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Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
A generation of technology workers grew up using it
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,699 posts.
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I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB
I asked Muse to archive the files it could see and send them to my Google Drive. It did.
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HTML Lists
This second installment in the "You don't know HTML" series is going to be all about the ways that we put collections of things together
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How to effectively write quality code with AI
AI is rarely optional anymore, but how can you still be proud of your craft? Discover the workflow to effectively write high-quality, robust code using AI tools.
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My two-part desk setup (2025)
How I turned a single long desk into a digital side for work and an analog side for reading, writing, and building LEGO with the kids.
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Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a .onion address that resolves only inside the Tor network. Tor relays and encrypts your traffic as …
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The curious case of retro demo scene graphics
The demo scene has a peculiar view on copyright . It roughly boils down to a system of effort - effort in ideas, effort in craft - where the scene polices itself and punishes sceners that steal outright from other sceners. Theft from the outside world, however, is often taken lightly - especially when it comes to…
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It's all a blur
Designing a slightly sneaky blur filter and then poking holes in it.
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Hacking IKEA Furniture
When something you want is not available for purchase, well, you can always build it yourself! I recently moved and have a dedicated office room now. I wanted …
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Rack-mount hydroponics
how to grow plants in a server rack
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Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC
A Guide to comparing Claude Code Compiler with GCC
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Nvidia's Risky Business
Nvidia is finding new ways for its customers to raise money, and it’s expanding the risk of the AI buildout significantly.
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This blog is written in en-GB
Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were more globally known. Here's the thing. No. All my blog posts start with a simple declaration: Copied…
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Two kinds of AI users are emerging
A bifurcation is happening in AI adoption - power users shipping products in days versus everyone else generating meeting agendas. Enterprise tool choices are accelerating the divide.
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Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
Local LLMs can be very very cheap
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ASCII Clouds
A dynamic ASCII art cloud generator that creates cloud patterns in real-time
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Tokens too cheap to meter
tokens are going to be as cheap as electricity within the decade
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Welcome to Gas Town
Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas Town!
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PlayStation Architecture
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
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Space Cadet Pinball on Linux
Stephen Brennan's personal website and blog.
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Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights
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Retro-Tech Parenting
I am a technologist. I enjoy the things that computers and digital devices can do–they often seem magical and amazing! As a technologist, I have a particular vantage point to see and be very uncomfortable with what companies are doing with that technology. There are catchphrases for these patterns: AdTech…
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App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours
My disdain for astrology is so utter, and my esteem for Godier’s previous work so high, that it simply never occurred to me that he might have actually made and submitted to the App Store an astrology app, let alone that he’d then feign surprise and frustration that an astrology app was rejected for being an astrology…
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Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust
Modifying the optical properties of biological tissues with tartrazine
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AI coding is gambling
GambleAI I’ve been coding a lot with AI since November, when we all noticed it got really good. And it is quite good for instantly generating something th...
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AI coding at home without going broke
There are three ways to do AI coding at home without spending like a company, and which one fits depends mostly on how much you trust the next year of hardwa...
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To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical …
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Understanding ChatGPT Work
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here’s what I’ve figured out …
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