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Happy Birthday Monkey Island
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,212 posts.
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How to Put More “Character” into Your NPCs
Geoffrey Golden explores narrative design and imbuing NPCs with life and personality
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OpenBSD on a Laptop
A guide to a secure and streamlined installation of OpenBSD 6.4 on a laptop.
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Why I feel like a fraud
Most high-performing people experience Impostor Syndrome. I did too. When you understand the cause, you can defeat it.
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Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to
In the photo above, a Wii Remote is sitting on a table next to an open window. People who grew up playing the Wii might remember it; while playing Wii Sports, the game would give you a pop up window of it with a message politely reminding you that you can always take a break. While it might seem a bit…
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OpenSCAD 3D rendering just got an order of magnitude faster
TL;DR: OpenSCAD users: download a nightly build & enable fast-csg in settings for 10x faster render (YMMV). Make your models more ambitious and report is...
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50 authors, 50 science fiction stories shorter than novels
See the updated 80 author version. I've been playing around with re-reading favorite science fiction short stories while also seeing if the...
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The Drupal Crisis
There have been many pretty obvious signs in the recent past for what can only be considered as a critical milestone :
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Important security vulnerabilities in OpenVPN
UPDATE: OpenVPN fuzzers now released. Summary I’ve discovered 4 important security vulnerabilities in OpenVPN. Interestingly, these were not found by the two recently completed audits of Open…
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How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?
Speaking of earning a living, would you expect them to pay for web hosting/ cloud providers?
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Superrational
“Will Vicktoreya Keyneslee Beauxpensees please come see the principal right now?” said the voice over the intercom.
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How to present to executives (2021)
Have you presented to company executives about a key engineering initiative, walking into the room excited and leaving defeated? Maybe you only made it to your second slide before unrelated questions derailed the discussion. Maybe you worked through your entire presentation only to have folks say, “Great job,” and…
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Fast UTF-8 validation
One of the most common "data type" in programming is the text string. When programmers think of a string, they imagine that they are dealing with a list or an array of characters. It is often a "good enough" approximation, but reality is more complex. The characters must be encoded into bits in some way. Most ……
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2012 Personal Annual Report
Jehiah 12 - A Personal Annual Report
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Meeting everyone on a new team
Strategic technology leader
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My Hacker News knowledge assimilation stack
My stack for assimilating knowledge from Hacker News.
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I built my own hair electrolysis machine
Axiom: body hair is cringe. That's how I feel, at least. I decided to build a machine that lets me permanently remove it using electricity.
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Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers
I got asked a good question today: what is the difference between Tree-sitter and a language server ? I don’t understand how either of these tools work in depth, so I’m just going to explain from an observable , pragmatic point of view.
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Hilariously fast volume computation with the divergence theorem (2018)
The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently out of scope.
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Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories
How to lovingly handcraft your own git repositories
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Introduction to Calculus with Derivatives
Aditya Bhargava's personal blog.
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Git Commands Explained with Cats (2017)
git purr, git meowge, and git puss! My doodling on basic git commands, and difference between merge and rebase with cats!
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Why the Sun 2 has a message “Love your country, but never trust its government”
Yesterday, Alec Muffet posted a few tweets regarding the Sun SPARC 2 bootloader’s DES routines.
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The Ethernet PAUSE frame
This is a bizarre one. It all started when the internet seemed to go out at my house. My desktop, phone, TV, everything stopped working. The usual solution at a time like this is to power cycle the modem and router. While this fixed the situation temporarily, soon after the problem returned. What made me think this…
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Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor
I was studying the silicon die of the Pentium processor and noticed some puzzling structures where signal lines were connected to the silico...