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On Solitude
Over 15 years ago, I took my first device-free, silent, solitude experience.
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 end of the pandemic is near
All epidemics end, even the Black Death and Spanish Flu. But it won’t be abrupt, and mine may end before yours does.
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The cost of cloud, a trillion dollar paradox
The pressure the cloud puts on margins can start to outweigh the benefits you scale and growth slows. Understand how much market cap is being suppressed by the cloud to help inform the decision-making framework on managing infrastructure as companies scale.
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Software That Sucks Less
We are the home of quality software such as dwm , dmenu , st and plenty of other tools , with a focus on simplicity, clarity and frugality. Our philosophy is about keeping things simple, minimal and usable. We believe this should become the mainstream philosophy in the IT sector. Unfortunately, the tendency for…
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So you want to compete with Roblox
My inbox is stuffed with pitches from start-ups wanting to compete with Roblox, that plucky Lego-ish multiplayer game-creation platform currently valued at 41 billion dollars. They shouldn't try, but here's how to maybe not fail if they insist anyways.
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What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?
Starlink is a point of departure to consider the costs of the unrelenting drive toward artificial illumination, a technological development most of us now take for granted.
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Heroes of Might and Magic V – Hammers of Bait and Switch
This documents my process of finding a fix for the “Original game not found” problem when installing Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate from Ubisoft. For the actual fix, pleas…
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Unity to acquire Parsec for $320M
Parsecs technology allows creators to work together remotely and leverage high performance processing from anywhere Unity (NYSE: U), the worlds leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the high performance remote desktop…
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Emails a browser extension developer gets from scammers
SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.
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ReactOS 0.4.14
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Codecov Bash Uploader compromised
Update 4/29/2021 3PM PT : Through our investigation, we now have additional information concerning what environment variables may have been obtained without authorization and how they may have been used. Affected users can view details within the Codecov application. Additionally, we have posted our most up-to-date…
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Rijksmuseum to Stage the Largest Vermeer Exhibition in 2023
In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, will dedicate a retrospective exhibition to the 17th-century master Johannes Vermeer for the first time in its history. With loans from all over the world, this promises to be the largest Vermeer exhibition ever. The Rijksmuseum itself has…
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Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars
How to turn 256 bits of entropy into a beautiful, avatar-friendly circular SVG: the Hashvatar.
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Found a program I wrote in 1981 and decided to bring it back to life
When you find a weird program from four decades ago and realize that it's yours.
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Solar Shed Summary: My Off Grid Office
A few months ago I moved to a few acres in the country, and needed somewhere to work - so I built myself a solar powered off grid office out of a Tuff-Shed Pro Studio! On one side, I’ve built a great desk corner with plenty of power and more than enough AC to keep me cool when it’s over 100F out.
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How to price your SaaS product
Guest post by Patrick Campbell, CEO of ProfitWell
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Jello 3D Printer (2013)
A while ago, a friend of mine turned 25 and held a fairly big birthday party. One of the things he wanted to serve were jello shots: basically little shot glasses of jello with alcohol mixed in. The consistency and sweetness makes for a pretty interesting drink, and he wanted to make 70 or so shots, at least one for…
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Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in
Engineers optimize for efficiency by working in parallel, creating waterfall regardless of Scrum. True agile means fixing stakeholder queues.
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Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020)
Can history help us make sense of the term 'RESTful API'?
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Swedish government agencies say energy-intensive crypto mining should be banned
The most common method for producing crypto-assets requires enormous amounts of electricity and generates large CO2 emissions. Crypto-asset producers are keen to use more renewable energy, and they are increasing their presence in the Nordic region. Sweden needs the renewable energy targeted by crypto-asset producers…
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Walmart releases more affordable analog insulin
BENTONVILLE, Ark., June 29, 2021 — Walmart announced the launch of the first-ever private brand analog insulin, which will revolutionize the access and affordability to diabetes care by offering customers a significant price savings without compromising quality. Available exclusively through Walmart’s private ReliOn…
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Speed Matters
I think that one of the most important things to focus on improving is how fast you can work.
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GraalVM at Facebook
Facebook is using GraalVM to accelerate its Spark workloads and reduce memory & CPU usage. Keep reading to learn about their migration…
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AWS Babelfish: The Elephant in the PostgreSQL Room?
Fundación PostgreSQL
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