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Can Doom Run It? An Adding Machine in Doom
For decades, we've asked ourselves "Can it run Doom?". Now we can finally make the ultimate punchline: "Can Doom run it?"
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,871 posts.
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Understanding Neural Network, Visually
An interactive visualization to understand how neural networks work
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Fundamental Math for Game Developers
Let's review the most important math topics used by game devs, reflect about math education, and discuss techniques that can be used to improve the way we learn new math topics.
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ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
Posted by Radu Soricut and Zhenzhong Lan, Research Scientists, Google Research Ever since the advent of BERT a year ago, natural language research...
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Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise
Comprehensive review brings together global evidence to strengthen public trust and counter misinformation as mRNA vaccines expand to prevent and treat more diseases.
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“Modern” C++ Lamentations
“ Standard Ranges ” blog post by Eric Niebler – about C++20 ranges feature – was doing rounds in the game development twitterverse lately, with many expressing something like a “dislike” (mildly said) about the state of modern C++.
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macOS Setup after 15 Years of Linux
About 3 years ago I wrote about my Linux Desktop Setup and having used pretty much the same software setup for 10-15 years. My setup used to be heavily keyboard based. Now for work I am for the first time using a macOS-based Macbook Pro with an M1 Pro CPU. I spent the last 3 weeks using it as a daily driver, tweaking…
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Amazon owns more than $2B worth of IPv4 addresses
Amazon owns almost 110M IPV4 addresses. At the lower end of the market price this is over $2B.
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Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible
Software is degrading all around us, for obvious reasons. I've written about this before. All else equal, if you increase your code production by 10x but you don't reduce your error rate by a factor of 10, then your production app is buggier than it used to be. I've seen threads where people also have...
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Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming
Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming.
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Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?
Add WebAssembly, get performance. Is that how it really works?
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Why Evernote failed to realize its potential
Evernote has been plagued by a series of managerial missteps and failed product launches. The company’s future is far from certain.
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Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation
One-time passwords are often sent via SMS. Security researchers from the CCC recently had live access to over 200 million such SMS messages from more than 200 affected companies.
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Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server
How I chose parts, built, and configured my first custom home storage server.
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Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
Legal Twitter is having tremendous fun right now reviewing the latest documents from the case Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (1:22-cv-01461). Here’s a neat summary: So, wait. They file a brief …
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1931: Kurt Gödel shows limits of math, logic, computing, AI
His famous 1931 paper identified the fundamental limits of math, logics, theorem proving, computing, AI.
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How I went about learning Rust
Rust has been on my radar for a long time now , and about a year ago I finally began allocating some time every week to learning it.
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Xkcd Password Generator
The button below will generate a random phrase consisting of four common words. According to yesterday’s xkcd strip, such phrases are hard to guess (even by brute force), …
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Digital Audio Workstation Front End Development Struggles
My opinions have changed somewhat since I last wrote this blog post, and I wish to clarify some things. Please read the follow-up in my latest post Clarifying Some Things .
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Never hose out a Honda Element
This is a rumor, it may have rubber floors, but that water will be trapped under the floor and rust your Honda Element from the inside out.
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Dark’s new backend will be in F#
Welcome HN! Dark is a programming language, structured editor, and infrastructure—all in one—whose goal is to make it 100x easier to build backend services. Check out the website, our What is Dark post, and How Dark deploys in 50ms for more. Thanks for checking us out! Part of
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The casino in your pocket
A very rough statistical analysis of a casino trick used by games on your phone (n=28).
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Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)
Everything your mentor wants to say but HR won't let them