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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,929 posts.
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Quest for my perfect watch
I love my Casio Protrek watch, I won’t leave the house without it. I’ve owned it for years, as well as some earlier Protrek models. Those earlier models didn’t break — these watches are basically indestructible — I just liked them so much I went and bought the new revisions!
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Starting FORTH (1981)
Starting Forth has always been the fun way to learn Forth programming. This free, online edition uses updated code that runs on modern Forth systems.
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Investigating why Steam started picking a random font
Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil , the Excalidraw font.
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Strategy 101: An introduction to power
If you’re interested in strategy, this post will be valuable to you. It shares the the tools that I’ve found most valuable so far.
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Go 1.21 may have a clear(x) builtin
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Consider working on genomics
Genomics needs more talented software engineers—here's why you should consider joining the field.
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A Twitter Off Ramp: A Tutorial for Getting on Mastodon
A tutorial for getting on Mastodon
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Redbean Tiddlywiki Saver
Tiddlywiki is a great tool, but because it runs in the browser, it has only limited access to the filesystem to save changes. This has led to dozens of tools called "savers" that work with Tiddlywiki to save it. These span the gamut, including full fledged desktop apps (most notably TiddlyDesktop ), browser…
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Mystery Blips
A young operations engineer learns a lesson about creative debugging
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Tree views in CSS
How to create a tree view (collapsible list) using only HTML and CSS
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ChessBase and Stockfish end their legal dispute
Stockfish is a free, open-source, and cross-platform chess engine, trusted by grandmasters and leading chess platforms worldwide.
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Tools for thought as cultural practices, not computational objects
On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
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How to sell tickets fairly
A proposal of how to sell a limited number of tickets to a live concert in a fair way
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How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?
Looking for special servers.
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Use this kernel parameter in your kiosk
r/PBSOD is a fun subreddit all about posting pictures of broken kiosks and information/entertainment systems in public. It stands for Public Blue Screen of Death which is a Windowsism but Linux systems are posted there too. If you spend enough time scrolling, you might notice two things: There’s a scary number of…
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Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU
Update: this post was written in November, 2022.
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Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20%
Every year, in the spirit of openness upon which Mozilla was founded, we share publicly the ways we have protected, fought for and helped advance the internet in service of the people who rely on it every day.
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Use a custom domain to send emails with Gmail using Cloudflare email routing
Edit: Updated with notes about revealing your main gmail address and deliverability, after this HN discussion
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Some notes on the Stable Diffusion safety filter
How deep learning models are moderated
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Fast CI with MicroVMs
I saw an opportunity to fix self-hosted runners for GitHub Actions. Actuated is now in pilot and aims to solve most if not all of the friction.
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Inside boost::unordered_flat_map
Introduction The case for open addressing SIMD-accelerated lookup boost::unordered_flat_map data structure Rehashing Hash post-mixing Sta...
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The 12-bit rainbow palette
A palette of twelve colours chosen with consideration for how we perceive luminance, chroma, and hue
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The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok
How a misunderstood platform has completely taken over the world.
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Researchers quietly cracked Zeppelin ransomware keys
Peter is an IT manager for a technology manufacturer that got hit with a Russian ransomware strain called “ Zeppelin ” in May 2020. He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. After two weeks of…
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Tailscale Funnel
Public access to your device—without the security risks. Tailscale Funnel makes exposing services to the internet safe & simple.