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“Dune” (The Movie), Annotated
Dreams are newsletters from the deep
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,216 posts.
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A Critique of React Hooks
A few thoughts to consider when using React hooks
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I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language
Why I believe 6502 instruction set is a good first assembly language
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The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword
If you're writing C++, there's a good reason (maybe...) as to why you are. And probably, that reason is performance. So often when reading about the language you'll find all sorts of " performance tips and tricks " or " do this instead because it's more efficient ". Sometimes you get a good explanation as to why you…
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Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy
A papyrus fragment of Homer’s epic The Iliad has been discovered inside the wrappings of Roman-era mummy . The mummy was found in a necropolis the ancient site of Oxyrhynchus (modern-day El-Bahnasa) in Egypt’s Minya Governorate. Archaeologists were able to remove the papyrus and identify the text as the “Index of…
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Should you wash your solar panels?
I have a small solar farm and the panels have got visibly dusty. Is cleaning them worthwhile? How much difference does it make? Let's find out.
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MathML is a failed web standard
Since I'm expecting more than my 1 2 regular readers to read this, let me add a preface. I've been managing the MathJax project for 4 years now. In the last two years, I've also been consulting for publishers regarding math-related workflows, in particular TeX-to-XML and XML-to-web, both on the back and front-end. Not…
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Things I want to say to my boss
A new anonymous essay published every day in December in the countdown to Christmas.
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How Firebase Interviewed Software Engineers
Today, Firebase has a large team with hundreds of engineers. Before the Google acquisition, however, we had a small team of just 24 exceptional people that I firmly believe was among the strongest of its kind in the world. A big part of that success was the way we interviewed software engineers. I’m sharing our…
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GPTs and Feeling Left Behind
Every time that I read some blog post about “coding with AI”, or how cool new models write entire libraries by themselves, I feel like I’m lagging behind, like I’m missing out on some big, useful tool, and my skills are about to become obsolete very soon.
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How much free time do you have?
I made a quick tool (for no real reason) to calculate and visualize 'free time' based on the selection of criteria shown below. Replace my responses with yours, and hit 'run' to see how much free time you have.
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Asking the wrong questions
With fundamental technology change, we don't so much get our predictions wrong as make predictions about the wrong things.
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An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about solving hard problems
An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about her path to AMD, turning around the chip maker, the AI opportunity, and competing with Nvidia.
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Anthropic's Method to Losing Goodwill in a Few Easy Steps
Edit: This was a hit on HackerNews and I received a ton of valuable feedback. I’ve put markers for the amendments I’ve made
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Domain-Driven Design
A definition of DDD as a software design discipline
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Guix on the Framework 13 AMD
wingolog: article: guix on the framework 13 amd
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Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
Short answer: because math. Longer answer: because prime numbers don’t divide into each other evenly. To understand what follows, you need to know some facts about the physics of vibrating st…
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One Week of NixOS
The website of Jae.
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Why would anyone need JavaScript generator functions?
You can go a long time as a JavaScript developer without ever feeling the need for generators. Hence, it’s natural to wonder: What are they good for? Why would you ever need one? What’s the point? But generators can do some neat tricks. And they may even change the way you approach certain problems.
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How to Apologize
The latest regrettable spasm of sexism in the programming world played out this afternoon, as a company called Sqoot's announcement of a hac...
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You can no longer bypass microsoft-edge:// links using apps like EdgeDeflector
Microsoft doubles-down on its user-choice hostile web browser behavior; blocks competitors from opening links from many Windows apps and web experiences.
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‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs
ATM “ jackpotting ” — a sophisticated crime in which thieves install malicious software and/or hardware at ATMs that forces the machines to spit out huge volumes of cash on demand — has long been a threat for banks in Europe and Asia, yet these attacks somehow have eluded U.S. ATM operators. But all that changed this…
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Where is London's most central sheep?
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Reading the Silk Road configuration
Many of us believe it wasn't the FBI who discovered the hidden Silk Road server, but the NSA (or other intelligence organization). We believ...
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Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm (2023)
wingolog: article: tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm
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Apple Watch with Android
Making Apple Watch functional with Android.
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Computer science as a lost art (2015)
An old friend of mine asked me this in email last night...