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What gets to the front page of Hacker News?
I categorized the top 30 on Hacker News for a month. You will believe what I found
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,824 posts.
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Chinchilla’s death
“With more careful calculations, one can win; with less, one cannot” — Sun Tzu, The Art of War .
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Building a Networked Key-Value-Store on an FPGA
This post is about building an FPGA based networked key-value-store in the functional hardware description language Clash. I’ll describe my FPGA-tailored hashtable design, the testing framework I built for it, and its performance and resource usage.
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Squeezing a Sokoban game into 10 lines of Haskell
Call-by-push-block
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A minimum complete tutorial of Linux ext4 file system (2017)
This is a complete tutorial for understanding the basics of Linux ext4 file system.
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WTF with high school questions?
If you’re here, you probably got redirected from LetMyPeopleCode.com. This is not a scam. LetMyPeopleCode.com was my blog while I was employed in Developer Relations. Now that I’m pursuing other dreams, I’ve decided to brand on my own name, not on clever handles. That means shutting down LetMyPeopleCode.com. Rather…
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Why use Rust on the back end?
I don't care about avoiding GC or about maximum performance. I treat Rust as a high level language.
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How did people deal with punch cards?
In the fall of 1976 I started as a Freshman at SUNY Stony Brook intending to major in Math and Computer Science. I took Honors Calculus I a...
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What is Social Status?
Understanding dominance, prestige, and power
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Stop making every conversation about yourself
agree/disagree in a conversation
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The missing middle in game development
Other than he is my total hero, and he was born and he was raised in my hometown , I wanted to interview John Romero to try and solve the modern indie game development paradox.
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Vore: A new RSS feed reader
a new rss feed reader 2023-03-20 over the last few weeks i have been working on an rss/atom feed reader. i named it vore, and run a hosted instance here: https://vore.website vore (noun combining form) ˌvō(ə)r, ˌvȯ(ə)r, ˌvōə, ˌvȯ(ə) : one that eats (something specified) vore is dead simple. it has 1 goal: subscribe to…
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Google's True Moonshot
Google could do more than just win the chatbot war: it is the one company that could make a universal assistant. The question is if the company is willing to risk it all.
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I Got the Fed to Release Its 2011 "Treasury Default" Playbook
Subscribe Readers may recall that I wrote a Politico Op Ed at a critical moment in the debt ceiling showdown. That piece, was entitled “Biden Can Steamroll Republicans on the Debt Ceiling”, and I aimed squarely at debunking the idea that the Federal Reserve would step on any “unilateral actions”
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Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler
Plus, his bizarre strategy for getting over a fear of flying.
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Time is not a synchronization primitive
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Why Do ML on the Erlang VM?
Another question might be; why do machine learning at all? I'm not big into ML/AI though I've been poking it more recently as the open models, such as Stable Diffusion and the more practical Whisper, caught my curiosity. I have a very decent GPU (3090 Ti) and I've poked around a bit. I don't consider ML a super…
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Driving Compilers
I remember how pleasant it was to learn to program in C. There were so many good books explaining not only the language but also the standard library. I devoured both The C Programming Language (K&R) by Kernighan/Ritchie and The Standard C Library by P.J. Plauger. Then came Expert C Programming by Van der Linden and…
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Ruby's hash is a Swiss-army knife
This article shows the obscure but useful capabilities of Hash, a simple but equally powerful data structure in Ruby.
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Looking into the Stadia Controller Bluetooth Mode Website
With the end of Google's Stadia platform on January 18, 2023, Google published a website allowing people to "Switch the Stadia Controller ...
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The curious case of a memory leak in a Zig program
Digs into a unexpected memory leak when using Zig's FixedBufferAllocator
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Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer
One of the most interesting navigation instruments onboard Soyuz spacecraft was the Globus INK, 1 which used a rotating globe to indicate...
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Beyond OpenAPI
Let's write the docs like it's 2023.
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Threads and Goroutines
So after several years of reading oversimplified and flat out incorrect comments about threads and fibers/goroutines/async/etc and fighting this reaction: I’ve decided to write my own still-over-simplified all in one guide to the difference between a couple popular threads and fiber implementations. In order to…
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Publishing my first game using PICO-8
TL/DR; Play/Download a copy from itch.io I had always wanted to create games. In fact its one of the reasons I went down the development path. For various reasons I never invested enough time …
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Business questions worth asking
This is a list of questions I’ve collected over the years that resonate with my business and product philosophies. Most are not original and were collected from or inspired by various books…
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Experts fear crooks are cracking keys stolen in LastPass breach
In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech…
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Should you add screenshots to documentation?
Screenshots in documentation can be a contentious topic — some people really like them and think they add a lot of value, while others dislike them due to the maintenance burden and accessibility issues. So what should you do?
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Ok, Cloudflare I am leaving
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