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Illustrated Notes for “Building a Second Brain”
Illustrated notes on the Building A Second Brain course
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,290 posts.
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Tiny transformer inside: Decapping an isolated power transfer chip
I saw an ad for a tiny chip 1 that provides 5 volts 2 of isolated power: You feed 5 volts in one side, and get 5 volts out the other si...
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My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work
I’ve become increasingly disgruntled at the state of hiring, and now I’m mad enough to write this blog post.
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Oracle vs. PostgreSQL: First Glance
We are facing some interesting times at work as we are going to start changing our technology stack in the near future. Most of our Oracle ...
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Break Up Google
It’s easy to say “Break up Big Tech companies!” Depending how politics unfold, the thing might become possible, but figuring out the details will be hard. I spent the last sixteen years of my life working for Big Tech and have educated opinions on the subject. Today: Why and how we should break up Google.
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Why are toys such a bad business?
Inflections in finance and tech. Click to read The Diff, by Byrne Hobart, a Substack publication.
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Roman Finger Counting
I recently wrote a final paper on the history of written numerals. In the process, I discovered this fascinating tidbit that didn’t really fit in my paper, but I wanted to put it somewhere. So I’m writing about it here.
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Maybe we shouldn't want a fully decentralized web
Why I have stopped working with IPFS and the distributed web
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YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
This article contains a list of the top 50 YC software startups (sourced from the October 2019 YC Top Companies page). It also contains aggregated statistics for valuations and back-end programming languages used. Values in this article are sourced, but I cannot guarantee their accuracy. Find me on Twitter…
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A Software Engineer’s Guide to Cybernetics
Before ‘cyber’ was a prefix for everything internet and computers, it was how mathematicians were going to conquer the world.
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What are Differential Equations and how do they work?
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Prettifying Org Mode with CSS
Org Mode HTML output can look like this webpage, but as its [[http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.co...
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Blurred rounded rectangles
Blog of Raph Levien.
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Hunting for Malicious Packages on PyPI
I installed every package on PyPI to look for malicious content. This is what I found.
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If All You Have Is a Database, Everything Looks Like a Nail
Databases are fabulous resources. Of course, we’ll abuse them in ways that cause challenges.
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Time Machine in macOS 10.15.3 is very slow on first full backup
When making a first full backup of less than 2 GB takes 86 minutes, and you then can’t restore from it anyway.
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Parse, don’t type-check
There’s a fantastic article from last year titled Parse, don’t validate. I’d highly recommend it to any programmer (along with the more recent follow up Names are not type safety). The basic idea i…
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Named arguments are coming in PHP 8
A close look at named parameters in PHP 8
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Stop Watching the News (2019)
Want someone else to think for you? Watch the news. Want to be distracted? Watch the news. Want something to get mad about? Watch the news. A recent passage in The Daily Stoic discussed the negative impact of hearing bad news – something like a tsunami destroying a village, or a terroris
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K Language (2011)
Forthcoming events See all events... News Administration Files Buyer Profile Jobs Tenure Procedures Attestation Documents To the Prize page Please donate BIC: UNCRBGSF IBAN: BG32UNCR76303100117336 Address: Institute of Mathematics and
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Why Is 1 World Trade Center Missing from Spider-Man?
Like many people across the world, I’m using my quarantine effectively: by catching up on all the video games I wasn’t able to play while traveling. The game at the top of my list? Spider-Man, which was widely recognized as one of the top games of 2018. The game is features an open-world, which means you can travel…