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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,905 posts.
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Cool, but obscure Unix tools
A little collection of cool unix terminal/console/curses tools Just a list of 20 (now 28) tools for the command line. Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure -- I hope you find something useful that you weren't aware of yet! Use your operating system's package manager to install…
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Working with git? These aliases will save you hours
I was just watching a friend of mine work with git, and he'd always type all the git commands in full, like git status and git push. I realized that he must not be the only one to do so, so I decided to write this quick blog post and encourage everyone to create Huffman coded aliases for the most commonly used...
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If you didn’t run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn’t boot
This was passed on to me by Ben Elliston, ex-gcc hacker and good guy. Amusing in context, but the corollary is that working on free software means you'll encounter such people. You may have to work with them. You may have to argue with them (and they may be right). Quite some time ago I was horrified by the private…
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Twitter’s Shit Sandwich
On Twitter’s just-annoucned pan to require third-party clients to use OAuth.
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Human Brain Project: $1.61 billion to achieve human brain emulation by 2024
Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland, has assembled a team of nine top European scientists for the research effort to build a computer model of a human brain. The Human Brain Project is in discussion with the EU for a £1billion (US$1.61 billion) grant.
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TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
I'm trying to combine WebKit and Node.js into a new kind of terminal, with an emphasis on rich display and web/network orientation.
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Being Frugal Makes You A Loser
I'm all for saving money. I get as much pleasure watching my bank account grow as I do from buying things or taking trips. But, people often take frugality too far. I don't care if you're poor, and if you're reading this you're not actually poor, there are things where you should always spend a
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On HTTP Load Testing
A lot of people seem to be talking about and performing load tests on HTTP servers, perhaps because there’s a lot more choice of servers these days.
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JSLinux - Technical Notes
In 2011 I wrote the initial version of JSLinux, the first PC/x86 emulator in Javascript running Linux. I reused parts of another of my emulators ( QEMU ) for the x86 helpers and the devices.
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IOS RAGE rendered with WebGL
As promised, here's the new WebGL demo that I've been working on! I won't be posting a live version this time (watch the video to find out w...
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Mono Developers start their own company
Miguel de Icaza's Blog
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Merlin Mann: Better
Merlin's essay on the web, attention, and the virtues of trying a little bit harder.
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Everyone sucks at interviewing. Everyone.
Interviewing is broken. Has been for years. This rigid commitment everyone seems to have to the standard resume/cover letter/interview system of hiring is just plain insane.
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Cranking
This domain is parked. There is no active website here.
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Kung Fu Tetris
Lannyland - A Land of Imagination
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Honestly.com – Not acting so honestly
I hate to have my first blog post after over a year be a negative one, but I feel like these guys need calling out. I recently received an email from a company, Honestly.com, that…
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Why Microsoft bought Skype
There is so much to write about but I’ll begin with Microsoft buying Skype for $8.5 billion. The pundits are debating whether this move by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer makes good business sense, but that’s the wrong way to look at it. The better approach is to wonder what would have happened had Microsoft not
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