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• Ask HN: What book(s) are you reading?

  by zatkin on 10/2/2025, 11:25 AM with 1 comments

• Swift Profile Recorder, an in-process sampling profiler

  by zatkin on 10/2/2025, 11:22 AM with 0 comments

• Pkl – Configuration That Is Programmable, Scalable, and Safe

  by zatkin on 2/2/2024, 8:07 PM with 0 comments

• Discord Is Down

  by zatkin on 6/21/2022, 6:34 AM with 4 comments

• Teamwork on the Fly

  by zatkin on 4/12/2022, 9:43 AM with 0 comments

• On architecture, urban planning and software construction

  by zatkin on 5/10/2021, 7:39 AM with 0 comments

• No Frills

  by zatkin on 1/9/2020, 5:28 AM with 0 comments

• Apple Edge Cache

  by zatkin on 12/16/2019, 4:35 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How would you solve the spam problem at Gmail?

  by zatkin on 12/5/2019, 6:02 PM with 7 comments

• Apple Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation as Platinum End User Member

  by zatkin on 6/11/2019, 4:56 PM with 0 comments

• The Cloud Is Just Another Sun

  by zatkin on 3/14/2019, 3:42 PM with 0 comments

• Jetty class EatWhatYouKill

  by zatkin on 5/16/2018, 8:48 PM with 0 comments

• Tesla Model X 100D silent failure

  by zatkin on 3/13/2018, 10:28 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What books are you currently reading?

  by zatkin on 7/26/2017, 7:20 PM with 80 comments

• How to get free food on GrubHub

  by zatkin on 7/5/2017, 4:06 AM with 0 comments

• Verizon reintroduces unlimited data plan as competition rises

  by zatkin on 2/13/2017, 6:48 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Things programmers should get rid of in 2017

  by zatkin on 12/1/2016, 5:11 PM with 28 comments

• The impossible task of removing my DigitalOcean IP from AT&T’s RBL

  by zatkin on 11/15/2016, 1:40 AM with 0 comments

• Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec

  by zatkin on 10/7/2016, 6:57 PM with 30 comments

• An Analysis of the Labor Market for Uber's Drivers in the US (2015) [pdf]

  by zatkin on 9/29/2016, 4:17 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Are there ways to make money online while I search for a salaried job?

  by zatkin on 9/28/2016, 3:01 AM with 3 comments

• The Marginal Advantage

  by zatkin on 9/21/2016, 4:31 AM with 0 comments

• Why Node Sass broke your code and SemVer

  by zatkin on 8/24/2016, 7:38 PM with 0 comments

• Looking up strangers on Facebook

  by zatkin on 8/5/2016, 11:35 PM with 0 comments

• Free private GitHub repos for everyone

  by zatkin on 5/13/2016, 4:28 PM with 0 comments

• Docker Must Die: Heresy in the Church of Docker

  by zatkin on 4/26/2016, 8:48 PM with 0 comments

• Thanks Google Photos

  by zatkin on 4/26/2016, 5:24 AM with 0 comments

• The Michael Jackson problem

  by zatkin on 4/23/2016, 11:50 PM with 0 comments

• The Decline of Sears

  by zatkin on 2/20/2016, 2:35 PM with 119 comments

• Facebook and Twitter Announce Support for Apple in Backdoor Dispute with FBI

  by zatkin on 2/19/2016, 11:30 PM with 0 comments

• Facebook's Free Basics Blocked by Indian Regulators

  by zatkin on 2/9/2016, 3:10 AM with comments

• Apple Pay is useless if you have a chip in your card

  by zatkin on 1/21/2016, 12:09 AM with 4 comments

• Misht.me – 50 Programming Interview Questions in Your Inbox, one Email per Week

  by zatkin on 1/17/2016, 8:07 AM with 0 comments

• How much money has been spent bringing Matt Damon back home?

  by zatkin on 12/28/2015, 4:33 AM with 13 comments

• Skype for Windows is broken

  by zatkin on 12/11/2015, 2:08 AM with 42 comments

• Someone left my Gmail in debug mode

  by zatkin on 12/1/2015, 12:14 AM with 51 comments

• Living in different worlds

  by zatkin on 11/24/2015, 12:38 AM with 0 comments

• Introducing YouTube Music

  by zatkin on 11/12/2015, 6:15 PM with 0 comments

• Officehours - get 10 minutes of free 1-on-1 advice

  by zatkin on 11/9/2015, 12:12 AM with 0 comments

• Git Tools – Signing Your Work

  by zatkin on 10/29/2015, 2:24 AM with 1 comments

• Play a Sequence

  by zatkin on 10/25/2015, 3:32 AM with 3 comments

• DroneSeed – Re-planting the future with drones

  by zatkin on 10/21/2015, 9:35 PM with 8 comments

• PC Does What

  by zatkin on 10/15/2015, 11:43 PM with 0 comments

• WildFireWeb v. Tinder, Trademark Infringement

  by zatkin on 10/15/2015, 3:45 AM with 0 comments

• RIAA sues 'Popcorn Time for Music'

  by zatkin on 10/14/2015, 4:24 PM with 0 comments

• How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love

  by zatkin on 10/14/2015, 3:40 AM with 0 comments

• Yank - Terminal output to clipboard

  by zatkin on 10/13/2015, 5:25 PM with 0 comments

• 28 Months on Mars

  by zatkin on 10/5/2015, 10:02 PM with 0 comments

• Oracle's “planned obsolescence” for Java

  by zatkin on 10/3/2015, 3:31 AM with comments

• Ask HN: What are you working on this week?

  by zatkin on 9/28/2015, 6:54 PM with 30 comments

• Ask HN: Limiting CPU, memory, and I/O usage on a program for testing

  by zatkin on 9/26/2015, 11:23 PM with 1 comments

• AWS Grants for Research and Education

  by zatkin on 9/22/2015, 2:50 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Where are these avatars made?

  by zatkin on 9/21/2015, 12:45 PM with 0 comments

• by zatkin on 9/21/2015, 12:01 PM with comments

• AWS Product Names Are Terrible

  by zatkin on 9/20/2015, 7:30 AM with 0 comments

• Parallel Java 2 Library

  by zatkin on 9/20/2015, 4:35 AM with 4 comments

• Hacker's Delight

  by zatkin on 9/18/2015, 4:47 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Is there any reading material for Mach-O?

  by zatkin on 9/15/2015, 4:30 AM with 3 comments

• Show HN: Text Memorize – A command-line utility to help memorize text

  by zatkin on 8/30/2015, 10:30 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Where are these avatars made?

  by zatkin on 8/29/2015, 6:56 PM with 1 comments

• What would Google be like in the 1960's?

  by zatkin on 8/15/2015, 3:36 AM with 1 comments

• Protected Intersections for Bicyclists

  by zatkin on 8/14/2015, 6:55 AM with 0 comments

• Some thoughts on social networking services

  by zatkin on 8/8/2015, 6:30 AM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: What software do you use to run your RESTful API?

  by zatkin on 8/6/2015, 7:23 AM with 2 comments

• What if Google+ failed because Google already has a social presence?

  by zatkin on 8/3/2015, 4:24 AM with 0 comments

• Crack the Code – San José Semaphore

  by zatkin on 8/1/2015, 7:04 AM with 0 comments

• Some of the cars on Uber's maps don't really exist

  by zatkin on 7/30/2015, 4:04 AM with comments

• A new technology could drastically extend your phone battery

  by zatkin on 7/27/2015, 1:01 AM with 0 comments

• Google Voice Gets Neural Network-Powered Transcription to Slash Errors

  by zatkin on 7/26/2015, 11:18 PM with 1 comments

• Why I'm dumping Google Chrome

  by zatkin on 7/23/2015, 2:33 AM with 1 comments

• Kalyhost is closing

  by zatkin on 7/22/2015, 4:07 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: I have an idea – who can I trust?

  by zatkin on 7/20/2015, 7:32 PM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: I want to write an iPhone app. What tools and resources should I use?

  by zatkin on 7/19/2015, 7:33 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Why is Flash so vulnerable?

  by zatkin on 7/17/2015, 6:18 AM with 15 comments

• Imagining MessageKit: Apple’s path to turning iMessage into a platform

  by zatkin on 6/23/2015, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How does a software engineer become an executive at a big company?

  by zatkin on 6/11/2015, 1:34 AM with 5 comments

• Slack CEO: Rest Easy, Email. We're Not Out to Kill You

  by zatkin on 6/3/2015, 1:52 PM with 0 comments

• Genderize – Using regular expressions to determine gender

  by zatkin on 5/20/2015, 4:09 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Where can I find a list of technologies and what they're really good at?

  by zatkin on 5/13/2015, 4:06 AM with 0 comments

• by zatkin on 5/5/2015, 12:14 AM with comments

• Ask HN: Should I unplug my laptop charger at 100%?

  by zatkin on 5/4/2015, 6:08 PM with 237 comments

• fartscroll.js | Everyone farts. And now your web pages can too.

  by zatkin on 4/26/2015, 2:16 AM with comments

• Ask HN: Besides HN, what websites would you recommend routinely reading and why?

  by zatkin on 4/25/2015, 8:19 AM with 4 comments

• The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever

  by zatkin on 4/19/2015, 12:39 AM with 35 comments

• French Senate Backs Bid to Force Google to Disclose Search Algorithm Workings

  by zatkin on 4/17/2015, 1:05 PM with 0 comments

• by zatkin on 4/14/2015, 3:49 PM with comments

• PJW's Face

  by zatkin on 4/14/2015, 4:09 AM with 0 comments

• Cities Skylines: A new tool for understanding urban and transport issues

  by zatkin on 4/13/2015, 11:07 PM with 0 comments

• Ellen Pao loses sex bias case against Kleiner

  by zatkin on 3/28/2015, 3:26 AM with 0 comments

• The Apple Listserv

  by zatkin on 3/19/2015, 11:11 PM with 0 comments

• Google Code Exporter on GitHub

  by zatkin on 3/13/2015, 3:08 AM with 0 comments

• Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson (1999)

  by zatkin on 3/10/2015, 2:55 PM with 2 comments

• Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database [pdf]

  by zatkin on 3/10/2015, 2:50 PM with 0 comments

• Keep Your Dongles Close

  by zatkin on 3/9/2015, 7:40 PM with 0 comments

• Plan 9 from Bell Labs (1995) [pdf]

  by zatkin on 3/9/2015, 4:14 AM with 8 comments

• by zatkin on 3/4/2015, 2:09 PM with comments

• Hyperpolyglot

  by zatkin on 2/28/2015, 12:40 PM with comments

• Valve Censoring Torrent References in Steam Chat

  by zatkin on 2/28/2015, 12:55 AM with 0 comments

• by zatkin on 2/28/2015, 12:52 AM with comments

• Higher-Order Functions in JavaScript

  by zatkin on 2/25/2015, 1:36 PM with 31 comments

• Trouble Ahead? Searching for Google's Future

  by zatkin on 2/25/2015, 5:32 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: To you, what is a 'full-stack developer/engineer'?

  by zatkin on 2/16/2015, 1:28 PM with 4 comments

• by zatkin on 2/16/2015, 1:28 PM with comments

• Ask HN: How do I find a good start up to apply for?

  by zatkin on 1/21/2015, 3:17 PM with 2 comments

• NSA: Linux Journal readers get flagged for extra surveillance

  by zatkin on 7/3/2014, 8:38 PM with 1 comments

• Multiline strings in JavaScript

  by zatkin on 6/28/2014, 2:45 PM with 1 comments

• Collection of high resolution web browser logos with transparent backgrounds

  by zatkin on 6/21/2014, 1:31 AM with 1 comments

• ANSI-C function call performance is about 530x that of Python

  by zatkin on 6/12/2014, 9:50 PM with 12 comments

• Ask HN: Thoughts on Understanding Cryptography by Paar/Pelzl?

  by zatkin on 6/11/2014, 1:58 AM with 0 comments

• Synchtube is back – introducing Stations (beta)

  by zatkin on 5/26/2014, 1:15 AM with 0 comments

• How does one get started with UI design?

  by zatkin on 5/11/2014, 10:50 PM with 2 comments

• A Gameboy Emulator written in JavaScript and then rewritten in Rust

  by zatkin on 5/4/2014, 12:59 AM with 1 comments

• Within the next 50 years, Linux will dominate the OS market.

  by zatkin on 4/20/2014, 11:21 AM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: Has anyone heard of Google Weather?

  by zatkin on 4/16/2014, 9:57 PM with 0 comments