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Pre-commit hooks are broken
use pre-push hooks instead
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,235 posts.
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Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do (2018)
I like this passage from John Urschel Goes Pro , about the former NFL player who is pursuing a Ph.D. in math:
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Building my childhood dream PC
In 1993, I was 14 and already passionate about computers [1] . That year my mother managed to buy a PC for the household. That was quite an effort for a single mother. My brother Aurelien and I spent every waking hour on this machine, staying up all night on weekends.
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C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For
std::simd Can't Express 90% of Real SIMD Code
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Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful
Trying to obfuscate the web is a bad, pointless idea
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GNUStep now has badges
Finally I got around implementing and committing badge support in GNUStep ! I think it is one of the fine additions Apple did to the origina...
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Ultimate Linux on the Desktop
Creating the ultimate Linux on the desktop experience for everything in containers.
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Teach, Don't Tell (2013)
This post is about writing technical documentation. More specifically: it's about writing documentation for programming languages and libraries.
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Great Works in Programming Languages (2004)
In September, 2004, I posted a query to the Types list asking people to name the five most important papers ever written in the area of programming languages. This page collects the responses I received. (A few are missing because I am still tracking down bibliographic information.)
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Why Async Rust?
Async/await syntax in Rust was initially released to much fanfare and excitement. To quote Hacker News at the time:
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School is Not Enough: Learning is a consequence of doing (2021)
Learning is a consequence of doing
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There is no data engineering roadmap
Data Engineering is booming and many are looking for a cheat sheet to get started. Do you really need to learn 200 tools before you get your first job?
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Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automatic TPM2 unlock
oddlama's personal web page and blog
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Ways to say no with grace and style (2021)
Saying no with grace is its own leadership capability. It is not just a peripheral skill. As with any ability, we start with limited experience.
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Update Firmware of Samsung SSDs in Linux
Firmware flash Samsung SSD or NVMe directly from Linux without needing broken Samsung ISO boot environment!
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Things I Learned from My 2 Year Old Baby Girl
Two years ago I gave birth to the most wonderful person on this planet.
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Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design
In 1968, Douglas Engelbart demonstrated a computer system called the oN-Line System, or NLS. The NLS is the source of a lot of computer firsts. Among other things, Engelbart showed video conferencing, collaborative text editing, embedded graphics, copying and pasting, and hypertext - all of it accessible through a…
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Why Intel will never let owners control the ME
The Intel Management Engine is an auxillary microprocessor embedded into modern Intel x86 CPUs or chipsets. 1 It runs an Intel-signed proprietary binary blob. Due to code signing restrictions enforced by the hardware, it cannot be modified or replaced by the user. (AMD x86 CPUs have a similar auxillary microprocessor…
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Towards a more Elvish vision for Technology
This essay is telescopic . It can shrink or expand, depending on how much attention you are willing to give. This is the original version (3344 words). Show other sizes .
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Unreal Tournament 99 running on WASM (2017)
See Unreal Tournament (1999) run in a web browser!