Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,188 posts.
A 192-channel phased array microphone, with FPGA data acquisition and beamforming/visualization on the GPU. Phased arrays allow for applications not possible with traditional directional microphones, as the directionality can be changed instantly, after the recording is made, or even be focused at hundreds of…
You can ignore files in .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore
If you spy on an HTTP/2 connection starting up you'll notice that it sends an almost-but-not-quite valid HTTP request at the very start of...
Can you please take a few minutes today, go to Google, and search for your website using the site search filter? (EX: site:mysite.com) Do you have about the right number of pages showing up, or just a few pages, or worse yet – none? The reason I am asking you to do this is that […]
I figured I'd kick off my new blog with the most click baity thing I could think of. I suspect any developer reading this is aware of the DRY principle becau...
“Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don't like me!”
Apple's App Store Small Business Program announcement is a deflection away from the deeper issues of freedom that plague not just the iOS app store, but app stores in general.
Browse the comments on virtually any story about a ransomware attack and you will almost surely encounter the view that the victim organization could have avoided paying their extortionists if only they’d had proper data backups. But the ugly truth is there are many non-obvious reasons why victims end up paying even…
I have a friend who’s creating an awesome side project: LED signs that you can control to let your coworkers know you’re busy.…
I’ve written about lots of computer vision and machine learning projects like object recognition systems and face recognition projects. I…
My colleague Julius par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
The Mario franchise has two distinct logo styles. The first began with the Mario Bros. arcade game and is mostly used for side-scrolling Super Mario Bros. games, though not all of those games use that style. The second is a multicolor polygonal style, and though it’s primarily used for 3D Mario adventures now, it was…
A pathbreaking researcher taken too soon from us (src) Mihai Pătraşcu passed away on Tuesday of brain cancer, having not yet reached age 30. We, Dick and Ken, did not know about his year-…
Let’s revisit Google and Amazon pricing since the AWS November 2016 Price Reduction. We’ll analyse instance costs, for various workloads and usages. All prices are given in dollars per …
The Missing Middle Path: What VCs Don’t Tell You
Since I am not living in my home country, I frequently use two different SIM cards and prefer having a phone with dual-sim support. This limits your choice s...
You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.
TypeScript is a big Superset of JavaScript which has many features which might not be shown in every beginner tutorial. This post has three of them to make your life easier learning TypeScript.
Long ago, on Svalbard, when you were a young witch of forty-three, your mother took your unscarred wrists in her hands, and spoke:
the one good use of copyright is prying things open
