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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,290 posts.
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Microsoft's Three Browsers
It’s an interesting time. Microsoft now maintains three different web browsers: Internet Explorer 11Microsoft Edge Legacy (Spartan, v18 and below)Chromium-based Microsoft Edge (v79+) If you&#…
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Macs with T2, M1 chips cannot be restored to factory state without Apple
Modern Apple computers can no longer be fully used and maintained in 100% offline environments, or in ways that will reasonably ensure that the computer is…
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“I took FSFE to court. This is my story”
er the first lockdown in Berlin this year I filed a public case in the Berlin Tribunal of Labour Court against the president of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), Matthias Kirschner, for workplace...
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Immutable Databases
Like blockchain but without blockchain.
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$250k books sold, to save lives
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creativity
Remarkable relationship between psychedelics, the brain, well-being, and creativity
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Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User
Thirty five years ago I became an Amiga user. One of the first, actually. This is a meandering and reminiscent post of sorts, written to mark the Amiga’s 35th birthday and the 35 years I have known and loved the … Continue reading →
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Writing a Postgres Foreign Data Wrapper for Clickhouse in Go
Postgres(hereinafter mentioned as PG) is a pretty cool database with lots of nice features, one of them little known ones is the ability of having Foreign data wrappers (hereinafter mentioned as FDWs). Clickhouse(hereinafter mentioned as CH) is another amazing database with an altogether different set of features…
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C Programming on System 6 – Intro [video]
I've been writing an IMAP client for and on my Mac 512Ke over the past many weeks. Taking inspiration from Andreas Kling's excellent YouTube videos documenting his development of the Serenity operating system, I thought I'd start screencasting some of my work.
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From scratch: reverse-mode automatic differentiation (in Python)
The site of Sid
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The Adventures of OS: Starting a Process
I have taught operating systems at my university, so I will link my notes from that course here regarding processes.
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Frugality Is Non-Linear (2019)
Most people have a mental model of budgeting which is roughly linear. If you spend half as much money, your money will last twice as long. As you approach zero spending, your runway goes up to infinity.
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As a former social media analyst, I'm quitting Twitter
Yet Another Quitting Twitter Story
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How to detect if an object has been garbage collected in JavaScript
If you are writing an application in Javascript, soon you will have to worry about memory leaks. But it is difficult to even know if a memory leak exists. This handy method can help.
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What is Electricity? (1996)
What is electricity? This question is impossible to answer because the word " Electricity " has several contradictory meanings. These different meanings are incompatible, and the contradictions confuse everyone. If you don't understand electricity, you're not alone. Even teachers, engineers, and scientists have a hard…
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Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies
It is tempting — and useful — to look at Apple and Amazon’s deal in a bilateral context. It probably makes more sense, though, in the context of Netflix and the future of video.
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A Sober Look at Bayesian Neural Networks
by Carles Gelada and Jacob Buckman WARNING: This is an old version of this blogpost, and if you are a Bayesian, it might make you angry. Click here for an updated post with the same content. Context: About a month ago Carles asserted on Twitter that Bayesian Neural Networks make...
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The most expensive typefaces (2019)
The most expensive typeface I encountered is JHA Bodoni Ritalic, at €4,401.99 (almost $5,000) for a single font.
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The Map Is Not the Territory (2015)
The map is not the territory reminds us that our mental models of the world are not the same as the world itself. It cautions against confusing our abstractions and representations with the complex, ever-shifting reality they aim to describe.
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The Treachery of Image Files
I have recently come into possession of a series of exquisite miniatures which I pray are worthy of your esteemed attention. While my employers are familiar with your unusual tastes , they also appreciate your desire for privacy- this showing was arranged with the utmost discretion, I assure you.
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The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
Published December 2, 2020 Since autumn of 2019, I’ve been bearish on the dollar, meaning I have a longish-term outlook towards a weaker dollar. This view began forming when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates in summer 2019, and then the view solidified with a catalyst after an overnight repo rate spike in…
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Mini HTTP Guide for Developers
A glance behind the curtain: it can affect engineering decisions