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The Alternative Genesis Block of Bitcoin
Discover the hidden story of the first genesis block of Bitcoin
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,821 posts.
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For Best Results, Forget the Bonus
NEW YORK TIMES October 17, 1993 For Best Results, Forget the Bonus By Alfie Kohn “Do this and you’ll get that.” These six words sum up the most popular way in which American business strives…
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I wrote a short story about von Neumann probes
"They would have eaten our whole house and probably the whole cul-de-sac if we didn't find those jelly beans."
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Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
This is a bit genuine red meat and perhaps a little sensitive for some people but it does raise a point that deserves discussion. A shorthand for that point is the title of today’s post. A more descriptive way of describing it is, “Is the FSF’s demand for purity actually harming the users they’re striving to protect?”
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Banks are not repaying victims of Zelle scams
When U.S. consumers have their online bank accounts hijacked and plundered by hackers, U.S. financial institutions are legally obligated to reverse any unauthorized transactions as long as the victim reports the fraud in a timely manner. But new data released this week suggests that for some of the nation’s largest…
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Expectations of professional software engineers
In a 2019 talk/rant titled “Everyone Watching This Is Fired”, games industry veteran Mike Acton rattled off a sample of 50 things he expects of developers he works with. The title refers to his tongue-in-cheek suggestion that anyone who doesn’t meet all these requirements would be immediately fired.
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How to distort Scrum until it no longer works
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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School vs. Wikipedia
Edit: Oh! Hello, there, HN . For context, we're talking about elementary school here. More importantly, I'm not arguing that students should get quick answers from encyclopedias instead of reading books and other primary sources. I'm arguing that Wikipedia is better than "a Google search," which is a position I will…
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AWS doesn't make sense for scientific computing
In 2022, it actually makes sense to build your own infrastructure for scientific computing if you're a university, NASA, or a growing bio company.
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Mastodon.technology Shutdown
Dear mastodon.technology community,
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On AlphaTensor’s new matrix multiplication algorithms
Two acquaintances independently asked about this today, so it seems worth a write-up: recently (as of this writing), DeepMind published a new paper about a new practical fast matrix multiplication …
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How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash drive
Here's how to download all of Wikipedia (6M+ articles) onto a USB flash drive for offline access. After hours of trying and failing, here's what worked for me
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Staff Engineer Archetypes (2020)
Most career ladders define a single, uniform set of expectations for Staff Engineers. These career ladders attempt to identify the commonalities across many folks performing similar roles in their organization, but in the end these ladders are a tool that apply better against populations than people. In the case of…
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Zerocal – A Serverless Calendar App in Rust
<img src="https://endler.dev/2022/zer…
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SAT score distributions in Michigan
The state of Michigan required all public HS seniors to take the SAT last year (~91k out of ~107k total seniors in the state). This generate...
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False memory implantation in adults is easy
false memory implantation in adults is easy (bonus: here's one way to do it)
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Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta
📢Update: My message has been heard and our domain has been unblocked. We never received an explanation - HN might have done it. Thank you everyone for sharing. In my spare time, I maintain an open-source SAAS tool for non-profits that allows you to build an online shop, sell
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What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique?
Zig lets you run code during compilation. What are the implications?
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Safe to swim in nuclear spent fuel pool?
What if I took a swim in a typical spent nuclear fuel pool? Would I need to dive to actually experience a fatal amount of radiation? How long could I stay safely at the surface?
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So you're using a weird language
Tips and narratives around picking a weird language for your project
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Glut of Fake LinkedIn Profiles Pits HR Against the Bots
A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity crisis for the business networking site, and for companies that rely on it to hire and screen prospective employees. The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from…
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Partitioning in Postgres, 2022 Edition
Tracking improvements to Postgres partitioning since 2017. In just five years it’s gone from a non-feature to a very good one.
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Memories: Edinburgh ML to Standard ML
Dave MacQueen (with Robert Harper and John Reppy) has written a 100-page History of Standard ML . Here I offer my brief, personal and utterly subjective impressions of its early days, up to the deeply unfortunate schism that created what was then called Caml . Standard ML was a tragic missed opportunity. But even…
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I don’t believe in sprints
Sorry, I have opinions again.
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WebAssembly Is Not A Stack Machine
This is the final part of a 4-part miniseries on issues with WebAssembly and proposals to fix them.
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How to move a running process into a tmux session (2020)
How to move a running process into a tmux session