๐ฅ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Iโve been in Berkeley for the last 2 weeks. I havenโt really been back here for a while, and itโs worse than you can believe. This is a cult of atheistic hedonists needing AI doom to be true to justify their life choices. Or acceleration. Or something. They need to make impact. I mean, narcissism of small differences to an extent, but I stopped long before these people did. If San Francisco was nuked tomorrow, the world would feel a weight off their shoulders. ๅ
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๐ฅ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: japanese verbs are awesome. you can take the dictionary form of a verb (for example, "taberu", to eat) and turn it into many forms:taberu ("eat"): tabemasu (polite "eat"), tabemashita (polite "did eat"), tabemasen (polite "not eat"), tabemasendeshita (polite "did not eat"), tabenai (casual "not eat"), tabenakatta (casual "did not eat"), tabetai ("want to eat"), tabeta (casual "did eat"), tabete ("eat and...").nomu ("drink"): nomimasu (polite "drink"), nomimashita (polite "did drink"), nomimasen (polite "not drink"), nomimasendeshita (polite "did not drink"), nomanai (casual "not drink"), nomanakatta (casual…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Early in my software engineering career, the UK-based startup I worked at, GenieDB, was taken over by a US Venture Capital fund, Frost VP, owned by Stuart Frost. I was functionally the only piece that came to the US. The code was rebuilt, the rest of the team eventually rotated out, even the core strategy was replaced. But I was early in my career and excited to be working in the VC tech-startup world. I ended up making my life in the US, so this…
๐ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: I think it is important to have a bias for action. Like anything else, this is something you can make a habit of. Moving forward allows you to make progress. I donโt know about you, but Iโve frozen up in the past not knowing what the right path was for me. Moving forward, even the smallest possible step, helped break that stasis. One habit I like is to ask for no, not yes. Note that this is based on my experience at small companies (<…
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**What Youโll Learn**: For more than a decade, Lodash has been one of the most widely used libraries in the JavaScript ecosystem. Its utilities appear in countless projects, often quietly working behind the scenes, and today has over 100 million npm downloads each day.But like many critical open source tools, Lodash began as the work of a single maintainer. In a recent conversation, creator John-David Dalton reflected on the projectโs growth, the pressures of maintaining software used across the world, and the personal journey that led to…
โจ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: JSON-LD, also known as JSON Linked Data, is a format for adding structured data to webpages. It can aid web crawlers in understanding the semantic structure of your site, qualifying you for richer link previews, and even potentially improving your search ranking.Itโs been 4 months since my first post where I described building this site, and Wakatime estimates Iโve spent ~100 hours coding now, not including time spent researching and testing. Since then, this site has been receiving plenty of polish, including the addition of…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Part of Teaching an AI Agent to Make Beautiful Charts Health insurers turn down a lot of claims, and they do not all turn them down at the same rate. In 2024, the largest plans sold on the Affordable Care Act marketplace denied anywhere from 13% to 35% of the in-network claims their members filed. Whether your claim got paid depended a lot on whose name was on your card. Claim denials are back in the national conversation. Luigi Mangione, charged in the December 2024…
๐ฅ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: About Wildcard Wildcard is the agentic commerce optimization platform for ecommerce and retail brands. We help brands understand, improve, and monetize how their products show up across AI shopping agents. Weโre building the mission control for agentic commerce: visibility (AEO & GEO), recommendations, execution, attribution, and automation in one platform. As shopping shifts from traditional search to AI agents, brands need to know where they appear, why competitors are winning, what to change, and whether those changes drive real business outcomes. Weโre growing 50% month…
๐ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) This page has two purposes: to describe how to implement computer language interpreters in general, and in particular to build an interpreter for most of the Scheme dialect of Lisp using Python 3 as the implementation language. I call my language and interpreter Lispy (lis.py). Years ago, I showed how to write a semi-practical Scheme interpreter Java and in in Common Lisp). This time around the goal is to demonstrate, as concisely and simply as possible, what…
๐ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: After writing my previous article about Bluesky's centralization risks, I got into the weeds on how the PDS (Personal Data Server) works. The more I looked at it, the worse it got. I was originally worried about Bluesky going rogue and deleting accounts or locking people in. It's actually the least scary thing your PDS operator can do to you. They can be you Your PDS holds your signing key. It signs every commit to your repository. Every post, every like, every follow, everything. The…