jamesfisher

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• Sticky snap: a better snapping algorithm

  by jamesfisher on 6/29/2025, 7:03 PM with 0 comments

• Start with a dot-plot

  by jamesfisher on 5/10/2025, 7:31 PM with 0 comments

• How I fixed an expensive CSS animation

  by jamesfisher on 4/30/2025, 10:26 AM with 0 comments

• Gazans tell BBC of torture in Israeli detention

  by jamesfisher on 4/8/2025, 7:22 AM with 24 comments

• Don't Animate Height

  by jamesfisher on 1/30/2025, 12:47 PM with 1 comments

• Your head is on backwards

  by jamesfisher on 7/26/2024, 4:46 PM with 0 comments

• How to evolve a product

  by jamesfisher on 6/27/2024, 11:02 AM with 0 comments

• The Poop Broker

  by jamesfisher on 5/21/2024, 4:12 PM with 0 comments

• Statistical Rethinking: a course on Bayesian data analysis [video]

  by jamesfisher on 4/15/2024, 9:10 PM with 0 comments

• Shape typing in Python

  by jamesfisher on 4/12/2024, 3:47 PM with 0 comments

• Automatic differentiation with dual numbers

  by jamesfisher on 4/3/2024, 3:52 PM with 1 comments

• Tell the LLM the business context

  by jamesfisher on 3/30/2024, 10:16 PM with 0 comments

• It might not need a label

  by jamesfisher on 3/20/2024, 2:04 PM with 1 comments

• A formula for responsive font-size

  by jamesfisher on 3/12/2024, 6:14 PM with 108 comments

• How to use language models' tacit knowledge

  by jamesfisher on 9/14/2023, 12:35 PM with 0 comments

• Build Norms, Not Features

  by jamesfisher on 8/28/2023, 3:13 PM with 0 comments

• Agent Functions

  by jamesfisher on 4/17/2023, 9:11 PM with 0 comments

• How your brain organizes information

  by jamesfisher on 4/1/2023, 3:43 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?

  by jamesfisher on 1/30/2023, 10:04 AM with 213 comments

• Imputation: An Interactive Tutorial

  by jamesfisher on 1/17/2023, 6:06 PM with 0 comments

• Proving programs halt: an interactive tutorial

  by jamesfisher on 12/12/2022, 7:18 PM with 0 comments

• Rice’s theorem – an interactive tutorial

  by jamesfisher on 11/22/2022, 4:09 PM with 0 comments

• Patients prescribed heating as part of health trial

  by jamesfisher on 11/22/2022, 8:31 AM with 5 comments

• Rice’s theorem – an interactive tutorial

  by jamesfisher on 11/2/2022, 1:00 PM with 0 comments

• Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem – an interactive tutorial

  by jamesfisher on 10/17/2022, 5:00 PM with 107 comments

• An interactive look at A/B testing

  by jamesfisher on 10/13/2022, 4:28 PM with 0 comments

• Learn Differential Equations

  by jamesfisher on 10/13/2022, 8:53 AM with 0 comments

• Regulating email providers

  by jamesfisher on 9/10/2022, 1:24 PM with 21 comments

• Learn time series with a story illustrated by Stable Diffusion

  by jamesfisher on 9/8/2022, 4:34 PM with 24 comments

• Emoji Drug Code [pdf]

  by jamesfisher on 8/5/2022, 3:52 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: How do you localize your prices?

  by jamesfisher on 7/18/2022, 10:55 AM with 12 comments

• Fontsource: Google Fonts on NPM

  by jamesfisher on 6/21/2022, 10:34 PM with 0 comments

• Shotgun King

  by jamesfisher on 4/6/2022, 9:18 PM with 0 comments

• by jamesfisher on 3/9/2022, 8:25 AM with comments

• The quadratic formula: a tutorial

  by jamesfisher on 2/24/2022, 12:24 PM with 30 comments

• The Halting Problem

  by jamesfisher on 2/9/2022, 4:00 PM with 0 comments

• Smear phishing: how to scam an Android user

  by jamesfisher on 8/6/2020, 1:24 PM with 2 comments

• A Medieval British Anti-Counterfeiting System: Split Tally Sticks (2017)

  by jamesfisher on 6/7/2020, 8:08 AM with 29 comments

• Jim scoring: a probabilistic pub quiz for nerds

  by jamesfisher on 4/26/2020, 7:01 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Vidrio – a holographic screencasting app

  by jamesfisher on 3/22/2020, 8:37 AM with 4 comments

• Time is running out to catch Covid-19

  by jamesfisher on 3/15/2020, 5:03 PM with 0 comments

• When in doubt, don’t blur it out

  by jamesfisher on 2/29/2020, 7:46 PM with 0 comments

• Simulating Epidemics

  by jamesfisher on 2/16/2020, 8:10 PM with 0 comments

• Diffing Coronaviruses

  by jamesfisher on 2/9/2020, 3:11 PM with 17 comments

• Parkinson's Law (1955)

  by jamesfisher on 10/24/2019, 10:30 PM with 0 comments

• I can see your local web servers

  by jamesfisher on 5/28/2019, 7:57 AM with 190 comments

• The inception bar: a new phishing method

  by jamesfisher on 4/27/2019, 10:39 PM with 230 comments

• The Hacker Hype Cycle

  by jamesfisher on 3/25/2019, 7:35 PM with 0 comments

• Why can’t I set the font size of a visited link?

  by jamesfisher on 3/12/2019, 9:24 PM with 0 comments

• Project C-43: the lost origins of asymmetric crypto

  by jamesfisher on 2/16/2019, 7:56 PM with 0 comments

• by jamesfisher on 1/26/2019, 5:05 PM with comments

• A history of time in 40,000 pixels

  by jamesfisher on 12/18/2018, 10:43 PM with 0 comments

• How Pusher Channels has delivered 10,000,000,000,000 messages

  by jamesfisher on 6/18/2018, 1:41 PM with 0 comments

• The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user

  by jamesfisher on 4/7/2018, 6:20 PM with 506 comments

• How to hash multiple values

  by jamesfisher on 1/14/2018, 10:56 AM with 0 comments

• Making a stream cipher

  by jamesfisher on 1/3/2018, 11:29 PM with 0 comments

• The sorry state of OpenSSL usability

  by jamesfisher on 12/28/2017, 8:07 PM with 37 comments

• I hate telephones

  by jamesfisher on 11/11/2017, 6:56 PM with 431 comments

• Go tool trace

  by jamesfisher on 4/6/2017, 3:23 PM with 5 comments

• Redis Pub/Sub under the hood

  by jamesfisher on 3/1/2017, 4:14 PM with 2 comments

• Impossible colors

  by jamesfisher on 9/25/2016, 9:44 AM with 0 comments

• GHC cannot achieve low latency with a large working set

  by jamesfisher on 5/12/2016, 1:11 PM with 0 comments

• Spiegelman's Monster

  by jamesfisher on 10/12/2015, 6:25 PM with 0 comments

• Understanding the ELF

  by jamesfisher on 1/25/2015, 11:35 PM with 0 comments

• Wikipedia needs an IDE, not a WYSIWYG editor

  by jamesfisher on 10/25/2014, 1:03 AM with 71 comments

• Software developers are not depressed (but everyone else is)

  by jamesfisher on 10/23/2014, 7:59 PM with 2 comments

• Haskell MOOC, “Introduction to Functional Programming”, Starts on Wednesday

  by jamesfisher on 10/13/2014, 7:36 PM with 0 comments

• Nix by example, part 1: The Nix expression language

  by jamesfisher on 10/8/2014, 11:48 AM with 0 comments

• I want problems, not solutions

  by jamesfisher on 10/6/2014, 10:43 PM with 0 comments

• Price models that make bad software

  by jamesfisher on 10/6/2014, 6:17 PM with 0 comments

• How Giving Thanks Can Backfire

  by jamesfisher on 9/27/2014, 8:27 AM with 0 comments

• Orphaned file detection

  by jamesfisher on 9/19/2014, 6:37 PM with 0 comments

• Git log spelunker (a proposal)

  by jamesfisher on 9/14/2014, 11:12 AM with 0 comments

• Documentation for free

  by jamesfisher on 9/13/2014, 1:05 PM with 0 comments

• Designing a hob knob

  by jamesfisher on 8/25/2014, 5:26 PM with 1 comments

• Hide your hyper-links to boost your readership

  by jamesfisher on 8/21/2014, 12:42 PM with 0 comments

• Keep your build artifacts in the repository

  by jamesfisher on 8/19/2014, 10:36 PM with 0 comments

• Make ≈ Puppet

  by jamesfisher on 8/15/2014, 10:31 PM with 0 comments

• Documentation black holes

  by jamesfisher on 8/12/2014, 11:23 PM with 0 comments

• Configuration files suck. Just use a programming language

  by jamesfisher on 7/27/2014, 3:21 PM with 13 comments

• Syntax highlighters are wrong

  by jamesfisher on 5/11/2014, 2:30 PM with 124 comments