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• Gall's Law

  by aleyan on 9/15/2025, 3:41 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: The ASCII Side of the Moon

  by aleyan on 9/1/2025, 1:06 PM with 1 comments

• LLM Coding Assistant Census 2025

  by aleyan on 8/18/2025, 12:12 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Dela, a Delegating Task Runner

  by aleyan on 7/22/2025, 12:20 PM with 0 comments

• Task Runner Census 2025

  by aleyan on 7/14/2025, 12:28 PM with 14 comments

• Tell HN: Amazon order info is getting sold

  by aleyan on 4/9/2025, 4:36 PM with 8 comments

• System for imaging of concealed weapons for schools

  by aleyan on 2/25/2025, 4:01 PM with 0 comments

• US Space Force reveals first look at secretive X-37B space plane in orbit

  by aleyan on 2/22/2025, 5:30 PM with 101 comments

• The work is never just "the work" (2022)

  by aleyan on 12/2/2024, 6:50 PM with 0 comments

• Comparison of configuration file languages (2016)

  by aleyan on 10/24/2024, 1:32 PM with 16 comments

• Auto Wiki now features diagrams and AI revision with instruction

  by aleyan on 5/30/2024, 3:16 PM with 0 comments

• Monitoring bias in artificial intelligence chatbots

  by aleyan on 5/16/2024, 1:11 PM with 0 comments

• Radar Maps Platform

  by aleyan on 9/26/2023, 11:38 PM with 80 comments

• Replications and Reversals

  by aleyan on 7/13/2023, 2:42 PM with 0 comments

• The Evolution of Trust (2017)

  by aleyan on 5/3/2023, 9:22 PM with 3 comments

• Newly Discovered Asteroid 2023 BU came within 2,200 miles of Earth last night

  by aleyan on 1/27/2023, 7:55 PM with 0 comments

• Facebook increased satisfaction and usage by sending fewer notifications

  by aleyan on 12/26/2022, 6:54 PM with 175 comments

• How Regexes Work

  by aleyan on 11/12/2022, 1:04 AM with 10 comments

• AI and the Future of Pixel Art

  by aleyan on 11/9/2022, 3:22 AM with 100 comments

• Lego Mindstorms to Be Discontinued

  by aleyan on 10/28/2022, 1:15 AM with 0 comments

• Kurt Vonnegut on the “shapes” of stories

  by aleyan on 7/13/2022, 7:20 PM with 77 comments

• 27 out of 31 reactors being built since 2017 are Russian or Chinese designs

  by aleyan on 7/2/2022, 5:08 PM with 49 comments

• PostgreSQL interface for Spanner: availability at scale

  by aleyan on 6/23/2022, 5:07 PM with 0 comments

• A Crash Course in Good and Bad Control

  by aleyan on 1/18/2022, 2:49 PM with 0 comments

• Mantic Monday: Let Me Google That for You

  by aleyan on 12/21/2021, 9:16 PM with 8 comments

• Design Patterns in Googles Prediction Market on Google Cloud

  by aleyan on 12/20/2021, 8:13 PM with 7 comments

• New PostgreSQL Interface for Cloud Spanner

  by aleyan on 10/12/2021, 8:38 PM with 41 comments

• Public Suffix List Problems (2019)

  by aleyan on 7/16/2021, 4:06 AM with 11 comments

• Public Suffix List

  by aleyan on 7/14/2021, 4:51 PM with 44 comments

• PNG files can be animated via network latency

  by aleyan on 6/21/2021, 2:54 PM with 106 comments

• Quadratic Method: Detailed Explanation (2020)

  by aleyan on 5/20/2021, 1:36 PM with 19 comments

• How many engineers does it take to make subscripting work?

  by aleyan on 5/1/2021, 1:53 PM with 26 comments

• List of Emerging Technologies

  by aleyan on 4/16/2021, 6:00 PM with 44 comments

• Phoebus Cartel

  by aleyan on 4/14/2021, 1:32 PM with 0 comments

• The Magic Kernel

  by aleyan on 3/19/2021, 2:11 PM with 43 comments

• Data Transfer Project by Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc.

  by aleyan on 3/5/2021, 6:27 PM with 69 comments

• The Baby-Formula Crime Ring (2018)

  by aleyan on 3/3/2021, 2:11 PM with 83 comments

• If Sapiens were a blog post

  by aleyan on 2/27/2021, 3:57 PM with 0 comments

• Daniel Kahneman: Your Intuition Is Wrong, Unless These 3 Conditions Are Met

  by aleyan on 2/26/2021, 3:57 PM with 2 comments

• Signal Messanger Architecture

  by aleyan on 1/15/2021, 10:59 PM with 0 comments

• The In-the-Wild Series

  by aleyan on 1/14/2021, 4:57 PM with 0 comments

• Docker Desktop 3.0.0: Smaller, Faster Releases

  by aleyan on 12/14/2020, 9:53 PM with 0 comments

• Alternative notation for exponents, logs and roots? (2011)

  by aleyan on 11/30/2020, 1:33 PM with 65 comments

• Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity in Words of Four Letters or Less

  by aleyan on 11/11/2020, 2:09 PM with 0 comments

• How to Ask Questions the Smart Way

  by aleyan on 11/4/2020, 7:17 PM with 1 comments

• Psychedelic Fishes from the World’s First Encyclopedia of Marine Creatures

  by aleyan on 9/5/2020, 7:12 PM with 8 comments

• Shrinking Your Code Review

  by aleyan on 9/3/2020, 3:33 PM with 0 comments

• Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship

  by aleyan on 8/28/2020, 2:07 PM with 0 comments

• Pod Cars of the Past and Future: The Morgantown PRT (2016) [video]

  by aleyan on 8/21/2020, 6:10 PM with 4 comments

• Whataboutism – The Media’s Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism

  by aleyan on 7/23/2020, 9:10 PM with 0 comments

• New Lego Mindstorms Robot Inventor

  by aleyan on 6/14/2020, 5:13 PM with 0 comments

• Natural Nuclear Fission Reactor

  by aleyan on 4/25/2020, 3:58 PM with 0 comments

• What concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit? Kayfabe (2011)

  by aleyan on 4/6/2020, 7:14 PM with 140 comments

• Controlling Text Generation with Plug and Play Language Models

  by aleyan on 12/19/2019, 4:42 PM with 5 comments

• Announcing Poetry 1.0.0

  by aleyan on 12/16/2019, 8:40 PM with 0 comments

• Symptoms of Groupthink (2012)

  by aleyan on 12/2/2019, 2:53 PM with 56 comments

• Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005)

  by aleyan on 11/8/2019, 3:23 PM with 46 comments

• Recurse Center Social Rules

  by aleyan on 7/26/2019, 2:41 PM with 0 comments

• Nanolaw with Daughter (2011)

  by aleyan on 6/12/2019, 9:33 PM with 5 comments

• Storm Chaser Captures Stunning Footage of Tornado with Drone

  by aleyan on 5/13/2019, 12:41 PM with 0 comments

• On the difficulty of predicting the future (2001) [pdf]

  by aleyan on 4/9/2019, 4:05 PM with 30 comments

• Einsum Is All You Need – Einstein Summation in Deep Learning (2018)

  by aleyan on 2/1/2019, 5:10 PM with 46 comments

• Teaching Machines Common Sense Reasoning

  by aleyan on 11/28/2018, 2:05 PM with 0 comments

• RAM Doubler 2 (1996)

  by aleyan on 10/1/2018, 2:08 PM with 50 comments

• Beware investing truths that are self-evident (2006)

  by aleyan on 9/26/2018, 2:21 PM with 0 comments

• Dead Men Write No Code (2016)

  by aleyan on 6/30/2018, 4:02 PM with 0 comments

• Seximal: A better way to count [video]

  by aleyan on 6/22/2018, 2:17 PM with 92 comments

• Notes to My Activist Self

  by aleyan on 6/21/2018, 7:54 PM with 0 comments

• Why Not Thought Crime?

  by aleyan on 5/23/2018, 5:35 PM with 0 comments

• Seximal: A better way to count [video]

  by aleyan on 5/16/2018, 4:41 PM with 0 comments

• Whataboutery and whataboutism – what’s it all about?

  by aleyan on 5/6/2018, 3:00 PM with 0 comments

• Turtl: An open source, encrypted Evernote alternative

  by aleyan on 4/8/2018, 5:13 PM with 2 comments

• Rust Jobs: There are no open rust jobs anywhere in the world

  by aleyan on 4/5/2018, 6:33 PM with 2 comments

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• by aleyan on 3/27/2018, 3:29 PM with comments

• Poll: For your job, would you rather have?

  by aleyan on 3/27/2018, 3:29 PM with 1 comments

• Summon Monsters? Open the Door? Heal? Or Die? (2008)

  by aleyan on 3/16/2018, 1:50 PM with 0 comments

• Behind OS X’s modern face lies an aging collection of Unix tools (2014)

  by aleyan on 2/17/2018, 3:01 PM with 1 comments

• DigitalOcean will donate to tech non-profits for community content

  by aleyan on 2/14/2018, 6:54 PM with 1 comments

• Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting

  by aleyan on 2/7/2018, 3:57 PM with 0 comments

• List of oldest companies: Before 1300

  by aleyan on 1/19/2018, 2:53 PM with 198 comments

• A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)

  by aleyan on 1/3/2018, 6:41 PM with 0 comments

• Modern IQ ranges for various occupations

  by aleyan on 1/2/2018, 12:09 AM with 0 comments

• Statement on Principles of Free Expression (2012)

  by aleyan on 12/27/2017, 4:20 PM with 0 comments

• Twitter drops hammer and sickle on RT, Sputnik ad buys over election shenanigans

  by aleyan on 10/26/2017, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• Welcome to Pleistocene Park

  by aleyan on 10/20/2017, 8:33 PM with 0 comments

• Lemonade Stand: A guide to financial support for open source

  by aleyan on 9/29/2017, 1:57 PM with 0 comments

• All the goodness gone from tea (1688)

  by aleyan on 9/24/2017, 1:07 PM with 29 comments

• On Tolerance

  by aleyan on 9/7/2017, 10:05 PM with 0 comments

• All the goodness gone from tea (1688)

  by aleyan on 7/20/2017, 2:38 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Share your top 10 cli commands

  by aleyan on 7/17/2017, 2:40 PM with 25 comments

• How Thou Canst Maketh a Fine Program in Fortran

  by aleyan on 4/15/2017, 3:32 PM with 1 comments

• RAM Doubler 2 (1996)

  by aleyan on 2/14/2017, 8:32 PM with 1 comments

• The history behind the decision to move Python to GitHub

  by aleyan on 2/9/2017, 9:55 PM with 0 comments

• CPython GitHub migration scheduled for Friday

  by aleyan on 2/9/2017, 9:33 PM with 2 comments

• Causal inference in Python

  by aleyan on 2/1/2017, 10:55 PM with 6 comments

• TERM is terminally broken

  by aleyan on 1/25/2017, 9:53 PM with 0 comments

• What are the greatest inefficiencies data scientists face today?

  by aleyan on 1/20/2017, 11:56 PM with 0 comments

• Netscape [present day, present time]

  by aleyan on 11/17/2016, 4:21 PM with 3 comments

• Richard Stallman: How I do my computing (2015)

  by aleyan on 10/25/2016, 5:26 PM with 117 comments

• Meet the new Meetup

  by aleyan on 9/28/2016, 7:32 PM with 0 comments

• A Silicon Valley Dream Collapses in Allegations of Fraud

  by aleyan on 9/5/2016, 5:02 PM with comments

• Handy Introduces Pro Teams, Single Biggest Change to Platform

  by aleyan on 7/28/2016, 12:47 PM with 0 comments

• Future of Photography..? (1990)

  by aleyan on 7/27/2016, 8:47 PM with 0 comments

• Give Yourself Permission to Work Fewer Hours

  by aleyan on 7/14/2016, 4:03 PM with 0 comments

• The Science of Word Recognition (2004)

  by aleyan on 6/23/2016, 12:41 PM with 0 comments

• Strategy Letter V [2002]

  by aleyan on 5/19/2016, 6:43 PM with 0 comments

• New York in 1993 in HD – DTheater DVHS Demo Tape

  by aleyan on 4/29/2016, 3:12 PM with 0 comments

• Behind OS X’s modern face lies an aging collection of Unix tools

  by aleyan on 4/18/2016, 6:51 PM with 0 comments

• Perverse Incentive Examples

  by aleyan on 4/7/2016, 10:45 PM with 0 comments

• Exploding offers are bullshit

  by aleyan on 4/7/2016, 6:06 PM with 77 comments

• [PHP-DEV] Add spaceship assignment operator

  by aleyan on 3/25/2016, 9:10 PM with 2 comments

• Why I love snapchat

  by aleyan on 3/24/2016, 7:48 PM with 0 comments

• Introducing Pound: Process for Optimizing and Understanding Network Diffusion

  by aleyan on 3/24/2016, 7:27 PM with 0 comments

• SymPy Gamma: An Open-Source, Python-Based Alternative to Wolfram Alpha

  by aleyan on 3/22/2016, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• Don’t Conflate Hard and Emotionally Hard. Easier Said Than Done

  by aleyan on 3/17/2016, 7:13 PM with 0 comments

• Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) [pdf]

  by aleyan on 1/18/2016, 8:40 PM with 0 comments

• Working at Dunkin' Donuts (2004)

  by aleyan on 12/23/2015, 6:07 PM with 0 comments

• The Rule of 3 and 10

  by aleyan on 11/20/2015, 10:23 PM with 0 comments

• Handy Raises $50M Led by Fidelity, Reportedly at $500M Valuation

  by aleyan on 11/2/2015, 3:36 PM with 0 comments

• Wait Didn't Homejoy Shut Down?

  by aleyan on 10/28/2015, 2:54 PM with 5 comments

• Netflix Culture: Freedom and Responsibility

  by aleyan on 9/21/2015, 7:45 PM with 0 comments

• Daylight saving time explained visually

  by aleyan on 8/26/2015, 7:37 PM with 0 comments

• Supernational European Bodies

  by aleyan on 6/29/2015, 9:15 AM with 0 comments

• Did Google Just Penalize Its Own $100M Investment? The Thumbtack Case Study

  by aleyan on 6/11/2015, 2:51 PM with comments

• The parable of the parking lots (1971) [pdf]

  by aleyan on 5/29/2015, 4:43 PM with 19 comments

• AT&T's “You Will” (1993)

  by aleyan on 4/21/2015, 5:41 PM with 1 comments

• Bir Tawil – Terra Nullius

  by aleyan on 4/21/2015, 3:05 PM with 0 comments

• Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

  by aleyan on 2/11/2015, 9:29 PM with 0 comments

• Handybook Rebrands as Handy

  by aleyan on 9/16/2014, 1:33 PM with 0 comments

• Arctic Sea Extent 1980s to Present

  by aleyan on 6/29/2014, 6:20 PM with 0 comments

• Three great virtues of a programmer

  by aleyan on 3/21/2014, 12:45 PM with 0 comments

• Making Robots More Like Us

  by aleyan on 10/28/2013, 7:36 PM with 0 comments

• IBM enters smartphone market with a 4.7 touch screen (1994)

  by aleyan on 10/11/2013, 2:09 PM with 0 comments

• Area-User Proportional Map of Online Communities (2007)

  by aleyan on 10/4/2013, 1:02 PM with 0 comments

• Is surge protection actually needed?

  by aleyan on 9/11/2013, 6:06 PM with 0 comments

• Intermedia Shared Mail Hosting Outage

  by aleyan on 9/3/2013, 3:28 PM with 0 comments

• Tablets in Dutch Schools Usher in a New Era

  by aleyan on 6/10/2013, 3:03 PM with 0 comments

• Crime and punishment: cell phones

  by aleyan on 5/23/2013, 3:04 PM with 0 comments

• Help us (Wikimedia) design our next-generation discussion system

  by aleyan on 5/20/2013, 10:05 PM with 0 comments

• Known sites blocked by the Russian blacklist

  by aleyan on 5/13/2013, 1:58 PM with 0 comments

• AT&T's "You Will" Prophetic Ad from 1993

  by aleyan on 4/22/2013, 8:02 PM with 0 comments

• State of Internet Freedoms in 2012 (pages 16-20 summary by country)[pdf]

  by aleyan on 4/12/2013, 4:21 AM with 0 comments

• How did the first Erlang compiler get written?

  by aleyan on 3/19/2013, 4:38 PM with 0 comments

• Meet the economists who are making markets work better

  by aleyan on 11/28/2012, 6:37 PM with 0 comments