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20 September
Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.
oh boy, my thing’s on hacker news, and while a lot of them are missing the point and dick swinging, they’re also mad that I don’t capitalise and say “bro” so much. 🙄🤣 i’M so SOrRY LaDs Related
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
18 September
Swedish open source developer; creator and lead maintainer of curl and libcurl, and a co-founder of the Rockbox project.
Last year I blogged about the vulnerability reporting process in #curl. It remains the same, just with about 3-4x the volume... daniel.haxx.se
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7 September
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
5 September
Swedish designer and programmer. Designed early Spotify, worked at Facebook and Figma, and created the Inter typeface.
Inter is having impact beyond my wildest dreams. When I started working on Inter ten years ago, I didn’t even expect it to survive the prototyping stage. Now it’s used by governments (including Switzerland, which is ironic in a way) and non-profit organizations around the world, bringing good typography to the people. It warms my heart to see so many young designers being able to express themselves in “Swiss style” without the need to break any laws. When I was a kid and an aspiring graphic designer, I could barely afford food and definitely did not have the money to buy font licenses. I wish… Quoting @SaberNaeemi Inter font is so popular these days on @googlefonts. Designed by @rsms, did you know at the beginning it was launched under the name "Interface" before being renamed to "Inter UI" and eventually shortened to just "Inter"? Related
26 August
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
Just blogged: It's very easy to pull email addresses from a data breach and make claims about scope that are completely wrong. Like - MASSIVELY wrong - for example: troyhunt.com
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17 August
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
12 August
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
Mastodon Clips from Hacker News Thread Instead of our real launch blog post, my little "I should probably mention this on my personal website"... chriscoyier.net
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Blog Clips from Hacker News Thread Instead of our real launch blog post, my little “I should probably mention this on my personal website” post is the one that hit Hacker News. Nevertheless, people got the message. What I loved about CodePen was just bei…
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27 July
Co-founder and head of policy at Anthropic; writes Import AI, a weekly newsletter reading the week's AI research, and was OpenAI's policy director before that.
26 July
Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.
29 June
British designer and technologist; co-founder of the design studio BERG, which made Little Printer, and writer of the blog Interconnected.
blogged some thoughts about form, and why the best product design in the world is this egg timer shaped like an egg interconnected.org
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17 June
Bootstrapper and investor. Founder of TinySeed and MicroConf, host of the Startups for the Rest of Us podcast, and author of several books on self-funded software startups.
I’m invested in 241 companies and have yet to see a successful startup get there by hiring a growth hacker. Growth is the responsibility of the founder(s) in every one of the dozens of @tinyseedfund companies growing quickly and doing 7 or 8-figures of ARR. Quoting @andruyeung After investing in 20+ companies, the most impactful first hire I've seen a founder make is a growth hacker type person who can figure out distribution. B2B: linkedin, events, AI outbound, AEO, blogs, long form writing, YouTube, webinars, X, influencers B2C: AI UGC, organic TikTok, paid social, eve… startups Related
12 June
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
28 May
Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.
26 May
Pseudonymous writer; posts careful, funny investigations of everyday questions — air quality, seed oils, arguing, chess — usually by reading the studies.
If you're a blogger (or aspiring blogger) interested in "progress", I recommend you consider applying for the roots in progress blog-building initiative. (Deadline June 1) rootsofprogress.org
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26 April
Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
14 April
Swedish essayist who writes Escaping Flatland, a newsletter of essays on relationships, thinking, writing and homeschooling.
8 April
Web infrastructure engineer and standards editor; chaired the IETF HTTP working group and co-authored core HTTP and Atom specifications.
Guidelines for aspiring Nobel Prize winners: 1. Do not threaten other countries with wholesale destruction and possible genocide. Related
11 March
American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.
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So I would, if I was to redo it today, or for any aspiring hero shooter makers out there, I would actually downplay the team factor, and try to put more focus on individual contribution.
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10 December 2025
Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".
22 October 2025
Programmer and writer; co-wrote The Rust Programming Language and worked on Rust's documentation for years.
I see a future in jj In December of 2012, I was home for Christmas, reading Hacker News. And that’s when I saw “ Rust 0.5 released ."" I’m a big fan of programming languages, so I decided to check it out. At the time, I was working on Ruby…
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15 October 2025
Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.
8 August 2025
Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.
What's new with Himitsu 0.9? Last week, Armin and I worked together on the latest release of Himitsu, a “secret storage manager” for Linux. I haven’t blogged about Himitsu since I announced it three years ago, and I thought it would be nice to give…
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17 July 2025
Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.
Really wish Hacker News would fork into "LLM news" and "all the other Hacker News". It's worse now than it was with crypto during the crypto bubble. Yes, gen-AI is important and I want to learn about it, but there are diminishing returns in yet another dude's breathless vibe coding blog post. LLMs crypto Related
17 March 2025
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
20 years of YC I saw recently that YCombinator celebrated its 20th anniversary. Hacker News is slightly younger, but to me the two go hand in hand. As far as I can tell, I actively started reading Hacker News around 2011. I don’…
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14 January 2025
Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.
6 November 2024
Interface designer and researcher, known for the talks Inventing on Principle and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable and for essays on dynamic representations of ideas. Founder of Dynamicland, where he is building a communal computer.
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A treasure of bit-manipulation algorithms.
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8 February 2024
Co-founder and partner at Union Square Ventures in New York. Has written the AVC blog almost every day since 2003, on venture capital, startups, music and crypto.
Hi Everyone. As many of you know, this account was taken over by a hacker on Tuesday and they ran an NFT scam on it. I feel terrible about that and am sorry for anyone who was scammed. Related
2 August 2022
Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.
1 August 2020
Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.
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For websites that are habit-forming but still feel useful on net, like Twitter or Hacker News, Focus lets me restrict my usage to certain times of day. It’s the only website blocker I’ve used that lets me fully automate blocking things in the exact way I want.
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22 October 2013
Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.
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Stayfocusd keeps me (mostly) focussed during the work day, and keeps me from distractions like Hacker News and The Old Reader.
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20 June 2012
Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.
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I have a script which mails to Instapaper the Hacker News front page twice a day. From there I can just tap on things and read them later, at any time, with Instapaper on my iPad or Windows Phone.
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