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It's been fun to see her steady rise since she first appeared on Numberphile more than ten years ago. She's a really excellent communicator of math and science. https://www.youtube…

There's a Firefox extension called Old Reddit Redirect which automatically sends you to old Reddit. It works great!

Well said! After a few years of LLM sycophancy convincing laypeople they've managed to make progress on or fully crack famous math problems it's satisfying to see a world-class mat…

As I recall there wasn't an abundance of notice of Pivotal Tracker's sunset, but I did kind of expect someone to come up with a more 1:1 open-source replacement with a one-step mig…

> Pivotal Labs RIP Pivotal Tracker, and thank you for your involvement! It was a nice piece of software.

Interesting, I hadn't considered that! You're probably right.

Hah, wow. A post with an ID under 10k. Meanwhile this one is over 47M. I didn't realize I've been reading HN nearly its whole existence. For all my complaining about what's happene…

This is the coolest place! I'm so sad to see they're in financial distress. As a kid I would browse their website endlessly, just fascinated by all the weird stuff. It scratched th…

> ...getting insecure or jealous of all the other social connections that your extrovert friends have. There’s an asymmetry there that can feed lots of insecurities. I wouldn't swe…

You and I are what Kurt Vonnegut called Bashers: > Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixi…

Funny, I just checked up on the status of this project yesterday! I've been on the lookout for a personal CRM for a long time and have had my eye on Monica for months. It looks rea…

Yes! I'm sure I'm not using it anywhere close to its full potential, but just being able to two-finger tap a link to open it in a new tab is huge. What are your favorite shortcuts?…

This is a fantastic analogy for something which has bothered me for years! One example which comes to mind is pushback received on a pull request for a cron job. This script did so…

It's similar, but not quite a binary search. Imagine you have a book and you're trying to determine if a certain page number exists or if it's been torn out. You know the order, as…

Sure, there is one airplane but that's hardly revolutionary. A couple of guys can fly a few dozen feet. So what?

As I recall, one of the clinchers was his use of the phrase, "you can’t eat your cake and have it too" as opposed to the now-predominant variant "you can’t have your cake and eat i…

I suspect it's part of an effort to push back against the overwhelming number of thoughtless "listicles" which seem to dominate the internet. I'm planning a trip abroad right now a…

Interesting take. This reminds me of when people say that hate CGI in movies. What they really mean is they hate bad or noticeable CGI—a huge portion of CGI is stuff we don't even …

A lot of people say they left a job too late. Not many say they left one too early. I think you know that you are still in the midst of burnout. If you can go a few months without …

> Not sure how this feature made its way in. It's possible the language was just following usage rather than leading it. Regardless of whether or not it's right, I commonly see som…

I've seen the same hack done with `switch (true)` in pre-PHP8 code (and other languages) as well.

I've never heard of F3 so I can't compare and contrast, but Slim is definitely my go-to for projects like the one you describe. Just enough boilerplate to handle the basics, but no…

I'm fuzzy on the details as it's been 5+ year since I looked at it, but it wasn't as simple as that. I think it may have been that it worked over HTTP but not HTTPS, and/or they di…

I ran into a number of finicky issues building siftrss[1] a few years back. One I toiled over quite a bit was the discovery that Feedly, a very popular feed reader, does not suppor…

Those aren't funded by taxpayers like libraries are.