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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,199 posts.
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Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage
on starting, doing, being, and becoming.
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# [derive(Clone)] Is Broken
Not just `#[derive(Clone)]`, but all of the standard trait derives are
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Why are there no good dinosaur films?
running on jurassic park's fumes for over 30 years
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Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022)
Drilling beneath the hype to expose the truth
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EverQuest
It isn’t always or even usually the pioneers who reap the rewards of the trails they blaze. As often as not, some pragmatic Johnny-come-lately pops in to make off with the booty.
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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip
I'm in the process of rebuilding my homelab from the ground up, moving from a 24U full-size 4-post rack to a mini rack. One of the most difficult devices to downsize (especially economically) is a NAS. But as my needs have changed, I'm bucking the trend of all datahoarders and I need less storage than the 120 TB (80…
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Epanet-JS
Celebrating a little bit of legacy from Placemark and a new product for hydraulic simulation
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Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin
In the early 2000s, we used to write a lot of CGI programs. This was the primary way to make websites dynamic at the time. These CGI programs were usually written in Perl, but sometimes in C to increase performance. The CGI mechanism is conceptually simple but powerful. When the web server receives an incoming request…
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Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain
From chronically sore to chronically curious about the mind 🧠
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Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?
tl;dr: it depends. About one year ago, I bought an Intel N100 mini PC (specifically the GMKtec N100 NucBox G3) and compared it to the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB. A year later, and we have a newer $159 16GB version of that mini PC with a slightly-faster Intel N150, and a new 16GB Raspberry Pi 5. I re-ran all my benchmarks, and…
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Data on AI-related Show HN posts
The idea for this article didn't exist in my brain before this morning. But there I was, scrolling the New page and even more tired of all the AI-related Show HN posts than usual. I was confident that their numbers were multiplying and wanted proof. Exactly how much more AI crap is on my lawn compared to last year?
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The first time I was almost fired from Apple
I was hired on at Apple in October of 1995. This was what I refer to as Apple’s circling the drain period. Maybe you remember all the doomsaying — speculation that Apple was going to be shuttering soon. It’s a little odd perhaps then that they were hiring at all but apparently Apple reasoned that they nonetheless…
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The Rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.
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Postcard is now open source
Self-host a personal website + newsletter
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Introducing tmux-rs
A Rust port of tmux
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Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection
Serverless means it's secure, right?
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Baba Is Eval
Baba is You is a sokoban puzzle game where the rules themselves have to be manipulated to win. (For the uninitiated, the store page should explain the idea best.) The level of abstraction required to solve most levels makes it a formidable reasoning benchmark, with many reasoning steps being completely orthogonal to…
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Where is my von Braun wheel?
In 1962. There — that answers the clickbaity title right away.
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Tools: Code Is All You Need
The solution to agentic flows was code all along.
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Take Two: Eshell
This is a contribution to the Emacs Carnival 2025-06: Take Two collection of posts on Christian Tietze’s blog. My first take with Eshell many years back did not leave a good impression. My...
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Features of D That I Love
This is a beginner-friendly post exploring some of my favourite parts of the D programming language , ranging from smaller quality of life stuff, to more major features.
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The Moat of Low Status
It hurts, but less than you think
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Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
So my journey with these earbuds started after I saw them on this Mrwhosetheboss video about pointless tech. This device seems to be also popular on TikTok. My suspicions were confirmed, this runs android. So of course i went ahead and bought them. 245 euros later... and they finally arrived!
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What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)
Where I analyse the nootropic ratings I gathered through my recommender system.
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Yet Another Zip Trick
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More assorted notes on Liquid Glass
Discussing icon design, and commenting on some passages of Apple's Adopting Liquid Glass document.
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Using Sun Ray thin clients in 2025
setting up 20 year old hardware is bound to work first try, right? ... right?