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The Kolmogorov option
Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov was one of the giants of 20th-century mathematics. I’ve always found it amazing that the same man was responsible both for establishing the foundations of …
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 11,903 posts.
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Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
Can't you just turn it off?
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Stripe Checkout
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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ClojureScript 1.7: ClojureScript can compile itself
I’ve been enamoured with languages in the Lisp family ever since I first encountered The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs now more than a decade ago. At the time I was disappointed that such beautiful systems found so little use in day to day programming. Lisp seemed both deeply pragmatic (Objects!)…
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You can do it alone
I’m Ryan Carson, and I’ve been a Founder CEO for 20 years, building, scaling and selling three companies.
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Svelte – A UI framework that compiles into tiny standalone JavaScript modules
You can’t write serious applications in vanilla JavaScript without hitting a complexity wall. But a compiler can do it for you.
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Horrible edge cases when dealing with music
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it
Today I learned that, since macOS High Sierra onwards, you can move a window by starting to drag anywhere on it.
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Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
Anthropic has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission
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There are over a billion outdated Android devices in use
It's common knowledge that Android device tend to be more out of date than iOS devices, but what does this actually mean? Let’s look at android marketshare data to see how old devices in the wild are. The x axis of the plot below is date, and the y axis is Android marketshare. The share of all devices sums to 100%…
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The Little Printf
This text is a transcript of a presentation I have given on October 9, 2015, at the CityCode conference in Chicago. This content is also available in video , and as a PDF Document better suited for printing.
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A Case of Stolen Source Code
Last week, for about three days, the macOS video transcoding app HandBrake was compromised . One of the two download servers for HandBrake was serving up a special malware-infested version of the app, that, when launched, would essentially give hackers remote control of your computer.
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Bugs in Hello World
A blog by sunfishcode
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It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is
The DMCA was signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1998. It has a weird history. Its inception came from Bruce Lehmann, Microsoft's chief copyright enforcer, whom Clinton tapped to serve as his Copyright Czar. This was back in the "Information Superhighway" days, when Al Gore was holding hearings on the demilitarization…
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An Update on Heroku
Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this…
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Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier
In 2012, I signed the Cost of Knowledge pledge, and stopped reviewing for, and publishing in, all Elsevier journals. In the four years since, I’ve adhered closely to this policy; with a coupl…
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Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years
I develop 🌕 Lunar, a macOS app for getting intelligent adaptive brightness on external monitors and controlling every aspect of your monitor using DDC and other obscure protocols. I get tons of email about Lunar, especially after it became my full time “job” in 2021. A lot of those emails complain about Lunar bugs…
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We Hire the Best, Just Like Everyone Else
One of the most common pieces of advice you’ll get as a startup is this: Only hire the best. The quality of the people that work at your company will be one of the biggest factors in your success – or failure. I’ve heard this advice over and over
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Temptation of the Apple: Dolphin on macOS M1
From the announcement made on November 10th, 2020, users have had high hopes for the new Apple M1 devices. With its powerful Apple Silicon processor smashing benchmarks all over the place, users and developers were both asking if a native Dolphin build would be possible. Now we have the answer. Apple's M1 hardware is…
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Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
Today a configuration error in our backbone network caused an outage for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 27 minutes. We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network.
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GPT Image 1.5
This 2025 launch introduced a faster ChatGPT Images experience and GPT‑Image‑1.5 in the API. Explore the latest ChatGPT Images 2.5.
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Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
MySQL, an open source database developed by Oracle, powers some of Facebook’s most important workloads. We actively develop new features in MySQL to support our evolving requirements. These feature…
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Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
With the holiday, gift-giving season upon us, many people are about to experience the ease and power of new speech-enabled devices. Technical advancements