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A home made PCB stepper motor
The first idea is interesting because it means cheap, precision-manufactured PCBs can be easily transformed into cheap, precise tiny motors.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,821 posts.
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Optimizing GoAWK with a bytecode compiler and virtual machine
How I sped up GoAWK by switching from a tree-walking interpreter to a bytecode compiler and virtual machine interpreter.
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Why are mathematicians so bad at arithmetic? (2017)
18 x 93 is… hey, look over there!
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Cocktail party ideas
You don't have to be at a party to see this phenomenon in action, but there's a curious thing I regularly see at parties in social circles where people value intelligence and cleverness without similarly valuing on-the-ground knowledge or intellectual rigor. People often discuss the standard trendy topics (some recent…
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There are too many video games
Let's marinate in some hard truths. Dissect what is in front of our eyes.
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That’s how it works when you’re a woman on the internet
Aubrey Hirsch on harassment and existing as a woman online
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Why isn't there a replication crisis in math?
The replication crisis is a major problem in medicine and social science; we know that a huge fraction of the published literature is outright wrong. But in math we don't seem to have a similar crisis, despite reasonably frequent minor errors in published papers. Why not, and what can this tell us about the fields…
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I used indie hacking to sponsor my own green card
The longest project of my life
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Over-reliance on CGI in movies
On the digital void that is modern cinema
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Non-Consensual Personalization
Illustration from unDraw I want to personalize things I use. I want to change the settings. I want to change the colors, the desi...
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Why and How I Got My Own ASN
In this article, I'll explain how, and why I acquired an Autonomous System Number and some IPv6 addresses.
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An introduction to type programming in TypeScript
The official site of Zhenghao He, a software engineer and a TypeScript/JavaScript enthusiast.
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mmWave radar, you won't see it coming
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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On Why I'm Quitting Alcohol
Essay 52
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The complicated futility of WordPress
The challenges of working in opposition to the world's larget blogging platform.
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Analysis of Magic Leap 2 at SPIE AR/VR/Mr 2022
Magic Leap 2 Presentation Was the Hit of the Conference Kevin Curtis (Curtis), Magic Leap’s VP of Optical Engineering, presentation “Unveiling Magic Leap 2’s Advanced AR Platform and Re…
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Furiosa's Cat Feeder (2016)
Furiosa’s Cat Feeder
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Code colocation is king
A simple principle to help structure code better
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The web starts on page four
After 25 years of working for, on and with the web, I am looking at the current state of it and I don’t like it. There is still a lot of beautiful, creative and amazing work out there, but on the whole, we lost an amazing opportunity. In its place we have a consumption machine that creates bubbles and assumes new…
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Predicting the tide with an analog computer made from Lego
Didn't you ever wish your<br>computer understood you?
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Push Notifications, WebXR, and better PWA support coming to iOS
New APIs, capabilities, bugs, and challenges for Safari and PWAs running in iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, including Web Push Notifications, WebXR
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Installing Every Arch Package
Using algorithms and Julia to install as many packages as possible from the Arch Linux official repositories
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How to Explain an Idea
What's an idea? What sorts of ideas are there? And how to explain them once you have them?
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The Economics of Data Businesses
How data businesses start, and how they keep going, and growing, and growing.
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A short introduction to the undeciphered Aegean writing systems
Every so often a news article will make the rounds of the internet – or, for that matter, a paper will be published in an academic journal – presenting a new ‘decipherment’ …
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SimpleDB: A Basic RDBMS Built from Scratch
My databases class at UCLA wasn’t very challenging so I never truly understood the internals of databases. This always bothered me so I vowed to build a simple database from scratch to learn the fundamentals. MIT's Database Systems course has their students implement a simple database from scratch and it provided me…
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Red Light Green Light
I was listening to the Tim Ferriss Show podcast episode #532 with Sheila Heen (Harvard Negotiation Project, co-author of Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most) and a specific story she told during the conversation really resonated with me and I have been thinking alot about it since I heard it…
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Pay attention to WebAssembly
Read in Japanese thanks to the folks at POSTD.