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Ryan Dahl

Personal blog · tinyclouds.orgprogrammingai

Ryan Dahl's personal blog at tinyclouds.org covers programming and ai. Since 2009, 69 different Hacker News readers have linked it 74 times, most often “Google Brain Residency”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.

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74mentions?
69HN people?
2009–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2016

Most-linked posts?

  1. Google Brain Residency
    9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2017-06-05
  2. Automatic Colorization
    8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2016-01-08
  3. I hate almost all software (2011)
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-11-12
  4. Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-09-04
  5. Design Mistakes in Node [pdf]
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-06-05
  6. Node.js: Event-based I/O for V8 javascript
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-06-01
  7. I hate almost all software
    4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-01-15
  8. Design Mistakes in Node (2018) [pdf]
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-08-07
  9. JavaScript Containers
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-04
  10. Humans Are Just Stochastic Parrots
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-25

What Hacker News says?

  1. billbrown · 2018-06-06
    Here is his PDF of slides - http://tinyclouds.org/jsconf2018.pdf

    Comment linking /jsconf2018.pdf

    on “Things I Regret About Node.js [video]”
  2. max_ · 2016-01-08

    Submitted Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning as a story · 554 points

    HN discussion
  3. yoshuaw · 2016-08-22
    Here's the post by Ry that was supposedly deleted: http://tinyclouds.org/rant.html The point I took away from the post is that all abstractions carry a cost, no matter how elegant. Not "Ryan Dahl hates Node.js". But sure. Seems the author is intent on complaining and that's cool with me, but if you're doing Node then yeah don't let people like this get you down. Node's fast, Node's flexible and has so many users tha…

    Comment linking /rant.html

    on ““Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)”
  4. aleksi · 2017-06-05

    Submitted Google Brain Residency as a story · 337 points

    HN discussion
  5. trizzashamafoo · 2016-01-08
    These results are clearly hand-picked to leave out complete failures like these: http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/val-imgs/val-000100-1.jpg http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/val-imgs/val-000800-2.jpg When I selected from the validation images, most had these blue splotches that were not shown on the web page. Obviously a model is not expected to work 100% of the time, but I think the link misrepresents the results by not…

    Comment linking /colorize/val-imgs/val-000800-2.jpg

    on “Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning”
  6. avinassh · 2021-08-14

    Submitted I hate almost all software (2011) as a story · 292 points

    HN discussion
  7. jayess · 2016-01-08
    In their list of validation images, I thought this was was pretty cool: http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/val-imgs/val-006200-2.jpg

    Comment linking /colorize/val-imgs/val-006200-2.jpg

    on “Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning”
  8. throwaway_4ever · 2022-09-04

    Submitted Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark as a story · 261 points

    HN discussion
  9. noobie · 2016-01-08
    On a tangent but any idea how the author's portrait was created? http://tinyclouds.org/ Edit: Thank you.

    Comment linking /

    on “Colorizing black and white photos with deep learning”
  10. panic · 2017-02-07

    Submitted I hate almost all software (2011) as a story · 226 points

    HN discussion
  11. frou_dh · 2022-06-28
    https://tinyclouds.org/javascript_containers

    Comment linking /javascript_containers

    on “Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno”
  12. 0xedb · 2022-05-04

    Submitted JavaScript Containers as a story · 177 points

    HN discussion
  13. achenet · 2025-03-26
    When I some says "sell X to Y", I hear "explain how X will solve Y's problem or otherwise make their lives easier". Because that's fundamentally what selling is. I can talk for days about how marvellous the new iPhone is, the beautiful technology behind it, the marvellous processor and the high resolution screen that are, in their own way, feats of engineering that equal or surpass the Pyramids at Giza. But that's n…

    Comment linking /rant

    on “Sell yourself, sell your work”
  14. luu · 2015-06-20

    Submitted Asynchronous I/O in Windows for Unix Programmers (2011) as a story · 73 points

    HN discussion
  15. limsup · 2017-08-31
    http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/ http://tinyclouds.org/residency/

    Comment linking /residency/

    on “Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js”
  16. Decabytes · 2023-06-07

    Submitted I hate almost all software as a story · 65 points

    HN discussion
  17. afshinmeh · 2017-08-31
    Ryan is so smart. I like the way he thinks. This blog post [1] is still one of favorites. [1]: http://tinyclouds.org/rant.html

    Comment linking /rant.html

    on “Interview with Ryan Dahl, Creator of Node.js”
  18. adambyrtek · 2018-04-03

    Submitted Optimistic Nihilism (2017) as a story · 45 points

    HN discussion
  19. modernerd · 2022-08-14
    > …I already have taken care of a lot of those Node issues in my own projects, there is not a ton that I see compelling in Deno. I felt this way too before using Deno for a while. So far I enjoy: - Breaking from npm/node modules support on purpose turns out to be a real plus for me. It's refreshing to have dependencies referenced by URL, and it's good to have them cached centrally by default (in $HOME/Library/Caches…

    Comment linking /jsconf2018.pdf

    on “Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown”
  20. bleakgadfly · 2017-02-20

    Submitted Automatic Colorization as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  21. zengid · 2018-02-26
    Looks like Mr Dahl was among the inaugural class of the Google Brain Residency: http://tinyclouds.org/residency/

    Comment linking /residency/

    on “Propel – Machine learning for Javascript”
  22. sstrudeau · 2009-09-03

    Submitted Node.js: Event-based I/O for V8 javascript as a story · 27 points

    HN discussion
  23. zengid · 2018-02-26
    He just hates almost all software anyway: http://tinyclouds.org/rant.html

    Comment linking /rant.html

    on “Propel – Machine learning for Javascript”
  24. bjourne · 2014-03-31

    Submitted Asynchronous I/O in Windows for Unix Programmers (2011) as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  25. sph · 2022-09-04
    @dang can we update the URL to https://tinyclouds.org/trademark instead of the blog home page?

    Comment linking /trademark

    on “Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark”
  26. tosh · 2017-08-31

    Submitted I hate almost all software (2011) as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  27. LeoPanthera · 2022-09-04
    I think this should link to here: https://tinyclouds.org/trademark , not the front page.

    Comment linking /trademark

    on “Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark”
  28. stevekrouse · 2025-06-14

    Submitted We're Still Underestimating What AI Means as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  29. rnmeow · 2024-11-26
    As far as I know, the creator of Deno, Ryan Dahl, posted on his personal website about that trademark two years ago: < https://tinyclouds.org/trademark >. Oracle remains silent.

    Comment linking /trademark

    on “Deno vs. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark”
  30. jdp · 2009-06-01

    Submitted Node.js - Javascript event-based I/O as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion

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