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1.

Ask HN: Does OpenDNS satisfy my needs?

2 years ago

hnthrowaway0328

2 points

2.

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer

6 days ago

936 points

3.

Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine

3 years ago

923 points

4.

The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority

a year ago

848 points

5.

Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"

5 years ago

679 points

6.

Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements

5 years ago

666 points

7.

All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

4 years ago

580 points

8.

John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025

a year ago

557 points

9.

John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta

10 months ago

527 points

10.

John Carmack on mutable variables

8 months ago

515 points

11.

“Coding is basically just ifs and for loops.”

5 years ago

496 points

12.

John Carmack on JPEG

5 years ago

490 points

13.

John Carmack's new AGI company, Keen Technologies, has raised a $20M round

4 years ago

461 points

14.

It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated

5 years ago

448 points

15.

AI behavior guardrails should be public

2 years ago

431 points

16.

John Carmack: “I just dumped the C++ server I wrote for a new one in Racket”

11 years ago

402 points

17.

A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server

6 years ago

398 points

18.

John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists

3 months ago

376 points

19.

Internet Archive as a default host-of-record for startups

5 years ago

356 points

20.

John Carmack starting port of Wolf 3D in Haskell

13 years ago

330 points

21.

“I wish I could have licensed the Id source code releases as BSD”

5 years ago

323 points

22.

John Carmack on avoiding distractions

4 years ago

321 points

23.

Unlocked OS Build for the Oculus Go

5 years ago

295 points

24.

John Carmack: Career Advice

6 years ago

274 points

25.

I went through a period where I loaned money to anyone that asked me

3 years ago

257 points

26.

I remember feeling derisive about marketing as a young techie

4 years ago

236 points

27.

John Carmack on Hiring

5 years ago

235 points

28.

Nobody ever ported Doom to run on a Cray 1

6 years ago

224 points

29.

John Carmack: writing Rust code feels wholesome

7 years ago

211 points

30.

Python, unlike C, has the mod operator always return a positive number

4 years ago

209 points