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Learning to code is still worthwhile
Literally no one is uttering what we thought were the immortal lines “learn to code,” right? I don't think that sentence has been spoken for many months now in Silicon Valley
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 662 posts.
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Reverse engineering my ADHD test
I decided to get evaluated for ADHD. Curiousity struck, and I had the bright idea to capture the page source and any outbound requests.
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Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
I think I’ve finally pinpointed why it is that I have an allergic reaction when I’m confronted with a text that has me as the intended recipient, but that has been run through an LLM to change or “clean up” the wording - especially if it’s internal communication or even direct communication. Well, at the very least, I…
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I also filed the corners off my MacBook
Modify your tools more!
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Person of Interest
A few days ago, I started watching Person of Interest, and I haven’t been able to stop. Aside from the fact that the show feels even more relevant today than...
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Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
A sad look at the state of modern programming books.
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I Stopped “Creating Content”
Why did we all start talking about content, traffic, distribution, and conversions?
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I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling
A brief explanation of my pessimism about efforts to radically improve education.
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Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place
6. Snow is heavier than you think. You might think physical strength is useful for lots of things, like overall health or familiar household tasks or picking up dudes (literally or metaphorically.)…
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An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
It's been a few months since my post on leaving Gmail which sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Here's an update on how things have been going after my move to Fastmail.
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I Love the Computer
An exploration of how I became a massive geek.
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Design Thinking Books (2024)
An updated list of design thinking books and papers to understand the principles underpinning the design thinking process and its practice.
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But yak shaving is fun (2019)
KO | EN | Discussions on HN Alexandr frolov (CC BY-SA 4.0) This blog doesn’t use a static site generator or framework like Jekyll, Hugo, or Gatsby. I tried a few of them at first, but they gave me too little freedom to customize, so I decided to build the blog myself. Early on I just wrote posts in ...
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The user is visibly frustrated
In this article, I try to understand why coding agents can be infuriating to use. I think the problem is their conversational UX: they behave enough like helpful colleagues to trigger our social instincts, but they don't learn, adapt, or take responsibility the way people do, which makes their repeated mistakes feel…
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How I'm fighting the AI brain fry
If you work with Claude Code or Codex from the terminal, you know this one.
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Exit the Cave
Ain’t it fun, livin’ in the real world?
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Why I Write (1946)
"What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."
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25 Years of Eggs
Two AI agents, 11,345 receipts, and 1.6 billion tokens to find out what I’ve spent on eggs since 2001.
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I wanna live an NPC life
the general consensus around being an npc is that you’re giving up your autonomy—essentially becoming a side character in someone else's story or watching li...
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Canceling "Hey"
cancelling-my-hey - Chad Nauseam Home
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Perfection is not over-engineering
The industry conflates perfection with over-engineering. They're not the same. Over-engineering is solving the wrong problem; a perfect solution exists once the requirements are clear.
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Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research
if you want to do world-class research, temperament matters more than talent
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Some Unusual Trees
One of my favorite pastimes is exploring old bookstores.
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First Principles Thinking
On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly.
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Design is compromise
Compromise is neither good nor bad, it’s something we do every day. It’s decision making. Prioritizing. It’s finding the right balance between two competing ...
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Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis
Introducing Hegel, our new family of property-based testing libraries.
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