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When Orcs Were Real
The Ancient Struggle for Homo Sapiens to Rule the Earth
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,497 posts.
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Making $100k as an Employee versus Being Self-Employed
<p>I’ve been self-employed for 2 years now. I love it and want to encourage others to go for it, but first, I need to answer a question as f...
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Coding with Character
Monospaced fonts are no longer just utilitarian tools—they can also be playful & fun
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A good livestreaming setup is a well-tailored suit
In the 1980s and 1990s a common piece of advice for people working in the professional managerial class was to ‘dress for the job you want, not for the job you have.’ Throughout these decades, folks dressed aspirationally—a culture of power suits and padded shoulders.
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When static makes your C code 10 times faster
Addendum : Many Hacker News commenters correctly point out that the right way to indicate to the compiler that a value does not change is const . This post is not about C best practices, but just about how one can easily get to the bottom of this kind of surprising behavior by looking at the compiler output. This…
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What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead
No, you will not write as much code as you think.
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My Python testing style guide (2017)
This post is an attempt to catalog some of my practices around testing Python projects. It's not meant to be treated as dogma- I anticipate I'll update this significantly over time.
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What am I running inside my bash? (2014)
What am I running inside my bash?
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Headless React
Doing React-like things without React.
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Some Reasons to Measure
A question I get asked with some frequency is: why bother measuring X, why not build something instead? More bluntly, in a recent conversation with a newsletter author, his comment on some future measurement projects I wanted to do (in the same vein as other projects like keyboard vs. mouse , keyboard , terminal and…
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External boot disks still don’t work properly with M1 Macs
Making an external bootable SSD for an M1 Mac has proved tricky. Has this changed in macOS 11.2? If you’ve already got 11.1 running on one, how do you update it to 11.2?
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Understanding Coinbase
Inflections in finance and tech. Click to read The Diff, by Byrne Hobart, a Substack publication.
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The Rust compiler has gotten faster again
I worked on Rust part-time for several years at Mozilla. During that period I regularly summarized how the compiler’s performance had improved. For example: 2017-11-12 to 2019-07-24.
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The New York Times uses the dark patterns it derides
New York Times op-ed recently decried tricks websites use to manipulate users… but have you ever tried to cancel your NY Times subscription?
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How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap
One of the oldest scams around — the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data — is on the rise, the FBI warns. Here’s the story of a recent LinkedIn impersonation scam that led to more than 100 people getting duped, and one almost-victim who decided the job offer was…
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The many gifts of awkward silence
It's the best reply to questions you wish you weren't asked.
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Your code displays Japanese wrong
A static site to link people to when their code is displaying Japanese wrong.
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Buying an ebike
You thought your family was going to be talking about web3 this Thanksgiving. But they’re actually talking about ebikes. Let’s help you prepare. Ebikes are about to change the world. They are already the best selling electric vehicles, and are selling as fast as factories can make them.
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Essential security for Linux servers (2013)
Father, Founder, and FuturistBuilding bestinterest.app and podcasting for coparents.Learn more about me.
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My preferred .NET console stack
An opinionated view on the boilerplate starting point of any .NET console application
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Spreadsheet is a software development paradigm
Some pros and cons of using Excel for software development compared to the traditional approach of using a programming language
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Building Permanent and Censorship-Resistant Blog with Ethereum ENS and IPFS
The internet nowadays is ephemeral. Layers upon layers of trusted 3rd parties are necessary to distribute content online. It requires ongoing maintenance and is susceptible to censorship or hostile takedowns. In this blog post, I describe the steps I took to host my blog in a trustless, permanent, and…
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Learning APL
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. – Alan Perlis
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MirkoPC – a Raspberry Pi CM4-powered computer made in Poland
The MirkoPC is so far the closest thing to a full-fledged Raspberry Pi desktop computer: Based on the Compute Module 4, it has a full-size M.2 M-key slot, allowing the Pi to boot from reliable and fast NVMe SSD storage, a built-in headphone amp and line out, 4 USB 2.0 ports, gigabit Ethernet, two HDMI ports, and a…
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On Solitude
Over 15 years ago, I took my first device-free, silent, solitude experience.