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Does Georgism work? Is land a big deal?
A guest post on Georgism by Lars Doucet
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,820 posts.
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The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Returning from Space
William Shatner's profound words about his experience in space after returning on Blue Origin NS-18:
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The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen
This is the story of a bug that was discovered and fixed in Telegram’s self-rolled cryptographic protocol about seven years ago. The bug didn’t get any press, and no one seems to know about it, probably because it was only published in Russian.
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Using IceWM and a Raspberry Pi as my main PC, sharing my theme, config and some
Published: 10-07-2021 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Making Websites Small
Practical notes on smaller websites: reduce page weight, optimize images, and simplify frontend dependencies.
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Suck It, Wall Street
In a blowout comedy for the ages, finance pirates take it up the clacker
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Zig 0.8.0 Release Notes
Zig is a general-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust , optimal , and reusable software.
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Extracting Objects Recursively with Jq
The Algolia-powered Hacker News API returns nested comment threads that look like this: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/27941108
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ProPublica's tax story
What happens when journalists don't have any friends in finance to challenge their thinking?
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Ubuntu 21.10
14 October 2021: Today, Canonical released Ubuntu 21.10 – the most productive environment for cloud-native developers and AI/ML innovators across the desktop, devices and cloud. “As open source becomes the new default, we aim to bring Ubuntu to all the corners of the enterprise and all the places developers want to…
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Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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The Fourier transform is a neural network
The site of Sid
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Facial expression software confirms bronze medalists happier than silver
The Carlson School of Management research showed replicated and expanded on what was previously found: bronze medalists were more likely to exhibit a smile than silver medalists, while gold medalists were happier than other medalists.
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Lawsuit against TSA and DEA over airport seizures achieves first victory
PITTSBURGH—When travelers go online to find out whether it is legal to fly with cash, the government tells them that there are no restrictions on […]
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Asahi Linux Progress Report: January/February 2021
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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How to Learn Complex Things Quickly: A Guide
No matter what your field, learning efficiently (and well) is an indispensable skill. Here's how.
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Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
TLDR: “make the web do apps” is not a disruptive strategy. It's like surviving The Great Oxidation Event, then saying “make anaerobes do photosynthesis”. Ok, but the blue-green algae got there first, so photosynthesis is no longer asymmetric. It is symmetric competition.
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Java Virtual Threads Preview
Introduce virtual threads to the Java Platform. Virtual threads are lightweight threads that dramatically reduce the effort of writing, maintaining, and observing high-throughput concurrent applications. This is a preview API .
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The Modern Java Platform – 2021 Edition
Many developers were burned by the overly complex world of Java back in the early 2000s. The Gang of Four patterns and middleware / J2EE / Java EE led to…
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99 bits of unsolicited advice
UPDATE Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. The bits were extremely popular, and they were widely shared by others. I was encouraged to write … Continue reading →
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Unironically using Kubernetes for my personal blog
There’s no shortage of posts like “Let’s use Kubernetes!” Now you have 8 problems, or Do I Really Need Kubernetes?, which tend to argue that unless you’re orchestrating 1000 containers, you’re good without Kubernetes. Also, I thought this tweet was hilarious: So… Hi, I’m the guy using Kubernetes for my blog and small…
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GCP Outpaces Azure, AWS in the 2021 Cloud Report
Now in its third year, the 2021 Cloud Report from Cockroach Labs compares AWS, Azure, and Google (GCP) to tell realistic performance stories on behalf of mission-critical OLTP applications.
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Folk wisdom on visual programming
I’m a fairly frequent Hacker News lurker, especially when I have some other important task that I’m avoiding. I normally head to the Active page (lots of comments, good for procrastinat…
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What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages
As developers, we can *definitely* do better than 'Error 503 Service Unavailable' when it comes to error messages. This article shows you how.