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A 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` (2024)
An indie project for early 2010s internet addicts
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,235 posts.
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Backseat Software
What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks:
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Randomize your WiFi MAC address on Ubuntu
Your device’s MAC address can be used to track you across the WiFi networks you connect to. That data can be shared and sold, and often identifies you as an individual. It’s possible to limit this tracking by using pseudo-random MAC addresses.
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DIY MBA: My Reading List (2019)
I’m doing a self-taught DIY MBA (read more). Here’s my work-in-progress reading list, add anything you think I’m missing in the comments.
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Could dark matter not exist?
Is it possible that our problems indicate a flaw in the theory of gravity?
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Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, a chip to "separate the really power-hungry folks from ordinary mortals." The origin...
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The coming IP war over facts derived from books
Facts are friends not food
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There are no B players
“Only hire A players! Fire the B players!” “If you hire B players, then they will hire C players!” “Over time, the A players will get frustrated with the B players and will leave to go to other companies and you’ll be left only with B and C players,
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How Compaction Works in Pi
Why compaction is needed for large language models and how Pi implements it
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Bulletproof host Stark Industries evades EU sanctions
In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd. , a bulletproof hosting provider that materialized two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine and quickly became a top source of Kremlin-linked cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. But new findings show those…
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Constraints in Go
Freedom is nothing without constraints, and Go’s generics gives us a powerful way to build polymorphic types and functions constrained by type sets . Let’s geek out.
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DNS Wars
NANOG is now quite an institution in the Internet, particularly in the North American Internet community. It was an offshoot of the Regional Techs meetings, which were part of the NSFNET framework of the late 80s and early 90s. NANOG has thrived since then and is certainly one of the major network operational forums…
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Source code of “Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventure” released
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
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Lua for Elixir
Execute sandboxed Lua code on the BEAM VM using Luerl
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Excerpts from a conversation about personal information management
[2025-03-31 Mon] : Clarification: The recording is not available for this conversation, but both Adam and John are okay with this post, so here are the notes. =)
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Everything I know about floppy disks
Floppy disk drives are curious things. We know them as the slots that ingest those small almost-square plastic "floppy disks" and we only really see them now in Computer Museums. But there's a lot going on in that humble square of plastic and I wanted to write down what I've learned so far.
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Notes on OpenAI o3-mini
OpenAI’s o3-mini is out today. As with other o-series models it’s a slightly difficult one to evaluate—we now need to decide if a prompt is best run using GPT-4o, o1, …
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Git as a debugging tool
Debugging with Git Grep, Git Blame, Git Log and Git Bisect
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Alpha Centauri
In the spring of 1996, Brian Reynolds and Jeff Briggs took a long, hard look around them and decided that they’d rather be somewhere else.
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Technicalities of Homeworld 2 Backgrounds
Just kidding. Of course, I have something to say about this. In the company, we look at the art of Homeworld from time to time and bow to the creators of this masterpiece. Once, we talked about how great the background look and how interesting this sketched style is. There is something…some details seem…special to us:
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I just finished reading a book and took lots of notes. Now what?
"I just finished reading Dirt by David R. Montgomery and created a note for each of the hundred twenty one ideas I found interesting. But, I'm confused as t...
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Strangler pattern, a powerful simple concept to do refactoring
Inspired by the strangler figs in Australia, a strangler fig application gradually draws behavior out of its host legacy application
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LinkedIn dark patterns, or why your friends keep spamming you to sign up for it
or: Why Your Friends Keep Spamming You to Sign Up for LinkedIn
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Lazygit Turns 5: Musings on Git, TUIs, and open source
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