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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,211 posts.
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Sleeping through the technical interview (2022)
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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1970s mainframe RPGs we can no longer play
A blog in which a dedicated addict plays through all PC computer role-playing games (CRPGs), in chronological order.
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Building a Simple Search Engine That Works
You don't need Elasticsearch for most projects. I built a simple search engine from scratch that tokenizes everything, stores it in your existing database, and scores results by relevance. Dead simple to understand and maintain.
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On AlphaTensor’s new matrix multiplication algorithms
Two acquaintances independently asked about this today, so it seems worth a write-up: recently (as of this writing), DeepMind published a new paper about a new practical fast matrix multiplication …
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Anatomy of a cheap USB-to-Ethernet adapter
Taking apart a very cheap USB to Ethernet adapter and pondering on the parts found inside.
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Et Tu, Grammarly?
The one where I deploy counter defences.
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Subverting the software interview (2021)
Writing code for online games, particularly for mobile or web-based slot games like this one , involves a mix of advanced graphics rendering, real-time networking, security implementations, and intricate game logic. Developers need to balance between performance optimization, cross-platform compatibility, and the…
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NitroKey disappoints me
A look at NitroKeys latest article
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Progress against SOPA
When I did my blog post about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) last week, things looked quite grim. The fight isn’t over, but there’s been a lot of great developments in the last few d…
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Mamba: The Easy Way
An overview of the big ideas behind Mamba, a brand-new language model architecture.
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Demystifying Fourier analysis
I've started learning about spectrum analysis a long time ago at university, but failed to gain a true insight in how it works under the hood. For me, it was just some magical math formulas I had to memorize and know about. I knew the theory but it didn't really click .
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Why the Tor attack matters
Earlier today, Motherboard posted a court document filed in a prosecution against a Silk Road 2.0 user, indicating that the user had been de-anonymized on the Tor network thanks to research conduct…
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Fun at the Unix Terminal
A some simpler unix stuff can be run here without needing anything but a browser: http://bellard.org/jslinux/
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LaTeX Coffee Stains (2009)
This package provides an essential feature to LaTeX that has been missing for too long. It adds a coffee stain to your documents. A lot of time can be saved by printing stains directly on the page rather than adding it manually.
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Comprehensive Tutorial on Time Series Modelling and Forecasting
In the previous post we have seen how to visualize a time series data. In this post we will discuss how to do a time series modelling using ARMA and ARIMA models. Here AR stands for Auto-Regressive and MA stands for Moving Average
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Spaced repetition memory system (2024)
A spaced-repetition memory system combines the Testing effect and the Spacing effect to enable efficient memorization of many thousands of facts ( Spaced repetition memory systems are extremely efficient ). Some people also use them for a broader set of tasks (see below). Spaced repetition memory systems make memory a…
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Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)
How to build realtime blurs on the GPU and how the best blur algorithm works - "Dual Kawase"
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I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
Many of us are inconsistent in our economic desires. I would like the price of my home to rise, because it increases my wealth, but I would also like the prices of all other homes to fall, so that I could sell my house and buy an even nicer house. Also, I would like to
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The only moat left is money?
The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.
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The AI Investment Boom
AI Demand is Driving Skyrocketing US Investment in Computers, Data Centers, and Other Physical Infrastructure
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Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
Some really great software developers have been passed...