Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,497 posts.
Update (2024-09-08): Read this article in Japanese at Qiita or at Emacs-JP. You’re using Avy wrong. Too harsh? Let me rephrase: you’re barely using Avy. Still too broad? Okay, the noninflammatory version: Avy, the Emacs package to jump around the screen, lends itself to efficient composable usage that’s obscured by…
Since I work a lot with clustered VMs , I’ve ended up spending a lot of time trying to figure out how DNS lookups work. I applied ‘fixes’ to my problems from StackOverflow without really understanding why they work (or don’t work) for some time.
For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade and was comfortable with it. As a partner at YC, I thought it made enough sense that I helped...
There’s a tradition in my family that everyone takes a turn stirring a secret wish into the yearly christmas pudding . It’s important that the wishes remain secret to the wisher or the pudding magics wont work so since moving to America I’ve implemented a new way of hashing my wish so it can be stirred in via text…
An explanation of the Castlevania III password algorithm, including name hashes, payload encoding, decoding, special names, and all valid passwords.
On the whole, LLVM has a well-designed intermediate representation (IR), which is specified in the language reference . However, there are a number of areas where design mistakes have been made. And while the LLVM project is generally open to addressing such issues, mistakes in core IR design tend to be firmly…
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Clubhouse will do for audio what Twitter, Instagram Stories, and TikTok did for text, images, and video.
Try Nix and don't look back.
Geothermal seems so simple, endless heat out of the ground. It is currently a niche electricity source, generating 0.4% of electricity in the United States. Several factors have kept geothermal from scaling.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
On this blog, I write about the various computers I use and about the operating systems I use on them. Apart from Windows 7, which is relatively modern, these include Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard, which at this point is quite old, and Mac OS 9, which is practically ancient. I’d like to talk a bit about why I use such old…
In what sense do 10% of people die of the cold? Also, why are heat-related deaths most common in Greenland?
How to create an adaptive app for desktops with Flutter, with a different UI design for macOS and Windows, while using a single codebase.
Usually the idea of what a cathedral ought to be, that is, a colossal church building with a vast hall-like interior verging on the sublime, is said to originate in France in the twelfth century. A…
David shares the paradox of abundance and how to make a healthy information diet for yourself. Read here.
As was pointed out to us stable kernel maintainers last week, the overflow of the .y release number was going to happen soon, and our proposed …
Expressive code in C++
Force Microsoft Edge to open a truly blank new tab page using a Windows Registry tweak when the built-in customization options fall short.
This blog post is intended for a less technical audience – specifically parents and nurseries using the NurseryCam system. NurseryCam is a camera system that is installed in nurseries, allowi…
Two years ago, I starting learning PureScript. I had been intrigued by purely functional programming for some time but had failed to learn Haskell once or twice. PureScript seemed to be a kinder, gentler introduction to this world while retaining the fundamental properties of pureness that made Haskell intriguing to…
Disclaimer: I’m no sysadmin extraordinaire, please please please correct me if there’s something blatantly wrong here:
Earlier today Rich Hickey let the cat out of the bag that I’m joining the Clojure Core development team.
Scala is a powerful programming language that can make certain small teams hyper-productive.
Why everyone should use web monetization to help lower the amount of ads on the web
It's put up or shut up time for Data Science teams. When the business depends on our work for revenue growth, success is expected. Failure is fatal.
YouTube's decision to demonetize podcaster Bret Weinstein raises serious questions, both about the First Amendment and regulatory capture
