyed my Play Developer Account and my work for the last 2 years (medium.com)

310 points by miphik over 2 years ago | 116 comments
The Shameful Decline of Scientific American (medium.com)

307 points by throwawaysea over 2 years ago | 235 comments
How do video games stay in sync? (medium.com)

303 points by whack over 2 years ago | 164 comments
Those who witnessed Castle Bravo looked into Armageddon (medium.com)

296 points by omarfarooq about 3 years ago | 214 comments
Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic (medium.com)

290 points by honoredb about 2 years ago | 322 comments
Kernighan and Pike were right: Do one thing, and do it well (medium.com)

285 points by yarapavan about 1 year ago | 246 comments
Postgres is eating the database world (medium.com)

281 points by Vonng 6 months ago | 142 comments
How Trustpilot Extorts Businesses (medium.com)

281 points by czue over 2 years ago | 73 comments
Lottie 4.0 for iOS: new render engine with significant performance improvements (medium.com)

280 points by calstephens almost 2 years ago | 117 comments
Yandex open-sources its exabyte-scale big data platform (medium.com)

275 points by xpl over 1 year ago | 91 comments
Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewer notifications (medium.com)

272 points by aleyan over 1 year ago | 175 comments
An Introduction to Class Warfare for the Software Engineer (medium.com)

265 points by chobeat over 1 year ago | 339 comments
What I learned in two years of moving government forms online (2018) (medium.com)

262 points by williamsmj over 3 years ago | 133 comments
Advanced console.log Tips and Tricks (2020) (medium.com)

260 points by sidcool over 3 years ago | 72 comments
I replaced my native iOS app with a cross platform web app and no-one noticed (medium.com)

260 points by chris_nielsen over 2 years ago | 168 comments
Rethinking Text Resizing on Web (medium.com)

259 points by GavCo 4 months ago | 165 comments
Print(“lol”) doubled the speed of my Go function (medium.com)

255 points by ludiludi about 1 year ago | 126 comments
Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular (medium.com)

242 points by Borkdude over 3 years ago | 162 comments
I reversed a Node.js malware and found the author (medium.com)

239 points by khorne over 2 years ago | 71 comments
Fired? Why cooperatives might be your next career choice in tech (medium.com)

238 points by altras almost 2 years ago | 173 comments
Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org (medium.com)

236 points by edent over 1 year ago | 109 comments
I found my Grandpa’s notes 20 years after he died (2020) (medium.com)

233 points by Ice_cream_suit over 3 years ago | 151 comments
OptiFi Program Incident Report (medium.com)

229 points by gscott about 2 years ago | 150 comments
We decided to move 90% of our workload from the cloud to on-prem infrastructure (medium.com)

227 points by Protostome over 2 years ago | 211 comments
Chronon, Airbnb's ML feature platform, is now open source (medium.com)

224 points by vquemener 5 months ago | 113 comments
Babashka is a fast-starting scripting environment for Clojure (medium.com)

217 points by tosh almost 2 years ago | 42 comments
The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos (medium.com)

217 points by ko3us about 2 years ago | 465 comments
Learnings from our years of Kubernetes in production (medium.com)

216 points by jonsson101 8 months ago | 203 comments
GraalVM for JDK 21 (medium.com)

215 points by fniephaus 12 months ago | 76 comments
Abusing the Chromium Devtools Scope Pane (medium.com)

213 points by kiyanwang about 3 years ago | 65 comments
Free Software: An idea whose time has passed? (medium.com)

211 points by altsalt over 3 years ago | 447 comments
Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs): What Are They? and How to Play (medium.com)

210 points by niDistinct over 3 years ago | 134 comments
Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri (medium.com)

208 points by Tomte about 1 year ago | 174 comments
Indexing iCloud Photos with AI Using LLaVA and Pgvector (medium.com)

208 points by CSDude 8 months ago | 35 comments
Fine-tuning GPT-3.5-turbo for natural language to SQL (medium.com)

208 points by saigal about 1 year ago | 75 comments
IKEA’s knowledge graph and why it has three layers (medium.com)

208 points by mooreds about 2 years ago | 77 comments
Why Birds Don’t Get Cold Feet (medium.com)

207 points by pmontra over 3 years ago | 108 comments
How to organize yourself as a solo founder (medium.com)

207 points by gekkostate over 2 years ago | 66 comments
React created roadblocks in our enterprise app (medium.com)

206 points by andreiursan over 3 years ago | 290 comments
I'm an Old Fart and AI Makes Me Sad (medium.com)

205 points by alex_suzuki 7 months ago | 302 comments
Learning Ruby: Things I Like, Things I Miss from Python (medium.com)

205 points by OKRHero over 3 years ago | 222 comments
Why everything looks the same (medium.com)

202 points by champagnepapi almost 2 years ago | 232 comments
Bob Dylan lays down what killed rock n roll (2016) (medium.com)

199 points by Phithagoras over 3 years ago | 229 comments
Spreadsheet is a software development paradigm (medium.com)

199 points by egeria_planning over 3 years ago | 103 comments
PayPal Allows Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication with a Button Click (medium.com)

198 points by archb almost 2 years ago | 96 comments
GraalVM at Facebook (medium.com)

197 points by pjmlp about 3 years ago | 164 comments
Game engines as an art form (medium.com)

194 points by hajimehoshi over 2 years ago | 51 comments
You Are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance (medium.com)

192 points by gala8y about 3 years ago | 141 comments
GraalVM 22.1: Developer experience improvements, Apple Silicon builds, and more (medium.com)

190 points by fniephaus over 2 years ago | 86 comments
In software, when an engineer exits the team (medium.com)

188 points by solidist almost 3 years ago | 171 comments
The Sequoia Fund: Patient capital for building enduring companies (medium.com)

188 points by Zhenya almost 3 years ago | 79 comments
Updating a 50 terabyte PostgreSQL database (2018) (medium.com)

187 points by whitepoplar over 3 years ago | 77 comments
How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight (medium.com)

186 points by forkfork almost 3 years ago | 138 comments
‘Sovereign chess’ is a battle without loyalty or humanity (2020) (medium.com)

185 points by amichail over 2 years ago | 40 comments
A gorilla who was brought up as a boy in an English village (medium.com)

184 points by simonebrunozzi over 3 years ago | 138 comments
Being a Solo Software Entrepreneur at 40 (medium.com)

182 points by alex_suzuki almost 2 years ago | 70 comments
Toshiba T1100 – the laptop that was named a milestone of electronic engineering (medium.com)

182 points by DmitryElj over 2 years ago | 74 comments
Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020) (medium.com)

177 points by cft over 2 years ago | 95 comments
Apple’s hidden flight tracker app (medium.com)

174 points by rammy1234 over 2 years ago | 81 comments
Why Has Figma Reinvented the Wheel with PostgreSQL? (medium.com)

169 points by magden 6 months ago | 91 comments
Why Fix Kubernetes and Systemd? (medium.com)

169 points by MalteJ about 2 years ago | 117 comments
Zoomable lens without any moving parts (medium.com)

168 points by simonebrunozzi over 3 years ago | 55 comments
JunoDB: PayPal’s Key-Value Store Goes Open-Source (medium.com)

166 points by onehair over 1 year ago | 93 comments
The Decision Book: Fifty models for strategic thinking (2019) (medium.com)

165 points by walterbell over 1 year ago | 26 comments
“Illegal” Moscow state university network built by students (2002-2013) (medium.com)

165 points by lathiat almost 3 years ago | 40 comments
Writing memory safe JIT compilers (medium.com)

163 points by vips7L 3 months ago | 48 comments
The Secret Apple M1 Coprocessor (medium.com)

161 points by socialdemocrat over 3 years ago | 104 comments
RAG at scale: Synchronizing and ingesting billions of text embeddings (medium.com)

160 points by picohen 12 months ago | 55 comments
10,000 Hours with Claude Shannon (2017) (medium.com)

157 points by bmcn2020 over 3 years ago | 82 comments
How Many Hobbits? A Demographic Analysis of Middle Earth (medium.com)

156 points by apsec112 10 months ago | 119 comments
What Happened to Treehouse? (medium.com)

156 points by ChrisArchitect almost 3 years ago | 108 comments
A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon (medium.com)

154 points by josephcsible over 1 year ago | 73 comments
How iOS 15 makes apps launch faster (medium.com)

154 points by jshchnz about 3 years ago | 59 comments
Diskprices.com makes $5k/month with affiliate marketing (medium.com)

153 points by nomilk 8 months ago | 118 comments