Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out most applicants
If you have a remote position open, your challenge is not attracting the correct candidate, it’s filtering out the bad ones, because you’ll have hundreds or thousands of them. This my favorite technique:Add a programming knockout question to the application process that is so simple to solve that only* unqualified developers will not do it […]
I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
Edit: A few people on HN have pointed out that this article sounds a little LLM generated. That’s because it’s largely a transcript of me panicking and talking to Claude. Sorry if it reads poorly, the incident really happened though! Or: How I learned that “I don’t use Next.js” doesn’t mean your dependencies don’t use […]
OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer
Starting with OBS Studio 32.0.0 a new renderer backend based on Apple’s Metal graphics API is available for users to test as an experimental alternative to the existing OpenGL backend on macOS. This marks an important step in OBS Studio’s development to adapt one of the modern APIs that deliberately broke with the past to […]
Inside PostHog: SSRF, ClickHouse SQL Escape and Default Postgres Creds to RCE
It was yet another day at the office. Our team was internally discussing moving to a different platform analytics solution. Our team was really leaning more towards Posthog. It’s one of the brilliant -I personally believe it’s the best- products on the market. And that’s where the story has begun… We have a somewhat unconventional—some […]
Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?
This post was inspired by a question that another Substack blogger received earlier this month. I felt that his answer started off on the right track, then veered off course. So I decided to write my own response. To start, here’s the question that inspired this post: Can you explain why it makes economic sense […]
Show HN: X Writer – Tweet from VS Code Without Distractions (BYOK, Open Source)
VS Code extension to post tweets to Twitter/X directly from your editor. 🔐 BYOK (Bring Your Own Keys): Your credentials, your total control. ✍️ Fast Posting: Post tweets without leaving VS Code. 🎯 Smart Context: Select code → Right Click → Automatic Tweet. 🛡️ Limit Protection: Automatic counter (17 tweets/day). 📊 Real-time Counter: Visualize characters […]
FIFA Arrives on Netflix Games
This summer, as the world gathers to celebrate the FIFA World Cup 2026, fans can play a newly reimagined FIFA football simulation game exclusively on Netflix Games. The game, developed and published by Delphi Interactive, allows Netflix members to experience the emotion and drama of the tournament in its purest, most joyful form — in a format […]
Learn Lisp/Fennel Programming Against Neovim
A series of Neovim Plugin Development introduction articles, using Fennel as the programming language to explain Lisp, FP, and advanced programming ideas. Exploring Fennel and Functional Programming in Neovim In the AI era, developers need to think about new development paradigms: ”AI helps us quickly generate code, but debugging and verification still require active developer […]
Show HN: High-Performance Wavelet Matrix for Python, Implemented in Rust
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Show HN: Tonbo – an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes
Website | Rust Doc | Blog | Community Tonbo is an embedded database for serverless and edge runtimes. Your data is stored as Parquet on S3, coordination happens through a manifest, and compute stays fully stateless. Why Tonbo? Serverless compute is stateless, but your data isn’t. Tonbo bridges this gap: Async-first: The entire storage and […]