Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 8,939 posts.
In a Stanford Medicine-led clinical trial of a wireless retinal prosthesis, people with advanced macular degeneration regained enough vision to read books and subway signs.
Yes, *that* kind of microphone -- the kind that are most commonly known to be used by employees of the military industrial complex.
A blog, notes, gallery, lifestyle and fully conglomerated posts from Joshua.
A few months ago, I decided to move all of my content over to Medium. If you aren't aware, Medium is a new content platform designed for readers and...
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 ...
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”…
A simple rule that every good, veteran programmer seems to follow with respect to managing their time.
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
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
I stumbled across a broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Art lens for a very cool $58.65 USD that I simply could not resist. I've been eyeing an AF lens in the 50mm range for my recent endeavors with L-mount cameras and this looked like the perfect fit. This lens is commonly found as a kit with the very excellent full-frame Sigma…
Stop falsifying your motivations.
After years working as a Software Engineer I wanted to make my dreams come true, so I quit my desk job to spend my life adventuring around the world. I gambled that I would be able to scrape together a meagre living while enjoying a life I had dreamed of. After driving 40,000 miles through 17 countries from Alaska to…
Welcome to zombocom… you can do anything at zombocom… anything at all… the only limit… is yourself…
As I write this, I have been off of caffeine for two years. I had my last caffeinated beverage on August 13, 2015. Here are my experiences with quitting caffeine and what I’ve learned:
Why do some English plurals end in "en" instead of "s"?
It started out harmlessly, a comment on hacker news roughly 16 years ago.
Jamie lives in a large city in the midwest. He's a copywriter for an advertising firm, and he's good at it. He's also good at thinking of reasons why he ought to be happy with his life. He has hea...
I was struck by this passage in Steven Pinker’s article about why academics’ writing stinks :
I’ve been getting a little obsessed with chili oil. A little…lost in the sauce so to speak. Here’s some notes and general thoughts on chili oil.
The trigger
alanarnette.com is a site covering big mountain climbing including Everest, K2, and the 7 summits. All based on Alan's experience including Everest in 2011 and the oldest American at 58 to summit K2 in 2014.
I grew up knowing how to play music. My parents started me on piano lessons when I was very young, and played violin in middle and high…
Unattributed is a former IT person, discovering life after work.
Coding diabetic technology
Whitney Mallett dives into the recent history of German Bold Italic (GBI), a 1997 song by Towa Tei's featuring Kylie Minogue, who sang from the perspective of a new typeface.
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
One of today’s best bloggers in the functional programming space is Chris Penner . Despite this, Chris is criminally underrated—nobody I talk to seems to know of his work. Go check him out as soon as you finish reading this post!
