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Mechanical Watch
Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,153 posts.
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Google Search Is Dying
(There is good discussion on this article on Hacker News and Reddit)
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My First Impressions of Web3
Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than ...
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Sound
Interactive article explaining how sound works.
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GPS
Interactive article explaining how GPS works.
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Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules
The first open-source release of GPU kernel modules for the Linux community helps improve NVIDIA GPU driver quality and security.
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Someone is pretending to be me
One random day - someone spills the beans. They were picked to impersonate me and get a job using my information.
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Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
Legendary games, immersive interactive entertainment and publishing expertise accelerate growth in Microsoft’s Gaming business across mobile, PC, console and cloud. REDMOND, Wash. and Santa Monica, Calif. – Jan. 18, 2022 – With three billion people actively playing games today, and fueled by a new generation steeped…
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Meta lays off 11,000 people
Mark Zuckerberg shares some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history.
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Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT
Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard of this new ChatGPT assistant made by OpenAI. Did you know, that you can run a whole virtual machine inside of ChatGPT?
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I regret my website redesign
Mistakes I made working with my first design agency.
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After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel
Many companies have been trying to disrupt email by making it proprietary. So far, they have failed. Email keeps being an open protocol. Hurray? No hurray. Email is not distributed anymore. You just cannot create another first-class node of this ne
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We lost 54k GitHub stars
What we learned from losing a decade of stargazers and watchers, the biggest accidental community loss in open source history.
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But life had other plans
In May 2021 I took a sabbatical to take care of family, but things did not go as planned.
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Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
We’ve trained and are open-sourcing a neural net called Whisper that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.
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Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass
David Schütz's bug bounty writeups
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Apple previews Lockdown Mode
Apple today detailed two initiatives to help protect users who may be personally targeted by sophisticated digital threats.
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Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
The Wirecutter’s review of the IKEA air purifier is a mishmash of scientific errors, shoddy testing, and self-contradictory logic.
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We are removing the option to create new subscriptions
In order to store less data we will no longer accept NEW PayPal and Credit card subscriptions (recurring payments). One-time payments are not affected.
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4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything
In our world, we can do anything that we want to do here. Any old thing. - Bob Ross, The Joy Of Painting Season 29 Episode 1
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Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used
Design lessons from an industrial supply company
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I got pwned by my cloud costs
I have been, and still remain, a massive proponent of "the cloud". I built Have I Been Pwned [https://haveibeenpwned.com/] (HIBP) as a cloud-first service that took advantage of modern cloud paradigms such as Azure Table Storage to massively drive down costs at crazy levels of performance I
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The Floppotron 3.0
After a long time it’s time for a big upgrade of my computer hardware orchestra. Here it is! The bigger and better Floppotron 3.0. 512 floppy disk drives, 4 scanners and 16 hard disk drives.
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Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx
With profound gratitude for his contributions to both F5 and the Internet at large, we announce that Igor Sysoev, author of NGINX and co-founder of NGINX, Inc., is retiring to spend time with friends and family and work on personal projects. Спасибо, Игорь.
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maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps
For as long as I can remember, maps.google.com was the defacto domain for Google Maps. Also for as long as I can remember, I allowed this domain to use the location services of my browser.
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Stable Diffusion 2.0
The open source release of Stable Diffusion version 2.0.