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I quit. The clankers won
The one where I pack up my bags.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,841 posts.
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Google Fights Back
At Google I/O, Google was the opposite of defensive: the company set out to make the case that its approach made for better products that makes people’s lives better
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Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
Discover how a single Raspberry Pi can speed up your home network by acting as a DNS server. Learn the steps to set up Pi-hole and enjoy faster, more secure internet today!
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What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications
I wrote recently about what Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Apple are doing to your email: how four providers stopped being transport layers and turned into active intermediaries between brands and their customers, parsing, ranking, summarising, and increasingly answering on the recipient's behalf.
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New $250 Chromebook
As a kid growing up in India, I was fascinated with computers and the endless possibilities they presented. I had to wait until college to f...
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Inside the Largest US Voter Data Leak
UpGuard has discovered an open database containing information on what appear to be approximately 198 million American voters left misconfigured by a GOP analytics firm.
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Save your eyes, start using f.lux
Software to warm up your computer display at night, to match your indoor lighting.
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How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works
Get the details on how the built-in ad-blocker in Google Chrome works. The ad-blocker only kicks in on websites in violation of the Better Ad Standards policies.
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Apple Music Sing
Apple Music Sing is an exciting new feature that allows users to sing along to their favorite songs with real-time lyrics and adjustable vocals.
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Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
This has been on my mind for a while, and with a couple of things lately stoking my ire (the NFT resurgence, and Signal integrating MobileCoin), I’ve finally pushed myself to put it into words.
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Penny Arcade’s Insultingly Horrible Job
This is everything wrong with tech-startup culture, unreasonable expectations, and workaholism in one job posting, by a company with a massive audience that probably contains a very high percentage of young software developers.
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Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG
Long awaited first paper from Meta Superintelligence Labs is not a model layer innovation. What does this mean?
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AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please
Sergey Filimonov's blog
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There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters tube station
For over thirty years, a dead rabbit has hung inside Seven Sisters tube station, and thousands of people walk past it every day without noticing.
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Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young
Seventeen recommendations from someone we think had a big impact with their career.
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The Future Is Niri
The worst "street-cred" I have is that I've been using tiling window managers for thirty-five percent of my life: five years with Sway and two...
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Migrating Dillo from GitHub
I would like to migrate the Dillo project away from GitHub into a new home which is more friendly to be used with Dillo and solves some of its problems. This page summarizes the current situation with GitHub and why I decided to move away from it into a self-hosted server with multiple mirrors in other forges.
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Why Erlang Matters
Everything you need to integrate your application with 8x8 products, or embed 8x8 products into your own platform.
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Extracting Hacker News book recommendations with the ChatGPT API
2023-10-12: I have written a followup with some details about the process used to generate this list: Extracting HN Book Recommendations with the ChatGPT API, Vol. II
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How to increase your chances of finding a hidden camera
Take note of the title of this blog. What you read below will give you some additional knowledge that may help you identify a hidden camera but it certainly won’t guarantee that. We got lucky…
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We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
Swarms of Claude and GPT agents in Minecraft and Mindustry.
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Mullvad: Diskless infrastructure using stboot in beta
Diskless infrastructure using stboot (in beta) is now available on a pair of WireGuard servers in Sweden.
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How to get better at painting without painting anything (2015)
John Wooden died in 2009. But if you’re a basketball coach today, you’re still living in his shadow.
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AirPlay and Touch Bar = Network Disaster
Mnpn's website and blog containing projects and other information.
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Google AMP Is Not a Good Thing
You might have used Google’s new AMP project without even knowing. It’s a technology that makes mobile page results load very quickly on Google, it