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The Lone Developer Problem
If a single programmer builds something, it can be hard for others to maintain later.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,299 posts.
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Free and open source software projects are in transition
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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How random is xkcd? (2015)
Apparently Randall Munroe gets a lot of messages saying that the “random” button on xkcd is biased.
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Podman Desktop v1.5 with Compose onboarding and enhanced Kubernetes pod data
Podman Desktop 1.5 has been released!
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People who've received a black bar on Hacker News
I'm not sure when Hacker News started adorning a black bar on top of the website after a significant person passed, but I compiled a list of people who've received it.
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Now you're thinking with relays
Tinkering with relay-based logic just for the fun of it.
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Let's write a treesitter major mode for Emacs
Creating a standard programming major mode presents significant challenges, with the intricate tasks of establishing proper indentation and font highlighting being among the two hardest things to get right. It's painstaking work, and it'll quickly descend into a brawl between the font lock engine and your desire for…
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Anki and GPT-3
Tools for thought, programming, games, homeschooling, and learning
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Amiga Systems Programming in 2023
If you ever get a chance to look through the classic Amiga OS source-code still floating around some murky corners of the internet, it is a thing of beauty and astonishing capabilities. It’s an inspirational piece of computing history with unmatched capabilities for the time. Remember, this was all on a computer…
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Email Authentication: A Developer's Guide
Learn the importance of SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and BIMI in ensuring email delivery.
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Chinese app included malware to gain competitive advantage
Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the software. The move comes just weeks after Chinese security researchers published an analysis suggesting the popular e-commerce app sought to seize total control over affected devices by exploiting…
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Dating, education, and sex ratios
Men floundering, women most affected
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GNOME 44
The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 44, ‘Kuala Lumpur’. This release brings a grid view in the file chooser, improved settings panels for Device Security, Accessibility, etc, and refined quick settings in the shell. The Software and Files apps have seen improvements, and a whole slew of new…
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Temporary ban on behavioural advertising on Facebook and Instagram
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority imposes a ban on Meta carrying out behavioural advertising based on the surveillance and profiling of users in Norway. The ban will initially apply until October
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Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri
Introducing Aptos, our modern successor to Calibri
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Denver’s e-bike subsidy program produced more new riders, fewer car trips
As cities explore ebike incentive programs and look to model Denver’s success, we offer context on the state of the ebike industry, how Denver funded and implemented their program, results, and recommendations.
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Accessible hamburger buttons without JavaScript
Learn how to create an accessible hamburger button with pure HTML and CSS.
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An Alerting Vista of macOS Sonoma
There’s a new “feature” in Sonoma, and no one besides Apple is quite sure what it is. Alerts for deprecated APIs are now appearing frequently. Sometimes when you launch an app, and sometimes at random. Here are three I got the other day after waking a MacBook from sleep: From a UI point-of-view, these alerts […]
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Managing State with Signals
An experiment of using incremental computations for managing state in Humble UI
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How to lose your work using Undo Copy in Windows
This is a simple guide on how to lose your work using the brilliant design of the Windows interface. Here are the steps:
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Fine-tuning GPT-3.5-turbo for natural language to SQL
Tutorial and comparison with RAG methods
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How Photoshop solved working with files larger than can fit into memory
Learn how Adobe managed to let users edit even the biggest files on the web version of its iconic Photoshop app.
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Add an AI Code Copilot to your product using GPT-4
The AI Code Copilot has been replaced by the more powerful AI Chat feature.
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New antifungal therapy for fungal meningitis
A team of University of Minnesota Medical School researchers successfully tested a new antifungal therapy to treat fungal meningitis. The trial results were published today in the peer-reviewed journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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Reverse-Engineering YouTube: Revisited
Back in 2017 I wrote an article in which I attempted to explain how YouTube works under the hood, how it serves streams to the client, and also how you can exploit that knowledge to download videos from the site. The primary goal of that write-up was to…
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Implementing Wordle in the Firefox address bar
A version of Wordle that runs inside the Firefox address bar via abuse of the Opensearch spec.
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Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't (2019)
For those who don’t follow Swift’s development, ABI stability has been one of its most ambitious projects and possibly it’s defining feature, and it finally shipped in Swift 5 . The result is something I find endlessly fascinating, because I think Swift has pushed the notion of ABI stability farther than any language…