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dynamic_sausageon Unofficial Winamp Web Site

If you are interested in foobar-like players for Linux, DeaDBeeF may be worth looking into.

dynamic_sausageon Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN?

> You're probably not going to get any actionable, meaningful information from news sources like those, especially day to day.

Not day to day perhaps, but I did once learn from the news that a certain French airline company had just gone bankrupt. This was about a month before I intended to fly with them, so I had enough time to rebook the tickets, avoiding the stress and additional expenses. Learning about this bankruptcy in time was very helpful, as the company did not care enough to send a warning email to its customers, so if it were not for the breaking news headline, I would have to buy the replacement tickets on a much shorter notice.

Skimming through the headlines can pay off in some unexpected ways, and does not take too much time/effort.

dynamic_sausageon Ask HN: Best solutions for keeping a personal log?

Speaking of vim, vimwiki [1] is a really nice plugin similar to orgmode. It uses markdown-like syntax and has a diary mode. It also supports cross-file and in-file links, tables, formulas in latex, exporting vimwiki pages to html, etc.

[1]:https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

dynamic_sausageon Interview with Dennis Ritchie (2003)

Interesting — the screenshot of Ritchie's desktop towards the bottom of the article shows output of the "dict" command with a listing of available dictionaries. The only one visible is OED 2nd edition. I had no idea OED was ever available for dictd...