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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 662 posts.
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ToothPaste
AES-256 Cross Platform Device Control.
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Nobody is coming to save your career
I waited years for someone to invest in my career. Nobody came.
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100+ reactions to 100+ solutions
“Many of us are grappling with OpenAI’s announcement on 6 October. We feel that it is useful to have an updating snapshot of the community’s gut feeling.”
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The Slow Death of the Power User
There’s a certain kind of person who’s becoming extinct. You’ve probably met one. Maybe you are one. Someone who actually understood the tools they used. Someone who could sit down at an unfamiliar system, poke at it for twenty minutes, and have a working mental model of what it was doing and why. Someone who read…
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I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information
At first, I thought I was addicted to internet forums. Then Facebook appeared and soon after I discovered Reddit, Hacker News, 9GAG, Instagram and other form...
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Think of Pavlov
almost all interactions are repeat games
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I found the perfect yearly calendar (for me)
The new year has started and I was once again looking for a simple calendar to do some yearly planning. I've tried to find something for this use …
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My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck
Someone recently introduced me a weird and wonderful little board game that has become my latest obsession. It's a game for 2-12 players where horses race...
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How can I keep from singing?
This is a story of a most unexpected journey — one that is just starting. If somebody had told me four years ago that I’d be writing this today, I would have stared at them in astonishment or laughed dismissedly. Yet here I am, writing about a late-found hobby that has somehow become a very important part of my life.
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"Maybe later" was a feature
The most valueble code in my repo, is the code I didn't write.
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There Is(Ǝ) – Such That (∋)
Let me tell you about a language. But if you wish to go play instead go here. It's going to get a little abstract below. There is a Canvas to Compose Upon The canvas is a square with the largest circle that has a radius of ρ. There are
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Recursion into madness
Raymond Chandler would have loved generative AI
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Rendezvous with Rama
Some musings on the novel "Rendezvous with Rama".
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The Future Belongs to the Weird
the gospel for those out of distribution
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Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project
PRAGUE, 18 February 2026 – A landmark international study across five Central European countries has found hazardous chemicals in every single pair of headphones analysed, from premium models to cheap imports. Authors say the results reveal a systemic failure in consumer safety regulation acros...
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You need a webring
Yes you! You need a webring
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I love email (2023)
I constantly hear about how much everybody hates email. Look, I receive just as many spam messages and useless email-based notifications and stuffy vapid “regarding my previous email” work messages as the next gal. I get it. But I’ve found there’s something magical about email as a medium of communication, and as a…
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Vitamin D supplements cut heart attack risk by 52%. Why?
A new randomized control trial tested personalized vitamin D supplementation based on blood test results.
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Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep?
This is my submission for the June 2026 IndieWeb Carnival. The theme is “No way!?”, hosted by Alex Hsu. It is widely known that people don’t remember the first 1-3 years of their childhood, only have episodic memory at 3-6 years old, and only after those first 5-6 years we start to form autobiographical memories. So…
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What does it mean to “write like you talk”?
Subordinate clauses, phrasal modifications, and metadiscourse
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LLMs may have helped my RSI
Just a place to store my random thoughts and contributions to the world.
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Eating Fruit Skins
This summer, I learned that one can eat a whole apple. Every part of the apple is edible 1 . Before learning this, I would just eat the flesh and throw away the core. The core seemed hard and jagged and inedible. Turns out, you can eat the whole thing. I suppose I’ve always known that deer eat the whole apple. Why…
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What I've learned about the trombone
Including a little dive into the physics behind it
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What “The Best” Looks Like
A startup CTO's guide to what "the best" really means—how to spot non-obvious high performers and the traits that make early-stage teams win.
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The Clock
(If you fancy a puzzle, go look at The Clock first, try to figure out how it works, then come back here for the explanation.) Inspired b...
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You gotta think outside the hypercube
A closer look at the tesseract and the ways we can render it on the screen.
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The Beauty of Roundabouts
I have a weird soft spot for roundabouts. Maybe because I'm a software engineer and the roundabout strikes me as the simple, elegant solution while the traffic light intersection is the ad-hoc, over-engineered mess.
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The Brain Sandwich
The brain sandwich is a practical AI coding workflow: understand the problem, let an agent help, then verify and explain its work before sharing it.