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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,218 posts.
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Alain de Botton on existential maturity and what emotional intelligence means
“The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning othe…
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Where to wait for an elevator (2010)
Where do you stand in order to minimize the expected distance to walk to catch the first elevator that arrives? Maybe not where you think.
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Flânerie: The Art of Aimless Strolling
Strolling aimlessly – instead of having set routes and set sites to see – is something I’ve always enjoyed doing, especially in big or new cities. I discovered that there was a French term for this aimless wandering, considered to be a kind of art. And that’s flânerie, while the person who engages in this…
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Seriously bright light vs. winter blahs
Most SAD light therapy lamps are not bright enough. How to get brighter light than any you can buy!
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Emacs’s Builtin Elisp Cheat Sheet
Emacs now has a builtin cheat sheet for a large swathe of common elisp functions. If you can't remember exactly how to do something, then this is a great place to look for it first.
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It’s 1997 and you want to build a website
You have a few options. How much time you got?
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Did the early medieval era ever take place?
On the “phantom time hypothesis”, the bizarre conspiracy theory that 297 years of European history were entirely made up.
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I don't care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Why Can't Database Tables Index Themselves? (2006)
Here’s a thought question for today: why can’t database tables index themselves? Obviously, indexes are a central concept to databases and database performance. But horror tales still abound of naïve developers who “forget” to index their tables, and encounter massive performance and scalability problems down the road…
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Selfhosting on Localhost
As a software engineer with a bit of job-induced paranoia, I love the idea of escaping the claws of big tech via self-hosting. In recent years, a plethora of amazing free and open source projects have emerged, providing alternatives to everything from Dropbox and iTunes to Android Home. However, I don’t want to manage…
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What comes after Git
Git was born from the collaboration problems in the Linux kernel. Nearly a decade later, new problems arose when Kubernetes (the operating system of the cloud) brought open-source collaboration to a new level.
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My Preferred Smart Home Vendors
A non-exhaustive list of smart home devices that work well with Home Assistant
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Vets today are like doctors yesterday
And doctors today are miserable
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Linux Kernel vs. DPDK: HTTP Performance Showdown
A head-to-head performance comparison between the Linux kernel's network stack, and a kernel-bypass stack powered by DPDK.
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Delayed Messages on iOS
When I got my first iPhone in March I was surprised to find that iMessage didn’t support scheduling messages to be sent at a later time. This feature is pretty common on some other messaging platforms, and it’s especially useful when I remember I need to text my mom (who always has her ringer turned on) about…
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UIs are not pure functions of the model (2018)
When I first saw React.js , I had a quick glance and thought that it was cool, they finally figured out how to do a Cocoa-like MVC UI framew...
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Mendon, Missouri
Mendon, Missouri. Population 171. There’s really nothing here. The tiny town is located off Route 11, just south of Yellow Creek. You’re three hours west of Saint Louis, two hours […]
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Police CyberAlarm Uses Alarming Cryptography
Today we’re going to be talking about this code, shared on Twitter by Paul Moore. It’s worth noting that this code snippet was after Paul attempted to alert them to security issues with…
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A Journey into the Linux Scheduler
Two years ago more or less I started my journey in Linux. I was scared at first and I didn’t know where to start from. But then I decided to buy a book - and what a book! - in order to follow a path. Along the way, I integrated the material with up-to-date documentation from kernel.org and source code. In the…
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The New American Micro-SaaS Dream
Raise millions of dollars from Venture Capitalists, rent a fancy office in San Francisco, hire an expensive team of "superheroes," and get valued, on paper, as a "unicorn."
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Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation
If your company uses Kubernetes, you are likely expending energy on something that doesn't take you towards your mission.
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High-intensity exercise, some new news
Several months I noticed something interesting (to me!) about my heart rate, and I thought about blogging about it…but I didn’t feel like it would be interesting (to you!) so I’ve been hesitant. But then the NYT published something that is kinda related and I thought OK, what the hell, maybe it’s time for an update…
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Goodbye Medium, hello Ghost
Why Crypto Fireside is migrating from Medium to Ghost.
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SwiftUI for Mac 2022
Crazy Mac lady. Mac author & developer. Lover of Apple computers and devices. Swift & SwiftUI enthusiast. Unofficial Mac app dev evangelist
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RETRO is fast
When I first read Google’s RETRO paper, I was skeptical. Sure, RETRO models are 25x smaller than the competition, supposedly leading to HUGE savings in training and inference costs. But what about the new trillion token “retrieval database” they added to the architcture? Surely that must add back some computational…