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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,497 posts.
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When did computer science theory get so hard?
I posted on When did Math get so hard? a commenter pointed out that one can also ask When did Computer Science Theory Get so Hard? For t...
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Office 2000 is good to go
The biggest competition for Office 2000 was…Office 97. –Realization at the end of the project
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Modern JavaScript has made the web worse (2020)
In a world with tools like NPM that are supposed to make websites fast why have they gotten so slow?
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From zero to hero: contributing to open source (2017)
Do you ever get the feeling that you are always a consumer and never a contributor to a library? Would you like to get more involved in open source projects and don’t know how? This is the&nb…
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Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than TVs themselves
In the simplistic account of what many call "surveillance capitalism," the original sin was swapping our attention for free content, summed up in the pithy phrase, "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product."
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My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack
My stack for assimilating knowledge from Hacker News.
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Flowchart: How should I run containers on AWS?
As of Late 2021, which AWS service should I use to run my new containerized app in production?
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Why you can't solve knowledge problems with information tools alone
Knowledge and information are part of a continuum but not the same, and knowledge problems cannot be solved with information tools alone. ...
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Steps Towards Happiness (2015)
Kind people already sent donations that will make my childrens' lives easier, when I'm not there any more. Thank you enormously! :-)
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I ended up liking GNOME with the loss of one hand
I switched to Gnome after a bad injury on a hand and Gnome helped me a lot using the computer
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Hoax email blast abused poor coding in FBI website
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation. According to an interview with the person who claimed responsibility for the hoax, the spam messages were sent by abusing…
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Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos
The Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer was released in 1983 and became "one of the most important advances in the history of modern popular mu...
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Monopoly supplier of critical Pentagon semiconductors shuts down its production
Monopoly Supplier of Critical Pentagon Semiconductors Shuts Down Its Production.
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Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys
ssh-keygen can sign and verify signatures, and it's way better than PGP
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Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work
This is old! When I wrote it, I was a very different person.As it turns out, growing up a bit made me care a lot less about the nuances of Rust programming.
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Rust data structures with circular references
To implement its safety guarantees, the Rust compiler keeps careful track of ownership and references throughout a program. This makes writing certain kinds of data structures challenging; in particular, data structures that have circular references.
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Debit cards are hidden financial infrastructure
Debit cards are a core piece of financial infrastructure and drive much of the innovation happening in fintech.
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How many people have Q Clearance?
Ever wonder how many people currently have the enigmatic Q Clearance, the required security clearance for access to nuclear secrets? Well, I found out.
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macOS Zero-Day Used Against Hong-Kong Activists
Google researchers discovered a MacOS zero-day exploit being used against Hong Kong activists. It was a “watering hole” attack, which means the malware was hidden in a legitimate website. Users visiting that website would get infected. From an article: Google’s researchers were able to trigger the exploits and study…
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Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop
Contrasting how each language handles iteration helps understand how to work effectively in either.
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I'm unsure of the security of simultaneous multithreading on modern x86 CPUs
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Running a Law Firm on Linux
We are now three or so months into the world of running decoded.legal, and doing legal work, exclusively* on Linux 1 , so I thought I’d write about it.
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Show HN: Long Range E-Bike
Electric cars are fantastic compared to ICE vehicles, but E-Bikes are even better. Much lower environmental impact and far more suited to medium range travel such as commuting. Here in NL they sell in huge numbers, far faster than electric cars. But they also have their limitations: a regular e-bike tops out at 25…
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Tips For Making a Popular Open Source Project in 2021
Introduction I have around ~50k GitHub stars. I’ve come up with a bullet-pointed actionable list of how to make open-source projects popular. One of the projects I created had 67 lines of code and had only existed for 3 days before it hit 1.7k stars. Humans