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Ditching Obsidian and building my own
Tired of migrating notes apps like Obsidian or Evernote? Learn how to build your own private, long-term PKM using self-hosted Directus for control & longevity.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,192 posts.
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The contagious visual blandness of Netflix
And how to treat it
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The Secret Ingredient in Orange Juice
Do you buy orange juice at the store? If you do, I'm sure you're careful to buy the kind that's 100% juice and not made from concentrate. After all, that's the healthier kind, right? The more natural kind? The kind without any additives? The kind that's sold in the refrigerator section so it must be almost as good as…
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Which jobs most often pair together among married couples
Find out which jobs most often pair together among married couples.
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You are not 'behind'
Have you ever felt like you were behind? I used to feel that way. I would read articles about a 26-year-old entrepreneur with a billion-dollar company or a 16-year-old kid who invented a new kind o…
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AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.
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The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
The Free Press has documented a closed-door Pentagon meeting in which a senior Trump official lectured Pope Leo XIV’s ambassador on American military supremacy.
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Get your loved ones off Facebook
I originally wrote this for my friends and family in 2015, to explain why the latest Facebook privacy policy is really harmful. It’s since been read b
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You can't cURL a Border
Building a state machine for travel - tracking Schengen days, the 183-day rule for tax residency across countries, and visa thresholds when governments won't expose state.
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Software in 2014
We’re at an inflection point in the practice of constructing software. Our tools are good, our server developers are happy, but when it comes to building client-side software, we really don’t know where we’re going or how to get there.
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How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
A simple toolchain that Koding Kitty uses for building its web.
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Apple Exclaves
Enhancing kernel isolation, one step at a time.
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The Rise and Fall of the Lone Game Developer
In the early 80s, all it took to make a game was a computer, some graph paper, and a lot of determination.
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Google shared my phone number
When people started calling my personal mobile number with questions about a voluntary organisation I'm involved with, I was confused: we weren't sharing that number. It turns out that Google had decided to take the number I used to verify my identity for Google Business some years prior and start putting it in Google…
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Twitter to Client Developers: Drop Dead
Link to: https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api
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Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
Git scraping is the name I’ve given a scraping technique that I’ve been experimenting with for a few years now. It’s really effective, and more people should use it. Update …
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Halo 2 in HD: Pushing the Original Xbox to the Limit
Everything I went through to add support for HD resolutions to Halo 2 on the Original Xbox. From patching the game's rendering engine and memory allocator, to hot patching the Xbox OS, to overclocking the GPU and running performance benchmarks. This post covers how I pushed the game and console to t
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Are Placebos Really Sugar Pills?
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
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ARRIS Cable Modem Has a Backdoor in the Backdoor
A couple of months ago, some friends invited me to give a talk at NullByte Security Conference . I started to study about some embedded devi...
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Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG
I've been working on a program called html2svg , it converts web pages to SVG. It's based on a fork of Chromium to support modern web standards. This post explains most patches.
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Elliptic Curve Cryptography Explained
Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
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Remote code execution via MIDI messages
Blog post about a reverse engineering project
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I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)
Software developer based in Montréal, Canada
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Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?
"In the late 1930s, FDR’s Administration supercharged antitrust enforcement, increasing more than eightfold the number of cases brought in just two years."
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Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s
Google search results are becoming annoying to use and Open AI is about to eat Google's lunch.
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Fast Software, the Best Software
Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability