How I went from New-Grad to Staff in 5 years in FAANG

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thomask1995 · 4h ago

I found it hard to find content like this when I was looking to get promoted.

By far the best content came from Will Larson. Thought I would add another data point here to help whoever is currently looking to get promoted.

(ps: yes I wrote this a few months ago, but a friend said I should share here for more vis)

How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos (research.kudelskisecurity.com)

Notion Releases Offline Mode (notion.com)

Emacs as your video-trimming tool (xenodium.com)

D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders (d2lang.com)

Without the futex, it's futile (h4x0r.org)

Figma's Multiplayer Technology (2019) (figma.com)

Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock (cpldcpu.com)

Positron, a New Data Science IDE (posit.co)

A renovation project in Turkey led to the discovery of a lost city (2023) (atlasobscura.com)

Forklifts Require Training (zacsweers.dev)

Custom telescope mount using harmonic drives and ESP32 (svendewaerhert.com)

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The new geography of stolen goods (economist.com)

Lazy-brush – smooth drawing with mouse or finger (lazybrush.dulnan.net)

Geotoy – Shadertoy for 3D Geometry (3d.ameo.design)

Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages

CRLite: Certificate Revocation Checking in Firefox (hacks.mozilla.org)

"Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" (github.com)

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Prime Number Grid (susam.net)

PyPI Preventing Domain Resurrection Attacks (blog.pypi.org)

Small Objects, Big Gains: Benchmarking Tigris Against AWS S3 and Cloudflare R2 (tigrisdata.com)

Guile bindings for Sway window manager (github.com)

Vim Macros for Beancount (tangled.sh)

How to Build a Medieval Castle (archaeology.org)

Critical Cache Poisoning Vulnerability in Dnsmasq (lists.thekelleys.org.uk)

In 2006, Hitachi developed a 0.15mm-sized RFID chip (hitachi.com)

Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database (wired.com)

Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser (werd.io)

Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing (linch.substack.com)

Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU (github.com)

Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent

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X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls (popsci.com)

OpenMower – An open source lawn mower (github.com)

Netflix Revamps Tudum's CQRS Architecture with Raw Hollow In-Memory Object Store (infoq.com)

The Great SSL Certificate Panic (redmonk.com)

The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace (2021) (heritagecalling.com)

Obsidian Bases (help.obsidian.md)

Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Associate (New Grad) (ycombinator.com)

EloqKV, a distributed database with Redis compatible API (GPLv2 and AGPLv3) (github.com)

Octopolis and Octlantis (en.wikipedia.org)

Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta's A.I. Efforts, Again (nytimes.com)

The myth of Scouse exceptionalism (unherd.com)

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Attention Is the New Big-O: A Systems Design Approach to Prompt Engineering (alexchesser.medium.com)

The rising returns to R&D: Ideas are not getting harder to find (papers.ssrn.com)

Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team (annas-archive.org)

How I went from New-Grad to Staff in 5 years in FAANG

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