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1.It's always TCP_NODELAY (brooker.co.za)
884 points by todsacerdoti on May 9, 2024 | 268 comments
2.Query Engines: Push vs. Pull (justinjaffray.com)
148 points by jsnell on May 1, 2021 | 35 comments
3.Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
729 points by rafiki6 on Nov 18, 2022 | 737 comments
4.Open Source SQL Parsers (tokern.io)
125 points by EntICOnc on April 21, 2022 | 102 comments
5.Van life (cancer edition) finale (imgur.com)
678 points by BadCookie on April 11, 2022 | 262 comments
6.40 Milliseconds of latency that just would not go away (rachelbythebay.com)
386 points by r4um on Oct 15, 2020 | 97 comments
7.“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews” (efinancialcareers.com)
523 points by mooreds on Dec 4, 2020 | 709 comments
8.Tacit knowledge is more important than deliberate practice (commoncog.com)
344 points by shadowsun7 on June 9, 2020 | 128 comments
9.Crafting “Crafting Interpreters” (stuffwithstuff.com)
777 points by _vbdg on April 5, 2020 | 74 comments
10.The social side of science seen in the research on programming language quality (hillelwayne.com)
137 points by hwayne on March 10, 2020 | 84 comments
11.Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) (jonathanwhiting.com)
647 points by WoodenChair on Sept 21, 2019 | 544 comments
12.The Gervais Principle, or The Office According to "The Office" (ribbonfarm.com)
307 points by mcdoh on Oct 14, 2009 | 63 comments
13.Moving from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine (rainforestqa.com)
225 points by shosti on April 5, 2019 | 105 comments
14.Showing the world how real soy sauce is supposed to taste (bbc.com)
115 points by MiriamWeiner on Feb 26, 2019 | 170 comments
15.Night of a cascading failure (rachelbythebay.com)
79 points by ingve on Jan 21, 2019 | 32 comments
16.My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive (getdropbox.com)
104 points by dhouston on April 4, 2007 | 71 comments
17.Why I don't use my real photo when messaging with customers on my website (kapwing.com)
1016 points by bemmu on Feb 16, 2018 | 612 comments
18.'It Was the First Time I Cried in the Operating Room' (spiegel.de)
303 points by Petiver on Jan 25, 2018 | 68 comments
19.The ImageNet dataset transformed AI research (qz.com)
198 points by ozdave on July 26, 2017 | 55 comments
20.How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead (nytimes.com)
694 points by niyazpk on Sept 3, 2016 | 199 comments
21.Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery (brendangregg.com)
623 points by dmit on Aug 8, 2017 | 86 comments
22.Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check (techcrunch.com)
434 points by code4tee on July 14, 2017 | 278 comments
23.Classism in America (siderea.livejournal.com)
307 points by traverseda on April 6, 2016 | 333 comments
24."Lighten up" (therealkatie.net)
1371 points by jnoller on March 21, 2012 | 794 comments
25.Sad Trombone Exoplanet Reality Check (antipope.org)
151 points by cstross on Aug 20, 2016 | 195 comments
26.Scott and Scurvy: How the cure for scurvy was lost (idlewords.com)
244 points by mark_h on March 8, 2010 | 36 comments
27.Put armor where there aren't bullet holes (motherjones.com)
229 points by robg on Oct 1, 2010 | 76 comments
28.Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system. (antipope.org)
302 points by shalmanese on June 10, 2011 | 179 comments
29.Verifying ARM processors against the official ARM specification (alastairreid.github.io)
219 points by jsnell on July 26, 2016 | 64 comments
30.Inside the Mirrortocracy (bueno.org)
393 points by ahupp on June 23, 2014 | 204 comments

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