Hacker Wisdom

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

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Best worldwide / classic phone games?

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

Is a Claw driven Hacker News user a problem?

https://www.datcreativity.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_%22Kibo%22_Parry

https://xkcd.com/810/

Are Tech Meetups Dead?

https://www.pcworld.com/article/424450/this-old-tech-remembering-worldsaways-avatars-and-virtual-experiences.html

$100 to upgrade Fresh IDE for ePub TUI reading

https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el/

https://github.com/bugzmanov/bookokrat

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

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

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

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 to learn how to develop real time applications?

https://github.com/prettydiff/aphorio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boPEO2auJj4

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

How much AI is in your writing?

https://island0.com

https://www.rxjourney.net/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb--BiQogQ8

Do you have a colophon for your personal website?

https://dostoynikov.com/colophon/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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