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Think of Pavlov
almost all interactions are repeat games
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,713 posts.
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My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
Thanks HN folks for all the comments. To clarify a bit, the cables are pulled through PVC conduits under the flooring before being buried in cement. Currently the hypothesis for why the cable disintegrated so quickly is hydrolysis. Singapore is extremely humid after all. A second possibility is that I keep the…
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Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021)
It has been two decades since the video game Max Payne was release on July 23, 2001. The game itself was some incredible homage to The Ma...
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Is Rust faster than C?
Someone on Reddit recently asked: What would make a Rust implementation of something faster than a C implementation, all things being the same? I think this is…
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Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak
A few months ago, users started reporting that Ghostty was consuming absurd amounts of memory, with one user reporting 37 GB after 10 days of uptime. Today, I'm happy to say the fix has been found and merged . This post is an overview of what caused the leak, a look at some of Ghostty's internals, and some brief…
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AI is a business model stress test
AI commoditizes anything you can specify. It can't (yet) commoditize what requires ongoing operation.
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Generate QR Codes with Pure SQL in PostgreSQL
As my cat woke me up way too early for a Saturday morning, I decided to put all this extra time (and my ChatGPT Pro subscription) into good use and generated a QR-code generator for PostgreSQL, written as a single pure SQL statement. No external libraries or Postgres extension installation needed! The pqr.sql example…
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New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis
We discovered that entire sections describing domestic U.S. intelligence facilities were deliberately removed from two published documents, while equivalent foreign facilities remained visible. The evidence exists in an unexpected place - the PDF metadata of documents published by The Intercept in 2016, and by The…
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Oh My Zsh adds bloat
Why you might not need Oh My Zsh for your Zsh configuration.
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OLED, Not for Me
When I switched from an iMac to a Mac mini in late 2024 I choose an ASUS ProArt 5K PA27JCV (24", 60 Hz) for the monitor and while it looked great, it…
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Start your meetings at 5 minutes past
I work as an Engineering Manager at Google, and my teams practice a simple habit - we book all meetings to start at five minutes past the hour (or half hour). This works better than trying to finish five minutes early. Meetings often don't finish on time, and the impact is highest with back-to-back meetings.…
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You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML
Debunking an alarmingly common HTML misconception.
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RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can it game?
It turns out, you can attach an external GPU to a Raspberry Pi 5. So my natural first question is, can I game on it? Let’s try it out and compare it with some similar computers. Just a quick FTC required note: When you buy through my links, I may earn a commission. For the showdown of crappy gaming computers, we’ll…
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My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it
Senior engineers are best positioned to benefit from AI. We're good enough to avoid slop, and there's so much we can accomplish. I wouldn't go back.
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How Markdown took over the world
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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SendGrid isn’t emailing about ICE or BLM – it’s a phishing attack
For the past several months, I’ve been receiving and then ignoring a steady stream of concerning emails from Sendgrid, the popular email delivery service owned by Twilio that I use for sendin…
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Handling secrets (somewhat) securely in shells
Sometimes, you need to deal with secrets in an interactive shell. Say, for example, you want to do things with the API of a GitLab instance for which you require authentication:
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How to store a chess position in 26 bytes (2022)
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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MCP is a fad
Model Context Protocol has taken off as the standardized platform for AI integrations, but this popularity will be short-lived.
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C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories
Why std::move is just a cast, how it kills RVO if used wrong, and the mechanics of ownership transfer.
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What happened to WebAssembly
Where are they now? You won't believe her new look!
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Why I left iNaturalist
After almost 18 years, I left iNaturalist, the product and organization I helped create. I left because I don’t believe the current Leadership team is pointing the product in the right direction, and I don’t think they are managing their talented staff in an empathetic or effective way. If you’d like me to continue…
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Let's call a murder a murder
Caitlin Callenson’s courage in the face of insane danger is just remarkable.
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How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code
The core of tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Warp isn't magic. It's about 200 lines of straightforward Python. Let's build one from scratch.
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The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform
New : You can now watch a recording of my talk on my YouTube channel ! Or you can just click "play" below, I suppose.
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ASCII-Driven Development
~15 years ago, we had Balsamiq Mockups (2008). Deliberately sketchy. Intentionally low-fidelity. The comic-sans-looking wireframes were a…
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Go.sum is not a lockfile
In Go, go.mod acts as both manifest and lockfile. There is never a reason to look at go.sum.
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Git Rebase for the Terrified
As a maintainer of several OneBusAway projects, I regularly ask contributors to rebase their branches before merging. The response is often hesitation or…
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Many hells of WebDAV
Standards are great, until they aren't