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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 668 posts.
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Why friction is necessary for growth
Why I think comfort leads to stagnation and overcoming friction leads to growth.
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A simple habit that saves my evenings
As a software engineer, I often work on big tasks that require hours of continuous and focused work. However, we have plenty of meetings, colleagues asking us something in Slack, and lunch breaks. Add a colleague who comes to you and calls you for a cup of coffee if you work from the office. And usually, we don’t…
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What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
Running around in the woods, firing small plastic pellets at other people, in pursuit of a contrived-to-be-fun mission, turns out to be, well, fun.
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90%
AI is writing 90% of the code I was in charge of
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When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”
Last month I have been on a multi-day hike with my dad. Each of us took many pictures, and when we came back we put them all in a shared folder. We both have Android phones, and the naming scheme used for our pictures was the same: IMG_YYYYMMDD_HHmmss followed maybe by some other numbers and then a .jpg . Here YYYY…
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Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
Posts and writings by Julian Schrittwieser
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Solar panels + cold = A potential problem
You purchased a new Delta Pro and looked up the specifications - Delta Pro can take up to 1600w/150v/15a of solar input. Then you buy four EcoFlow 400w Rigid solar panels to plug them in series.
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Greenland is a beautiful nightmare
Greenland is a complicated topic here in Denmark. The former colony that is still treated a bit like a colony is something that inspires a lot of emotions. Greenland has been subjected to a lot of unethical experiments by Denmark, from taking their kids to wild experiments in criminal justice.
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Why We Think
Special thanks to John Schulman for a lot of super valuable feedback and direct edits on this post. Test time compute (Graves et al. 2016, Ling, et al. 2017, Cobbe et al. 2021) and Chain-of-thought (CoT) (Wei et al. 2022, Nye et al. 2021), have led to significant improvements in model performance, while raising many…
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Why do we remember some life moments but not others?
BU study finds memories of mundane incidents can be strengthened when they get attached to a memory of an emotionally charged event
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Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander
Mechanical keyboards, the nerd equivalent of obsessing over ferrule weights in golf clubs, are wildly popular, and for a good reason. I've owned and used a ZSA Moonlander for some years now, and here are my thoughts on it and why I think you should literally buy any mechanical keyboard you can get your hands on with…
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The Poison Pill to End the MMR Is Tylenol
If you think Tylenol is bad for babies, wait until you hear about rubella virus
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Questions to ask when you think need to finish something
When a pursuit becomes a drag, here's some questions to help you figure out why, and what to do about it.
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Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube
I’ve been learning Persian (Farsi) for a while now, and I’m using a bunch of tools for it. The central one is certainly Anki, a spaced repetition app to train memory. I’m creating my own never-ending deck of cards, with different types of content, for different purposes. The most frequent type of cards is grammar…
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How to draw construction equipment for kids
What makes "Road Builders," written by B.G. Hennessy and illustrated by Simms Taback, so charming
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Always Invite Anna
Sometimes the people who need invitations most are the ones who always decline them.
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Altoids by the Fistful
"In evolution, a maladaptation is a trait that is (or has become) more harmful than helpful, in contrast with an adaptation, which is more helpful than harmful." I went to Wikipedia to look that up, not a large language model.
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Pocket Casts, you altered the deal, so I will alter your app
After all you made your apps open source, so I can remove your ads.
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Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?
A while back I attended a Cloudflare board meeting and carried my laptop in a brown paper bag from a grocery store. This elicited a few com...
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Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News
HN should be treated as an external comment section for the internet to the extent that it can’t substitute for the internet, much less for your own thinking. At its best, HN is a map to new questions and a window onto new angles. The landscape itself remains elsewhere.
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I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode
This is what happens when you ban yourself from coding
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Benjamin Button Reviews macOS
Benjamin Button Reviews macOS | exotext
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Grief gets an expiration date, just like us
Grief gets an expiration date. Just like us.
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Obsidian Note Codes
I made a little plugin for Obsidian: Note Codes.
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KDE is now my favorite desktop
From my last blog post , I am now using KDE as the desktop environment for my gaming rig. The reason is because I want a reasonably easy to use Linux desktop for when my wife needs to use the PC for something other than gaming, and this was the reason why my "traditional" Sway setup was a no-go.
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Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate
A quick reference
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How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do
Learn some ways to help encourage action when you feel unmotivated.