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Show HN: Tiny – A 2D Game Engine in Kotlin Working with Lua
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Circles rolling on circles (2014)
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Plus Maths
Circles rolling on circles
Imagine a circle with radius 1 cm rolling completely along the circumference of a circle with radius 4 cm. How many rotations did the smaller circle make? Be prepared for a surprise!
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Sigils are an underappreciated programming technology
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Raku Advent Calendar
Day 20: Sigils are an underappreciated programming technology
Sigils have a bit of a bad reputation. According to their detractors, sigils are “just a way of encoding type information” in variable names – basically a glorified version of apps Hungarian notati…
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Research on harvesting electricity from humidity in the air
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Tech Xplore
Engineers harvest abundant clean energy from thin air, 24/7
A team of engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently shown that nearly any material can be turned into a device that continuously harvests electricity from humidity in the air. ...
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Three Investing Patterns That You Should Know
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Behavioral Value Investor
3 Investing Patterns That You Should Know
At the heart of investing is understanding why something is mis-priced
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On the RustConf Keynote
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blog.rust-lang.org
On the RustConf keynote | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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I Am No Longer Speaking at RustConf 2023
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The Pasture
I Am No Longer Speaking at RustConf 2023
I will no longer be speaking at RustConf 2023 about A (Possible) Future for Compile-Time Programming.What?The decision happened after I was reached out to by...
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GDP is the wrong tool for measuring what matters (2020)
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Scientific American
GDP Is the Wrong Tool for Measuring What Matters
It’s time to replace gross domestic product with real metrics of well-being and sustainability
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Open Source provided the path to achieve our publishing goals
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Systems Approach
Escape from Big Publishing
How Open Source provided the path to achieve our publishing goals
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The metaverse was never alive in the first place
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Fast Company
Hold the postmortem: The metaverse was never alive in the first place
People never really bought into the idea of the metaverse, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t interested in collaborative open worlds.
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Why Learn Compilers
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amasad.me
Why Learn Compilers
A sufficient understanding of computers is impossible without learning how compilers and their parts work. It is like stepping into the computer's mind and seeing how it feels from the inside. Compil...
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A chiral aperiodic monotile
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Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
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itch.io
Setris by msky-dev
Tetris + Falling Sand Game. Available for Windows, Linux
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How to hire a pop star for your private party
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The New Yorker
How to Hire a Pop Star for Your Private Party
For the very rich, even the world’s biggest performers—Beyoncé, Drake, Jennifer Lopez, Andrea Bocelli—are available, at a price.
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You can serve static data over HTTP
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ignore.pl
You Can Serve Static Data Over HTTP
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The UX Research Reckoning is Here
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Medium
The UX Research Reckoning is Here
UX Research is in trouble, we’re not pulling our weight, we’re losing our jobs because of it, and we can fix it.
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I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (2016)
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Jacob Davis-Hansson on Tech
I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know, I could never have guessed what happened next!
(Spoiler: trusting your contributors works)
Some years ago, I polished up and released an abandoned project for storing financial data in Django.
It let you declare “Money” fields on your models, dealing with proper storage and currencies for you.
My use…
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Ask HN: Tired of being a software engineer, what next?
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The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos
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The Verge
The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos that play nothing on purpose
It’s 24 hours long, it’s just a black screen, and it has 40 million views. WHAT.
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A peek inside Japan's largest “Dagashi” store
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One from Nippon
A peek inside Japan's largest Dagashi store
Every morning, 67-year Hideyuki Akiyama drives to his store along the rural roads of Okayama in Western Japan. Today is no different. A line of excited customers queuing up before the shutters are open.
“Disneyland isn’t our land of dreams, this is!” says…
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Macro-ts: TypeScript compiler with typesafe syntactic macros (2022)
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blainehansen.me
macro-ts: an ergonomic typescript compiler that enables typesafe syntactic macros
Statically typed languages really feel incomplete without true macros, so I hacked that functionality together for typescript.
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