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How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
In 1978, Brian Eno released Ambient 1: Music for Airports, a landmark album in ambient and electronic music. Although it wasn't the first ambient
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,819 posts.
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Programming paradigms that change how you think about coding
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I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals
Thanks to some coworkers and David Wilson’s Emacs from Scratch playlist, I’ve been getting back into Emacs. The community is more vibrant than the last time I looked, and LSP brings modern completion and inline type checking.
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Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002)
I'm 99.99% sure that my writing this letter will have no effect, but my conscience tells me to write it anyway. Danziger's cartoon has pushed me out of my lethargy.
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New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates
We just released version 1.16 of the official F-Droid client app for Android which includes many radical changes under the hood as well as many bug fixes for...
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Eigenvectors and eigenvalues explained visually
Eigenvalues/vectors are instrumental to understanding electrical circuits, mechanical systems, ecology and even Google's PageRank algorithm. Let's see if visualization can make these ideas more intuitive.
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You Only Need to Test with 5 Users (2000)
Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford.
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Crash Course: Design for Startups
A detailed brain dump about how to go about starting web design for startups. Including design process, inspiration and required reading.
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AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
Companies that treat AI as an autonomous agent are disappointed. Those that treat it as an exoskeleton—an amplifier of human capability—are seeing…
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Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
Show HN is Hacker News’ “showcase” page where makers show and discuss what they’ve built. A few days ago I shared my own project(https://news.ycombinator.com...
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Leaving Mozilla
> On burn-out and bull-headedness
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EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
foodwatch laboratory tests reveal the presence of pesticide residues in everyday foods — including substances not approved in the EU.
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Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks
Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts.
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GPT Image 1.5
This 2025 launch introduced a faster ChatGPT Images experience and GPT‑Image‑1.5 in the API. Explore the latest ChatGPT Images 2.5.
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Servo Nightly Builds Available
Try out the new Servo nightly builds
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Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
Today a configuration error in our backbone network caused an outage for Internet properties and Cloudflare services that lasted 27 minutes. We saw traffic drop by about 50% across our network.
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An in-depth security review of the Intel Management Engine
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Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times
A responsible disclosure write-up on an organization-wide ArcGIS API key embedded across multiple public front-end bundles.
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Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot
Wireless and firmware hacking, PhD life, Technology
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My LLM codegen workflow
A detailed walkthrough of my current workflow for using LLms to build software, from brainstorming through planning and execution.
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Flexbox and Grids: your layout’s best friends
We decided to debunk the myths around Flexbox & Grids in order to show you the power of these two technologies working together.
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Chinese Infinite Magical Hard-Drive
Chinese Magical Hard-Drive - Thursday, 07 April 2011 - Alex's blog
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Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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How We built a $1M ARR open source SaaS
We’ve reached a significant milestone of $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) with Plausible Analytics. This post is a recap of how we got to this point.
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Rejection Letter
I'd like to apologize in advance, but after consulting with my colleagues in other departments at Reality Publishing Corporation, I'm afraid we can't publish your book, "Zero Day: The story of MS17-010", as things stand. However, I'd like to add that it was a gripping read, very well written, and we hope to see more…