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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,880 posts.
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Python's many command-line utilities
Every command-line tool included with Python. These can be run with python -m module_name.
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The Moral Economy of the Shire
Who paid for this? There’s a certain meme that I see making the rounds on Facebook every so often about the bucolic nature of life in the Shire, from Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord o…
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UMD study: N95 masks nearly perfect at blocking Covid
Researchers Found Even Lower-Performing Masks Were Protective
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Libadwaita: Splitting GTK and Design Language
Recently, the Linux Mint Blog published Monthly News – April 2024, which goes into detail about wanting to fork and maintain older GNOME apps in collaboration with other GTK-based desktop environments. Despite the good intentions of the author, Clem, many readers interpreted this as an attack against GNOME…
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If English was written like Chinese (1999)
The English spelling system is such a pain, we’d might as well switch to hanzi — Chinese characters. How should we go about it?
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Why YC went to DC
A few weeks ago, I went to DC to start engaging policymakers and be the voice of little tech. Here's why.
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Cirkoban: Sokoban meets cellular automata written in Scheme
Last week, we released a small puzzle game called Cirkoban . Cirkoban is the very first publicly accessible application developed by Spritely that features the Goblins distributed programming library running in web browsers. We bet big on Hoot , our Scheme-to-WebAssembly compiler, a little over a year ago in order to…
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Go east from Seattle
Fin Moorhouse's website
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Mamba-2 – State Space Duality
Homepage of Tri Dao.
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FBI Raids Big Corporate Landlord over Nationwide Rent Hikes
I’ll get to the good and bad news of the week, but first I want to note the big story - Donald Trump’s conviction by a jury in New York - and a little story with big implications - the Federal Bureau of Investigation raiding a corporate landlord in cahoots with a nation-wide rent-fixing cartel that affects up to 16…
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What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came? (2023)
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, by Robert Allen
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DuckDB 1.0.0
The DuckDB team is very happy to announce that today we’re releasing DuckDB version 1.0.0, codename “Snow Duck” (anas nivis).
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Ruby's Timeout is dangerous and Thread.raise is terrifying (2015)
Why Ruby’s Timeout is dangerous (and Thread.raise is terrifying)
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I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL
In 2018, I created the SerenityOS project after completing a drug rehab program.
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EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links
The highly controversial indiscriminate child sexual abuse regulation (so-called chat control) could still be endorsed by EU governments after all, as France could give up its previous veto. This is reported by Euractiv and confirmed by internal documents. France considers the new "upload moderation
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Making USB devices – end to end guide to your first gadget
Introduction to implementing USB devices. Minimal overview of hardware and software with an example with STM32 microcontroller. Also contains an index to very detailed guides for more information.
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The Intellectual Obesity Crisis (2022)
Information addiction is rotting our brains
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Formlabs Form 4 Teardown
Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4 . Of course, I jumped on the chance to do a teardown of the printer; I’m grateful that I was able to do the same for the Form 1 , Form 2 , and Form 3 generations. In addition to learning a lot from the process of tearing…
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Eight years of organizing tech meetups (2023)
Eight years of organizing tech meetups
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An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (2020)
An Intuitive and Visual Guide to Maxwell's Equations
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Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 10: RTC
I’m going to start this post off with the obligatory list of links to the previous parts in the series if you’re new here and are interested in seeing the full story: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , and 9 . This is the tale of how I upgraded my Chumby 8 to run a modern Linux kernel.
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Here comes the Muybridge camera moment but for text
Posted on Friday 31 May 2024. 2,785 words, 28 links. By Matt Webb.
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SPI Flash
SPI Flash reader built from a Teensy or Arduino
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Monads are like burritos (2009)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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PyCon US 2024 Recap
Unlocking the Parallel Universe: Subinterpreters and Free-Threading in Python 3.13
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Parable of the Sofa
When Lauren was pregnant with a child who’s now turning 25, we purchased a comfy dark-brown leather sofa which fits our living room nicely. What with kids and relatives and employees and cats and Standards Comittees and friends and book clubs and socials, the butt-support cushions had, a quarter century later, worn…