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“There are people who can see and others who cannot even look”
The greatest early photographer's portraits of Hugo, Manet, Dumas, and more
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 668 posts.
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Recovering from AI addiction
Welcome to Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous! We’re glad you’ve found us, and we hope our community can be as helpful to you as it has been for us. ITAA is a Twelve-Step fellowship of individuals who support each other in recovering from internet and technology addiction. This includes social media addiction…
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If you care about security you might want to move the iPhone Camera app
There's a quirk in the iPhone Camera app that can drive a security conscious iPhone owner crazy: if you touch your finger on the Camera app ...
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I program on the subway
Ever since moving to New York City, I've found my time to be in more demand than ever. Between work, meetups, and social events, I have noticeably less time for side projects than I had before moving here. At the same time, my commute is a massive time suck. It's 30 minutes each way, which doesn't sound that bad, but…
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Eye prosthesis is the first to restore sight lost to macular degeneration
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.
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You can choose tools that make you happy
Stop falsifying your motivations.
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I kissed comment culture goodbye
It started out harmlessly, a comment on hacker news roughly 16 years ago.
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Kylie Minogue song about a typeface
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.
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I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years
A special appeal to support Res Obscura on its Crystal Anniversary
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Possibly a Serious Possibility
How 'lurking weasel' phrases skewed Cold War intelligence
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Slowness is a virtue
... at least when you're doing research, not development
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From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
After 15 years on macOS, I made the leap to Arch Linux using Omarchy. Here's what I discovered about the trade-offs, workflow changes, and why shorter battery life and fan noise haven't sent me back to my MacBook.
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Touching the back wall of the Apple store
Here's a dumb story. When I was in high school, my friends and I had a game we used to play at the mall: we would go into the Apple store and try to make it ...
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A simple habit that saves my evenings
As a software engineer, I often work on big tasks that require hours of continuous and focused work. However, we have plenty of meetings, colleagues asking us something in Slack, and lunch breaks. Add a colleague who comes to you and calls you for a cup of coffee if you work from the office. And usually, we don’t…
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My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4
I have been using a MacBook Pro M4 as my portable computer for the last half a year and wanted to share a few short impressions. As always, I am not a professional laptop reviewer, so in this article you won’t find benchmarks, just subjective thoughts!
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An opinionated critique of Duolingo
beyond the green owl, from streaks and potions to pedagogy and politics
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Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?
A while back I attended a Cloudflare board meeting and carried my laptop in a brown paper bag from a grocery store. This elicited a few com...
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Goodbye K-9 Mail
Looking back on 15 years of working on K-9 Mail.
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Things I want to say to my boss
A new anonymous essay published every day in December in the countdown to Christmas.
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Markdown is holding you back
Explore why Markdown, despite its ubiquity, might not be the best fit for technical content.
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Dave Täht has died
It is with heavy hearts that we report that Dave Täht has passed away.
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Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits
A friend recently asked how to get started watching Gundam, and as I tripped all over myself, equal parts excitement and not wanting to sound like a
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2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
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Isolating complexity is the essence of successful abstractions
Complexity has to live somewhere; but it does not have to live everywhere.