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That’s the prevailing statistic, but your original number isn’t that wrong either: Humans can perceive much smaller latencies. If you look at the Card & Miller reference, at least …

My statement is not super constructive, but yes, I also really liked this article. Local-first, privacy, even the example of managing personal restaurant reviews. I don't have enou…

OP: ooooo, that's neat. Do you have a source? I struggled to find a source for even that $6,000 number.

OP: Perhaps it is, but this article honestly took me 12 months to research & write. I really struggled to find trustworthy sources. Do you know of any others I should look at? Also…

Totally agree; I had to cut a few sentences about that :). (I also tried to steel-man the paper as much as possible). Oddly enough, it seems like, although the value of "blind oper…

OP here: I always disliked touchscreens in cars, so I didn't understand why automakers kept shoving them in. I always assumed I was weird in some way, and that most consumers prefe…

OP here: I really enjoyed learning about the history of industrial design for this. I wanted to understand the parallels between software engineering and industrial design (well, c…

I've been using "Big noun pages" in my technical documentation for quite some time now, and I wanted to formally explain the concept to my teammates. Thus: this blog post! I hope y…

Perhaps this is a bit OT, since the article focuses more on self-development ("When training a muscle, you only get stronger with resistance"), but I wonder about the subtitle: > E…

Many languages have very complicated pluralization rules. For example, Russian has different plural forms for numbers ending in 2. That doesn't prevent a good translation framework…

I agree on all counts! Some generated music is basically indistinguishable at this point, which scares me. Also, kudos to HN’s title algorithm; it gave my article a punchier title.…

OP here: I thought it might be interesting to document how I (a random engineer) have been using AI day-to-day. I tried to ground everything with real examples, so you can judge fo…

I started writing this the day before TikTok shutdown, but I kept dwelling on it for months. How much should we archive? Why? The end result is TikTok will always be temporary . I …

I updated my terminals to play a quiet sound when they finish long-running commands, and it's saved me many hours of wasted time. I think modern software is missing a large opportu…

What a timely article! I've been thinking about writing something similar for a bit. I was doom-and-gloomy about how programming is more complicated now, but then friends pointed o…

I did that yesterday with a project: I took a Rust package that compiled a C project, then had the Rust project generate a C-compatible DLL that I could consume in dotnet. It was s…

Wow! Thanks for sharing. Sometimes I get disheartened about programming, then posts like this remind me how complicated the world actually is. And how much perseverance and elbow g…

There’s actually published evidence of exactly that! Where Do Security Policies Come From found that the websites with the most aggressive policies were those with the least incent…

What would be a good, more academic overview of computing history? Do you have any specific book recommendations? I'd love to read a more "citation-based" version.