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Hacker, writer, dad; eating pixels, crapping fun.

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gist.github.com 1mo ago

How to find Intel-based apps that might be triggering macOS warning popups

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duso.rocks 3mo ago

Duso

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en.wikipedia.org 4mo ago

Thagomizer

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www.justice.gov 5mo ago

New Epstein files just dropped; data set 9 has no archive

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bsky.app 1y ago

There Is a Monster in the Forest

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fietkau.software 1y ago

Client-side QR code generator with SVG output

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docs.github.com 2y ago

GitHub wants to know where you live by 19 Aug 2024

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retool.com 2y ago

Pipe Dreams: The Life and Times of Yahoo Pipes

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www.tomshardware.com 3y ago

Retro TechTuber Adds Ancient PC ISA Slot via Modern TPM Header

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www.fastcompany.com 4y ago

Tome wants to bring work presentations into the social media age

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

Obituary: Dame Diana Rigg

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en.wikipedia.org 6y ago

Principle of Least Astonishment

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en.wikipedia.org 6y ago

Buckeye Bullet

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github.com 6y ago

Show HN: Twitter Setting Saver

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geekdad.com 6y ago

The American Tabletop Awards

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archive.org 8y ago

Drawing Made Easy (1935)

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www.theverge.com 8y ago

Amazon Is Adapting William Gibson’s the Peripheral into a TV Series

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gist.github.com 9y ago

How to Delete Your LiveJournal Account Without Agreeing to their New TOS

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slifty.github.io 9y ago

Internet Noise

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kentbrew.com 9y ago

Analyzing the 2016 Election by Equipment and Results

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gist.github.com 9y ago

How to tell if your Chrome browser extension has WebExtensions support

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gist.github.com 9y ago

How to recreate your long-lost Pinterest bookmarklet

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mobile.twitter.com 10y ago

When you turn 50 at GitHub, they take you out behind the barn and shoot you

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medium.com 10y ago

How Handshakes Predict How Fast You Ship

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decider.com 10y ago

Howard the Duck: An Oral History

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weeklysift.com 11y ago

Slavery Lasted Until Pearl Harbor

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www.thebarnpresents.com 11y ago

Grateful Dead 50 Chicago Ticket Price Analysis

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gist.github.com 11y ago

Signing a Self-Hosted Auto-Updating Firefox Extension Under the New Regime

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blockchain.info 11y ago

DPR's payments to Redandwhite for five murders

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: T-Mobile data cap warnings?

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Leaving Mozilla 1 month ago

That would be JR Conlin, national treasure. Worked with him on YDN in 2007 and Netflix in 2009; veterans of the Netflix API team will never forget his hack day entry, which was "Mac and Me" playing on a toaster oven.

Duso 4 months ago

Most languages prioritize human expressiveness and can be challenging for AI. Duso is intentionally boring and predictable. No clever syntax tricks. No multiple ways to do the same thing. Every pattern is consistent and straightforward so AI can reason about code reliably, write better scripts faster, and use fewer tokens doing it.

Thagomizer 4 months ago

Last night I heard Morgan Freeman solemnly intone the word "thagomizer" on Episode 2 of Netflix's The Dinoosaurs, and simultaneously felt very old but also very good.

Data sets 10 and 11 have zip archives; no archive available for data set 9. And no idea how many pages are actually in here; I'm in the 6000s and climbing with no end in sight.

Some pages, like this one:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-9-f...

... all show the same set of files, starting with EFTA00039025.pdf and ending with EFTA00039881.pdf. This is the same page you get when you ask for page 0.

Not sure how to find the end of this dataset ... setting up the server to supply an infinite number of busted Next links with something important on page 8675309 seems like a fine way to keep things hidden.

Eat Real Food 7 months ago

Beef <= cows <= corn <= fertilizer <= oil. It always circles back to oil.

Why Self-Host? 10 months ago

Small typo: under Calendar and Contacts, "let's other" looks like it wants to be "let others."

Truth: "PureGym probably has a roadmap, sprint planning, and very good reasons for not implementing Apple Wallet. Maybe it's not a priority. Maybe they have data showing only 0.3% of users would use it. Maybe their KPIs are based on the number of online classes previewed in the app, and forcing users to see them every time the app loads secures someone's annual bonus."

That's a code smell. If you're creating the element you ought to already know about it. If you're not creating the element you should inventory them all at once as the page (or component) loads.