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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,824 posts.
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Map of Space Invader Mosaics in Paris
The mosaics marked as flashed are stored locally. They are preserved between visits but not synced between devices. You can download and backup/restore them as needed.
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The Apple Network Server's all-too-secret weapon (featuring PPC Toolbox)
Most of my systems are microcomputers (and commensurately sized), though I do have some moderately larger beasts: you've met homer , my 1987...
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It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian
In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address. Sixteen months later, Experian clearly has not addressed this…
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Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now?
Glimpse NX didn't have a great solution for missing menu, but this new 3D CAD application has
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Your small imprecise ask is a big waste of their time
When managers and leaders don't specify the expected time investment of an ask, the time that is invested is almost never what was intended.
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Terry Pratchett and the Maggi Soup Adverts (2011)
Back in the 90s (starting with Moving Pictures) Terry Pratchett (yet to be knighted) changed his German publisher. A rather radical move in the market for someone who had been published by Heyne fo…
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Nicotine (2016)
On the benefits and lack of demerits of nicotine (research up to 2015)
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How I got here
My name is Preston Thorpe, I'm 31 years old and I've spent just under 10 years of my life in Prison (all for non-violent drug crimes.) I am currently incarcerated at Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston, Maine. More importantly, far more importantly, I am a software developer, open source maintainer…
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Debugging tricks in the browser
Advanced browser parlor tricks
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How to boss without being bossy
Leaders command people. That’s kind of what a leader is: someone with the authority to direct the actions of others.
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Business questions worth asking
This is a list of questions I’ve collected over the years that resonate with my business and product philosophies. Most are not original and were collected from or inspired by various books…
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We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
( This is the text of a talk I delivered at the Next Frontiers Applied Fiction Day in Stuttgart on Friday November 10th, 2023. Note: early draft, contains some typos, I'll fix them next week when I get home. )
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We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now we build datacenters
Why are people so concerned with hardware power consumption nowadays? Some common answers to this question are that power is critically important for phones, tablets, and laptops and that we can put more silicon on a modern chip than we can effectively use . In 2001 Patrick Gelsinger observed that if scaling continued…
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Let's create a Python Debugger together
An article series where I show you how to write a fully functional Python debugger.
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Albert Einstein in 1939 composed a message for the people of AD 6939
Preparing a time capsule in 1939, the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company asked Albert Einstein to compose a message for the people of AD 6939. He sent this: Our time is rich in inventive minds, the inventions of which could facilitate our lives considerably. We are crossing the seas by power and utilize…
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I skipped to the ending
When I was 8 years old I started making websites with my friend. His grandmother had purchased him a domain name and web hosting. It was 2003 and the world was whispering of Web 2.0. Books I checked out of the library talked about DHTML (dynamic HTML, basically what any web app is today). There was no mobile app…
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Link-Time Optimisation (LTO)
I recently started exploring link-time optimisation (LTO), which I used to think was just a single boolean choice in the compilation and linking workflow, and perhaps it was like that a while ago… I’ve learned that these days, there are many different dimensions of LTO across compilers and linkers today and more…
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Cursorless is alien magic from the future
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Typing fast is about latency, not throughput
any speed above, say, maybe 80 wpm , isn’t going to hinder anyone when trying to put anything into the computer
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On medieval cats
The other night I was mindlessly scrolling about on my phone through Instagram, as one does when they really ought to go to bed but are stuck being entertained instead of resting, when I came upon …
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Reverse engineering the Intel 386 processor's register cell
The groundbreaking Intel 386 processor (1985) was the first 32-bit processor in the x86 line. It has numerous internal registers: general-pu...
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What I learned getting acquired by Google
Our 10 person startup gets acquired by Google, we rebuild our product the Google way, and begin to understand that amazing things are possible at Google, if you play the Google game
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Are we doing this again? Yes, we're doing this again
Y esterday I was rudely summoned away from a beautiful autumn day of wild foraging by The King.
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i386 Assembly Language trick for storing data in .text
Don’t want a big old bloated multi-kilobyte executable with a data segment, but you do need to store some data?
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Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (1984)
Whilst searching for something else entirely I stumbled across these images and was struck by just how beautiful they are. The September 1984 (Vol 9, No 10) ...