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Making macOS Behave Itself
Wherein the Means to Make macOS Behave Itself Are Enumerated, Including an App to Stop Music.app Launching on Device Connection, Terminal Tips for Gatekeeper, OCR From Screen, and Time Machine Control.
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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Happiness and the Art of Being (2012)
Error on Requested Web Page: The teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Really Prolific?
Well, it’s been a while since the FTDI fuckup so I guess it was a time for another IC supplier to go bonkers. Yes, it’s again time for a chip manufacturer to mess with your computer drivers. Story starts with me searching for 5V USB cable with a 3.3V…
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Dating Other Task Managers
I've a confession… I've been seeing other todo lists
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Dabbling with Dagster vs. Airflow
Dissecting the Octopus
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Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor
The story of Microsystems International and the Intel 4005
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Large-format camera movements (2020)
For less than a cup of coffee, a downloadable 29-page reference guide to Large Format Camera Movements, keep it on file or conveniently on your phone
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Addiction to ideas (2017)
This was me about 10 years ago: Hi, I’m Colleen. I’m an entrepreneurship professor. I listen to ideas all day long and I can’t get enough of them. I dream about my students ideas …
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Jay Powell traded during blackout period; failed to disclose most trade dates
Jay Powell traded during restricted blackout period; failed to disclose most trade dates; apparently lied about muni conflict; directed massive Wall St bailouts despite conflicts
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Reverse-engineering the waveform generator in a 1969 breadboard
How hard could it be to fix a vintage solderless breadboard that doesn't quite work? The "elite 2 circuit design test system" below combin...
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What is: Linux keyring, gnome-keyring, Secret Service, and D-Bus (2019)
What are Linux keyring, gnome-keyring, Secret Service, and D-Bus - a brief overview and usage examples
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WebAssembly: TinyGo vs. Rust vs. AssemblyScript
A browser sorting benchmark comparing JavaScript, Go, TinyGo, Rust, and AssemblyScript, with source code and test conditions.
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How to properly interpret a traceroute or mtr
traceroute vs mtr When a packet travels across the Internet, it travels through multiple routers. The traceroute and mtr tools can be used to identify the routers a packet passes through between you and a given destination IP address. traceroute is a one-shot sort of tool whereas mtr runs and agg
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Passkeys
This is an opinionated, “quick-start” guide to using passkeys as a web developer. It’s hopefully broadly applicable, but one size will never fit all authentication needs and this guide ignores everything that’s optional. So take it as a worked example, but not as gospel.
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Beginners Guide to 0day/CVE AppSec Research
A while ago I took up the challenge to get Offensive Security Web Expert (OSWE) certified. During this journey I learned many awesome things. The most important lesson learned was that with source code and a debugger, I could find vulnerabilities exponentially faster than by using traditional Blackbox/Bug-Bounty…
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The many flavors of hashing
About the many types of hash functions, their use-cases, dos and don'ts, with suggestions for currently accepted algorithms.
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How to kickstart and scale a consumer business by doing things that don’t scale
Also, how today’s biggest consumer products got their first 1,000 users
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My process for building a feature
I’m maintaining a lot of different projects at the moment. I thought it would be useful to describe the process I use for adding a new feature to one of …
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Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator
Making performant dynamic manual memory management in C feel almost like garbage collection.
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The Scaling Hypothesis (2021)
On GPT-3: meta-learning, scaling, implications, and deep theory. The scaling hypothesis: neural nets absorb data & compute, generalizing and becoming more Bayesian as problems get harder, manifesting new abilities even at trivial-by-global-standards-scale. The deep learning revolution has begun as foretold.
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How To Remember Anything Forever-ish (2018)
an interactive comic on the art & science of memory
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Europe: The end of the privacy of digital correspondence
The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence The EU wants to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content - generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child pornography. The result: Mass surveillance by means of full
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Galactic-Scale Energy (2011)
[ An updated treatment of this material appears in Chapter 1 of the Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet (free) textbook , and also appears as part of an article in Nature Physics in 2022.]
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The Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation (2000)
Good morning. Just a second while I get this connection to work. Do I press this button here? Function-F7? No, that's not right. Hmmm. Maybe I'll have to reboot. Hold on a minute. Um, my name is Abe Lincoln and I'm your president. While we're waiting, I want to thank Judge David Wills, chairman of the committee…
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Internet Mail 2000
The sender's ISP, rather than the receiver's ISP, is the always-online post office from which the receiver picks up the message.
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Please Use ZFS with ECC Memory (2014)
In this blogpost I argue why it's strongly recommended to use ZFS with ECC memory when building a NAS. I would argue that if you do not use ECC memory, it's reasonable to also forgo on ZFS altogether and use any (legacy) file system that suits your needs.