Stories by softwaredoug

The Eyebrows of Narcissists

Escaping Conflict and the Karpman Drama Triangle

Tell HN: Keep Your Phone on a Leash

A Brief History of the “House of the Rising Sun“ (2011)

Learn to Ignore and Be Happy: How to Ignore Things That Bother You

We always work with a broken definition of the problem

A ‘Vibe Shift’ on Reddit–People Sharing Stories of Loneliness and Isolation

SQL search relevance, selective aggregation, and window functions in OpenSearch

The Fine Art of Not Fitting In

Performance improving techniques to make Spark Joins 10x faster

Great Man Theory

Amazon's Book Piracy Problem

Alarm in Beijing after announcement zero-Covid policy may last five years

What Is Presentation Bias in Search?

The Good Enough Parent Is the Best Parent (2015)

Reconstructing Relevance Judgments

The search for people who never get Covid

Deriving Search Relevance Judgments from an A/B Test

The Unlikely Story of How Minecraft Was Born (2013)

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