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Four years of Go
Happy 4th birthday, Go!
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,899 posts.
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Nobody cares about your blog
Nobody cares about your blog, but you should keep writing!
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Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2025334 points192 commentscited by 3History & Retro Computing details
This is the third piece of the fourth part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have…
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Going for the 5 hour workday
Update: it's been a month since my proposal was approved - details at the end. Before my month long vacation I was in a crisis. Now I'm back at work and regardless of the great team and awesome project - I'm feeling the crisis creeping back. It's not the job,
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Instead of containers, give me strong config and deploy primitives
A modest proposal
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Forecasts need to have error bars
Richard Rosenfeld in the most recent Criminologist published a piece about forecasting national level crime rates. People complain about the FBI releasing crime stats a year late, academics are wor…
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Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware
The same capabilities that make OpenClaw a groundbreaking tool also make it an urgent security risk. This blog contains confirmed examples of agent skills being used as malware vectors, and advice on how to protect yourself if you're experimenting with them.
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Be Careful with Python's New-Style String Format
Some general warnings about the use of str.format in Python.
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Vibing a non-trivial Ghostty feature
I recently shipped a non-trivial Ghostty feature (unobtrusive macOS automatic updates) that was largely developed with AI.
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30% of Google's Emotions Dataset Is Mislabeled
Last year, Google released their “GoEmotions” dataset: a human-labeled dataset of 58K Reddit comments categorized according to 27 emotions. The problem? A whopping 30% of the dataset is mislabeled! Check out some of the egregious errors, and learn how to build better datasets.30% of Google's Emotions Dataset is…
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Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Last year, our mighty donor base generously donated a record-breaking amount to the Thunderbird project! Here's our 2022 Financial Report.
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I wrote a Game Boy Advance game in Zig
The Game Boy Advance is an interesting game console. It has a modern-style CPU (32-bit ARM, lots of registers), but uses an old-fashioned tile based renderer like how the NES did it in the 80s. Don’t get me wrong, since its one of Nintendo’s last tile-based systems, they took the idea as far as it can go with fancy…
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Making SQL Server run on Linux
This post was authored by Scott Konersmann, Partner Engineering Manager, SQL Server, Slava Oks, Partner Group Engineering Manager, SQL Server, and Tobias Ternstrom, Principal Program Manager, SQL Server. Introduction We first announced SQL Server on Linux in March, and recently released the first public preview of SQL…
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What I think about when I edit (2019)
I’m often asked to edit friends’ or coworkers’ writing, anything from emails to short stories to documentation. Recently, someone asked me how I edit. What am I looking for? How do I know what changes to make? That made me stop and think about what I’ve been doing semi-instinctually.
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Does Amazon make more from ads than AWS?
Does Amazon make more money from ads than AWS? Quite possibly.
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The AI Credit Resale Economy
From cold emails to credit marketplaces, sellers promise cheaper access to leading models. We followed those offers to understand what buyers are actually getting.
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How simultaneous multithreading works under the hood
Learn the microarchitecture-level details of the processor that enable to execute two threads at the same time on a CPU core
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Google Play rejected Tor Browser update with security fixes
Tor Browser 10.0.7 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.
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Disposable Root Servers
Unlimited, free and dedicated Kali Linux Root Shells - readily set up for hackers. Traffic via VPNs. Accessible directly or via TOR. NO LOGZ.
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Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass
Canon developed its own technology for forming large, high-purity artificial fluorite crystals using fluorite ore as a raw material.
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Reddit becomes reddit Inc.
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Cloudflare on the edge
Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to become a major player in an Internet 3.0 world, where politics matter more than economics.
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How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?
Here’s a fact: GPT-4o charges 170 tokens to process each 512x512 tile used in high-res mode. At ~0.75 tokens/word, this suggests a picture is worth about 227 words—only a factor of four off from the traditional saying. (There’s also an 85 tokens charge for a low-res ‘master thumbnail’ of each picture and higher…
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Startup advice
In honor of the new YC batch starting tomorrow, here is some of the best startup advice I’ve heard or given (mostly heard): 1. Make something people want. 2. A great team and a great...
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