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The power of two random choices (2012)

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2012/01/17/two-random.html

33•signa11•3d ago

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jauntywundrkind•2h ago

(2012)

Amazing technique. Previous submissions, and another good one on load balancing via PoTRC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39283595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24877341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37143376

wonger_•1h ago

A helpful visualization, from a past discussion: https://xcancel.com/grantslatton/status/1754912113246798036

atorodius•2h ago

neat trick indeed. would be cool to do the math and get an analytical formula of mean queue time given cache refresh for a given k, under some mild assumptions.

CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the 100 largest low-wage corporations

https://ips-dc.org/report-executive-excess-2025/

25•hhs•20m ago•0 comments

Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/python-abc/

66•agluszak•2h ago•9 comments

How does the US use water?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-does-the-us-use-water

79•juliangamble•10h ago•50 comments

AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/8289

400•freetonik•3h ago•189 comments

DeepSeek-v3.1 Release

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news250821

183•wertyk•3h ago•36 comments

An interactive guide to SVG paths

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/interactive-guide-to-paths/

143•joshwcomeau•3d ago•14 comments

A Decoder Ring for AI Job Titles

https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/21/a-guide-to-ai-titles.html

30•dbreunig•3h ago•26 comments

Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00191

182•brandonb•7h ago•37 comments

Text.ai (YC X25) Is Hiring Founding Full-Stack Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/text-ai/jobs/OJBr0v2-founding-full-stack-engineer

1•RushiSushi•1h ago

Miles from the ocean, there's diving beneath the streets of Budapest

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/travel/budapest-diving-molnar-janos-cave

75•thm•3d ago•9 comments

My other email client is a daemon

https://feyor.sh/blog/my-other-email-client-is-a-mail-daemon/

60•aebtebeten•13h ago•14 comments

Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/21/weaponizing-image-scaling-against-production-ai-systems/

295•tatersolid•10h ago•75 comments

Beyond the Logo: How We're Weaving Full Images Inside QR Codes

https://blog.nitroqr.com/beyond-the-logo-how-were-weaving-full-images-inside-qr-codes

11•bhasinanant•3d ago•5 comments

How well does the money laundering control system work?

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/735665

150•PaulHoule•9h ago•146 comments

D4D4

https://www.nmichaels.org/musings/d4d4/d4d4/

426•csense•4d ago•49 comments

Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit

https://emersion.fr/blog/2025/using-podman-compose-and-buildkit/

229•LaSombra•11h ago•65 comments

Building AI products in the probabilistic era

https://giansegato.com/essays/probabilistic-era

74•sdan•3h ago•43 comments

The power of two random choices (2012)

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2012/01/17/two-random.html

33•signa11•3d ago•3 comments

Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

https://mavericksforever.com/

262•Wowfunhappy•3d ago•110 comments

The contrarian physics podcast subculture

https://timothynguyen.org/2025/08/21/physics-grifters-eric-weinstein-sabine-hossenfelder-and-a-crisis-of-credibility/

124•Emerson1•5h ago•151 comments

The Core of Rust

https://jyn.dev/the-core-of-rust/

123•zdw•5h ago•102 comments

Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products

32•benjsm•7h ago•27 comments

Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/08/21/zuckerberg-freezes-ai-hiring-amid-bubble-fears/

630•pera•11h ago•629 comments

Privately-Owned Rail Cars

https://www.amtrak.com/privately-owned-rail-cars

60•jasoncartwright•9h ago•91 comments

Adding my home electricity uptime to status.href.cat

https://aggressivelyparaphrasing.me/2025/08/21/adding-my-home-electricity-uptime-to-status-href-cat/

34•todsacerdoti•6h ago•29 comments

Uv format: Code Formatting Comes to uv (experimentally)

https://pydevtools.com/blog/uv-format-code-formatting-comes-to-uv-experimentally/

65•tanelpoder•1h ago•65 comments

In the long run, LLMs make us dumber

https://desunit.com/blog/in-the-long-run-llms-make-us-dumber/

59•speckx•3h ago•43 comments

Show HN: ChartDB Cloud – Visualize and Share Database Diagrams

https://app.chartdb.io

77•Jonathanfishner•9h ago•11 comments

Libre-Chip Awarded NLnet Grant to Prototype a CPU Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Libre-Chip-NLnet-Grant

11•Bender•1h ago•0 comments

I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform

https://old.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/1mw5yfg/forced_every_engineer_to_take_sales_calls_they/

200•bilsbie•6h ago•144 comments