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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,224 posts.
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PDP-11 Booting
Instructions for booting a PDP-11/34 with RT-11 from a RK05
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Ten years of experience, still failing phone screens
I fail phone screens pretty often, which limits my job prospects and is embarrassing for someone with ten years of industry experience, a pretty extensive Github account and a publicly available list of difference-making projects . 1 In theory a phone screen is supposed to evaluate whether a) this person would be good…
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Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part 4: how algorithms are implemented
The Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer (1983) was the classic synthesizer in 1980s pop music. It uses two custom digital chips to generate sou...
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Interview with Anders Hejlsberg on Delphi (1995)
Xoilac TV - Kênh xem trực tiếp bóng đá XoilacTV Full HD, không bị chặn, bình luận Tiếng Việt. XoiacTV cập nhật liên tục lịch thi đấu, BXH, kết quả bóng đá... nhanh và chính xác nhất.
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Interfacing with Zig, a BDFL-run project
Loris Cro's Blog
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Quaternions
Introduction to quaternions and rotations in 3D.
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Right-to-Left Styling 101
An extensive guide on how to style for RTL in CSS
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Is Web3 anything?
The term “web3” seems pretty fluid and is being used as a label for a bunch of disparate ideas. Given that it’s a decentralized group describing a decentralized movement, that lack of focus isn’t exactly surprising. Almost by definition it’s going to end up being different things to different people.
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Defensive CSS
A list of defensive CSS techniques to avoid potential future issues
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The biggest crypto lending company is a ponzi scheme
With over $20b in assets under management Celsius Network is the biggest centralised lending platform in the crypto space.
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Universal Paperclips
The dawn of incremental games: how some of the most virally addictive games of the 2010s were nothing but text and numbers going up.
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Modus Themes
The Modus themes for Emacs meet the highest accessibility standard for colour contrast. This is their official manual.
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Two lines of CSS that will improve HN on mobile (IMO)
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
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Lessons learned after working one year as a Common Lisp Developer (2018)
I intented this to be a small post with some lessons learned after working one year as a CL dev, however it turned out quite long (two parts!). As always: All opinions are my own. This post is not endorsed by anybody.
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Facts don’t change our minds (2018)
Why don't facts change our minds? This article explains the logic of false beliefs and proposes a better system for constructive conversation.
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Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal?
A guest post on Georgism by Lars Doucet
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Web3 Is Not Decentralization
It's just not. Here's a deep dive into why, exactly, I think that.
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Writing a register based VM in less than 125 lines of C code
This tutorial is intended for intermediate C developers who want to get some coding practice and, in the process, gain valuable insights into low-level programming and how (some) Virtual Machines operate under the hood. The reader should already be comfortable with bitwise operations, hexadecimal notation, pointers…
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Why I stopped releasing EasyOS as an ISO file
Some time ago I stopped releasing EasyOS as an ISO file, from then onward as a drive image file only. This has been contentious, and I receive emails from people lamenting the demise of the ISO. So, I should post some thoughts why I made this decision. Not an exhaustive rationale, just some thoughts while I think of…
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Groups never admit failure
Groups never admit failure. A group would rather keep living in the mythology of “we were repressed” than ever admit failure. Individuals are the only ones who admit failure. Even individuals don’t like to admit failure, but eventually, they can be forced to. A group will never admit they were wrong. More
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Hacking the Go compiler to add a new keyword
I forked and modified Go compiler to add a new keyword called let, as alias for var
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Building a PS1 style retro 3D renderer
My exploration into making a 90s style fantasy console inspired by the PS1
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How I spend less time on YouTube
Maybe I'm paranoid. But, I think there's a lot of smart people out there dedicating their life's work to make others keep watching videos. Since YouTube's incomprehensible decision to remove dislikes count it's become even easier to waste time on worthless content. In this blog post, I'll describe a simple trick that…
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Yamaha DX7 reverse-engineering, part III: Inside the log-sine ROM
The Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer (1983) was the classic synthesizer for 1980s pop music. It used two custom digital chips to generate so...
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Essential security for Linux servers (2013)
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