991
Two years of teaching high school CS
(This post is also now also listed on the Pickcode Blog) Leaving Teaching I’m posting this on my last day teaching high school computer science. In the pas...
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,299 posts.
992
All programming philosophies are about state
State is where architectures rot. Learn why OO, functional, declarative, imperative, IoC, and monoliths are all fighting the same fire in systems.
993
An experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API early next year
We’re piloting an experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API with select embedded media providers early next year.
994
Function calling and other API updates
We’re announcing updates including more steerable API models, function calling capabilities, longer context, and lower prices.
995
Go, Containers, and the Linux Scheduler
How to make the Go runtime play nicely with the Linux Scheduler
996
UN Human Rights Chief Urges UK to Reverse ‘Deeply Troubling’ Public Order Bill
GENEVA (27 April 2023) - The Public Order Bill, which has now been passed by Parliament in the United Kingdom, is deeply troubling legislation that is incompatible with the UK’s international human rights obligations regarding people’s rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, UN High…
997
998
Git Branches: Intuition and Reality
git branches: intuition & reality
999
The benefits of everything being a buffer in Emacs
For today I only have a very short tip – or maybe let’s call it an anecdote. (This is not because I didn’t have time for writing last week. Quite the opposite – I’ve been working very hard on one of the projects I mentioned in my 2023 planning post . I think I’ll be able to share some details next week.)
1000
Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip
Anubis could not load its JavaScript. The server may be overloaded. Please reload the page to try again.
1001
Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services
Today, we are officially introducing a proof-of-work (PoW) defense for onion services designed to prioritize verified network traffic as a deterrent against denial of service (DoS) attacks with the release of Tor 0.4.8.
1002
Learning needs to be effortful to be effective
Online content makes edutainment the norm among curious and intelligent people, who don't realize that they aren't actually learning what they think they are.
1003
1004
A page with no code
View Source shows nothing, but the page has content. The Page With No Code is the kind of puzzle that makes web developers unhappy.
1005
Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate
New rhetorical tactics are creating a generation of nihilists
1006
Apple Introduces M2 Ultra
Apple today announced M2 Ultra, a new system on a chip (SoC) that delivers huge performance increases to the Mac and completes the M2 family.
1007
Stable Audio: Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion
Stable Audio represents the cutting-edge audio generation research by Stability AI’s generative audio research lab, Harmonai. We continue to improve our model architectures, datasets, and training procedures to improve output quality, controllability, inference speed, and output length.
1008
It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp
I'm traveling back in time to explore an ancient development workflow that is somehow more modern than today's workflows.
1009
1010
Dolphin on Steam Indefinitely Postponed
It is with much disappointment that we have to announce that the Dolphin on Steam release has been indefinitely postponed. We were notified by Valve that Nintendo has issued a DMCA against Dolphin's Steam page, and have removed Dolphin from Steam until the matter is settled. We are currently investigating…
1011
1012
Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019)
A curious pattern in polar plots with prime numbers, together with discussion of Dirichlet's theorem
1013
Infosec company pwned by 4chan user
risk visualize deez nuts
1014
Free Public WiFi
Once, many years ago, I stayed on the 62nd floor of the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia. This was in the age when the price of a hotel room was directly correlated with the price of the WiFi service, and as a high school student I was not prepared to pay in excess of $15 a day for the internet. As I…
1015
Recovering secret keys from devices using video footage of their power LED
Exploiting a Video Camera's Rolling Shutter to Recover Secret Keys from Devices Using Video Footage of Their Power LED
1016
You don't need Scrum, you just need to do Kanban right (2022)
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
1017
Cooler screens
Audible even over the squeal of an HVAC blower with a suffering belt, the whine of small, high velocity fans pervades the grocery side of this Walgreens. Were they always this loud? I'm not sure; some of the fans sound distinctly unhealthy. Still, it's a familiar kind of noise to anyone who regularly works around…
1018
We’re no longer sunsetting the free team plan
We're reversing course. After taking in feedback from the community, we’re no longer sunsetting the Free Team plan.
1019
A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)
Regular expressions are extremely powerful. This is something I read at least once or twice every day while reading articles and blogs on the Web.
1020