karterk

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• We bought billboards in San Francisco, for our open source product

  by karterk on 4/15/2025, 2:23 PM with 1 comments

• What it takes for a foreigner to create a company in India

  by karterk on 5/28/2023, 8:50 AM with 0 comments

• The Great Pandemic Bull Trap

  by karterk on 1/23/2023, 2:48 PM with 0 comments

• Zero-Cost Memory Safety with Vale Regions (Preview)

  by karterk on 11/18/2022, 1:56 PM with 0 comments

• by karterk on 11/13/2022, 4:12 PM with comments

• No Wires, No Electricity: First Nitrogen-Powered Air Con

  by karterk on 8/11/2022, 9:52 AM with 2 comments

• Elon Musk Secures $7.1 Billion in New Financing for Twitter Deal

  by karterk on 5/5/2022, 1:14 PM with 0 comments

• Game over, IAP. FortniteGame has set us all free

  by karterk on 9/10/2021, 3:50 PM with 0 comments

• The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday

  by karterk on 7/14/2021, 1:59 PM with 579 comments

• President Trump announces to reporters that he’s banning TikTok

  by karterk on 8/1/2020, 2:44 AM with 14 comments

• Typesense: Open-Source Alternative to Algolia

  by karterk on 1/29/2020, 3:20 PM with 54 comments

• Show HN: Typesense – typo tolerant, delightfully simple, open source search

  by karterk on 4/5/2018, 3:00 PM with 2 comments

• Caltech’s 2500 Orbiting Solar Panels Could Provide Earth with Limitless Energy

  by karterk on 10/27/2017, 2:34 PM with comments

• Ask HN: Why does Tesla battery last so long, but not mobile and laptop battery?

  by karterk on 8/18/2017, 5:26 PM with 1 comments

• ISRO carries out successful test demo of its own reusable launch vehicle

  by karterk on 5/23/2016, 3:51 AM with comments

• The First Person to Hack the iPhone Built a Self-Driving Car

  by karterk on 12/24/2015, 11:56 AM with 0 comments

• Sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere to create carbon nanofibers

  by karterk on 8/20/2015, 12:40 PM with 0 comments

• My framework for generating great interview problems

  by karterk on 2/24/2015, 3:35 PM with 0 comments

• The forgotten comma operator

  by karterk on 1/13/2015, 3:16 PM with 0 comments

• Analyzing YC14 companies' hosting decisions

  by karterk on 1/7/2015, 2:51 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Managed bare-metal hosting recommendation

  by karterk on 11/4/2014, 3:56 PM with 11 comments

• Show HN: Codassium – A better way to conduct remote interviews

  by karterk on 8/13/2014, 3:57 PM with 14 comments

• Good code seldom emerges right away

  by karterk on 6/5/2014, 3:12 PM with 0 comments

• ‘Sell me this pen:’ The real answer to The Wolf of Wall Street’s challenge

  by karterk on 4/23/2014, 1:02 PM with 4 comments

• Gunning fog index

  by karterk on 12/18/2013, 12:55 PM with 1 comments

• Ask PG: Why did the JustFab post get killed?

  by karterk on 9/30/2013, 12:59 PM with 3 comments

• Stop asking about stuff one doesn't need to get the job done

  by karterk on 9/24/2013, 3:27 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Visiting Singapore next week. Coffee?

  by karterk on 9/4/2013, 2:24 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Experience with Hetzner?

  by karterk on 5/30/2013, 3:33 PM with 1 comments

• Performance tuning as the art of weather forecast

  by karterk on 5/2/2013, 7:15 AM with 0 comments

• Importance of context – takeaway from Dustin’s post

  by karterk on 5/1/2013, 2:26 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Codassium - WebRTC-based video chat and code editor for interviews

  by karterk on 4/4/2013, 4:47 PM with 59 comments

• What's new in purely functional data structures since Okasaki?

  by karterk on 3/26/2013, 10:52 AM with 0 comments

• HDFS file append design

  by karterk on 3/22/2013, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• Chart.js is back online

  by karterk on 3/19/2013, 4:24 PM with 119 comments

• The comeback of static typing

  by karterk on 2/24/2013, 4:18 PM with 111 comments

• On being a Roman in Rome

  by karterk on 1/26/2013, 6:03 PM with 15 comments

• Why Not Events

  by karterk on 12/26/2012, 4:46 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Experience selling non-hosted web app?

  by karterk on 9/3/2012, 5:11 PM with 2 comments

• The Maven

  by karterk on 8/13/2012, 3:39 PM with 0 comments

• How LinkedIn Gets TWENTY Times More Money Per User Than Facebook

  by karterk on 7/4/2012, 2:29 PM with 1 comments

• Twitter hands your data to the highest bidder, but not to you

  by karterk on 5/24/2012, 8:02 AM with 0 comments

• Fancy ML techniques don’t matter

  by karterk on 5/13/2012, 4:23 AM with 1 comments

• Community and Diversity

  by karterk on 4/6/2012, 7:03 AM with 0 comments

• by karterk on 3/19/2012, 4:23 AM with comments

• A Lean Story for Eric Ries at SXSW: MedChart

  by karterk on 3/17/2012, 12:53 PM with 0 comments

• When users out-think you

  by karterk on 3/16/2012, 7:20 PM with 0 comments

• Speaking Up to a Stranger

  by karterk on 3/15/2012, 9:46 AM with 0 comments

• Google patent search (search over 8 million patents)

  by karterk on 3/14/2012, 7:51 AM with 0 comments

• Fibers and Threads in node.js

  by karterk on 3/12/2012, 4:55 AM with 2 comments

• Classifier Showdown

  by karterk on 3/10/2012, 4:10 PM with 0 comments

• The Return of "Best Viewed in..."

  by karterk on 3/5/2012, 8:30 AM with 0 comments

• Eye-Opening Highlights From a Creationist Science Textbook

  by karterk on 3/2/2012, 3:50 PM with 0 comments

• WTF QR Codes - Celebrating the ridiculousness that is QR codes

  by karterk on 2/29/2012, 3:55 PM with 0 comments

• Wall St. Bonus Drop Means Trading Aspen for Discount Cereal

  by karterk on 2/29/2012, 3:48 PM with 0 comments

• Standing invitation: if you want to talk software, I want to talk to you

  by karterk on 2/29/2012, 7:13 AM with 21 comments

• HTML5 Context Menus

  by karterk on 2/27/2012, 4:50 PM with 0 comments

• Interviewing Engineers? Enough with the whiteboard coding

  by karterk on 2/27/2012, 1:55 PM with 0 comments

• Whether it's one hundred or one billion users, we should all recognize success

  by karterk on 2/26/2012, 5:51 AM with 0 comments

• A peek at the all new Basecamp calendar

  by karterk on 2/22/2012, 2:13 AM with 6 comments

• Meetings: Where Work Goes to Die

  by karterk on 2/14/2012, 10:23 AM with 85 comments

• Javascript, node.js and for loops

  by karterk on 2/13/2012, 4:39 PM with 0 comments

• If I were an architect

  by karterk on 2/13/2012, 3:29 PM with 0 comments

• Measure Anything, Measure Everything

  by karterk on 2/11/2012, 6:21 PM with 0 comments

• Mobile users don’t do that

  by karterk on 2/11/2012, 1:56 PM with 0 comments

• Real men don't attack straw men (2007)

  by karterk on 2/10/2012, 1:15 PM with 0 comments

• Rules of a Zen programmer

  by karterk on 2/10/2012, 1:11 PM with 42 comments

• GetUserMedia - access a user’s camera and microphone via JavaScript

  by karterk on 2/7/2012, 4:01 PM with 0 comments

• Plans for Isolates in Node.js dropped

  by karterk on 2/4/2012, 3:46 AM with 0 comments

• Thoughts on Socket.IO

  by karterk on 1/30/2012, 2:35 PM with 0 comments

• What I Learned From Reviewing 45+ Websites

  by karterk on 1/27/2012, 1:15 PM with 0 comments

• The Road we didn't go down (what's wrong with RPC)

  by karterk on 1/23/2012, 5:24 PM with 0 comments

• Object Calisthenics

  by karterk on 1/8/2012, 1:19 PM with 0 comments

• Distilled NodeJS Patterns

  by karterk on 1/5/2012, 3:17 PM with 0 comments

• ECMAScript harmony features in Google Chrome Canary

  by karterk on 12/26/2011, 1:20 PM with 0 comments

• Abusing Scala’s anonymous argument

  by karterk on 12/7/2011, 1:45 PM with 0 comments

• Implementing __noSuchMethod__ in JavaScript using Proxies

  by karterk on 12/6/2011, 4:55 AM with 0 comments

• Simple design tips for non designers

  by karterk on 12/2/2011, 3:21 PM with 0 comments

• The Script Tag

  by karterk on 12/1/2011, 2:31 PM with 0 comments

• Fixing the JavaScript typeof operator

  by karterk on 11/30/2011, 4:03 PM with 0 comments

• Pricing experiments you might not know, but can learn from

  by karterk on 11/28/2011, 3:57 PM with 0 comments

• Thoughts on Scala from a newcomer

  by karterk on 11/28/2011, 3:54 PM with 0 comments

• ECMAScript 6 looks promising

  by karterk on 11/24/2011, 2:36 PM with 88 comments

• Deprecating the Observer Pattern [pdf]

  by karterk on 11/21/2011, 1:43 PM with 0 comments

• Scala - Time to encourage meaningful type parameter names?

  by karterk on 11/21/2011, 4:24 AM with 0 comments

• Cupcake Wrapper Creator at Eight Months

  by karterk on 11/16/2011, 4:04 PM with 0 comments

• Three Mistakes I Made With MongoDB

  by karterk on 11/12/2011, 8:37 AM with 0 comments

• Scala is Not a Functional Programming Language

  by karterk on 11/2/2011, 2:29 PM with 0 comments

• Dereferencing deeply nested properties in JavaScript

  by karterk on 10/31/2011, 1:33 PM with 0 comments

• They laughed when I sat down at the piano, but when I started to play

  by karterk on 10/29/2011, 3:21 PM with 6 comments

• Getting What You Want Without Formal Credentials

  by karterk on 10/19/2011, 2:25 PM with 0 comments

• The cult of the NDA

  by karterk on 6/23/2011, 4:59 PM with 0 comments

• Is Your Startup Solving a Worthwhile Problem?

  by karterk on 6/23/2011, 4:56 PM with 1 comments

• What’s your goof up strategy?

  by karterk on 6/22/2011, 4:06 PM with 0 comments

• SMS API for international numbers

  by karterk on 6/17/2011, 5:22 PM with 0 comments

• What a road seller taught me about selling

  by karterk on 6/11/2011, 1:07 PM with 3 comments

• Bjarne Stroustrup: "I Did It For You All..."

  by karterk on 2/16/2011, 8:20 AM with -1 comments

• 9 Challenges in Node.js

  by karterk on 1/6/2011, 4:24 PM with 0 comments

• Implement text-overflow: ellipsis from CSS3 in Firefox (pending from 2005)

  by karterk on 1/6/2011, 10:53 AM with 0 comments

• How to avoid losing a unused terminal command line

  by karterk on 11/30/2010, 4:30 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What do guys think about the Chrome web store?

  by karterk on 10/20/2010, 11:55 AM with 1 comments