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emschwartz / README.md
Last active June 7, 2026 10:32
The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025

This is an OPML version of the HN Popularity Contest results for 2025, for importing into RSS feed readers.

Plug: if you want to find content related to your interests from thousands of obscure blogs and noisy sources like HN Newest, check out Scour. It's a free, personalized content feed I work on where you define your interests in your own words and it ranks content based on how closely related it is to those topics.

@gwpantazes
gwpantazes / How to Install JDK MacOS Homebrew.md
Last active May 4, 2026 09:10
How to install different JDK versions on MacOS with Homebrew

How To Install Different JDK Versions on MacOS with Homebrew

Keywords: Java, JDK (Java Development Kit), MacOS, Homebrew, Specific Version

This how-to guide covers how to install different versions of the JDK on MacOS with Homebrew.

Table of Contents

@vasanthk
vasanthk / System Design.md
Last active June 8, 2026 10:45
System Design Cheatsheet

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

  1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system
  • User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
    • Who is going to use it?
    • How are they going to use it?
@soarez
soarez / ca.md
Last active May 11, 2026 19:21
How to setup your own CA with OpenSSL

How to setup your own CA with OpenSSL

For educational reasons I've decided to create my own CA. Here is what I learned.

First things first

Lets get some context first.

@ragingwind
ragingwind / Backend Architectures Keywords and References.md
Last active February 24, 2026 02:06
Backend Architectures Keywords and References
@harperreed
harperreed / peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-01-notes-essay.md
Created July 29, 2012 21:20
Notes Essays—Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup—Stanford, Spring 2012

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 1 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely.

CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—The Challenge of the Future

Purpose and Preamble

@chitchcock
chitchcock / 20111011_SteveYeggeGooglePlatformRant.md
Created October 12, 2011 15:53
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

@dholmes
dholmes / gist:1165580
Created August 23, 2011 15:56
[dojo] uncheck all the dijit checkBoxes contained within a single form, div, etc
dojo.query('#teamMemberInvitesList input[type=checkbox]').forEach(
function(node){
var checkbox = dijit.getEnclosingWidget(node);
if(checkbox){
checkbox.attr('checked',false);
}
}
);