Hacker Wisdom

A collection of wisdom found in the answers to Ask HN questions.

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Does anyone what a "RiotCache.dat" file was doing in my EFI partition?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Vanguard

Do you have a colophon for your personal website?

https://geekodour.org/docs/colophon/

https://lee-phillips.org/about/

https://twomorecents.org/tech-stack.html

How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48218162

Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/google-scores-six-year-meta-cloud-deal-worth-over-10-billion.html

https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1779148800&dateRange=custom&dateStart=1715558400&page=0&prefix=true&query=Railway.com&sort=byDate&type=comment

https://imgur.com/a/x0Y3RJl

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204770

https://railway.com/stats

Failing interviews for mid-level SWE in UK, advice please

https://blog.codinghorror.com/recommended-reading-for-developers/

https://github.com/mjb8086/checkout-kata/tree/main

Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/reiner-pope

https://lobste.rs

https://lobste.rs/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611708

Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?

https://prospect.org.uk/tech-workers/

How do small teams securely share env files?

https://12factor.net/

https://infisical.com/

What's New in Crypto?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242955

Tell HN: The Threat to US Citizen's ID / Voting Is Private Services

http://consulting.m3047.net/dubai-letters/voter-id-industry-capture.html

How much AI is in your writing?

https://island0.com

https://www.rxjourney.net/

Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200827

What I learned from tinkering with programming languages in the last 34 days

https://github.com/jordanhubbard/nanolang

Tell HN: Gemini 3.5 Flash breaks in stupid ways

https://gemini.google.com/share/244af1e74841

Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

https://stopsloppypasta.ai/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkmuI5W694o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV3pYZZ2jEw