Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,820 posts.
Pink Floyd’s Young Lust has been a staple of rock radio for over 40 years. But many people are mystified about the section at the end when a “Mr. Floyd” in the United States attempts to make a collect call to “Mrs. Floyd” in England. There are many “beeps” and “boops” that for the untrained ear are just random sounds…
Twelve years ago I posted on how our era is a rare unique “dreamtime” of fast growth, wide cultural integration, and delusional beliefs.
How to provision a new NixOS machine on Digital Ocean with nixos-infect and automatically connect it to your Tailscale network, then use that server to set up a fully private Minecraft world.
A surge involving the rapidly-transmitting Delta variant in heavily vaccinated countries has led to much hand-wringing that the vaccines are not effective against Delta, or vaccine effectivenss wanes after 4-6 months. This has fueled anti-vaccine sentiment suggesting the vaccines are not working, and causing much…
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Facebook AI is introducing M2M-100, the first multilingual machine translation model that can translate between any pair of 100 languages without relying on English data.
In a follow-up to his first article about Moses Schönfinkel, Stephen Wolfram looks for the whereabouts of Schönfinkel after 1924 through his family history.
Describes how to create a Hex Tile Grid Map in Excel using Excel's charting capabilities
I have been teaching about legal reasoning and legal argumentation for years. When I do so, I try to impress upon students that legal argume...
Researchers funded by the federal BRAIN Initiative have mapped all the cell types — more than a hundred — in the motor cortex of the brain
Programmers are passionate about their tools, and if there is one tool they are especially passionate about, it is their text editor. An editor war has…
polkit is a system service installed by default on many Linux distributions. It’s used by systemd, so any Linux distribution that uses systemd also uses polkit.
Did you know that if your site’s under ~12kb the first page will load significantly faster? Servers only send a few packets (typically 10) in the initial round-trip while TCP is warming up (referred to as TCP slow start). After sending the first set of packets, it needs to wait for the client to acknowledge it…
Today’s biggest misconception about NFTs is that they’re “jpeg” images stored on the Ethereum blockchain, it’s not. Probably because that digital art can be easy to visualize, and famous artists attempt today to sell their digital art as an NFT on a platform such as Opensea, it has gained lot of attention these past…
One of the persistent myths in America is that success is primarily down to hard work. Yes, you cannot have success by lying on the Sofa…
The story of why I stopped taking photos
One thing is for sure: tech companies are willing to fill the “live audio seats” as soon as possible.
Why choose Swift as a backend language in 2020? What are the available frameworks to build your server? Let me guide you.
I’m working on a list of corporate jargon alternatives. There are already plenty of resources telling you what you should be saying instead, such as “soon” for “ASAP” or “waiting” for “holding pattern” and the like. But they usually lack that flair of ostentation we have come to be accustomed to. Therefore, I had the…
In this article, Vlad shares his experience using the Apple M1 as a cloud engineer. He discusses the compatibility of various software, including D...
LA CAMPAGNE NUMERO DEUX : Why do we, French people, care so much about the presidential election — and why it all goes back to cheese.
Do we need to measure complexity? With what metrics? What benefits can it brings? This is the questions we'll answer in this article.
While working on an article for the Monad.Reader, I’ve had the opportunity to think about how people learn and gain intuition for abstraction, and the implications for pedagogy. The heart of …
Monorepos and Forced Migrations By most metrics, Google is a great place to work. Top tier compensation, free food, and largely co-workers who want do...
We had an opportunity to talk with James Gosling, a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language, and get his insight into the languages, features, and solutions that we use every day.
The ramblings and experiments of a software engineer and tech enthusiast based in Dublin.
