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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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Recent improvements to Safari
How recent improvements may shake up perceptions of Apple’s long-derided browser Although not widely remarked upon, 2022 was a transformative year for Apple’s popular web browser.
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The iPhone Keyboard – Make It or Break It (2022)
Building the first iPhone's touchscreen keyboard was a make-it-or-break-it moment for the iPhone. Succeed, and the iPhone was possible. Fail, and the iPhone would've been shelved. This is its story.
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WInd3x, the iPod Bootrom exploit 10 years too late
This is a write-up of the wInd3x bootrom exploit affecting iPod Nanos from 3rd gen to 5th gen. A ready-made tool to use this exploit is available at github.com/freemyipod/wInd3x .
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Twitter has blocked 3rd party apps
At 7:30 PM PST on January 12th, access to Twitter from Tweetbot and many other 3rd party apps have stopped working. We've reached out to Twitter for more details, but as of yet have not heard anything back.
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Emacs Is Not Enough
Project Mage is a quest for seamless structural editing, a decent GUI toolkit, and, overall, an environment where interactivity, flexibility and power are valued very highly. A few applications are on the roadmap, notably the ones providing for note-taking, computational notebook capabilities, project-info tracking…
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Programming interviews turn normal people into a-holes
Subtitle: Yet Another Tech Interviewing Post There are hundreds and hundreds of blogs about how programming interviews suck, how they ask trivia questions or try to ask questions that only fresh graduates would know well (sort binary trees is the classical example). All these theories are correct, but I have
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What the hell is Forth? (2019)
blog dot information dash superhighway dot net2023273 points123 commentsProgramming Languages details
Forth is perhaps the tiniest possible useful interactive programming language. It is tiny along a number of dimensions: The amount of c...
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Strava raises prices but can’t tell you how much it costs anymore
Some days, I just can’t decide if Strava tries hard to hurt their reputation, or, if it just comes naturally. Today, however, I’m left flabbergasted.
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Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years
Just 2 years after laying off 80% of their team and being left for dead, we estimate Docker is now at $135M+ ARR growing roughly 150% YoY—and rebuilding Docker 2.0 as a bottom-up, developer-first company. For more on Docker’s future, check out our interview with Docker CEO Scott Johnston along with our Docker profile…
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Setting the bozo bit on Apple
The other day I was fighting once again with Apple Music. Not the service, the app. What I wanted to do was simple: I have some practice ...
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An Update on the Open Game License (OGL)
Although we are not yet able to release the OGL at this time, we would like to update you on how things are developing, and the goals we have in mind fo...
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History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today (2022)
History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today
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ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving
If an algorithm is the death of high school English, maybe that's an okay thing.
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Working for a Dating Website (2015)
Over this past weekend, I came across a Wired called "Write the Perfect Email to Anyone with this Creepy Site" on using machine learning and natural language processing to analyze a person's social media profiles and offer tips on how to communicate with them effectively. Most people immediately thought about sales…
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Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
I made a custom split mechanical keyboard! Because it's me, this involved things like contributing to a PCB design tool and discovering a ridiculously optimized way to read a keyboard matrix.
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Liu Cixin's Technologies of the Future
Highlight of cool technologies mentioned in "The Dark Forest".
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Static HTML Comments
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.
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Paizo Announces System-Neutral Open RPG License
<p>For the last several weeks, as rumors of Wizards of the Coast’s new version of the Open Game License began circulating among publishers and on social media, gamers across the world have been asking what Paizo plans to do in light of concerns regarding Wizards of the Coast’s rumored plan to de-authorize the existing…
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Write admin tools from day one (2022)
UPDATE: I gave a talk expanding on this blog post at EMPEX NYC 2023 . The Problem Writing useful features for your users is key to a succes...
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Loss of epigenetic information can drive aging in mice
Study implicates changes to way DNA is organized, regulated rather than changes to genetic code
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This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI
We’re deploying our own generative model which lets users design entirely new synthetic voices. Discover more about generative voice AI
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Your tech stack is not the product
Early stage technology decisions must be, uncomfortably, a means to an end.
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Supporting the use of Rust in the Chromium project
Posted by Dana Jansens (she/her), Chrome Security Team We are pleased to announce that moving forward, the Chromium project is going to s...
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Webb confirms its first exoplanet
Researchers have confirmed the presence of an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99% of Earth’s diameter.
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Just use a monorepo
In which I tell you that you're overcomplicating things and you should throw everything behind a single git repository.
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Nintendo 64 Java
Mike Kohn's music, software, and electronics projects.