Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired
I wanted to briefly share my experience as a senior engineer with 15 years of experience trying to find work in this market, because it was exhausting for me and i’m sure others will appreciate the perspective. As the title says, I have applied to over 450 positions. Most companies did not even send me […]
Google Pixel 10 series review: Don’t call it an Android
I’ve been using a pre-production version of the new software, but even for early Pixel software, there have been more minor UI hitches than expected. Several times, I’ve seen status bar icons disappear, app display issues, and image edits becoming garbled. There are no showstopping bugs, but the new software could do with a little […]
10-20x Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End – Code Generation
5 years ago, @nikic wrote: I can’t say a 10% improvement is making LLVM fast again, we would need a 10x improvement for it to deserve that label. We recently open-sourced TPDE and our fast LLVM baseline back-end (TPDE-LLVM), which is 10-20x faster than the LLVM -O0 back-end with similar runtime performance and 10-30% larger […]
Free AI Tool Removes Image Backgrounds in Seconds
What is AI Background Removal? AI background removal is an advanced technology that uses machine learning algorithms to automatically detect and remove backgrounds from images. Our tool leverages cutting-edge AI models to provide precise, professional-quality results without manual editing. How Does It Work? Our AI background remover uses sophisticated neural networks trained on millions of […]
I sat down with Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon
i sat down with werner vogels | everton’s about blog 30 Aug, 2025 a few days ago, i had the surreal experience of joining a private fireside chat with werner vogels, the cto of amazon, during startup summit 2025 in florianópolis. it’s one thing to follow his talks online – it’s another to be in […]
SynthID
Generative AI can help us all to be more creative, productive, and innovative. But it can be hard to tell the difference between content that’s been AI-generated, and content created without AI. SynthID is our new watermarking tool, designed specifically for AI-generated content. It empowers users to identify AI-generated (or altered) content, helping to foster […]
Pentagon Docs: US Wants to “Suppress Dissenting Arguments” Using AI Propaganda
The United States hopes to use machine learning to create and distribute propaganda overseas in a bid to “influence foreign target audiences” and “suppress dissenting arguments,” according to a U.S. Special Operations Command document reviewed by The Intercept. The document, a sort of special operations wishlist of near-future military technology, reveals new details about a […]
Why Romania excels in international Olympiads
Olympiads are international student intellectual competitions in which students from across the world go toe-to-toe answering questions in mathematics, physics, informatics, chemistry, and more. The best performers tend to be from countries like China, the United States, India, and Japan. But, somehow, the southeastern European country of Romania also frequently tops the list. Since 2020, […]
Nginx-CGI brings support for CGI to Nginx and angie
Brings CGI support to Nginx and Angie webserver. OS Tested with Nginx Angie Linux AlmaLinux 9, Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04/20.04 okay okay Darwin MacOS 15.1 okay okay BSD FreeBSD 14.2 and OpenBSD 7.6 okay okay Solaris OmniOS r1510521 okay okay Windows No plan, nginx barely supports Windows Before everything CGI is neither a demon […]
Writing a Hypervisor in 1k Lines
I’ve wrote a tutorial on building a hypervisor from scratch in 1,000 lines of code (website). Few chapters are still in progress, but it’s already good enough to get you started. More specifically, type-1 hypervisor on 64-bit RISC-V with the hypervisor extension (on QEMU). The book is for developers who have finished Operating System in […]