Starring the Computer 17 days agoSneakers.https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/95izj7/sneake... 0ThreadHN
Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment 2 months agoSimilar to PayU.https://czech.payu.com/en/ 0ThreadHN
More Mac malware from Google search 5 months agohttps://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/detections/osx-atomicsteal... 0ThreadHN
WBlock: A New Ad-Blocker for Safari 8 months agohttps://apps.apple.com/nl/app/wblock/id6746388723 0ThreadHN
Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024) 1 year agoMore context:https://eieio.games/blog/the-secret-inside-one-million-check... 0ThreadHN
Why Understanding Software Cycle Time Is Messy, Not Magic 1 year agoHofstadter's law. :-)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law 0ThreadHN
Ask HN: What are some good resources for coding best practices? 1 year agoWhat I found helpful early in my career:Book: Code Complete - Steve McConnellhttps://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Cons...A bit dated maybe, but still very informative! 0ThreadHN
Which year: guess which year each photo was taken 1 year agoWhen I press "All Times Stats", I see "Games Played: 2". But I only played today. Off-by-one error? 0ThreadHN
Austral: A Systems Language with Linear Types and Capabilities (2022) 1 year agoEarlier discussion:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34168452 0ThreadHN
Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug 2 years agoReminds me of part 2 of day24. Some wrong wirings. ;-)https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/24 0ThreadHN
Doom Running on a Toothbrush 2 years agohttps://www.evowera.com/en/html/mini_person_norm.html 0ThreadHN
Coroutines in C (2000) 2 years agoFrom the same author: Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collectionhttps://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ 0ThreadHN
Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000) 2 years agohttps://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/video-audio/Noorderlicht... 0ThreadHN
A Fork() in the Road [pdf] 3 years ago(2019)Interesting paper!Previous discussions:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19621799 (178)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13251686 (18)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709802 (16) 0ThreadHN
The Development of the C Language (2003) 3 years ago(1993)A real classic!https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36652934 0ThreadHN
Are any words the same in all languages? 3 years agoWhat about "Opera"?It's the first word that I use in 4 different language "wordle" games. 0ThreadHN
Burger King faces legal claim over size of Whopper 3 years agoReminds me of the Hamburger Scene in Falling Down.https://youtu.be/zJs9p-VNORw 0ThreadHN
Compromised Microsoft key: More impactful than we thought 3 years agoHardware Security Module (HSM). 0ThreadHN
Ask HN: Is Moore's Law over, or not? 3 years agoTSMC: Moore's Law is not Dead.https://www.tsmc.com/english/news-events/blog-article-201908... 0ThreadHN
Knuth and McIlroy Approach a Problem (2021) 3 years agoSee also:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3329668https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18699342 0ThreadHN
Byte Magazine Volume 06 Number 09 – Artificial Intelligence (1981) 3 years agoAlso has Tony Hoare's "The Emperor's Old Clothes" on page 414.https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/358549.358561 0ThreadHN
NeXT Computers 3 years agoWhy was Doom developed on a NeXT?https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Doom-developed-on-a-NeXT/answe... 0ThreadHN
Billions for wind and solar. Good luck plugging them in 3 years agoThe power grid situation is not much better here in The Netherlands.https://nltimes.nl/2022/08/04/dutch-power-grid-overloaded-pl... 0ThreadHN
John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ (2018) 3 years agoThis should probably have 2012 (instead of 2018) in the title.[1] https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/in-depth-functiona... 0ThreadHN