2071
Rolling the ladder up behind us
Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,109 posts.
2072
AI is impressive because we've failed at personal computing
AI is impressive because we’ve failed at semantic web and personal computing | exotext
2073
Easy Forth (2015)
This small ebook is here to teach you a programming language called Forth. Forth is a language unlike most others. It’s not functional or object oriented, it doesn’t have type-checking, and it basically has zero syntax. It was written in the 70s, but is still used today for certain applications .
2074
What about K?
k is a family of concise, fast vector-oriented languages designed by Arthur Whitney . Calling k a “family” is deliberate; there is no single definitive k, but instead a sequence of slightly incompatible versions. If you decide to stick with k, you’ll see mentions of k4 , k5 etc. Exactly what those numbers mean aren’t…
2075
Experts have it easy (2024)
Something that’s painfully understudied is how experts are more efficient than novices while achieving better results.
2076
Bought myself an Ampere Altra system
There are tools and there are toys. I bought myself a tool.
2077
Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips
If there is one thing the Unreal Engine doesn’t suffer from, it is it’s lack of features. Over the past years it has been transformed from “just” a game engine into an ̵…
2078
Kerberoasting
I learn about cryptographic vulnerabilities all the time, and they generally fill me with some combination of jealousy (“oh, why didn’t I think of that”) or else they impress me w…
2079
Minesweeper thermodynamics
You know how sometimes you start a game of Minesweeper and immediately get stuck?
2080
I made a 10¢ MCU Talk
I taught a 10¢ CH32V003 RISC‑V MCU to talk. By bit-banging PWM as a DAC and using a tiny 2‑bit ADPCM decoder, I squeezed ~6–7 seconds of recognizable audio into 16 KB of flash. Then I went full ret...
2081
The two versions of Parquet
The adoption of Parquet version 2 is limited due to the lack of support in the ecosystem, which affects its evolution despite its improvements in compression and performance.
2082
Build a Compiler in Five Projects
Class website here: https://kmicinski.com/cis531-f25
2083
Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?
In which I attempt to be pragmatic. Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the hardware you own? This is a question where freedom, practicality, and reality all collide into a mess. Google has recently announced that Android users will only be able to install apps which have been digitally signed…
2084
Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0
Trombone emoji skanking it's way into our hearts …
2085
Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web
You’ve got a monopoly on lemonade because you pay all the grocery stores to be the default lemonade. So we’re going to force you sell your car. What’s with the weird redirect? If …
2086
Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function?
In the quantum double-slit experiment, did the particle go through the slits or did the wave function? 1920's quantum physics has a simple answer: "NO".
2087
The new calculus of AI-based coding
A collection of posts by Joe Magerramov
2088
ZFS: Apple's new filesystem that wasn't (2016)
Prologue (2006) I attended my first WWDC in 2006 to participate in Apple’s launch of their DTrace port to the next version of Mac OS X (Leopard). Apple…
2089
The Art of Lisp and Writing (2003)
Lisp is the language of loveliness. With it a great programmer can make a beautiful, operating thing, a thing organically created and formed through the interaction of a programmer/artist and a medium of expression that happens to execute on a computer.
2090
Async I/O on Linux in databases
I've been working on a complex multi-model database for a few weeks now, and recently I took time to simplify and test out an idea I had on a simple key-value database. I started with the basics: A hash table in memory, a simple append-only log
2091
Spinning Up an Onion Mirror Is Stupid Easy
I recently spun up a .onion mirror of this website.
2092
StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game
This year my side project of choice was to create a brand new game for Palm OS, it started out as something that I thought I would finish in a month but ended up taking more than half a year in the end.
2093
These years in Common Lisp: 2023-2024 in review
This is a personal pick of the most interesting projects, tools, libraries and articles that popped-up in Common Lisp land in the last two years.Newcomers might not realize how the Common Lisp ecosystem, though stable in many ways, actually evolves, sharpens, tries new solutions, proposes new tools, ships new…
2094
Building Bauble
I made something that I think is pretty neat, and I want to tell you about it. This is a little hot air balloon made out of alternating layers of brass and bronze that stack together with these angled facets: It’s 3D printed, sort of, but it really is solid metal – it’s not a metallic filament. It’s made by “lost wax…
2095
Wyvern's Open Satellite Feed
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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2097
The compiler is your best friend
The compiler is a powerful tool, yet many developers have a painful relationship with it. Can we do better?
2098
No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming
Can Rust replace C? This is a question that has been on my mind for many years,as I created and now am tech lead forupb, a C libraryfor Protocol Buffers. Th...
2099
The program is the database is the interface
That transfer to John Smith isn't covered by any of the tagging rules. So I select the date, switch to the editor window and paste the date into the date->tag definition:
2100
Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?
A teardown of Rust's mutex internals plus real benchmarks so you know when to choose std or parking_lot.