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Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious
In my writing on technology and culture I try to be judicious about citing scientific studies. The issues involved in our ongoing wrangling with digital ... Read more
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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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Python dicts are now ordered
There were several moments over the last few weeks when I heard people discuss differences between Python lists and dicts and one of the first ones mentioned was that lists are ordered and dicts are not.
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Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
Investigating the seahorse emoji doom loop using logitlens.
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Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides
Were you aware of it: Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint slides. Don't just take my word for it: open up the network monitor of your...
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When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
Many security-conscious people probably think they’d never fall for a phone-based phishing scam. But if your response to such a scam involves anything other than hanging up and calling back the entity that claims to be calling, you may be in for a rude awakening. Here’s how one security and tech-savvy reader got taken…
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Claude Integrations
Claude can now connect to your apps and tools through Integrations, while advanced Research searches across the web, Google Workspace, and connected services to quickly deliver comprehensive reports.
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It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
It may not be possible for us to ever reach empirical definitions of "good code" or "clean code", which means that any one person's opinions about another person's opinions about "clean code" are necessarily highly subjective. I cannot review Robert C. Martin's 2008 book Clean Co...
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Addressing Spotify’s Claims
We want more app businesses to thrive — including the ones that compete with some aspect of our business, because they drive us to be better.
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HN comments are underrated
HN comments are terrible . On any topic I’m informed about , the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong . Most of the time, there are zero comments from people who know anything about the topic and the top comment is reasonable sounding but totally incorrect. Additionally, many comments are gratuitously…
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Willingham sends Fables into the public domain
Here, below, is the press release I sent out today to explain what I did and why.
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Devtools must be open source
The age of personalized software is here.
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Mistral AI Releases Forge
Today, we’re introducing Forge, a system for enterprises to build frontier-grade AI models grounded in their proprietary knowledge.
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RethinkDB joins the Linux Foundation: What Happens Next
When the company behind RethinkDB shut down last year, a group of former employees and members of the community formed an interim leadership team and began devising a plan to perpetuate the RethinkDB open-source software project by transitioning it to a community-driven endeavor. Today’s announcement by the Cloud…
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Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
"In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state."
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There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format.
Also see Xiph.Org's new video, Digital Show & Tell , for detailed demonstrations of digital sampling in action on real equipment!
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Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer
Introduction After struggling a lot with my mental health (anxiety, depressive condition) for several years, I was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as ADHD, at the age of 44. This diagnosis shocked me a lot: I wasn’t a wild child, in fact, I was even a good pupil. With the help…
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Why I’m Leaving Elm
Why I can't use Elm, and can't recommend it to others.
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The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Serious Chrome zero-day
The Sophos Blog
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An analysis of DeepSeek's R1-Zero and R1
An analysis of Deepseek's R1
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Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone
AutoDraw is a new A.I. Experiment, built by Google Creative Lab, which uses machine learning and artists’ drawings, to help everyone create anything visual, fast.
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Migrating away from Rust
Why we moved Architect of Ruin from Rust and Bevy to C# and Unity in January 2025, and how the three-day experiment that decided it went.