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Millet, a Language Server for SML
A language server for Standard ML.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,821 posts.
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The Story of Heroku
Heroku made it easy for any developer to build and run applications in the cloud without managing their own infrastructure. Now, 15 years later, it continues to inspire the next generation of developers.
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RISC-V is getting MSIs
Message signaled interrupts or MSIs describe a way to signal an interrupt without a dedicated interrupt request pin (IRQ). One of the most prevalent uses for MSIs is the PCI bus, and the PCI specification defines the MSI and MSI-X standards. The potential benefits may include: (1) reduced number of direct wires from…
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A step by step backpropagation example (2015)
Background Backpropagation is a common method for training a neural network. There is no shortage of papers online that attempt to explain how backpropagation works, but few that include an example…
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Tornado cash takedown and its repercussions
HN Discussion
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Fork() without exec() is dangerous in large programs (2016)
The UNIX fork() system call seems like an elegant way to process tasks in parallel. It creates a copy of the current process, allowing tasks to read the same memory, without needing fine-grained synchronization. Unfortunately, you need to use it extremely carefully in large programs because fork in a multi-threaded…
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What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique?
Zig lets you run code during compilation. What are the implications?
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Why Not ZFS (2021)
ZFS is a hybrid filesystem and volume manager system that is quite popular recently but has some important and unexpected problems.
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Lessons learned since posting my salary history publicly
What I've learned in the year since posting my salary history publicly.
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Who owns the copyright to my medical images? (2018)
I popped round to an NHS dentist a few months ago - and they stuck my head on one of these contraptions. The Kodak 8000C takes a panoramic X-ray, giving a superior view of your teeth. Nifty. The dentist showed me where my wisdom teeth were and I was impressed with how high resolution the image was. Afterwards, I asked…
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Doing what you love when the money won’t follow
I have frequently been critical of the advice given by baby boomers to “do what you love and the money will follow”. After the hard experience of my generation and the ones following it…
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XMODEM in 2022
Let's start at the beginning: it all started with me trying to boot a system which receives its initial ramdisk over XMODEM.
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The art of the desk setup (2021)
What are the principles underlying the ideal desk setup? How do we balance great design with modern technology? Let’s plunge into my desk setup and my philosophy behind it.
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Losing our product to button syndrome
Fighting a pandemic in the world of software
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UA Gotta Be Kidding
The UA String... It's a super weird, complex string that browsers send to servers, and is mostly dealt with behind the scenes. How big a deal could it be, really? I mean... It's
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Code quality only matters in context (2019)
I used to obsess about code quality earlier in my career. My experience indicates that I'm in good company here; a lot of us developers spend so much time growing our programming skills, and that kind of drive comes from intrinsic motivation. We care about what we do, and we want to do it well.
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How to Pay Professional Maintainers
To successfully fund Open Source projects, companies should: pay the maintainers; pay them real money; pay for maintenance; and keep paying them.
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Half Baked
If you care about a creative practice, my guess is that you’ve already seen Peter Jackson’s new Beatles movie. If not, go check it out. It’s a miracle that the movie exists at all…
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Storing State in the URL
So that the app does not reset to zero after page refresh.
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Whois: Fragile, Unparseable, Obsolete
A rather unstructured look at one of the older and infuriatingly trivial internet protocols: WHOIS
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A summary of my learnings on how to find startup ideas
I’ve been searching for new startup ideas and problem areas to tackle. It’s quite difficult to do, especially when you begin adding constraints to the criteria such as “Am I excited about this problem space?”. The internet is filled with helpful ways to come up with startup ideas and below is the summary of what I’ve…
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Minsky Moments in Venture Capital
Markets rise, and markets fall. This much, at least, is well-known. But why do market cycles occur? What causes the pendulum to swing from euphoria to crisis and back? Hyman Minsky was a 20th-century economist whose ‘financial instability hypothesis’ is probably the best-known explanation for the boom and bust cycles…
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In Defence of the Single Page Application
My argument for why we need the Single Page Applications(sarcasm inside)
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Implementing a safe garbage collector in Rust
In my last post I introduced an Emacs Lisp VM I was writing in Rust. My stated goal at the time was to complete a garbage collector. I think Rust has some really interesting properties that will make building garbage collectors easier and safer. Many of the techniques used in my GC are not original and have been…
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Thoughts about Twitter
nolan caudill's internet house
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There are too many video games
Let's marinate in some hard truths. Dissect what is in front of our eyes.
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The Peking Duck Exemption
Most food safety regulations say that Peking duck should be illegal. But it's not, so what gives?