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pieterron Starring the Computer

Sneakers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/95izj7/sneake...

pieterron Starring the Computer

With Ryûichi Sakamoto as The Director.

pieterron Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment

Similar to PayU.

https://czech.payu.com/en/

pieterron More Mac malware from Google search

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/detections/osx-atomicsteal...

pieterron WBlock: A New Ad-Blocker for Safari

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/wblock/id6746388723

pieterron Encoding Jake Gyllenhaal into one million checkboxes (2024)

More context:

https://eieio.games/blog/the-secret-inside-one-million-check...

pieterron Why Understanding Software Cycle Time Is Messy, Not Magic

Hofstadter's law. :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law

pieterron Ask HN: What are some good resources for coding best practices?

What I found helpful early in my career:

Book: Code Complete - Steve McConnell

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Cons...

A bit dated maybe, but still very informative!

pieterron Which year: guess which year each photo was taken

When I press "All Times Stats", I see "Games Played: 2". But I only played today. Off-by-one error?

pieterron Austral: A Systems Language with Linear Types and Capabilities (2022)

Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34168452

pieterron Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

Reminds me of part 2 of day24. Some wrong wirings. ;-)

https://adventofcode.com/2024/day/24

pieterron Concurrency Is Not Parallelism

pieterron Doom Running on a Toothbrush

https://www.evowera.com/en/html/mini_person_norm.html

pieterron Coroutines in C (2000)

From the same author: Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

pieterron Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/video-audio/Noorderlicht...

pieterron .ing TLD now generally available

How exciting! interest.ing is available.

pieterron Let's Write a Malloc (2014)

(2014)

pieterron A Fork() in the Road [pdf]

(2019)

Interesting paper!

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19621799 (178)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13251686 (18)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29709802 (16)

pieterron The Development of the C Language (2003)

(1993)

A real classic!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36652934

pieterron The Three Ways: The Principles Underpinning DevOps

(2012)

pieterron Are any words the same in all languages?

What about "Opera"?

It's the first word that I use in 4 different language "wordle" games.

pieterron Burger King faces legal claim over size of Whopper

Reminds me of the Hamburger Scene in Falling Down.

https://youtu.be/zJs9p-VNORw

pieterron Kraftwerk issued their own pocket calculator synthesizer (2019)

And subtracting

pieterron Compromised Microsoft key: More impactful than we thought

Hardware Security Module (HSM).

pieterron Ask HN: Is Moore's Law over, or not?

TSMC: Moore's Law is not Dead.

https://www.tsmc.com/english/news-events/blog-article-201908...

pieterron Knuth and McIlroy Approach a Problem (2021)