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Freenom, the free domains website, is a scam
Self-taught developer. Go, Rust, Python and Javascript. - hackermondev
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,208 posts.
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Why Mozilla Matters
[This is an extended essay on the news out of Norway yesterday. See the closing for encouragement toward Opera and its fans, whatever the open source projects they choose to join, from me on behalf of Mozilla. /be]
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How to earn your macroeconomics and finance white belt as a software developer
Lambdaclass's blog about distributed systems, machine learning, compilers, operating systems, security and cryptography.
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Writing a simple pool allocator in C
I found out about pool allocators some time ago, and I really liked its simplicity and high performance, so I decided to write my own. This article was initially inspired by Dmitry Soshnikov’s article . It’s also worth mentioning that this article was discussed in Hacker News .
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Micro Frontends
How to split up your large, complex, frontend codebases into simple, composable, independently deliverable apps.
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Introduction to R Programming
This is a detailed step-by-step introduction to R programming. Starting with the two major reasons to learn R for Data Science, it will guide you through the installation process, and prepare you for the basics of R: arithmetics, variables assignment, data types, functions, and documentations.
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Ask a Repair Shop
This is the story of how you’re buying your enterprise software the wrong way. Probably your appliances, too. This is an excerpt from my guide, “Enterprise Software Confidential.” This post is also available in Chinese thanks to Xu Zhi. Some years ago, I had a broken GE washer. Pretty sure I knew the culprit, but if…
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Four ways to build web apps
This is my opinionated list of four approaches to building websites and web applications. Publicly hosted on the internet, serving HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images, etc over HTTP.
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Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases
Where to focus investments to best leverage AI tooling
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Logging in Python like a pro
I'll show you what good logging is with real-life examples. Most people don't know what to log, so they end up creating just noise....
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Google disables SSL search at BT’s request
Update – Since this was posted, Max Allan and Damion Yates have investigated further and found that BT are intercepting DNS queries and replying with doctored DNS results, which I didn’…
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Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys
There is no need to update symmetric key sizes as part of the post-quantum transition, due to the details of how Grover's algorithm scales. Most authorities agree.
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Using the Web Audio API to Make a Modem
What do you do when you cannot copy text between computers due to lack of internet connectivity? I built a modem using the Web Audio API, allowing data transfer via audio.
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The more you learn, the faster you can learn
Throughout my schooling and career, I’ve impressed people over and over again with how quickly I pick up things, especially hard things. For instance, exactly 4y ago I did my first ever interview, got
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But yak shaving is fun (2019)
KO | EN | Discussions on HN Alexandr frolov (CC BY-SA 4.0) This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little freedom to customize, so I decided to build the blog myself. Early on I just wrote posts in ...
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Building a USB SNES Controller
A few years ago on a trip to Tokyo, we took a day to explore Akihabara. We found a shop that was selling retro gaming stuff and when I saw an old SNES controller for sale I had to buy it.
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Reverse engineering software licensing from early-2000s abandonware
This series concerns a software licensing system used in a proprietary software application from circa 2004. The software was available in an unregistered trial mode with limited functionality. A free licence could be obtained by registering online with the software vendor. The software became abandonware circa 2009…
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Techno‑feudal elite are attempting to build a twenty‑first‑century fascist state
Introduction: Fascism at the End of Industrial Civilization This essay argues that the United States is drifting toward a distinctly twenty‑first‑century form of fascism driven not by mass parties …
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I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer
I wrote a program that sends cats to my phone when I'm sad at the computer.
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A guide to implementing 2D platformers
Having previously been disappointed by the information available on the topic, this is my attempt at categorizing different ways to implement 2D platform games, list their strengths and weaknesses, and discuss some implementation details.
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The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python
A perceptron explained from scratch in Python, with interactive demos. Learn weights, bias, the decision boundary, epochs, learning rate, and why we normalize data.
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JavaScript fundamentals before learning React
All the fundamentals in JavaScript for learning React. Often React beginners realize that most of the learnings are JavaScript, because React has only a small API ...
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Using Ghidra to Reverse Engineer Super Monkey Ball for GameCube
In Part 1, we used Dolphin’s debugger to find the location of Player 1’s score in RAM . In this article, our goal is to hack the score calculation routine so that the bonus goals do not award so many points.
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Different ways to build a $100M business (2014)
Some time ago my friend (and co-investor in Clio , Jobber and Unbounce ) Boris Wertz wrote a great blog post about "the only 2 ways to bui...
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How to move a running process into a tmux session (2020)
How to move a running process into a tmux session