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We overestimate our short-term ability, but underestimate our long-term ability
My way of thinking about long-term habit building
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,198 posts.
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What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
Lessons I learned while building my own coding agent from scratch.
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Why the password "this is fun" is 10 times more secure than "J4fS!2"
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The weakest link by far is Apple
Apple tech support gave the hackers access to my iCloud account. Amazon tech support gave them the ability to see a piece of information — a partial credit card number — that Apple used to release information. In short, the very four digits that Amazon considers unimportant enough to display in the clear on the web…
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An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms
Fourier transforms are a tool used in a whole bunch of different things. This is a explanation of what a Fourier transform does, and some different ways it can be useful.
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Every NFL play for the past 10 years in CSV format
I've recently completed a project to compile publicly-available NFL play-by-play data. It took a while, but now it's ready. The resulting ...
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Carpentopod: A Walking Table Project
Back in 2008, I wrote some software for fun to generate various optimized walking mechanisms. And when I also picked up some electronics and wood working skills in more recent years, I was able to turn one of these mechanisms into an actual wireless walking wooden coffee table: the Carpentopod. This post briefly…
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Paul Buchheit: Serendipity finds you
Here is an interesting comment from Hacker News, on a story about someone turning down an early Google offer: Similar thing happened t...
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Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
Why AI can make software development faster without replacing the judgment and understanding needed to build consistently good software.
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Some thoughts on LLMs and software development
a short post
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Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities
Most PG&E ratepayers don't understand how much higher the rates they pay are than what it actually costs PG&E to generate and transmit the electricity to their house. When I looked into this recently I was shocked. The average PG&E electricity charge now starts at 40 cents per kilowatt hour and goes up from there …
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Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?
I saw this question on the Software Engineering Stack Exchange: What are the barriers that prevent widespread adoption of formal methods? The question was closed as opinion-based, and most of the answers were things like “its too expensive!!!” or “website isn’t airplane!!!” These are sorta kinda true but don’t explain…
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Vitamin D, part 2: Shannon's story
How much Vitamin D should I take? This is still the looming question, and it’s time to address it. First, though, imagine that someone in a public forum online asked me, “How much metoprolol (a…
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Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode
If you don’t know what OpenCode is, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. The boot is made of TypeScript and the face is everything we have learned about security and systems software since the invention of the electronic computer in the 1940s. The creators describe it as an AI coding agent. As far as I can…
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No politics please, we're hackers, too busy to improve the world
If there is one thing that never ceases to amaze me it is that the hacker community tends to place itself outside and by their own perception above politics. This is evidenced in many ways including ‘safe spaces’ and moratoria on discussing anything political because it has no bearing on the more interesting bits of…
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Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing
Testing Google's highly anticipated Gemini 3.0 through AI Studio's A/B feature using SVG generation as a quality proxy
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JavaScript Bloat in 2024
What is the average size of JavaScript code downloaded per website? Fuck around and find out!
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India, Jio, and the Four Internets
There are four Internets: China versus the U.S., and the E.U. and India. India’s potential new model rests on Jio.
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Where Vim Came From
Tracing the long lineage of software that brought us Vim.
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Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
A guide on how to convert .epub e-books into high-quality audiobooks narrated by neural text-to-speech
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Why Learn Awk? (2016)
Jonathan Palardy's blog about technology
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I deleted my Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram accounts, and felt great since
The problems with social media platforms in 'human' and 'data' terms. Deleting Facebook (Meta), WhatsApp, and Instagram will have a net positive effect.
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Things I Believe About Software Engineering
Inspired by Jan Stette's "Things I Believe" post, I decided to write down some of the more contentious beliefs I have about software engineering. I've selected some of my more extreme opinions here, so I expect reasonable people to disagree with me. That's ok.
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You cannot simply publicly access private secure links, can you?
turns out, you can even search for them with powerful search engines!
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The Ballmer Days Are Over
Disclaimer: I own Microsoft stock. Yes, this is *not* pro-Microsoft but I feel the need to be very open about this. He’s employee number 30 and has been with Microsoft since mid-1980. In 2000…