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As a tech worker with little knowledge about china, the most interesting section for me starts at "A summer storm" where he talks about why/how the government is cracking down on b…

Seems like he didn't have time to finish Advent of Code this year. I was looking forward to seeing his code for some of the puzzles I struggled with! While there are plenty of othe…

Beware that many masters programs from top schools are degree mills and the undergrads who went there know this and actively loathe them (based on their experience sharing classes …

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Amazon/salaries/Software-Engi...

I think people who are graduating now will have a hard time replicating this. My cohort (now in our early 30s, cs majors from a top school) were incredibly lucky because we were in…

>renamed Streamlabs OBS to Streamlabs Studio Ah that is a good outcome. I pessimistically thought this post was implying that OBS decided to "collaborate" by relenting to huge wads…

I recently read https://www.propublica.org/article/muscular-dystrophy-patien... because a random comment mentioned it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29468831

Since I don't use Find My Phone often enough, my Pixel 3 helpfully decided to remove location permissions from it. Would've been in for a surprise the next time I lose my phone had…

> Kernel developers obsess about speed and performance. The Linux kernel is built using -mregparm=3, which is sometimes called fastcall. I've never messed with calling convention f…

> Regardless, we decided weeks ago we’re removing the clause during the next ToS refresh I've seen you reply about ToS issues before (specifically over caching of non-html assets):…

If you're doing AoC you should join the subreddit /r/AdventOfCode: https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode There's usually a lot of different solutions (including many in esoteric la…

I think you can still see scores in search? Or is that only for old comments?

I used to have the Acer B326HK (32 inch 4k) which is marketed as a monitor and it still had really bad burn in

With 4k monitors you usually pay a larger premium for latency, refresh rate, gsync/freesync, etc. All of which gamers care a lot about but are irrelevant for TVs.

Daily two part puzzles, for one star each, 50 stars total. Second part is usually related to the first (but unknown until you solve the first) which makes you refactor or learn to …

If you're the competitive type, http://codeforces.com is also very good. You get an elo rating and they use chess titles (candidate master, master, grandmasters, etc). The lower di…

I wonder if there's an evolutionary reason for that preference or if this is just an edge case in our rewards system that never mattered until it became heavily exploited by other …

There's actually a current trend called "vtubing" where streamers use a virtual avatar, typically in anime style. Afaict, it's entirely dominated by women streamers (which is the o…

> I do know of two cases of "fake programmers" (...) the person was able to sneak under the radar at Google for multiple years before someone realized that the person never actuall…

Lisztomania was actually coined in 1844!

I didn't realize this was an American thing until I visited another country (Hong Kong, which is very first world) and the truck actually sped up as I was about to cross instead of…

callgrind/kcachegrind i think?

I didn't even realize it was unsolved. I thought it was like flying, where the pilot is only there during take off and landing, and the rest is handled by computers.

I even remember seeing her stuff linked to before in the other OnlyFans-related discussions on HN. It was this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fay6parYkrw (this post is …