emschwartz / README.md

Last active February 15, 2026 11:51

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.

veekaybee / normcore-llm.md

Last active February 15, 2026 05:25

Normcore LLM Reads

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

ole / thirty-days-of-metal.md

Last active February 14, 2026 18:23

Warren Moore – Thirty Days of Metal

Great series of short articles introducing Apple's Metal framework.

2022-04-01: Day 1: Devices
2022-04-02: Day 2: Buffers
2022-04-03: Day 3: Commands
2022-04-04: Day 4: MTKView
2022-04-05: Day 5: Shaders
2022-04-06: Day 6: Pipelines

staltz / introrx.md

Last active February 14, 2026 01:56

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

debasishg / gist:8172796

Last active February 11, 2026 21:34

A collection of links for streaming algorithms and data structures

General Background and Overview

Probabilistic Data Structures for Web Analytics and Data Mining : A great overview of the space of probabilistic data structures and how they are used in approximation algorithm implementation.
Models and Issues in Data Stream Systems
Philippe Flajolet’s contribution to streaming algorithms : A presentation by Jérémie Lumbroso that visits some of the hostorical perspectives and how it all began with Flajolet
Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams by Gurmeet Singh Manku & Rajeev Motwani : One of the early papers on the subject.
[Methods for Finding Frequent Items in Data Streams](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.187.9800&rep=rep1&t

ragingwind / Backend Architectures Keywords and References.md

Last active October 22, 2025 20:58

Backend Architectures Keywords and References

Backend Architectures

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