Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,208 posts.
Intro This post will cover challenges and aspects of production to consider when creating new rendering / graphics techniques and algorithms – especially in the context of applied research fo…
As I've previously blogged in Pure Rust Implementation of Apple Code Signing (2021-04-14) and Expanding Apple Ecosystem Access with Open Source, Multi Platform Code signing (2022-04-25), I've been hacking on an open source implementation of Apple code signing and notarization using the Rust programming language. This…
Back in 2007 I stumbled upon something called a QR Code . It was a neat two-dimensional barcode that encodes textual information visually—with URLs being a promising application for the emerging smartphone market (thanks to the release of the iPhone that year). So I did what any self-respecting personal blogger would…
Everyone has heard of machine learning now, and every big company is working on projects around ‘AI’. We know this is a Next Big Thing. But we don’t yet have a settled sense of quite what machine learning means - what it will mean for tech companies or for companies in the broader economy, how to
Instead of drawing UML diagrams, why not generate them from a network traffic capture of the running system?
The other day I found myself needing to add up some numeric values that were scattered across twelve different emails. I didn’t particularly feel like copying and pasting all of …
Bug Bounty & Application Security
The negotiation tactics private equity firms use against founders - and how to spot them before you sign.
To grow copper acetate crystals, first prepare a saturated solution by reacting 10 g of scrap copper with 400 mL of white vinegar.
This comprehensive guide shows how to use CSS transitions! A back-to-basics look at the fundamental building blocks we need to create microinteractions and other animations.
Cari with the Institute Blinky Badge at Burning Man 2015. Photo credit: Nagutron.
A practical guide to implementing the boiling line animation effect using SVG filter primitives and JavaScript - Blog post by Camillo Visini
My least favorite topic in the world is 'Women in Tech', so I am going to make this short but I think it's something that needs to be said.
As we head into another gifting season and more and more connected devices make their way onto gift guides, I want to offer a cautionary note. The smart home is like a cat — mostly self-sufficient and nice to have, but also possessing a mind of its own that can lead to frustration and confusion […]
The concept of paying people to sit around has an upside, writes Tim Harford ‘Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult.” Reuters, 4 October 2013 How much is that? It’s about £1,700…
Uber is a bezzle ("the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it"). Every bezzle ends.
Gui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.
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I wrote Tumblr, Instapaper, and Second Crack in PHP. I continue to use it because I know it extremely well, it’s very easy to use and deploy, and it’s nearly maintenance-free on servers. When you’re a programmer forced to also be your own sysadmin, that’s very attractive.
Programming, Coffee and Indie Hacking
Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime, bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, or something else? And what does that mean for Google?
Recently, as a “kick-in-the-butt” motivator, I promised myself that I would abstain from alcoholic beverages until I finished the first draft of a novel I’ve been working on. I had set a target date for completing the project (June 30th), with the idea that if I didn’t finish by that date, I’d stop drinking booze […]
There are endless debates online about Rust vs. Zig, this post explores a side of the argument I don't think is mentioned enough.
