Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,668 posts.
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…
Onboard the Apollo spacecraft, the revolutionary Apollo Guidance Computer helped navigate to the Moon and land on its surface. One of the f...
Collection of my projects and hacks.
It’s Friday and I’m procrastinating, so here you go. Let’s talk about Joseph Schumpeter. Good old John Joseph Jingleheimer Schumpeter, as he wasn’t called. Schumpeter once w…
Today’s A To Z term is another proposed by @aajohannas. I couldn’t find a place to fit this in the essay proper. But it’s too good to leave out. The simplex method, discussed with…
They say “performance is king’… It was true a decade ago and it certainly is now. With more and more data the world generates each day, we need more and more computing power to process it. It used to be the case that some SW vendors preferred to wait for a new generation of HW to speed up their application and did not…
It's no surprise that modern deep-learning libraries have production-level, highly-optimized implementations of most operations. But just what is the black magic that these libraries use that we mere mortals don't? What exactly does one do to "optimize" or accelerate neural networks operations?
Linux doesn’t have Photoshop. One common rant I get to hear when I try to help someone to switch to Linux. It is almost 2020 and say what? people still agree with this statement.
I stuck with Windows 10 as my primary OS for 6 years, despite being a Ruby developer. In this blog post I would like to cover why this happened.
Do we have a good safety net to change this legacy code?
Google purchased Picasa, a super efficient photo editor that offered seamless integration with online publishing (e.g., you add a photo to an album on your desktop computer and […]
How I learned to stop worrying and love refs.
Twitter threads are a pain to read! So let's just steal them, right? Umm... Nope, probably wrong. I'm going to say very wrong. Think about it.
A beginner’s guide to NodeGUI, an open-source library for building native desktop applications with JavaScript and CSS-like styling.
This post is a textual version of a talk I gave at The 35th Chaos Computer Congress at the end of 2018. You can watch the talk that was recorded by the wonderful C3VOC team below if that’s your preferred medium:
Learnings from real-world experience with IPFS, and the curious stack that powers this website
Short-lived political campaigns rarely build formal security programs and often assume they're too small to attract serious attackers, but campaigns across the United States have been targeted by document theft and credential phishing. Six observed attacker tactics map to a short list of defensive priorities, starting…
Software engineer, etc etc
In parts 1 and 2 we saw:
dmr: I'm not a person who particularly had heroes when growing up.
I’m working on the Roc Toolkit open-source project, a development kit for realtime audio streaming over the network. You can read more about the project in these two articles: 1, 2. We decided to implement a set of PulseAudio modules that will allow PulseAudio to use Roc as a network transport. Many Linux distros…
My favorite music player is Audacious . It follows the Winamp Classic tradition of not trying to manage my music library. Instead it waits patiently for me to throw files and directories at it. These selections will be informally grouped into transient, disposable playlists of whatever I fancy that day.
Blog of Raph Levien.
Effects are a part of your data flow.
I'm developing a programming language called Kernel. Kernel is a conservative, Scheme-like dialect of Lisp in which everything is a first-class object.
