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LaTeX for tabletop

Vladar's Blog2023148 points59 commentsTools & Productivity details

Get started on using LaTeX for writing your tabletop rulebooks, adventures, and zines.

A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

Max Read2023331 points136 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

Exploring the Applecore style

Browsing like it's 1994: Integrating a Mac SE, ImageWriter II into a modern LAN

Chili Oil Notes

I’ve been getting a little obsessed with chili oil. A little…lost in the sauce so to speak. Here’s some notes and general thoughts on chili oil.

Tech Independence

Derek Sivers2023214 points71 commentscited by 9Tools & Productivity details

Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.

How the Mac didn’t bring programming to the people

Howard Oakley2023209 points266 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details

HyperTalk, AppleScript, Prograph, Automator, Swift Playgrounds and Shortcuts – all wonderful tools in their day, but none has brought coding to the crowd.

Changing the Rules of Rust

In Rust, there are certain API decisions about what is and isn’t sound that impact all Rust code. That is, a decision was made to allow or not allow types which have certain safety requirements, and now all users are committed to that decision. They can’t just use a different API with different rules: all APIs must…

Unity's Trap

Tom Francis2023114 points111 commentsGames & Graphics details

Hello! I'm Tom. I'm a game designer, writer, and programmer on Gunpoint , Heat Signature , and Tactical Breach Wizards . Here's some more info on all the games I've worked on, here are the videos I make on YouTube, and here are two short stories I wrote for the Machine of Death collections.

I hacked macOS

Hyprland Is a Toxic Community

Drew DeVault2023108 points163 commentscited by 8Society, Policy & Culture details

Apple’s new Transformer-powered predictive text model

Jack Cook2023527 points245 commentscited by 5AI & Machine Learning details

I found some details about Apple’s new predictive text model, coming soon in iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma.

Java 21 makes me like Java again

Algebraic data types in Java.

Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023

Wejn.org2023216 points161 commentsSecurity & Privacy details

A tale how running your own x509 root CA – for internal services – changed in the last 20 years.

Don't be afraid to be wrong

Nuno Lopes2023171 points101 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details

Being afraid of being wrong can hold you back - know how to deal with it.

The “Do Something About It” Club

GPT-4 is not getting worse

Intense Transmissions from Hell2023149 points174 commentsAI & Machine Learning details

GPT-4 may have declined in some areas, but it hasn’t systematically done so. My tests were shit, and never proved much of anything.

Hexadecimal clock counting down to 2038 problem

retr0.id2023173 points131 commentscited by 4History & Retro Computing details

It is now ??????????.??? ( ????-??-??T??:??:??.???Z ) in Unix time , according to your local system clock.

How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers

Engineer's Codex2023315 points188 commentsTech Industry & Business details

Instagram's guiding principles and tech stack explained simply

Formatting text in C++: Old and new ways

Everyday uses for PVC water pipe

Tom Tilley2023205 points160 commentsTools & Productivity details

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Building an economy simulator from scratch

Thomas Simon2023480 points199 commentsGames & Graphics details

by Thomas SIMON

I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it

Basta’s Notes2023753 points535 commentscited by 3Tech Industry & Business details

Or "that time I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it like a week after launch"

How to store a chess position in 26 bytes using bit-level magic (2022)

Should I Rust or Should I Go?

Sylvain Kerkour2023106 points170 commentsSoftware Engineering details

Optimizing LLMs from a Dataset Perspective

Sebastian Raschka2023138 points24 commentsAI & Machine Learning details

Practical guide to improving LLM finetuning with better instruction datasets, covering data curation, prompt-output pairs, synthetic data, and experiment ideas.

Yes, Android 14 still allows modification of system certificates

g1a55er::blog2023172 points85 commentsSecurity & Privacy details

Tim Perry recently claimed in an article that “Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root”. This sparked significant discussion on Hacker News. Thankfully my tests show that it is still possible to adjust the system certificate store in Android 14.

Marginalia Search Receives FUTO Grant

I’m happy to announce that the generous people at FUTO have granted the project $15,000 with no strings attached to help the search engine out with some more server power. FUTO is a young Austin, TX-based organization “dedicated to developing, both through in-house engineering and investment, technologies that…

Willingham sends Fables into the public domain

Bill Willingham2023733 points268 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

Here, below, is the press release I sent out today to explain what I did and why.

How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?

Richard Dawkins2023102 points113 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details

In the culture wars, hypersensitivity and accusations of ‘hate’ risk leading us into an Orwellian future

Linear code is more readable

Code linearity is more desireable than keeping abstraction layers separate.