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It really was a fun read. Highly recommend to any programmer!

I can't tell if you're joking or not. If you read HN ten years ago, you would hear about SICP and Lisp constantly. Makes sense when you consider who made this site.

I tend to agree. Group loads and stores isn't very RISCy to me. But then again, you could make the case that any x86 machine is RISC under the covers.

As someone who has spent time around Lajes Field, War Plan Gray is interesting seeing as how the U.S. de facto seized land on Terceira anyway. Much of my family came over around th…

This was the sentiment of everyone outside of SV when Altman was considering running for governor this year. I'm glad Sam actually cares about helping people, I really do, but it r…

Can you guys not do this, please? HN isn't Reddit. We try to maintain some semblance of effort and thoughtfulness into posting here.

You should read Turing's Cathedral if you are interested in Von Neumann's life.

He's also one of the preeminent minds in quantum computing. When Scott speaks he's worth listening to regardless of his mannerisms.

Judging by his resume... yes.

It's not the tone - it's the fact that one uses a natural disaster for self-promotion while the other does it to inform the populace about the extent of damage.

I wouldn't start with Chisel as there's a lack of good documentation online. When I used it for a Berkeley class, sometimes you would feel like you hit a wall. Verilog or SystemVer…

Thanks. Sometimes I feel like the "just use X" folks don't really think about the problem at hand, not to mention how trivializing it can be. And this is coming from a Rust fan and…

They do. But I would like to see homeless populations as a percentage of the whole population before making a judgement. I would still expect the US to have a larger percentage but…

My 1995 Jeep Cherokee is the reason why I'm weary of too much electronics in cars. And I'm a serial electronics tinkerer. Need a new engine? Do it yourself. Need a new alternator? …

Please, please, please do this!

Perhaps we should revisit the idea of a political detox? I for one have been noticing the signal-to-noise ratio on HN has been lowering over the past year. Discussions have become …

Unfortunately, this is where we are in 2017. For many companies and people, contributing to open source has nothing to do with the Stallman concept of "freedom" - it has everything…

Imagine? With wasm, I'm afraid you won't have to imagine in a few years...

Yeah he's everywhere. I remember that NYT did a featurette on their top commenters and he's actually Chelsea Handler's brother.

Sent an email :)

Note: Susskind has a follow up - Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum . https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18210750-quantum-mechani...

Quantum Computation and Quantum Information by Nielsen and Chuang is the standard introduction to quantum computing. Besides that, you can find some old CS191 Vazirani lectures on …

We've rehashed the debate over the utility of the dragon book in the 21st century so many times on HN that I'm not going to comment on it's usefulness. (Search if interested) But, …

You can see it in the Rust community. So much of the focus has been on http servers instead of codecs, operating systems, daemons, file systems, etc.

I've always been confused as to why Chicago isn't more of a tech hub. Great city, great people, cheap housing, good transportation (by US standards), good schools, etc. Are the Goo…