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• OpenAI acquires Statsig

  by gregdoesit on 9/2/2025, 6:08 PM with 2 comments

• 'How come I can't breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis

  by gregdoesit on 6/12/2025, 6:09 PM with 0 comments

• You Can't Outrun AI in Tech Interviews, So We Designed Around It

  by gregdoesit on 4/17/2025, 7:54 PM with 8 comments

• The affidavit of a Rippling employee caught spying for Deel

  by gregdoesit on 4/2/2025, 8:06 PM with 0 comments

• Investigating systems that fail (2020)

  by gregdoesit on 2/25/2025, 9:17 PM with 0 comments

• Why my audiobook is everywhere except on Audible

  by gregdoesit on 12/10/2024, 7:34 PM with 0 comments

• The company behind Arc is now building a second, much simpler browser

  by gregdoesit on 10/25/2024, 8:19 PM with 5 comments

• The failed promise of Domain Driven Design

  by gregdoesit on 9/1/2024, 7:01 PM with 0 comments

• Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again

  by gregdoesit on 7/13/2024, 6:41 PM with 136 comments

• Generative AI Is Not Going to Build Your Engineering Team for You

  by gregdoesit on 6/11/2024, 7:53 AM with 0 comments

• "I try not to think about competitors too much"

  by gregdoesit on 5/16/2024, 9:02 PM with 0 comments

• How does ChatGPT work? As explained by the ChatGPT team

  by gregdoesit on 4/21/2024, 9:10 AM with 0 comments

• Dropbox Sign

  by gregdoesit on 12/6/2023, 3:00 PM with 0 comments

• Cloudflare releases HAR santizer in response to the Okta breach

  by gregdoesit on 10/29/2023, 7:21 AM with 2 comments

• The SPAC Scam in the Arena

  by gregdoesit on 8/24/2023, 5:38 AM with 0 comments

• Hey Amazon, why do you allow book hijacking?

  by gregdoesit on 6/12/2023, 7:07 AM with 0 comments

• How Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract (2022)

  by gregdoesit on 5/23/2023, 8:40 AM with 1 comments

• by gregdoesit on 3/13/2023, 12:29 PM with comments

• Developer blogs, ranked by Twitter mentions

  by gregdoesit on 1/29/2023, 10:53 PM with 0 comments

• A Writer Used AI to Plagiarize Me. Now What?

  by gregdoesit on 1/16/2023, 8:05 AM with 6 comments

• George Hotz Resigns from Twitter

  by gregdoesit on 12/21/2022, 8:04 AM with 1 comments

• Musk discusses putting all of Twitter behind a paywall

  by gregdoesit on 11/8/2022, 11:38 AM with 1 comments

• Is joining late-stage startups for the financial upside a dead end?

  by gregdoesit on 10/13/2022, 8:30 PM with 0 comments

• Netflix’s historic introduction of levels for software engineering

  by gregdoesit on 9/1/2022, 5:16 PM with 0 comments

• Oracle Cloud data center down in London due to heatwave

  by gregdoesit on 7/19/2022, 9:29 PM with 0 comments

• The Perfect Storm Causing an Insane Tech Hiring Market (2021)

  by gregdoesit on 7/15/2022, 3:44 PM with 0 comments

• Bitpanda threatens to sue former employee for LinkedIn post about layoffs

  by gregdoesit on 7/13/2022, 2:19 PM with 0 comments

• The slow recovery of the Ukraine tech market

  by gregdoesit on 7/12/2022, 1:29 PM with 0 comments

• Companies Using RFCs or Design Docs and Examples of These

  by gregdoesit on 6/24/2022, 3:59 PM with 0 comments

• $100M spent on ETH gas fees for $200M of NFT sales

  by gregdoesit on 5/1/2022, 12:36 PM with 41 comments

• by gregdoesit on 4/26/2022, 1:27 PM with comments

• What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast

  by gregdoesit on 4/7/2022, 5:23 PM with 461 comments

• Making Sense of Web3

  by gregdoesit on 3/16/2022, 9:02 PM with 67 comments

• War in Ukraine – and Its Impact on the Tech Industry

  by gregdoesit on 2/27/2022, 7:02 PM with 0 comments

• FloppySwop: Share files that would fit on a floppy disc

  by gregdoesit on 2/1/2022, 10:11 PM with 0 comments

• A sad story about self-publishing a tech book and fraud on Amazon

  by gregdoesit on 1/26/2022, 4:08 PM with 12 comments

• Tech book recommendations for engineering managers and software engineers

  by gregdoesit on 12/17/2021, 9:58 PM with 1 comments

• The insane tech job market of 2021 in Ukraine

  by gregdoesit on 12/16/2021, 8:28 PM with 24 comments

• Hiring (and Retaining) a Diverse Engineering Team

  by gregdoesit on 12/7/2021, 4:15 PM with 1 comments

• The Platform and Program Split at Uber

  by gregdoesit on 11/30/2021, 10:46 PM with 0 comments

• Exceptional off-cycle compensation adjustments for software engineers in 2021

  by gregdoesit on 11/23/2021, 5:57 PM with 20 comments

• How I motivate myself to write

  by gregdoesit on 10/29/2021, 7:02 AM with 57 comments

• How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum

  by gregdoesit on 9/21/2021, 4:46 PM with 0 comments

• The Most Heated Tech Job Market in History: Advice for Software Engineers

  by gregdoesit on 9/17/2021, 6:24 PM with 0 comments

• EU Chief Vows Action Against Hungary's Anti-LGBT Measure

  by gregdoesit on 6/23/2021, 5:42 PM with 0 comments

• A day in the life of a professional software engineer

  by gregdoesit on 6/19/2021, 8:38 AM with 12 comments

• Disasters I've seen in a microservices world

  by gregdoesit on 6/13/2021, 1:51 PM with 140 comments

• Equity 101 for Software Engineers

  by gregdoesit on 6/12/2021, 7:37 PM with 2 comments

• Uber's crazy YOLO app rewrite, from the front seat

  by gregdoesit on 5/24/2021, 5:41 PM with 177 comments

• Show HN: I wrote the book Building Mobile Apps at Scale

  by gregdoesit on 5/5/2021, 3:05 PM with 50 comments

• Home Birth in the Netherlands (2020)

  by gregdoesit on 4/28/2021, 3:14 AM with 0 comments

• Equity for Software Engineers at Big Tech and Startups

  by gregdoesit on 2/16/2021, 6:33 PM with 0 comments

• by gregdoesit on 2/3/2021, 7:53 PM with comments

• What Silicon Valley gets about engineers that traditional companies do not

  by gregdoesit on 1/10/2021, 6:01 PM with 324 comments

• System Design Interview book review

  by gregdoesit on 1/5/2021, 4:18 PM with 42 comments

• by gregdoesit on 1/3/2021, 9:45 AM with comments

• Want to Start a Startup, as a Software Engineer? Sell Something Online

  by gregdoesit on 12/30/2020, 6:02 PM with 0 comments

• Engineering Challenges Due to the Nature of Native Mobile Applications

  by gregdoesit on 12/10/2020, 4:54 PM with 0 comments

• I cannot convince Twitter that I am human

  by gregdoesit on 12/4/2020, 9:11 AM with 5 comments

• Systems Design Interview: An Insiders Guide Book Review

  by gregdoesit on 11/11/2020, 6:58 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: I wrote a book on writing good developer resumes

  by gregdoesit on 10/14/2020, 3:28 PM with 108 comments

• My Principles for Building Software

  by gregdoesit on 9/19/2020, 5:41 AM with 0 comments

• An Introduction to Formal Verification for Software Systems

  by gregdoesit on 8/21/2020, 4:13 AM with 0 comments

• Tactical Challenges in Hiring Junior Engineers

  by gregdoesit on 8/2/2020, 9:00 PM with 0 comments

• Slack Is Fumbling Developers

  by gregdoesit on 7/31/2020, 7:01 PM with 10 comments

• Advice to myself when starting out as a software developer

  by gregdoesit on 7/24/2020, 3:04 PM with 1 comments

• You've only added two lines – why did that take two days?

  by gregdoesit on 7/14/2020, 6:38 PM with 507 comments

• Data Structures and Algorithms Actually I Used Working at Tech Companies

  by gregdoesit on 7/14/2020, 4:56 PM with 2 comments

• Post-Commit Reviews: What They Are, Benefits and Challenges

  by gregdoesit on 7/12/2020, 6:33 PM with 0 comments

• How many people are on this site?

  by gregdoesit on 7/7/2020, 9:07 PM with 0 comments

• Surprising things about working at Skype, Skyscanner and Uber

  by gregdoesit on 7/2/2020, 8:48 PM with 0 comments

• A Developer Culture Test

  by gregdoesit on 5/25/2020, 10:09 PM with 41 comments

• Test coverage only matters if it's at 100%

  by gregdoesit on 5/19/2020, 10:38 AM with 0 comments

• He criticized the government on Facebook, and was taken from his home by police

  by gregdoesit on 5/13/2020, 10:08 AM with 0 comments

• Surprising Things About Working at Well-Known Tech Unicorns

  by gregdoesit on 5/3/2020, 7:47 PM with 0 comments

• The Developer Culture Test: What Defines Places Where Developers Thrive?

  by gregdoesit on 4/13/2020, 6:59 PM with 0 comments

• by gregdoesit on 4/13/2020, 6:57 PM with comments

• Tech Debt and the Pragmatic Middle Ground

  by gregdoesit on 4/8/2020, 9:32 PM with 0 comments

• The upper crust of Earth is shaking left following coronavirus lockdowns

  by gregdoesit on 4/4/2020, 5:22 PM with 1 comments

• Uber’s Payments Platform Under the Hood

  by gregdoesit on 4/2/2020, 9:08 PM with 0 comments

• “I am exhausted, this is a war” – dev on the Amazon SCOT team

  by gregdoesit on 3/27/2020, 7:50 AM with 0 comments

• The Pyramid of Unit Testing Benefits

  by gregdoesit on 2/20/2020, 10:38 PM with 0 comments

• Things I Believe About Software Engineering

  by gregdoesit on 2/2/2020, 11:06 PM with 0 comments

• Leading Projects – As a Software Engineer

  by gregdoesit on 1/19/2020, 8:55 PM with 17 comments

• First 90 Days as CTO or VP Engineering

  by gregdoesit on 1/13/2020, 9:17 PM with 0 comments

• The Decade in Review as a Software Engineer

  by gregdoesit on 12/31/2019, 7:11 PM with 0 comments

• Distributed Systems Learnings in 2019

  by gregdoesit on 12/29/2019, 10:05 PM with 0 comments

• Readable Code

  by gregdoesit on 12/27/2019, 4:19 PM with 0 comments

• Tech Lead Expectations for Engineering Projects

  by gregdoesit on 12/17/2019, 9:21 PM with 0 comments

• Deep Linking at Scale on iOS

  by gregdoesit on 12/1/2019, 8:38 PM with 0 comments

• An Engineering Team Where Everyone Is a Leader

  by gregdoesit on 11/25/2019, 6:13 PM with 0 comments

• A Philosophy of Software Design: My Take (and a Book Review)

  by gregdoesit on 11/18/2019, 4:39 PM with 0 comments

• Working at Silicon Valley Companies – In Europe

  by gregdoesit on 11/10/2019, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• Stretching, Executing, Coasting – and Pacing to Avoid Burnout

  by gregdoesit on 11/6/2019, 8:32 PM with 1 comments

• Talk First, Code Later

  by gregdoesit on 10/30/2019, 8:51 PM with 0 comments

• Yes, Estimate Software Projects

  by gregdoesit on 10/20/2019, 6:05 PM with 92 comments

• Yes, You Should Estimate Software Projects

  by gregdoesit on 10/15/2019, 7:25 PM with 0 comments

• Software Engineering Promotions: Advice I've Been Giving

  by gregdoesit on 10/1/2019, 7:29 PM with 0 comments

• How to Make Good Code Reviews Better

  by gregdoesit on 9/30/2019, 3:51 PM with 0 comments

• Google may have just ushered in an era of ‘quantum supremacy’

  by gregdoesit on 9/24/2019, 9:16 AM with 0 comments

• Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated

  by gregdoesit on 9/17/2019, 3:22 PM with 0 comments

• Hacks for Professional Growth: Coffee with a Software Engineer You Don’t Know

  by gregdoesit on 9/9/2019, 8:21 PM with 0 comments

• Product-Minded Software Engineers

  by gregdoesit on 9/6/2019, 4:06 PM with 0 comments

• The Product-Minded Software Engineer

  by gregdoesit on 9/5/2019, 3:15 PM with 1 comments

• Alibaba, Tencent, Five Others to Receive First Chinese Government Cryptocurrency

  by gregdoesit on 8/29/2019, 4:18 AM with 0 comments

• Things that helped me move into engineering management

  by gregdoesit on 8/22/2019, 3:01 AM with 1 comments

• Why Do Airlines Suffer So Many Tech Glitches?

  by gregdoesit on 8/21/2019, 7:11 AM with 0 comments

• A comment is an invitation for refactoring (2015)

  by gregdoesit on 8/19/2019, 2:24 PM with 1 comments

• Developers mentoring other developers

  by gregdoesit on 8/15/2019, 7:23 PM with 0 comments

• Forty and Still a Dev?

  by gregdoesit on 8/7/2019, 4:46 PM with 2 comments

• The Day You Became a Better Writer (2017)

  by gregdoesit on 8/2/2019, 1:12 PM with 0 comments

• An Elegant Puzzle book review: an overdue read for software engineering leads

  by gregdoesit on 7/31/2019, 9:33 PM with 0 comments

• by gregdoesit on 7/31/2019, 9:32 PM with comments

• Operating a large distributed system in a reliable way: practices I learned

  by gregdoesit on 7/17/2019, 6:07 PM with 61 comments

• Good Code Reviews, Better Code Reviews

  by gregdoesit on 7/6/2019, 2:37 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Distributed system areas you'd be interested in reading about

  by gregdoesit on 6/14/2019, 5:57 PM with 1 comments

• What I learned writing a book on engineering management

  by gregdoesit on 6/13/2019, 3:54 PM with 0 comments

• Good Code Reviews, Better Code Reviews

  by gregdoesit on 6/12/2019, 3:07 PM with 0 comments

• About Removing Medium from Hackernoon.com

  by gregdoesit on 6/1/2019, 7:47 PM with 5 comments

• Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well

  by gregdoesit on 5/31/2019, 2:18 PM with 371 comments

• Undervalued Software Engineering Skills: Writing Well

  by gregdoesit on 5/14/2019, 8:06 PM with 0 comments

• Scaling Engineering Teams via Writing Things Down and Sharing – Aka RFCs

  by gregdoesit on 10/3/2018, 8:11 PM with 1 comments

• Efficient Software Project Management at Its Roots

  by gregdoesit on 8/7/2018, 8:11 PM with 0 comments

• Distributed architecture concepts I learned when building a large payment system

  by gregdoesit on 4/16/2018, 8:14 PM with 74 comments

• Girl shot by boy dies in quarrel over video game

  by gregdoesit on 3/19/2018, 8:33 PM with 0 comments

• Things that helped me move into engineering management

  by gregdoesit on 12/19/2017, 10:22 PM with 0 comments

• Things I've learned transitioning from engineer to engineering manager

  by gregdoesit on 9/24/2017, 9:47 PM with 89 comments

• Ask HN: What do you use to back up mobile photos and videos straight to the cloud?

  by gregdoesit on 7/14/2017, 6:21 AM with 0 comments

• Facebook reports journalists to police for flagging possible child porn

  by gregdoesit on 3/7/2017, 5:03 PM with 0 comments

• What Does a Product Manager Really Do (at Twillio)?

  by gregdoesit on 8/17/2016, 9:58 PM with 0 comments

• US border control could start asking for social media accounts on landing forms

  by gregdoesit on 6/30/2016, 12:18 PM with 1 comments

• From complete beginner to author on the Ray Wenderlich team – in 3 years

  by gregdoesit on 6/28/2016, 12:02 PM with 0 comments

• Britain Removed from Euro Truck Simulator

  by gregdoesit on 6/24/2016, 4:38 PM with 0 comments

• Introducing TrumpScript: Making Python Great Again

  by gregdoesit on 5/26/2016, 6:30 AM with comments

• Peter Thiel Is Said to Bankroll Hulk Hogan’s Suit Against Gawker

  by gregdoesit on 5/25/2016, 10:43 AM with comments

• Help fight dementia by playing a mobile game

  by gregdoesit on 5/19/2016, 7:39 AM with 1 comments

• Parsey McParseface – the open source English language parser by Google

  by gregdoesit on 5/13/2016, 3:14 PM with comments

• Is Rails yesterday's software?

  by gregdoesit on 5/10/2016, 5:07 PM with comments

• How I rode the Hungarian social network app goldrush wave (while it lasted)

  by gregdoesit on 4/26/2016, 5:34 PM with 0 comments

• What is the exact difference between 'terminal', 'shell', 'tty' and 'console'?

  by gregdoesit on 4/8/2016, 10:49 AM with 0 comments

• Here's how to hack the BA website – to be able to buy a ticket

  by gregdoesit on 4/3/2016, 10:41 AM with 0 comments

• People cannot buy BA tickets because of jQuery not loaded

  by gregdoesit on 4/3/2016, 9:19 AM with 1 comments

• How at Skyscanner We Migrated Our Objective C Projects to Swift – Step by Step

  by gregdoesit on 3/23/2016, 5:31 PM with 0 comments

• How we make remote and distributed teams effective

  by gregdoesit on 3/2/2016, 12:02 PM with 0 comments

• Crowdcube crashed: too many people wanted to invest in app-only bank Mondo

  by gregdoesit on 2/29/2016, 9:12 PM with 0 comments

• Microsoft kills Project Astoria, its tool for porting Android apps to Windows 10

  by gregdoesit on 2/26/2016, 5:08 PM with 0 comments

• What to Say to Your Employees After Your Stock Loses 40% of Its Value

  by gregdoesit on 2/12/2016, 9:39 PM with 0 comments

• Transitioning from Objective C to Swift without rewriting the old code

  by gregdoesit on 2/10/2016, 9:30 AM with 1 comments

• How a College Student Used Creative Commons to Dominate Political Photography

  by gregdoesit on 2/6/2016, 1:58 PM with 70 comments

• US gun homocide rate 25x higher than other high income countries

  by gregdoesit on 2/5/2016, 8:56 PM with comments

• Keep your mobile phone out of your pocket, warns recent infertility study

  by gregdoesit on 2/3/2016, 7:05 PM with 0 comments

• How Flint traded safe drinking water for a cost cutting plan that didn't work

  by gregdoesit on 1/30/2016, 9:56 AM with 0 comments

• US military finds F-35 software is a buggy mess

  by gregdoesit on 1/29/2016, 12:39 PM with 142 comments

• A great developer can come from anywhere

  by gregdoesit on 1/19/2016, 10:02 PM with 0 comments

• My Code Ended Up Running an Oil Rig. These Are the 5 Things I Learned

  by gregdoesit on 12/23/2015, 4:59 PM with comments