The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,109 posts.
EDIT: Part 2 is up! It's a pedagogical pet peeve of mine when technical concepts are simply listed in their fully developed state, with little in the way of motivation, derivation, or historical context. This, I think, is like publishing a cookbook filled with beautiful pictures of cakes, but
Configuring PipeWire to make laptop speakers sound better (Bankstown, Convolution/FIR, etc.)
TLDR: man pages support links, but man page readers neither display nor allow allow following them.
Last weekend, we participated in the Ludum Dare game jam for the 10th time. It's a worldwide event
A new take on Trump’s tariffs, including using a disruption lens to understand the U.S.’s manufacturing problem, and why a better plan would leverage demand, not kill it.
A world of dew
I have met a lot of developers in my life. Late…
Craft a mansion and uncover mysteries in this exceptional marriage of storytelling and roguelike mechanics.
After 40 years, 30 million rules, 200 million dollars, 2000 person-years, and many promises, Cyc has failed to reach intellectual maturity, and may never will. Exacerbated by the secrecy and insularity of Cycorp, there remains no evidence of its general intelligence.
I have a lot in the works for the this month's Logic for Programmers release. Among other things, I'm completely rewriting the chapter on Logic Programming...
A blog mostly about Clojure programming
Chris Grossack's math blog and professional website.
What if, rather than banning advertising outright, we taxed it instead?
How to build great websites with htmx by learning a couple browser features alongside it.
In GitHub Actions, you can use the shell keyword to specify the shell that runs a given run: block. This keyword is optional for workflows but mandatory for action definitions.
Enums are one of the most popular features in Rust. An enum is a type whose value is one of a specified set of variants.
The day was nearing to a close. The sun has already set, but that Friday evening in Amsterdam was still warm. Unusually warm, in fact, for those late days in March – as if spring decided to bless my pilgrimage, for that pilgrimage was not jovial. I was sitting at a ramen joint, sipping on the broth. To my left, a…
A few years ago, a lone programmer named t0st did something extraordinary: he fixed an 8-year-old bug in GTA Online that had been driving players crazy. The bug? Painfully long load times, sometimes u
On using a new dataset and ensuring your analytic findings aren't a data reporting issue.
The Missing Middle Path: What VCs Don’t Tell You
It is a somewhat common question to me: how do we write C in curl to make it safe and secure for billions of installations? Some precautions we take and decisions we make. There is no silver bullet, just guidelines. As I think you can see for yourself below they are also neither strange nor … Continue reading Writing…
I hope the media will look into this
I went on a little low-level Nix adventure yesterday and early this morning because of this excellent blog post. In it, Farid builds up the simplest possible Nix derivation—making a file that has the contents “hello world”. Here’s what I like about it:
Most improvements to cities are hard — they take millions of dollars and years of planning.
While my final ranking in the Google AI Contest was disappointing ( 280th ), it was a very educational experience and was totally offset by Gábor Melis' dominating win using Common Lisp as well.
We need to talk about the data. Crap data. We’re destroying our environment to create and store trillions of blurred images, half-baked videos, rip-off AI ‘songs’, rip-off AI animations, videos and images, emails with mega attachments, never-to-be-watched-again presentations, never-to-be-read-again reports, files and…
