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One Thousand Dollars an Hour
Update: I've since adjusted my rate to $300/hr since I wanted to start taking clients. This crazy was designed to prevent getting work unless it...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,926 posts.
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GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source
GitLab’s open-source version is missing several features present in its proprietary one.
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Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana
Improving the performance of a PC cooling system by writing a custom control loop in Python, and monitoring the results with Grafana.
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Amazon-Stripe partnership
Amazon and Stripe have signed an expanded global agreement under which Amazon will significantly expand its use of Stripe’s core payments platform.
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Who keeps an eye on clipboard access?
If there is any feature that “universally” describes the usage of computers, it is the copy/paste pattern. We are used to it, practically all the common graphical user interfaces have support for it, and it magically works.
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Modernizing AWK, a 45-year old language, by adding CSV support
Why and how I added proper CSV support to GoAWK, my POSIX-compatible AWK interpreter.
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My Code made it to a Hollywood Movie
SecurityTube.net Hack of the Day2013258 points138 commentscited by 3Life, Learning & Writing details
One of the first things I do every morning is check the Twitter chatter about my website ( @SecurityTube ) . I was pleasantly surprised to ...
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Against Against Pseudoaddiction
I. “Pseudoaddiction” is one of the standard beats every article on the opioid crisis has to hit. Pharma companies (the story goes) invented a concept called “pseudoaddiction”…
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The C Programming Language: Myths and Reality
The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
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Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper
For four months, no frontier model beat Claude Opus in our production evals. GPT-5.6 did. This is what we learned while migrating.
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Hugo is awesome, its documentation is not
This site is built using the Hugo static site generator. Hugo is awesome. Its documentation is not. That is my personal opinion :) This post explains why I find the existing documentation so frustrating and how it could be improved.
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FLUX is fast and it's open source
FLUX is now much faster on Replicate, and we’ve made our optimizations open-source so you can see exactly how they work and build upon them.
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Always Do Extra
A simple rule that every good, veteran programmer seems to follow with respect to managing their time.
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Tech takes the Pareto principle too far
There's a reason video games build what's called a 'vertical slice'. If you're not familiar, a vertical slice is a single playable area, with all mechanics, fin
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VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
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An Inferno on the Head of a Pin
Today’s processors contain billions of heat-generating transistors in an ever shrinking space. The power budget might go from: * 1000 watts on a specialized server * 100 watts on desktops * 30 watts on laptops * 5 watts on tablets * 1 or 2 watts on a phone * 100 milliwatts on an embedded
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Why Is It Taking 20 Minutes to Mine This Bitcoin Block?
You have just made a Bitcoin transaction and you are eager to see if it appears in the next block. You know that the expected time between Bitcoin blocks is 10 minutes. You check the log of your Bitcoin node. It has been 7 minutes since the previous block. You recall that blocks occurrences in Bitcoin are a Poisson…
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Supreme Court declines to hear Wikimedia's challenge to NSA mass surveillance
On February 21st 2023, the Wikimedia Foundation circulated the below joint statement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.…
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How I got to $9.99 MRR after 7 years
Here's the tell-all behind the scenes story of how Cloakist got to $9.99 MRR after just 7 years
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Benchmarking TensorFlow on Cloud CPUs: Cheaper Deep Learning Than Cloud GPUs
Using CPUs instead of GPUs for deep learning training in the cloud is cheaper because of the massive cost differential afforded by preemptible instances.