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Thank you for your valuable comment! As an autodidact I do buy books on various fields that interest me and I'm always looking for comments such as yours that can give me more info…

How many Blurays are we talking about?

Thanks for all your efforts on pikuma.com, huge fan here. Can you share what kind of ideas you're mulling for the direction of the site?

I had no idea about any of this! Thank you for sharing this!

A light weight journaling of your learnings as you go along would probably be real beneficial to many (such as myself who has zero knowledge on the subject of DAWs and creating mus…

Come on, somebody at Adobe spill the beans. Who was responsible for this debacle?

Since you’re already done creating your hardware product instead of thinking of a new product to follow up with, I would suggest a new business model: there are probably a non-zero…

I agree. In fact you should make a (YouTube?) video showing the slide rule and how to use it and your grandfather’s history to preserve this bit of history for your family and fami…

this is gold! “Click to keep avoiding work …”

quite an interesting list of books for 2025. I’ll have to get some of these to read. Especially the Information theory one above and the one you mentioned in your review.

1. Why Machines Learn - Anil Ananthaswamy Fantastic exposition of machine learning. The author does an amazing job of bringing a technical subject down to an easily readable level.…

Top 1 or top 1-3 book you read this year (2025) that you would recommend to the HN community? Note: book itself doesn't need to have been published in 2025.

Same with the Stanford university bookstore. Was one of the better bookstores in the Bayarea. Used to have a whole room of technical, science, math books. It too is a shadow of its…

One course per semester might be doable? Not sure how frequently the assignments are due because you could probably carve out some time over the weekends.

i bought a compilers book that was an Indian edition. The paper and print quality was so bad (like smudgy) that I could not read it and I didn’t think I was particularly picky abou…

Wow, this is so cool that you did this and this showed up right now. There was an online book (soon to be published) by Xavier Leroy on the history of control mechanisms in program…

ratfactor - you’re doing God’s work by teaching us how to tackle the demon that is the fitted sheet!

BBC's Jeremy Bowen was on the Jordanian aid-dropping plane yesterday or day before. "He was told by the Jordanians that Israel did not want our crew to film outside the plane's win…

I think if you were to write a post (or better yet a video) to demonstrate your usage of your workflow, that would be a great resource! I love working in M-x shell but your workflo…

How does one go about finding an apprenticeship electrician position? Is that the regular path in this profession? Become an apprentice first?

Also as an uncle to a 3 year old, I could not believe a 3 year old could know the names and pronunciations! of 2x far more dinosaurs than me!

I’ve been using emacs for many years and I had no idea you can bookmark files let alone bookmark remote files! Thanks for educating me today!

Exact same sentiment - scariest drive I’ve done, but this was in Maui, diving back from Hana at night. I’ve never driven in such pitch black darkness before with hairpin turns.

Where can one see the list of best ranked HN posts?