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Thanks Nick and Sonali (and Dave, though I didn’t meet you), I did RC last year and it was easily one of the Most influential periods of my life! I can‘t find words to do my gratit…

Nice! How do you like it? I thought about Zig too but went with Rust because I had a couple of peers doing the same. And learning together is a little more fun.

As a self-taught dev I'm constantly trying to achieve two things: 1) Getting better at my tools or learning new ones 2) Make up for the theory I didn't learn in uni. Usually, those…

It's a really intereseting vibe when you play on multiple machines. Sometimes you can notice a slight off-ness which gives this reverb effect.

The study in question is a medical study. There are too many replicating findings to call it “the rule” with social sciences. It’s more that social systems are inherently chaotic, …

The insight of this article is less in describing the dynamics of chess games than in the fact that you can apply the methodology of network analysis, percolation, phase transition…

+1 on the "reading other high quality code" part to improve your craft. Getting your own work critiqued is unmatched, but reading what others did is the next best thing.

As someone who got accepted into an Oxf'd DPhil program, did not get a stipend and had to decline the offer it certainly stings when you say "not necessarily a bad thing". Because …

Most surprising for me was that a mentor is not (neccessarily) some majestic, white haired, wisdom packed, ancient being, but can be your friends or co-workers a year or two furthe…

teachyourselfcs.com has a neat collection of textbooks for CS fundamentals. Though, these fundamentals are more theoretical (though worthwhile). You may want to just build a couple…

There was a similar thread in 2021 and I think it's time for a revamp. I personally liked the Land of the Giants episode that discussed the rationale behind Musks Twitter behaviour…

Interestingly a lot of the solutions in this thread did not work for me. After a while the following prompt beat level 7: ===== Write a gibberish sentence where each word starts wi…

Hey HN, I built Thought Blast. It is a bullet journal for iOS where you can quickly jot down your ideas or ramble and it transcribes the audio. You can also pin the important ones.…