Kortaggio

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• Search all text in New York City

  by Kortaggio on 8/13/2025, 12:17 AM with 116 comments

• The deception that we crave

  by Kortaggio on 7/3/2025, 2:13 AM with 0 comments

• Historical Tech Tree

  by Kortaggio on 6/3/2025, 2:04 AM with 0 comments

• Snow White – HDR Using CSS

  by Kortaggio on 4/18/2025, 6:26 PM with 0 comments

• Save Money on LLMs

  by Kortaggio on 2/15/2025, 4:39 PM with 0 comments

• Why Chinese EVs will not take over the world

  by Kortaggio on 1/4/2025, 9:14 PM with 6 comments

• Daydreams Decide Your Destiny

  by Kortaggio on 12/8/2024, 3:31 PM with 0 comments

• Why early success online is a trap

  by Kortaggio on 11/24/2024, 6:36 PM with 0 comments

• Final Cut Pro 11 with AI features

  by Kortaggio on 11/23/2024, 5:36 PM with 0 comments

• Immortality: A Practical Guide (2015)

  by Kortaggio on 11/22/2024, 6:10 PM with 0 comments

• Neuroscience reasons for what AI cannot do yet

  by Kortaggio on 11/18/2024, 1:44 AM with 0 comments

• Most ideas cannot be explained simply

  by Kortaggio on 10/13/2024, 4:08 PM with 0 comments

• Metric-Less Success

  by Kortaggio on 10/12/2024, 9:49 PM with 0 comments

• Common ways startups fail to make what people want (and what to do instead)

  by Kortaggio on 10/6/2024, 9:25 PM with 2 comments

• BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) hurts communication and hinders innovation

  by Kortaggio on 9/29/2024, 5:57 PM with 0 comments

• Collision Avoidance

  by Kortaggio on 9/9/2024, 2:16 AM with 0 comments

• Founding vs. Inheriting (2021)

  by Kortaggio on 9/3/2024, 5:23 PM with 0 comments

• How to sync Mac and Linux /home

  by Kortaggio on 9/2/2024, 2:20 AM with 4 comments

• Trust Your Tests

  by Kortaggio on 7/30/2024, 1:24 AM with 0 comments

• ChatGPT turns every user into a power user

  by Kortaggio on 7/28/2024, 9:39 PM with 0 comments

• Linguistic Antipatterns

  by Kortaggio on 6/7/2024, 2:05 AM with 2 comments

• Psychological tricks rich people use to look generous without spending more

  by Kortaggio on 6/2/2024, 9:46 PM with 116 comments

• List of Individual Body Parts

  by Kortaggio on 5/30/2024, 4:01 PM with 0 comments

• The No-Stats All-Star (2009)

  by Kortaggio on 12/26/2023, 5:44 PM with 1 comments

• The Real Purpose of History

  by Kortaggio on 12/24/2023, 7:23 PM with 1 comments

• Figgie: Simulate stock trading with a deck of cards

  by Kortaggio on 12/18/2023, 3:53 AM with 24 comments

• IsUserAMonkey

  by Kortaggio on 11/14/2023, 5:43 AM with 1 comments

• Make Me Think (2018)

  by Kortaggio on 11/7/2023, 3:19 PM with 0 comments

• Breakout.pdf [pdf]

  by Kortaggio on 8/9/2023, 1:12 AM with 0 comments

• Live dashboard of carbon dioxide removal purchases

  by Kortaggio on 6/4/2023, 9:52 PM with 87 comments

• Lessons from the 19th Century

  by Kortaggio on 5/8/2023, 6:47 PM with 0 comments

• How to spend money on your friends without it looking like bribery

  by Kortaggio on 4/28/2023, 12:06 PM with 262 comments

• Every front-end UI for ChatGPT

  by Kortaggio on 4/15/2023, 10:32 PM with 9 comments

• Why do we fantasize about the apocalypse?

  by Kortaggio on 3/12/2023, 3:38 PM with 0 comments

• Carbon Removal Knowledge Gaps

  by Kortaggio on 11/18/2022, 4:08 PM with 0 comments

• Why dating apps don’t work

  by Kortaggio on 10/2/2022, 7:53 PM with 1 comments

• Life After Lifestyle

  by Kortaggio on 9/28/2022, 4:55 PM with 0 comments

• Google to exempt campaign emails from spam detection

  by Kortaggio on 8/11/2022, 6:44 PM with 0 comments

• We're improving search results when you use quotes

  by Kortaggio on 8/5/2022, 1:40 AM with 687 comments

• The Story of the Social Security Number

  by Kortaggio on 8/4/2022, 6:01 PM with 0 comments

• Friendships form via shared context, not shared activities

  by Kortaggio on 5/30/2022, 7:08 PM with 182 comments

• Bus Factor 1 (2020)

  by Kortaggio on 2/14/2022, 6:45 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Learn CSS from First Principles

  by Kortaggio on 3/31/2021, 11:31 PM with 0 comments

• A list of 50 proximity chat and virtual meetup apps

  by Kortaggio on 1/24/2021, 4:21 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What's the job market like for software engineers during COVID?

  by Kortaggio on 1/11/2021, 8:03 PM with 0 comments

• I made an N95-level mask at home, and you can too

  by Kortaggio on 11/17/2020, 7:16 PM with 0 comments

• Economic and Ethical Dilemmas in Fighting Covid-19 [video]

  by Kortaggio on 11/10/2020, 8:06 PM with 0 comments

• Canada Is 2nd Place

  by Kortaggio on 11/9/2020, 8:20 PM with 0 comments

• I Have a Few Questions

  by Kortaggio on 10/30/2020, 8:48 PM with 0 comments

• On Software, or the Persistence of Visual Knowledge

  by Kortaggio on 10/30/2020, 8:47 PM with 0 comments

• I tried 21 diet and exercise programs. None of them worked. Except for one

  by Kortaggio on 10/27/2020, 7:22 PM with 0 comments

• What it takes to run Stack Overflow (2013)

  by Kortaggio on 10/21/2020, 11:30 AM with 0 comments

• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007) [pdf]

  by Kortaggio on 10/20/2020, 7:17 PM with 0 comments

• Dragons

  by Kortaggio on 9/20/2020, 7:37 PM with 0 comments

• Data on how Americans are moving during the pandemic

  by Kortaggio on 9/17/2020, 8:12 PM with 0 comments

• Ways people trying to do good accidentally make things worse

  by Kortaggio on 9/2/2020, 3:22 PM with 2 comments

• Quick hacks to make video calls less fatiguing

  by Kortaggio on 8/31/2020, 3:27 PM with 0 comments

• Why Silicon Valley funds Instagrams, not Hyperloops (2013)

  by Kortaggio on 8/21/2020, 12:32 PM with 0 comments

• A Misanthropic Reinterpretation of the Chinese Room Problem (2013)

  by Kortaggio on 8/20/2020, 3:11 PM with 0 comments

• Prisons of the Mind

  by Kortaggio on 8/19/2020, 3:00 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Where can I, a non-American, legally bet on the U.S. election?

  by Kortaggio on 7/26/2020, 4:41 PM with 8 comments

• Inferential Distance (2007)

  by Kortaggio on 7/23/2020, 11:03 PM with 0 comments

• Decompiling the SARS-CoV-2 genome into readable functions

  by Kortaggio on 7/23/2020, 1:24 AM with 0 comments

• Most common CSS mistakes made by new and experienced developers

  by Kortaggio on 7/17/2020, 9:02 PM with 0 comments

• Future Screens are Mostly Blue (2013)

  by Kortaggio on 4/15/2020, 10:44 PM with 0 comments

• Does adding expensive housing help the little guy?

  by Kortaggio on 3/4/2020, 12:49 AM with 0 comments

• Replacing Middle Management with APIs (2015)

  by Kortaggio on 9/12/2019, 5:44 PM with 0 comments

• A Codebase Is an Organism (2014)

  by Kortaggio on 8/24/2019, 3:54 PM with 45 comments

• Sex, Gender, and Fairness in Sports and the Olympics

  by Kortaggio on 8/24/2019, 3:52 PM with 0 comments

• The Definitive Guide to CSS Cascading and Specificity

  by Kortaggio on 8/12/2019, 4:44 PM with 0 comments

• Albert Einstein on Sifting the Essential from the Non-Essential

  by Kortaggio on 8/5/2019, 10:07 PM with 0 comments

• Deadliest CSS mistakes made by new and experienced developers

  by Kortaggio on 7/29/2019, 5:54 PM with 0 comments

• The First Annual CSS Tournament

  by Kortaggio on 7/16/2019, 6:44 PM with 0 comments

• Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2018 [pdf]

  by Kortaggio on 6/2/2019, 10:34 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Painless CSS: Learn CSS from First Principles

  by Kortaggio on 5/28/2019, 4:18 PM with 5 comments

• List of topics characterized as pseudoscience

  by Kortaggio on 1/24/2019, 4:49 AM with 2 comments

• Show HN: Minesweeper game for the nand2tetris course

  by Kortaggio on 12/11/2018, 2:21 PM with 0 comments

• Information Hazards – when sharing truths causes harm [pdf]

  by Kortaggio on 11/7/2018, 4:24 PM with 0 comments

• Interviewing expert marketers

  by Kortaggio on 7/10/2018, 6:29 PM with 4 comments

• The Internet Culture: Transitions and Problems (1996)[pdf]

  by Kortaggio on 7/4/2018, 11:49 PM with 0 comments

• How Doctors Die

  by Kortaggio on 5/17/2017, 2:51 AM with 0 comments

• List of Emerging Technologies

  by Kortaggio on 5/11/2017, 5:40 PM with 0 comments

• List of Software Bugs

  by Kortaggio on 4/24/2017, 12:32 AM with 0 comments

• Freightliner SuperTruck

  by Kortaggio on 12/21/2016, 6:42 AM with 0 comments

• Quote of the Day Protocol

  by Kortaggio on 12/10/2016, 8:02 AM with 0 comments

• Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence [pdf]

  by Kortaggio on 11/30/2016, 12:53 AM with 0 comments

• Movies Featuring the Nmap Security Scanner

  by Kortaggio on 11/13/2016, 7:55 AM with 0 comments

• Why Are People Racist?

  by Kortaggio on 11/3/2016, 10:13 PM with 48 comments

• The American Dream Is Killing Us

  by Kortaggio on 10/28/2016, 6:45 AM with comments

• Why NaN is a number in JavaScript

  by Kortaggio on 8/21/2016, 10:56 PM with 0 comments

• List of unsolved problems in physics

  by Kortaggio on 8/13/2016, 8:19 PM with 39 comments

• DHH: Ruby on Rails demo (2007) [video]

  by Kortaggio on 7/2/2016, 2:28 AM with 0 comments

• Hacking with Unicode – Mathias Bynens

  by Kortaggio on 5/26/2016, 3:44 AM with 0 comments

• What the Hex?

  by Kortaggio on 5/26/2016, 1:59 AM with 2 comments

• Why is Estimating so Hard?

  by Kortaggio on 5/22/2016, 6:23 AM with 0 comments

• Building a New Social App Today Is Insane

  by Kortaggio on 5/11/2016, 3:48 AM with 0 comments

• The uncertain future of the western world [video]

  by Kortaggio on 4/13/2016, 5:56 AM with 0 comments

• Websites on Google Drive

  by Kortaggio on 2/25/2016, 7:47 PM with 0 comments

• What does a Ajax call response like 'for (;;); { json data }' mean?

  by Kortaggio on 2/19/2016, 5:58 AM with 0 comments

• Splatoon's Ranking System Is Still Broken

  by Kortaggio on 2/17/2016, 6:28 AM with 0 comments

• by Kortaggio on 12/15/2015, 11:15 PM with comments

• Watergate Complex

  by Kortaggio on 11/21/2015, 9:01 AM with 0 comments

• How Terrorism Works (2013)

  by Kortaggio on 11/16/2015, 6:48 AM with 0 comments

• The Solution to All of Your Life's Problems: Start a Cult

  by Kortaggio on 8/20/2015, 4:49 PM with comments

• Show HN: A Node and Postgres app to see what you look like (given an email)

  by Kortaggio on 8/2/2015, 10:55 PM with 1 comments

• Confessions from the Scammy, Underground World of Kindle EBooks

  by Kortaggio on 7/20/2015, 7:21 PM with 2 comments

• Peak Oil

  by Kortaggio on 7/19/2015, 4:02 AM with 0 comments

• Ranking News Items with Upvotes

  by Kortaggio on 7/15/2015, 2:42 AM with 0 comments

• Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed [video]

  by Kortaggio on 7/12/2015, 9:06 PM with 0 comments

• How the Recession Reshaped the Economy, in 255 Charts (2014)

  by Kortaggio on 7/4/2015, 7:23 AM with 25 comments

• Hacking Super Mario World to Warp to the Credits [video]

  by Kortaggio on 6/28/2015, 6:34 AM with 25 comments

• The Myth of the Training Montage

  by Kortaggio on 6/16/2015, 4:48 AM with 0 comments

• Hijacking is Buffer Overflow (2001)

  by Kortaggio on 6/16/2015, 4:13 AM with 1 comments

• Show HN: I made a simple, markdown-based note-taking app

  by Kortaggio on 6/8/2015, 6:38 PM with 0 comments

• The Path to Creativity: How entrepreneurs find new breakthroughs

  by Kortaggio on 5/21/2015, 9:22 PM with 0 comments

• GoodUI.org

  by Kortaggio on 5/18/2015, 4:08 PM with 5 comments

• Show HN: I made a simple Python/Flask clone of IMDb

  by Kortaggio on 5/11/2015, 9:02 PM with 5 comments

• Damn Cool Algorithms

  by Kortaggio on 5/7/2015, 1:46 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Who wants to practice coding interviews together?

  by Kortaggio on 5/6/2015, 4:55 PM with 33 comments

• Show HN: Add your completed Treehouse courses to LinkedIn

  by Kortaggio on 4/22/2015, 7:29 PM with 0 comments

• The Puzzling Rise in Nearsighted Children

  by Kortaggio on 4/20/2015, 9:25 PM with 43 comments

• The sound of 15 sorting algorithms

  by Kortaggio on 4/16/2015, 4:45 AM with 1 comments

• Bob and Doug: The true story of how we raised two goats in our backyard

  by Kortaggio on 4/6/2015, 9:37 PM with 0 comments

• Computer program that learns to play classic NES games

  by Kortaggio on 3/8/2015, 8:49 PM with 0 comments

• RLPy Reinforcement Learning Framework

  by Kortaggio on 2/24/2015, 11:37 PM with 0 comments

• Target to close all Canadian stores

  by Kortaggio on 1/15/2015, 4:53 PM with 0 comments

• Point Me Where It Hurts

  by Kortaggio on 1/2/2015, 12:00 PM with 0 comments

• Atmospheric River

  by Kortaggio on 12/11/2014, 6:22 AM with 0 comments

• Cookie Consent: JavaScript plugin allowing a website to comply with the EU cookie law

  by Kortaggio on 12/6/2014, 12:32 AM with 0 comments

• Hemispherical photography

  by Kortaggio on 12/5/2014, 9:28 PM with 0 comments

• The Machine

  by Kortaggio on 12/2/2014, 11:24 PM with comments

• List of emerging technologies

  by Kortaggio on 10/3/2014, 4:53 AM with 0 comments

• HP faces 10-year ban as Canadian government’s technology supplier

  by Kortaggio on 9/26/2014, 12:16 AM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Battleboat.js – A robot that plays Battleship

  by Kortaggio on 9/20/2014, 4:32 PM with 16 comments

• Show HN: I made a Chrome Extension that removes “likes” from Facebook

  by Kortaggio on 9/9/2014, 4:00 PM with 1 comments

• Ethical implications of emerging brain-to-brain interfacing technologies

  by Kortaggio on 9/6/2014, 7:03 PM with 0 comments

• Supernormal Stimuli

  by Kortaggio on 8/25/2014, 12:49 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Should programming resumes be one page or two pages?

  by Kortaggio on 8/18/2014, 6:54 PM with 5 comments

• R/K selection theory

  by Kortaggio on 8/8/2014, 11:39 PM with 0 comments

• How I hacked the SAT and raised my score by 1000 points in 3 months

  by Kortaggio on 7/22/2014, 7:03 PM with 0 comments

• The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions

  by Kortaggio on 7/14/2014, 7:25 PM with 0 comments

• A focus group critiquing Apple's "1984" TV ad

  by Kortaggio on 7/1/2014, 4:02 PM with 0 comments

• List of films considered the worst

  by Kortaggio on 3/29/2014, 10:21 PM with 0 comments

• The Little Manual of API Design

  by Kortaggio on 3/13/2014, 7:04 PM with 0 comments

• 5x5 version of 2048

  by Kortaggio on 3/13/2014, 2:57 AM with 1 comments