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How I went from 100 to 0 things (or how I was robbed of all my stuff)
It took 6 months for me to get from 300 to 100 things. It took just 5 minutes for me to get from 100 to 0 things. I just spent the last 9 months traveling and …
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,981 posts.
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The Truth on OpenGL Driver Quality
The driver landscape is something that any practicing GL dev must face unless you like having only a fraction of potential customers able t...
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Privacy Protects Bothersome People (2013)
We need to support privacy, not for those of us who have "nothing to hide", but for bothersome people like investigative journalists and activists, without which our democracy would crumble
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The Magic CmdLine and how I got it back
What am I running inside my bash?
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How you will not uncover Satoshi
Computer forensics is the science of finding evidence in computers and digital documents, and when a hacker perform forensics, better be prepared for the unknown. Satoshi did many things in order t…
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How misaligning data can increase performance 12x by reducing cache misses
Here's the graph of a toy benchmark 1 of page-aligned vs. mis-aligned accesses; it shows a ratio of performance between the two at different working set sizes. If this benchmark seems contrived, it actually comes from a real world example of the disastrous performance implications of using nice power of 2 alignment…
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The Guide to Not Buying a 3D Printer
3d printing projects, Ultimaker and other DIY 3d stuff
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The Lambda Calculus for Absolute Dummies (2012)
If there is one highly underrated concept in philosophy today, it is computation . Why is it so important? Because computationalism is t...
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Reverse Engineering a Keyboard to Play Snake
While I'm a hacker of all kinds of electronics things by night, my day job is being a software developer. That mostly means sitting in front of a computer all day, entering code, debugging, etcetera. You probably can imagine my main weapon of choice to tame all that code is my keyboard: I'm usually happily tapping…
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Two Microsofts
My well-chronicled frustration with Microsoft’s corporate strategy comes down to one point: I don’t think any company should have both horizontal (i.e. services) and vertical (i.e. devi…
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Quick notes about the bash bug, its impact, and the fixes so far
We spent a good chunk of the day investigating the now-famous bash bug (CVE-2014-6271), so I had no time to make too many jokes about it on...
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Delphi – why won't it die? (2013)
A blog about everything to do with Software Development. Written by a Delphi developer and Development Manager and Certified ScrumMaster.
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The Problem With Photorealism
Many people assume that modern graphics technology is now capable of rendering photorealistic video games. If you define photorealistic as ...
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The Toughest Adversity I've Ever Faced
This period began when my successful business (discussed here) failed overnight. After I discovered our accounts were closed, I checked if the dupe method still worked. To my surprise, it did! So I...
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My Heart Bleeds for OpenSSL
Overview Today has been eventful, to say that least. My colleague and I patched several services, re-issued keys for them and started the ...
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Let's Write Some x86-64
…"‘Our speech interposes itself between apprehension and truth like a dusty pane or warped mirror. The tongue of Eden was like a flawless glass; a light of total understanding streamed through it. Thus Babel was a second Fall.’ And Isaac the Blind, an early Kabbalist, said that, to quote Gershom Scholem’s translation…
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Say hello to x64 Assembly, part 1
Introduction There are many developers between us. We write a tons of code every day. Sometime, it is even not a bad code :) Every of us ...
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Hidden Costs That Engineers Ignore
“It’ll only take me a few hours to implement the feature,” we sometimes say. But after finishing, we find that every few weeks, we’re either fixing a bug with the feature, explaining it to another eng
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Jamming XKeyScore
Back in the day there was talk about "jamming echelon" by adding keywords to email that the echelon system was supposedly looking for. We ca...
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How to Create Your Own Git Server
Although I'm a happy (also paying) user of GitHub's offerings, there are times when I prefer to host a private repository on a server I control. Setting up your own Git server can be useful if you're isolated from the public internet, if you're subject to inflexible regulations, or if you simply want features…
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Imitate. We are imperfect mirrors
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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