20221
Hacking the T2S+ Out of Fear: Get Lock-In Thermography for Free
Hacking the T2S+ v2 to work on computers, tear it down for the first time online, and play with lock-in thermography as a bonus!
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,910 posts.
20222
Inside the Matrix: Visualizing Matrix Multiplication, Attention and Beyond
Use 3D to visualize matrix multiplication expressions, attention heads with real weights, and more. Matrix multiplications (matmuls) are the building blocks of today’s ML models. This note presents mm, a visualization...
20223
20224
Patching an embedded synthesiser OS from 1996 with Ghidra
For reasons I won't get into, I've been working on a tricky reverse engineering puzzle recently: how to patch the operating system of a 26-year-old synthesizer. To be specific, the Kurzweil K2500, a...
20225
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Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)
By Laurence Boone, Boris Cournède, OECD Economics Department; and Marissa Plouin, OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Following a period when homele…
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20228
What is ‘elite overproduction’?
Elite overproduction … describes the condition of a society which is producing too many potential elite-members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure.
20229
The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself
The Billion-Dollar Surveillance Pipeline: From Occupation Technology to Global Control
20230
20231
My Tungsten Cube (2019)
A few months ago I bought a featureless cube of tungsten. It’s 1.5 inches across and cost $130, but I argue it was one of the best purchases I’ve made recently.
20232
Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows
A blog post by Ryan Geyer
20233
Albertsons kills rural grocers with land use restrictions
Albertsons uses land use restrictions in Mammoth, CA to stop competition so it can be the only store in town.
20234
“Computer science is not about computers”
Edsger W. Dijkstra? Alan Perlis? Jacques Arsac? George Johnson? Donald Knuth? Matthew Dennis Haines? Anonymous?
20235
Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs
Indeed Chief Economist sheds light on the next Silicon Valley and discusses characteristics of tech jobs in eight hubs around the U.S.
20236
The hater's guide to Kubernetes
Among a certain tech set, Kubernetes has earned a reputation as an unnecessarily complicated time-sink that startups should avoid. Using Kubernetes with a small team is seen as a sign of over-engineering.
20237
Brave Browser introduces vertical tabs
Brave's vertical tabs feature is now available for Windows, macOS, and Linux users to experience a new way to manage open tabs.
20238
Stripe announces new round of funding and plan to provide employee liquidity
Stripe, which builds economic infrastructure for the internet, has signed agreements for a Series I fundraise.
20239
The scariest "user support" email I've received
Hi, it's Takuya. As your app grows in popularity, you occasionally start to attract attacks aimed directly at you—the developer or site owner. Just the other day, I got one that was honestly terrifying, so I'd like to share it. The Email Subject: Cookie consent prevents platform
20240
Beyond Light Table
I have three big announcements to make today. The first is the official announcement of our next project. We’ve been quietly talking about it over the past few months, but today we want to tell you a bit more about it and finally reveal its name:
20241
Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
How Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe—and winning In 2010, Photoshop was ubiquitous. Whether you were editing a photo, making a poster, or designing a website, it happened in Photoshop. Today, Adobe looks incredibly strong. They’ve had spectacular stock performance, thanks to clear-eyed management who’ve made bold…
20242
Throw away your first draft of your code
The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all . Just throw it away.
20243
Asbestosis
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20244
Autocomplete as an Interface (2015)
the real reason zsh beats bash • how I got twice as fast in python • autocompleting all the things • maximizing user-interface bandwidth
20245
Cannabis legalization decreases stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms
Researchers from California Polytechnic State University and the University of New Mexico find that stock market investors predict cannabis legalization will reduce conventional pharmaceutical sales by billions of dollars. In their recent study, “U.S....
20246
Dutch schools must stop using Google's email and cloud due to privacy concerns
Dutch Personal Data Authority raised concerns about Google's GDPR compliance.
20247
How to get the most out of your 1:1s
As a Director of Engineering, I have monthly 1:1s with all of my direct reports. A 1:1 (one-on-one) is a recurring meeting with no set agenda between a manager and one of their reports. The internet is full of valuable insight into how to run them from my perspective, (ex. The Update, The Vent, and The Disaster) but…
20248
S3 isn't getting cheaper
Clayton Christensen famously demonstrated the Innovator's Dilemma by using data from the hard drive industry in the 1980s. At every point, companies failed to make the switch from 8-inch drives, to 5-inch drives, to 3...
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20250
Nix: Taming Unix with Functional Programming
Nix is all about applying functional programming to files and processes.