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Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person'
Link to: https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23765914&cid=65583466
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 668 posts.
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Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study
Toothpaste made from your own hair may offer a sustainable and clinically effective way to protect and repair damaged teeth.
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The electric fence stopped working years ago
"Don't worry, he won't leave the porch. The electric fence hasn't worked in years, but he still won't go past it."
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The Timmy Trap
This is Part 2 of my LLM series. In Part 1 , I discussed how in just a few short years, we went from the childlike joy of creating “Pirate Poetry” to the despair that our jobs would disappear. My main message was to relax a bit, as companies abuse the hype cycle to distort what is actually happening.
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I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer
How I reverse-engineered PureGym's API to build a working Apple Wallet pass with PassKit, Vapor, and mitmproxy - end-to-end iOS reverse engineering walkthrough.
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I used to know how to write in Japanese
Somehow, though, I can still read it
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This website is for humans
I don't want Google's shitty AI-generated ramen
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I'm worried it might get bad
Starting to worry things might get very bad, very soon
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500 days of math
I recently crossed 500 days of practicing math daily with Math Academy. I wrote about my experience after 100 days here. TL;DR: I am still very impressed by the Math Academy system and highly…
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Weathering Software Winter (2022)
This is a blog post based on a transcript of a talk by Devine on November 26th 2022. Watch the video version on (YouTube). The slideshow presentation was made using Adelie .
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Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live
The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live and Work
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Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub
I am stepping down as GitHub CEO to build my next adventure. GitHub is thriving and has a bright future ahead.
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I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
Writing about software, systems, and the craft of building things.
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Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits
My experiment optimizing my sleep schedule around maximizing my Claude Pro subscription usage.
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I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid
Robots won't replace me, but another human probably will.
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Try and
Typically, try can be followed by three kinds of phrases: a noun phrase (1a), an infinitival verb phrase with to (1b), or a verb phrase with - ing (1c).
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Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets
Note to the impatient: You can just scroll down to the drawings of fitted sheets being folded. You won’t hurt my feelings. (I’ll never even know.) But you may want to bookmark this page for later instead. You can get fast at folding fitted sheets. But to learn how to fold fitted sheets is going to take some patience…
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The Framework Desktop is a beast
I've been running the Framework Desktop for a few months here in Copenhagen now. It's an incredible machine. It's completely quiet, even under heavy, stress-all-cores load. It's tiny too, at just 4.5L of volume, especially compared to my old beautiful but bulky North tower running the 7950X — yet it's faster! And…
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I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C
Look, I'm an idiot. I know that, you know that, and the man on the moon knows that. Let's not get into why I'm an idiot; let's just accept that I have my peculiarities and you have yours. My idiocy is a quest to make sure all my portable electronics can recharge using USB-C. Modern smartwatches are tiny and they do a…
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Wired Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' over a Broken Display
A detailed critique of WIRED's AirGradient ONE review, focusing on methodology, product understanding, and what trustworthy monitor reviews require.
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The importance of offtopic
My first big job in the industry had me as one of two people in Warsaw, with the rest of the team in Oslo. I’ve never seen any of my Norwegian co-workers at that point, but one the first pieces of direct feedback I got from my manager was: “the teammembers like you; they feel like you’re part of the team.”
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Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment
Last year, 2024, we replaced four PTACs with a mini-split AC. I’ve been asked about it often enough (by neighbors, coworkers, friends) that I decided to write up the experience. Hopefully it&…
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I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
How I helped Claude AI extend its capabilities only for the same AI to reject my job application.
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Lack of intent is what makes reading LLM-generated text exhausting
There’s something icky about LLM-generated text when you think it’s written by a human. I think I finally put my finger on one reason why I feel this way.
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Content-Aware Spaced Repetition
Discover how content-aware memory models, understanding flashcard semantics, will simplify the creation of future spaced repetition systems.
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You know more Finnish than you think
Linguistics illuminates the linguistically obscure – or so I’ve always thought. It’s a common theme of my online output that a little bit of historical linguistics goes a long way, maki…
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Read your code
Stop vibe-coding blindly! Why reading AI-generated code is crucial in 2025. Avoid security flaws, architectural decay, and knowledge loss when using Claude Code or any other tool.
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If you're remote, ramble
A lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion for remote teams.
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Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
Plus: How to save 100 million lives with 1/400th of our income
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Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance
My experience with my father's long-term care insurance company has not been an easy one. But I've learned quite a few lessons.