850
408
Reasons not to become famous
https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/
6 years ago
714
246
Linux 5.6 is the most exciting kernel in years
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-56-features&num=1
502
190
I ordered a box of boxes from The Packaging Wholesalers via Amazon.ca
https://twitter.com/meslin/status/1225834920611848192
410
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Trying to sneak in a sketchy .so over the weekend
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2020/02/09/horizonta/
339
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Building Firefox's Picture-in-Picture Support
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/01/how-we-built-picture-in-picture-in-firefox-desktop/
319
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Living without a SIM card
https://habd.as/post/living-without-sim-card/
307
46
Lessons learned from writing ShellCheck
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=859
298
91
Ask HN: What are the underrated newsletters you like reading?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22280939
285
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Dopamine and Temporal Difference Learning
https://deepmind.com/blog/article/Dopamine-and-temporal-difference-learning-A-fruitful-relationship-between-neuroscience-and-AI
279
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Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)
https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-own-highend-cloud-gaming-service-on-ec2.html
240
Blender GIS
https://github.com/domlysz/BlenderGIS
★ 8.9k Python GPL-3.0– 6 years ago
217
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Learning technical writing using the engineering method (2016) [pdf]
https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/learn.pdf
213
37
Who Did This? (2017)
https://www.etymonline.com/columns/post/bio
209
50
Contextualise: Manage your knowledge
https://github.com/brettkromkamp/contextualise
★ 1k Python MIT– 6 years ago
207
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How to grip a pen?
https://mlu.red/muse/52609266310.html
200
30
Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra (2019) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo
180
Stacked Borrows: An Aliasing Model for Rust
https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/stacked-borrows/
253
Google's expansion plans show why Canada's tech boom is here to stay
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/google-canada-expansion-analysis-1.5455122
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Frankenstein Veto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_veto
163
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How the JPL works to secure its missions from adversaries
https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/09/the-war-against-space-hackers-how-the-jpl-works-to-secure-its-missions-from-nation-state-adversaries/
162
110
Rollerball pens that use fountain pen ink
https://unsharpen.com/rollerball-pen-fountain-pen-ink/
148
47
Alpine.js: A minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup
https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine
★ 31.4k HTML MIT– 6 years ago
99
What does happiness at work mean?
https://adlrocha.substack.com/p/adlrocha-what-does-happiness-at-work
146
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A moon landing in 2024? NASA says it'll happen
https://www.wclk.com/post/moon-landing-2024-nasa-says-itll-happen-others-say-no-way
145
42
An optimization to help code compilation times on big CPUs
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Pipe-Parallel-Job-Opt
142
13
Single div Sierpinski triangle
https://yuanchuan.dev/single-div-sierpinski-triangle
141
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Flashsort
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashsort
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Flang: The Fortran frontend of LLVM [video]
https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/llvm_flang/
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Storm Ciara helps plane beat transatlantic flight record
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-51433720
125
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Who’s in charge at Amazon? Moves on secretive S Team signal giant’s priorities
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/whos-in-charge-at-amazon-moves-on-secretive-s-team-signal-tech-giants-priorities/
80
Librem 5 phone shows the cost of being different
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/librem-5-phone-hands-on-a-proof-of-concept-for-the-open-source-smartphone/
119
How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporary x86?
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/13611/how-much-better-was-dec-alpha-than-contemporary-x86
17
Diffing Coronaviruses
https://jameshfisher.com/2020/02/09/diffing-coronaviruses/
118
Creating Org mode sparse trees in Emacs and organice
https://200ok.ch/posts/2020-02-09_creating_org_mode_sparse_trees_in_emacs_and_organice.html
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How to detect web bots?
https://antoinevastel.com/javascript/2020/02/09/detecting-web-bots.html
112
A half century ago, better transistors revolutionized computer power supplies
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/a-half-century-ago-better-transistors-and-switching-regulators-revolutionized-the-design-of-computer-power-supplies
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Clang vs. other open-source compilers
https://clang.llvm.org/comparison.html
109
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The Eiffel programming language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_(programming_language)
108
89
Ask HN: What are your war stories for converting teams to remote?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22282205
107
33
A hybrid thread / fiber task scheduler written in C++ 11
https://github.com/google/marl
★ 1.9k C++ Apache-2.0– 6 years ago
105
22
Debian 10.3
https://www.debian.org/News/2020/20200208
97
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ROCA: Resource-oriented Client Architecture – an alternative to SPAs
http://roca-style.org/
100
Ask HN: How do I find investors?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22284025
18
Jupyter Notebooks to Web App
https://github.com/ChristianFJung/NotebookToWebApp/blob/master/article.md
★ 119 Jupyter Notebook – 6 years ago
90
38
Thinking About Recursion
https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/ThinkingAboutRecursion.html
68
Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors (2016)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-who-marries-whom/
83
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Technical debt and tacking into the wind (2013)
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/technical-debt-and-tacking-into-the-wind
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Cyborgs and Space (1960) [pdf]
http://web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/Documents/Chapter1/cyborgs.pdf
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Nontrivially fillable gaps in published proofs of major theorems
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19
Wrestling Python into LLVM Intermediate Representation (2019) [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99bqotoBKu4
71
Simlish, the language that defined The Sims
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/7/21126705/the-sims-simlish-language-history-20th-anniversary-game
82
Interview with Simon Peyton Jones (2018)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/functional-programming-languages-pursuit-laziness-dr-simon-peyton-jones/