Martín Villalba
I've picked up a new hobby: fact-checking Instagram stories that careless friends send my way. The AI slop, the missing citations, the made-up sources and the willful misunderstandings, it's all there day after day. Sometimes it's a lie by omission, like removing the date from a seven-years-old...
Adactio: Links
Alex takes issue with my post giving kudos to Apple for concentrating on bugfixes in the latest version of Safari, and he brings receipts. He makes a very compelling case, backed up with data. But when it comes to Chrome’s shipping of the half-baked prompt API, I’m not sure he gets just how badly...
Adactio: Links
Data is a risk. Data is distracting. It becomes a job. adactio.com/links/22584
addshore
I’ve been a Spotify user for a long time, and like a lot of people I have Google Timeline enabled on my phone, quietly logging where I’ve been over the years. And at some point earlier this year I downloaded my Spotify listen data, and it occurred to me that Spotify plays + location information...
Adam Tal’s Blog
May 2026 — HN Hiring Index The interactive dashboard for May 2026 is here: May 2026 — HN Hiring Index. Snapshot For May 2026, listings land near 745 (+1.4% MoM) while median pay prints near $188k (+6.1% on comp). Remote share runs near 45.3%.
Adam Tal’s Blog
March 2026 — HN Hiring Index The interactive dashboard for March 2026 is here: March 2026 — HN Hiring Index. Snapshot Hiring volume fell sharply month-over-month (-16.4%) while median compensation MoM moved up (+2.6%).
Adam Tal’s Blog
February 2026 — HN Hiring Index The interactive dashboard for February 2026 is here: February 2026 — HN Hiring Index. Snapshot For February 2026, listings land near 858 (+46.2% MoM) while median pay prints near $195k (-2.5% on comp). Remote share runs near 49.0%.
Adam Tal’s Blog
January 2026 — HN Hiring Index The interactive dashboard for January 2026 is here: January 2026 — HN Hiring Index. Snapshot Hiring volume fell sharply month-over-month (-32.8%) while median compensation MoM moved up (+6.7%).
Adam Tal’s Blog
December 2025 — HN Hiring Index The interactive dashboard for December 2025 is here: December 2025 — HN Hiring Index. Snapshot Postings moved down month-over-month (-0.3%) while remote remains under half of classified arrangements (45.3%).
Adam Tal’s Blog
November 2025 — HN Hiring Index The interactive dashboard for November 2025 is here: November 2025 — HN Hiring Index. Snapshot For November 2025, listings land near 877 (+10.2% MoM) while median pay prints near $180k (-2.7% on comp). Remote share runs near 50.5%.
Adam Tal’s Blog
October 2025 — HN Hiring Index The interactive dashboard for October 2025 is here: October 2025 — HN Hiring Index. Snapshot For October 2025, listings land near 796 (+10.2% MoM) while median pay prints near $185k (+2.8% on comp). Remote share runs near 49.3%.
Adam Tal’s Blog
September 2025 — HN Hiring Index The interactive dashboard for September 2025 is here: September 2025 — HN Hiring Index. Snapshot For September 2025, listings land near 722 (+1.5% MoM) while median pay prints near $180k (+0.8% on comp). Remote share runs near 48.4%.
Adam Tal’s Blog
August 2025 — HN Hiring Index The interactive dashboard for August 2025 is here: August 2025 — HN Hiring Index. Snapshot Postings moved down month-over-month (-10.3%) while remote remains under half of classified arrangements (48.6%).
Adam Tal’s Blog
July 2025 — HN Hiring Index The interactive dashboard for July 2025 is here: July 2025 — HN Hiring Index. Snapshot Postings moved down month-over-month (-0.1%) while remote remains under half of classified arrangements (49.5%).
Andrew Cove
Using an LLM to design charts and enrich data for 20 years of concerts.Read the full post →
Adam Lynch
Noah Ó Donnaile
The following image was floating around the internet this month (in varying degrees of blurriness): The goal is to share a song on social media for each day of the month of April matching the respecting description. Being the wannabe music fan I am, I was interested in trying this. However, I...
Noah Ó Donnaile
On Friday the 10th of February, myself and my compadre Cian Ruane took part in the HackYourWayDay hackathon in the NDRC that we had seen publicised around the place the previous week. The hackathon was themed around Eircodes, which are Ireland's new controversial postcodes. I'm interested in data,...