Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,505 posts.
When I started using computers, we had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum at home and a nano-reseau of Thomson MO5 s at elementary school. I distinctly remember how unpleasant it was to type with them. These must have been the worst keyboards I ever used [1] . Ever since, I have paid close attention to the keyboards I use. Here…
A question like this recently came up again. I once tried to find an answer, but only posted it in some "forum" a decade ago, and I think it's worth saving this little bit of trivia from digital nirvana.
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Status Board was something we’d always wanted. Originally a very nice web page designed to brighten up our office and act as our virtual water-cooler for company stats — as seen in this famous blog post — it evolved into a feature-packed, beautiful iOS app. We made it very easy to make beautiful boards, it worked…
Mathematica and the Wolfram Language: Version 11 released Aug 8, 2016. 3D printing, machine learning & neural networks, audio. Available for desktop, cloud.
I swear some people out there be building their note-taking system like NASA engineers building the next rocket to send us to the next habitable Earth. No...
Podman is the new cool kid on the block. Podman is a deamonless container(OCI) engine for Linux. It's the natural open-source Docker replac...
Making it quicker and simpler to run a macOS VM: with Vimy all you need do is double-click its bundle, and the VM runs using its previous settings.
vivym/midjourney-messages on Hugging Face is a large (~8GB) dataset consisting of 55,082,563 Midjourney images - each one with the prompt and a URL to the image hosted on Discord.
make is a widely used and valuable development tool. It's a "build" tool: it builds programs and documentation according to a "recipe". It could really be used for anything where someone edits some files, and then runs a series of processing steps to generate some other form from the edited files. For the most part…
Learn about the considerations and interop commands available when working across Windows and Linux file systems with WSL.
The new Processor Trace instrument has flown under the radar with this years WWDC announcements but many developers will find it truly indispensable.
<p>Performing manual, repetitive tasks enrages me. I used to think this was a corollary of being a programmer, but I’ve come to suspect (...
Note: Results may vary, depending on distance from your Git servers. In my completely unscientific benchmarks using time, after the following steps, …
Work gets done at 11AM on a Monday in October. At all other times of day, we're basically slacking from our most productive.
This post prompted by Aaron Klotz’s Diffusion of Responsibility and Sumana Harihareswara’s Inessential Weirdnesses in Open Source .
After watching this year’s EmacsConf and seeing Guile Emacs being resurrected I thought to myself - why limit ourselves to Guile? Sure, Guile isn’t just a Scheme implementation, thanks to its compiler-tower-based design. Other languages exist for Guile VM, such as Emacs Lisp, and Guile manual lists the following…
Why just print forms and airline tickets from an inkjet printer when you can print electronics! All you need to do is to replace the…
arc42 is a template for architecture communication and documentation. It is a proven, practical and highly pragmatic approach and takes the pain out of documentation.
Sometimes an article starts with a simple question or a single message on one of the available social platforms. This is the case today with this article where @ooberober asked: How small can the r…
Things you can do with a terminal emulator that renders images: generate contextual entity-relationship diagrams and navigate your data model from the inside!
So far everything we’ve done with breakpoints involved us creating a breakpoint file and using this to automate part of a track. Now we’ll take a look at how we can take an existing track and extract some breakpoints from this. For this post, we’ll take a look at extracting the amplitudes from the .wave files, as this…
Today, we’re excited to introduce repository templates to make boilerplate code management and distribution a first-class citizen on GitHub.
CloudFlare's DNS server, RRDNS, is written in Go and the DNS team used to generate a file called version.go in our Makefile. version.go looked something like this.
