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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 7,743 posts.
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Organic Lawn Care For the Cheap and Lazy
Lawn care simplified. Have the best looking lawn on your block with less mowing, less watering and less money. The cheapest lawn care AND the laziest lawn care.
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Joys of small game development
Game development serves as a vibrant canvas for one's creativity. Especially when focusing on small games, which are simple to create and instantly enjoyable, one can quickly immerse oneself in their allure. Through this article, I aim to delve into the joy of crafting small games.
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Solving SICP
This report is written as a post-mortem of a project that has, perhaps, been the author’s most extensive personal project: creating a complete and comprehensive solution to one of the most fa…
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The case for building something wonderful alone
I’ve been building Derw alone since sometime last year.
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Relax for the same result (2015)
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Static sites enable a good time travel experience
A static site with version control history enables me to travel into any point in the project’s past and serve the site as it was back in the day.
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Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned
Milton Glaser (b.1929) is among the most celebrated graphic designers in the United States. He opened Milton Glaser, Inc. in 1974, and continues to produce an astounding amount of work in many fields of design to this day.
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This One Hurts: Dr. Walter Bortz on Dr. John McCarthy
John McCarthy died four days ago. He was 84. His obit in the “New York Times” made specific reference to his generally attributed parenthood of artificial intelligence. John was my good…
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Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?
Or, the case against hosted blogging options. More and more I find myself reading articles on blog networks, and by networks I mean Medium.
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Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …
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Profession by Isaac Asimov (1957)
Profession , copyright ©1957 by Street and Smith Publications, Inc., from ISAAC ASIMOV: THE COMPLETE STORIES OF VOL. 1 by Isaac Asimov. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. For on-line information about other Random House, Inc. books and authors, see the Internet Web site at…
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Comfy Software: A software aesthetic for hackers with depression
A software aesthetic for hackers with depression.
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Magnesium Self-Experiments
3 magnesium self-experiments on magnesium ʟ-threonate and magnesium citrate.
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Kropotkin's 'The Conquest of Bread'
A blog containing essays, of varying cogency, about various things that my mind have wandered to.
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A Diablo 3 Story
TLDR: I made about 100 000 euro from Diablo 3 in exactly 1 year. Below I will tell you in great detail how. I want to dedicate thi...
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Solve Less General Problems
Two decades ago when I first started working at Avid, one of the tasks I was assigned was porting our product (a consumer video editor - th...
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Why do drum sets have descending toms?
Before mic’ing became a necessity, acoustic drums were just that: acoustic. And when they needed to be louder, drum manufacturers made them bigger and longer. That led to some diameter and de…
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My solar-powered and self-hosted website
How I built a solar-powered, self-hosted website with a Raspberry Pi to explore sustainable, local-first web hosting.
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Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)
One of the most useful lessons I learned from working at Facebook had nothing to do with technology: Doubt the media. Always doubt the…
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Personal computing paves the way for personal library science
How the past of Personal Computing gives us a hint into the future of Personal Library Science
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How to Learn JavaScript Properly
Learn JavaScript Properly (For Beginners and Experienced Programmers) This study guide, which I also refer to as a course outline and a road map, gives you a structured and instructive...
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True Surprise
How many true surprises are there in life? This was the question I asked Mrs. Bastard when she was pregnant with our first child and wanted ...
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South Pole Topography
The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.