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Employee #1: Dropbox
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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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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Rooms and Mazes: A Procedural Dungeon Generator
Several months ago I promised a follow-up to my previous blog post about turn-based game loops in my roguelike . Then I got completely sidetracked by self-publishing my book , Game Programming Patterns , and forgot all about it. I totally left you hanging.
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Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto
A Git collaboration platform, built on AT Protocol
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Conway's Game of Life, in real life
When life gives you switches...
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10 > 64, in QR Codes
QR codes reverse the usual order: decimal works better than base64 for encoding binary data, despite it requiring many more digits.
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Trying to build the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer – Zero Terminal V3
Here's another iteration on the Zero Terminal projects I've been working on for a few years. For those of you who haven't seen them, I've been trying to design the most usable all in one Pi Zero computer out there.
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Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11M Concurrent Users (2019)
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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From zero to main(): How to write a bootloader from scratch
A community and blog for embedded software makers
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Pwning the Ladybird Browser
Ladybird is a relatively new browser engine originating from the SerenityOS project . Currently, it’s in pre-alpha and improving quickly. Take a look at the website and the GitHub for more information!
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Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
I have a love/hate relationship with the Cato Institute. Most of their analysis I strongly disagree with, but some of it I equally strongly agree with. Last September 11—the tenth anniversary of 9/11—Cato’s David Rittgers published “Abolish the Department of Homeland Security“: DHS has too many subdivisions in too…
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The High Heel Problem
This article looks at how different types of shoes can affect game development and examines how games deal with this in practice.
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Welcoming Mozilla to Matrix
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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We built voice modulation to mask gender in technical interviews
We built software to mask gender in technical engineering interviews. See what we learned and why it matters.
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I use C when I believe in memory safety
I am using C for a professional project. I believe in memory safety. Yes, I'm a hypocrite, but please, let me explain.
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Nvidia announces financial results for second quarter fiscal 2024
NVIDIA today reported revenue for the second quarter ended July 30, 2023, of $13.51 billion, up 101% from a year ago and up 88% from the previous quarter.
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Rust is a hard way to make a web API
It is not just the borrow checker
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Abandon your DVCS and return to sanity
I’ve pretty much always been a DVCS apologist. I know quite a few people who’ve been using DVCSes since Mercurial and Git, and a few who go back to BitKeeper , but I can totally out-hipster you. I was there for Monotone . I actually remember struggling to grok tla , and being happy that someone took the time to write…
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Are daily standups hurting your team?
What software developers can learn from Ford and GM
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Buy well, buy once
Carl Jeffrey @fellowcreative (fellow™) is a Designer and Doer sharing ideas and thinking on creativity, community, sustainability, strategy, technology…
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An Update on Hacker News
I frequently get asked about the changes we’ve made and are making to Hacker News, so I wanted to share some updates. A lot of people feel strongly about HN. It’s an important part of the startup community and we want it to be both the best source of news and discussion about technology and startups and also welcoming…
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Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh
Why Apple Just Killed the iPhone Interface (And What Comes Next)
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Why Lisp Syntax Works
On uniform vs. specific syntax.
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Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe
A series of foundation models for transparent AI in Europe
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Shields Up
Years and years ago, I helped the Weekly World News make a book. While their periodical was weekly, it certainly wasn’t news. They were just four people in a small office in Florida. They gle…
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How to spend money on your friends without it looking like bribery
Owning things is more socially acceptable than renting them.
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BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop
BusKill is a Kill Cord for your laptop implementing a Dead Man Switch using $20 in USB hardware + udev rule to trigger your laptop self-destruct if stolen.
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Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel
Better 32-bit performance was worth trading some 64-bit performance to get