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Public Domain Day is today. I built this website to help you search through video in the public domain. It's always exciting when the new videos come into the public domain each ye…

When I am coding for a long time, my emotional state tends to reflect the code. If it's not compiling when I think it should, I get frustrated. If everything is acting predictably,…

I built this website because I love meeting new people, because I work from home, and I was tired of sitting on big Zoom calls where I couldn't get to know anybody. Here, events ar…

Like many of you, I am on hackernews all day long! This is a hack I put together to meet other people on HN. I built this website because I work from home, and I wanted to actually…

Is the article saying that the M1 is slower than we would have expected in this case? My understanding, based on the article, is that a normal processor, we would have expected arr…

This is a little R package I wrote for doing spaced repetition in R: https://www.dontyouremember.com/

It's crazy how similar pop music sounds from all over the world. The language differs, but the energy of the music is similar in a lot of different countries. I wonder if this is b…

Neat product. Looks like it needs a little polishing on the UI, otherwise looking forward to seeing what's coming next!

Is it really true that you should compress before you encrypt? IT seems to me that the encrypted message should have the same amount of "information entropy" as the original messag…