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The Tech Job Meltdown
Half a million layoffs? It's all accounting.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,109 posts.
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Using Deno as my game engine
Software, games, and the occasional startup.
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Should we use AI and LLMs for Christian apologetics? (2024)
The reasons why I don’t give permission for material I’ve written to be used as training data for an LLM chatbot designed to do Christian apologetics
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What's Happening to Students?
Here's the latest news from the zombie wars
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What you need to know about EMP weapons
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What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments
C# 14 adds null-conditional assignment, a feature that safely assigns values to properties or indexers without long chains of if statements.
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OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in
If you thought the 2008 bank bailout was bad, wait til you see the 2026 AI bailout
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OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year
It Happened.
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Work at the Mill: The story of Digital Equipment Corporation
Or, the Story of Digital Equipment Corporation
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The Weird Concept of Branchless Programming
Read THE WEIRD CONCEPT OF BRANCHLESS PROGRAMMING on sanixdk.xyz
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Choosing an op-amp for your project
Just say no to LM741 and LM324 / LM358.
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MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls
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A SQL Heuristic: ORs Are Expensive
But this is slow! With 1,000,000 applications and 1000 users uniformly distributed on both columns, it takes over 100ms. 1
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Writing a tiny undo/redo stack in JavaScript
I’ve needed this before - a couple of times. Third time I figured I needed something small, nimble - yet complete. And - at the same time - wondering about how to do it in a very simple manner. I think it worked out great, so let’s dig in. Most UIs will have some form of undo functionality. Now, there are generally…
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Monitoring My Homelab, Simply
Don’t get me wrong, I understand that they’re essential for large fleets of services with fast-changing software and teams of oncallers working around the clock to understand the complex ways that complex systems fail… but my stuff doesn’t change that often, failures are mundane and low-scope, and I’m the only person…
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JIT: So you want to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs
Since my previous blog entry about JIT compiler for PostgreSQL, sadly not much happened due to a lack of time, but still some things were done (biggest improvement was the port to ARM64, a few optimizations, implementing more opcodes…). But I am often asking myself how to really beat the interpreter… And on “modern”…
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Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry
In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. To improve performance, the ...
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Burrito Now, Pay Later
Liquid Lunches And The Serious Case for BNPL Securitization
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PWM flicker: Invisible light that's harming our health?
I recently spent a few weeks running a conference for a community of researchers and writers in a historic chateau in the French…
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I think I'm done thinking about GenAI for now
The conversation isn’t over, but I don’t think I have much to add to it.
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Self-hosting a NAT Gateway
You only live once.
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The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A
It’s been awhile since I’ve looked at an architecture that’s completely new to me, and I haven’t done any since creating my new scheme for dedicated platform guides. I’…
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Less Htmx Is More
How to build great websites with htmx by learning a couple browser features alongside it.
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Using Python for Scripting
"Use the right tool" is nice in theory, but not when the tool acts a bit differently from machine to machine, and isn't always installed.
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Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot
Google is killing a decade of its shortened links. Will you enlist in the fight against link rot?
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Broccoli Man, Remastered
A breakdown of how I used modern AI tools (Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana) to create a new version of a Google cultural classic.
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Don't “let it crash”, let it heal
Don't "let it crash". Let it heal.
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Designing a Low Latency 10G Ethernet Core (2023)
View the code on GitHub