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Earthworms after rain (2019)
What’s really happening when we see earthworms on a soggy sidewalk? It's probably not what you think.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,153 posts.
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Evolution of the elephant depiction throughout the middle ages
This tree diagram traces the evolution of the elephant depiction throughout the middle ages up to the age of enlightenment.
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Vercel Build Output API: Infrastructure-as-Filesystem
The Build Output API enables any framework, including your own custom-built solution, to take advantage of Vercel’s infrastructure building blocks.
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Downpour: A game making tool for phones
Today I announce a new project! This is the big thing I have been working on since leaving Niantic, and I am very excited about it. It is a game making tool for phones, called Downpour. Here is what it currently looks like: The utopian vision for the project is
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Windows 9x Video Minidriver HD+
The OS/2 Museum has made available the first version of a display driver disk for Windows 9x running on VirtualBox . The driver uses a linear framebuffer and supports 8/16/24/32bpp modes with resolutions up to 1920×1200 pixels (see more below). The driver is not accelerated but tends to be very speedy on modern…
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Proposal to add build graph output to GNU Make (2020)
Background In 2015 I worked as a consultant at a large company in Lund. My position was with the build team and one of our responsibilities...
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Datalog in JavaScript
Let's build a query engine from scratch. In about 100 lines of Javascript, we'll support joins, indexes, and find our answer for Arnold!
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Can growth continue?
A five-minute talk for Ignite Long Now
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A homework question in someone’s 11th grade statistics class
My son is in 11th grade. Below you’ll find a HW question which was given in my son’s statistics class. How would you answer?
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On iPhone sideloading: it’s ok, I’m changing my mind
An explanation on why I’m ok now with the sideloading of apps on the iPhone, plus, a quick interview with one of the most vocal App Store critic — Kosta Eleftheriou.
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What I learned working with a senior engineer as a new grad
Tanishq Kancharla's personal website
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IETF: The HTTP Query Method ( Draft)
This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.
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Unix as a tool forge and how Emacs fits in Unix philosophy
Wikipedia cites a few different sources on what “Unix Philosophy” is. Peter Salus summarizes it as:
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An experiment to test if Bionic Reading helps you read faster
As a hackathon project at our recent team offsite, Mati and I hacked together a quick experiment to test whether Bionic Reading actually works. Initial results suggest not, but there are some glimmers in the data justifying a revised experiment correcting the mistakes of our pilot study. If you have 10 minutes to read…
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Yemen's bifurcated monetary system
Over the last five years Yemen has stumbled into a unique monetary situation. I initially wrote about Yemen's odd currency status two years ...
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GCP, AWS, and Azure ARM-based server performance comparison
Compare ARM cloud server network performance using Apache APISIX as an API Gateway benchmark workload across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Oracle Cloud.
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Focus Time Saved Me from Burnout
Focus Time Saved Me from Burnout As a staff engineer, I’m expected to write and review code, give interviews, design and review one-pagers, groom tasks, participate in meetings (standups, planning …
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How do you visualize code?
The other day I was reading about the development of personal computers and the desktop GUI, and I was thinking about how comfortable we all have become with the analogy of the “desktop” for our personal computers. We place files in folders and keep them on our desktops. There’s a lot of physical action going on…
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Why Emacs has buffers
Emacs's buffers are so much more than their name implies. They're not just a vessel for you to read or write from. Buffers in Emacs host network processes, shells, and transient data. They're also a key part to understanding why Elisp is designed the way it is.
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Who controls the Internet? And should they? (2021)
This is a lightly edited transcript of my keynote over at NANOG 83, so please accept my apologies if some of the wording is not (yet) as clear as it should be! The original video, including Q&A can be found on NANOG’s Youtube channel Hello, and welcome to this presentation on who controls the internet, and if they…
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Start with who, not why
Work with amazing people you love collaborating with, the rest (mission, purpose, etc) falls out from that.
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Another Vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM
The discovery of an undocumented hardware block in the LPC55S69.
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A gentle introduction to automated reasoning
Meet Amazon Science’s newest research area.
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Chaos Computer Club saves the German healthcare system 400M Euros
Zur Verbindung mit dem Gesundheitsdatennetz „Telematik“ sind in deutschen Arztpraxen spezielle Router vorgeschrieben. Nach nur fünf Jahren Laufzeit soll nun ein Gerätetausch alternativlos sein – so...
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A Minimalist Guide To Program Synthesis
a bare minimum introduction to modern program synthesis
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Mullvad Privacy Companion is now open source
Mullvad Privacy Companion, a free Firefox extension helping to improve your online privacy – is now open source.
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Movie Maker mode in Godot 4.0
With the addition of non-real-time video recording, Godot opens itself to new use cases such as architecture visualization and cutscene rendering.
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Your phone may soon replace many of your passwords
Apple , Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. Experts say the changes should help defeat many types of phishing attacks and…