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Zig as an alternative to writing unsafe Rust
There are endless debates online about Rust vs. Zig, this post explores a side of the argument I don't think is mentioned enough.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,921 posts.
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Young people in 13 EU countries refuse surveillance of online communication
Poll: the 80% would not feel comfortable being politically active or exploring their sexuality if authorities can monitor their communication.
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No Lodash
The copy-paste library, containing various Lodash replacement functions, a copy-paste framework, and more.
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Show HN: NESFab – Programming language for making NES games
NESFab is a new programming language for creating NES games. Designed with 8-bit limitations in mind, the language is more ergonomic to use than C, while also producing faster assembly code. It's easy to get started with, and has a useful set of libraries for making your first — or hundredth — NES game.
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Possible reasons for 8-bit bytes
Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes
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Stochastic gradient descent written in SQL
Edit – this post generated a few insightful comments on Hacker News. I’ve also put the code in a notebook for ease of use. Introduction Modern MLOps is complex because it involves too many components. …
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Dividing a Square into 7 Similar Rectangles
This is a continuation of my post Dividing a square into similar rectangles, in which I discussed this puzzle: if you partition a square into n similar rectangles, what proportions can these rectan…
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Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business
Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, or something else? And what does that mean for Google?
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Discord, or the Death of Lore
I chose the life, it didn’t choose me. I could have walked away from it a long time ago, and I’ve certainly shifted my focus over the years. But I still hold the heft and halter, the on…
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Domain Names as Handles in Bluesky
Today we got our first custom domain name handle registered on Bluesky. Domain name handles are a way for us to improve the state of trust and control users have over their social identities online.
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GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them
Augmenting GPT-3 with tools is a popular technique right now. But is GPT-3 really using them?
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Bevy 0.10: data oriented game engine built in Rust
Thanks to 173 contributors, 689 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous sponsors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.10 release on crates…
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Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake
Trying to see the world more clearly
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Understanding people matters more than understanding tech
Dear new developer, I ran across this tweet a while ago: If there was only one piece of advice that I wish I had known early in my career as a software dev is that understanding people is more impo…
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Ultra-processed foods may contribute to cognitive decline
Surprisingly, even packaged foods that contain healthy components can qualify as ultra-processed. Jamie Grill Photography/Tetra Images via Getty Images Sara N. Burke, University of Florida Scientists have known for years that unhealthy diets – particularly those that are high in fat and sugar – may cause detrimental…
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I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms
The time has come to talk about something uncomfortable to a lot of you. You’ve been using legacy methods for far too long. It’s time to move to IPv6. But, of course, there’s a lot more to IPv6 than ‘just’ switching everything over. A lot of systems in the world still haven’t…
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User interface design timeframes: from 0.1 seconds to 10 years (2009)
From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues.
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Want an unfair advantage in your tech career? Consume content for other roles
Learning about roles you work with can provide a meaningful competitive advantage in the modern tech world
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Google Search Is Dying (2022)
(There is good discussion on this article on Hacker News and Reddit)
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I'm a very slow thinker (2016)
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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Nix-Powered Development with OCaml
Bootstrapping OCaml projects with Nix
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ChatGPT generated a puzzle game
Sumplete.com was invented, coded and even named entirely by ChatGPT.
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Reverse-engineering the electronics in the Globus analog navigational computer
In the Soyuz space missions, cosmonauts tracked their position above the Earth with a remarkable electromechanical device with a rotating ...
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The Smallest Hash Table
This December I once again did the Advent of Code , in Rust. If you are interested, my solutions are on Github. I wanted to highlight one particular solution to the day 2 problem as it is both optimized completely beyond the point of reason yet contains a useful technique. For simplicity we’re only going to do part 1…
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There Were Half As Many Affordable Homes For Sale In 2022 As There Were In 2021
21% of listings were affordable to the typical household, down from 40% in 2021. White households had three times as many options as Black households.
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Phoenix 1.7.0
Phoenix 1.7.0 is here! This releases includes major new features, component-based generators, updated conventions, LiveView Streams, and more!
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How to lose $950 quickly on Airbnb
How I lost $950 in about an hour on AirBnB by stupidly thinking it worked like a hotel