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Surprising result while transpiling C to Go
Experimenting transpiling Uber h3 library with ccgo.
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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I over-engineered a Fast Fourier Transform for Arduino
PhD student in Photophysics
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LTO Tape data storage for Linux nerds
Tape storage is surprisingly not dead! If you are here then you may be considering using LTO tape as part of your backup or your long term archiving strategy. I’m here to mostly talk you out of it, or at best make sure that you are aware of what you are walking into.
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Shanghai video overwhelms Chinese censor, gets 400M views
A peek behind the curtain into the struggles of the Chinese censorship office
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What a $500k grant proposal looks like
A walkthrough of my NSF CAREER proposal.
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Managing People
I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this
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Hacking on a plane: Leaking data of millions and taking over any account
Hacking on a plane, by Midjourney AI
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Systemd service sandboxing and security hardening (2020)
The systemd-analyze security command gives your systemd service units an automated security rating. This is a good starting point for security hardening.
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Salary Transparency
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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My Poor Experience With Azure (or why I'm sticking with AWS)
AWS has a lot of haters. Lots of horror cases where people thought they were on the free account but ended up with a $20,000 bill. We are told Azure has a much better model. You have to manually move to a paid service. No surprise bills. Like AWS,
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Record labels dig their own grave, and the shovel is called TikTok
It's not just the music biz—legacy media outlets everywhere are playing the same dangerous game. Here's how it will play out.
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No-one knows what they are doing
When I was a child I assumed that all the adults running the world knew what they were doing. Now that I am an adult, I am under no such illusions. Just look at the current British government. They…
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Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go
Translating Rob Pike's simple and elegant C regex matcher to Go.
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DevOps is a failure
It’s probably difficult for most people to recall the first time they heard a word, but I remember hearing the word “DevOps” for the first time. I was having a
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The silent majority in software
I was re-reading Nixon’s 1969 “silent majority” speech last week (Smithsonian ran a good breakdown in 2017), mostly because YouTube’s algorithm
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Modern PHP
While I wasn’t paying attention, PHP got quite good
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Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones
A review of the /e/ OS Android-alternative operating system for mobile devices, as used on the Teracube 2e smartphone.
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The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads
The reason will almost certainly surprise you.
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Python is Actually Portable
Gautham's Blog
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Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games
We are now offering the complete Scorched Earth experience from a single downloadable zip file. The Totally Scorched zip file contains ready-to-run copies of every official version of Scorched Earth: 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 (English and Spanish), 1.5 and a .MTN file builder. The zip file also contains instructions and an HTML…
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A clean start for the web (2020)
Daydreaming a post-HTML Utopia
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Being on call sucks
Disclaimer: this post represents my own views and it is not endorsed by my employer.
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Yagni Exceptions (2021)
A list of some exceptions to the principle of “You Ain't Gonna Need It” – that is, times when doing a bit more up front usually pays off.
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Google has a company strategy, not a product strategy
Or, Why Google keeps killing products
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Finding the “second bug” in glibc’s condition variable
I continue to have no time for big programming projects, so here is a short blog post. Two years ago I looked into a bug in the glibc implementation of condition variables: Sometimes pthread_cond_s…