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Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
Windows 10 DesktopJuly 2015 –– An icon is defined, among other things, by its longevity. Icons don’t withstand change - they endure it, by evolving...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,798 posts.
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A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself
When people talk about the value of paying attention and slowing down, they often make it sound prudish and monk-like. But we shouldn’t forget how interesting and overpoweringly pleasurable sustained attention can be.
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US government commits to publish publicly financed software under FOSS licenses
At the end of last week, the White House published a draft for a Source Code Policy (Update: the draft is not online anymore, link changed to final version). The policy requires every public agency to publish their custom-build software as Free Software for other public agencies as well as the ge...
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NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap
Like most traps, they’re mysterious and then appealing and then it’s too late. An NFT is digital treasure chest, a status symbol and an apparent item of value. Like a Pokemon card, or a…
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What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
A long rant about Apple's design choices.
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Intuit sabotages the Child Tax Credit
When people call the US Supreme Court "corporate-friendly," it's often hard to know what that means in concrete terms. But here's an example of what it means when the highest court in the land is in the tank for big business.
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I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
Adventures in programming, hardware, DSP, and chiptune
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Ubershaders: A Ridiculous Solution to an Impossible Problem
When you're playing your favorite game on Dolphin with a powerful computer, things should run fairly well. The game is running full speed, there are no graphical glitches, and you can use your favorite controller if you want. Yet, every time you go to a new area, or load a new effect, there's a very slight but…
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Freesound just reached 500K Creative Commons sounds
In our recent 2020 in numbers blog post we predicted that we would reach 500k sound uploads at some point in 2021 and… it has just happened! At some point during the past weekend, the number of sounds which are available for download in Freesound has surpassed half a million. Note that by sounds which are available…
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Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
In this blog, Professor Enrique Gaztanaga from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation writes for The Conversation.
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Reflections on OpenAI
I wanted to share my reflections because there's a lot of smoke and noise around what OpenAI is doing, but not a lot of first-hand accounts of what the culture of working there actually feels like .
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Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast
Google Analytics is only very superficially free. Why I removed it, what it really costs your users, and the privacy-friendly alternatives I use instead.
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Google's Antigravity bait and switch
The day was to begin like any other, with Antigravity open (yes, there are tens of us!), expecting to get some work done before my attention fragments. But Google had other plans. They had rolled out a new version of Antigravity the day before, at I/O 2026 , presenting it as a shiny, standalone Codex-style experience.
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A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case
How a Google Cloud support engineer found one customer’s missing DNS packets
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A Farewell to FRP
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
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Dots: Always-on agents
Dots by OpenAI are proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.
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The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop
Mobile-first web designs cause significant usability issues when viewed on desktop. Content becomes overly dispersed across long scrolling pages with expansive white space and enlarged images and fonts, making it difficult for users to consume and understand the information.
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Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up
78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.
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Stable Diffusion Public Release
We are delighted to announce the public release of Stable Diffusion and the launch of DreamStudio Lite.
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Productivity porn
I have a pornography problem, but it’s not what you’re thinking. In fact, if you’re anything like me, you might too.
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Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”
Makuta Visual Effects shares the experience of using Blender in the creation of some of the VFX for the Indian blockbuster RRR:
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