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Archives for 19 Aug 2024
  1. On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988)
    (168 points | Comments)

  2. HID Remapper
    (116 points | Comments)

  3. Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring
    (226 points | Comments)

  4. AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products
    (133 points | Comments)

  5. Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checker highlights mistakes
    (229 points | Comments)

  6. Appeals court finds California’s “Age Appropriate Design Code” unconstitutional
    (139 points | Comments)

  7. 'Rare species' not seen in the area for 50 years spotted on Arizona trail camera
    (183 points | Comments)

  8. 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted
    (618 points | Comments)

  9. Lenticular Clock
    (192 points | Comments)

  10. Transformers in music recommendation
    (211 points | Comments)

  11. Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
    (288 points | Comments)

  12. Client-side filtering of private data is a bad idea
    (141 points | Comments)

  13. The guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile
    (272 points | Comments)

  14. Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly
    (144 points | Comments)

  15. On finishing projects
    (228 points | Comments)

  16. Homebound: The Long-Term Rise in Time Spent at Home Among U.S. Adults
    (160 points | Comments)

  17. Migrating Mess with DNS to Use PowerDNS
    (147 points | Comments)

  18. DRAKON
    (213 points | Comments)

  19. Ask HN: How do you work as a tech lead?
    (118 points | Comments)

  20. LLMs know more than what they say
    (148 points | Comments)

  21. How Deep Can Humans Go?
    (139 points | Comments)

  22. The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud
    (456 points | Comments)

  23. Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping
    (267 points | Comments)

  24. Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes
    (102 points | Comments)

  25. Caltrain's new electric trains
    (101 points | Comments)

  26. Launch HN: Sorcerer (YC S24) – Weather balloons that collect more data
    (365 points | Comments)

  27. The Katsuification of Britain
    (111 points | Comments)

  28. Tales from the Far Side
    (168 points | Comments)

  29. Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet
    (296 points | Comments)

  30. Bit-banging a BASIC Birthday
    (116 points | Comments)

  31. What If Data Is a Bad Idea?
    (239 points | Comments)

  32. Parsing protobuf at 2+GB/s: how I learned to love tail calls in C (2021)
    (366 points | Comments)

  33. The Dying Computer Museum
    (121 points | Comments)

  34. Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"
    (164 points | Comments)

  35. Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
    (466 points | Comments)

  36. FindMy Flipper – AirTag and SmartTag Emulator
    (282 points | Comments)

  37. Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview
    (171 points | Comments)

  38. When Serial Isn't RS-232, Geocaching with the Garmin GPS 95
    (101 points | Comments)