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• Hyperspeedcube

  by msvan on 12/3/2024, 1:15 PM with 0 comments

• Graphite: 2D Raster and Vector Editor

  by msvan on 11/6/2023, 9:48 PM with 4 comments

• Half-Edge Data Structures (2019)

  by msvan on 8/11/2023, 8:08 PM with 8 comments

• My current views on Rust (the programming language) (2015)

  by msvan on 4/11/2021, 12:30 PM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: What are your experiences with code ownership?

  by msvan on 3/30/2021, 5:14 PM with 0 comments

• Letters to a Young Poet (1903)

  by msvan on 6/14/2020, 6:14 PM with 12 comments

• Ask HN: What features would your ideal programming language have?

  by msvan on 2/29/2020, 5:15 PM with 16 comments

• Ask HN: Why does Europe not have any big tech companies?

  by msvan on 12/15/2019, 10:21 AM with 17 comments

• Talking to my mother about Hong Kong

  by msvan on 12/1/2019, 1:25 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What shiny new tech would you want to try?

  by msvan on 10/24/2019, 7:26 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What is the business model for desktop software in 2019?

  by msvan on 5/10/2019, 1:34 PM with 4 comments

• Ask HN: What Happened to HARC?

  by msvan on 5/2/2019, 8:51 PM with 0 comments

• Scaling the REPL Experience [video]

  by msvan on 4/25/2019, 1:11 AM with 0 comments

• Interpreting the “Xi Jinping Era”

  by msvan on 12/26/2018, 4:08 PM with 0 comments

• Kessler Syndrome

  by msvan on 11/1/2018, 12:11 PM with 62 comments

• Linear Types in GHC

  by msvan on 10/22/2018, 11:05 PM with 0 comments

• Uncoiling the spiral: Maths and hallucinations

  by msvan on 10/10/2018, 2:23 PM with 3 comments

• China's Butler Boom (2015)

  by msvan on 10/4/2018, 5:03 AM with 0 comments

• Quantum Bogo Sort

  by msvan on 10/3/2018, 7:01 PM with 0 comments

• Haskell in production: A GHC upgrade success story

  by msvan on 9/28/2018, 10:38 PM with 0 comments

• The $12 “Gongkai” Phone (2013)

  by msvan on 9/23/2018, 12:55 PM with 43 comments

• Micropayments and Mental Transaction Costs (1999) [pdf]

  by msvan on 3/11/2018, 4:30 PM with 0 comments

• Silicon Valley would be wise to follow China’s lead

  by msvan on 1/18/2018, 7:08 AM with 0 comments

• Concertmaster – Classical music front-end for Spotify

  by msvan on 12/13/2017, 1:18 AM with 54 comments

• Douglas Hofstadter – Person Paper on Purity in Language

  by msvan on 8/7/2017, 7:54 PM with 0 comments

• The Race Between Education and Technology [pdf]

  by msvan on 7/31/2017, 1:11 PM with 0 comments

• Conformal Map Viewer

  by msvan on 1/23/2017, 1:19 PM with 0 comments

• Is Google Making Us Stupid? (2008)

  by msvan on 1/21/2017, 10:34 AM with 0 comments

• Was 2016 especially dangerous for celebrities?

  by msvan on 1/8/2017, 3:41 PM with 0 comments

• AI Winter Isn’t Coming

  by msvan on 12/18/2016, 5:01 AM with 0 comments

• Void – JavaScript quine

  by msvan on 12/11/2016, 9:55 PM with 0 comments

• The Crystal Programming Language

  by msvan on 11/30/2016, 4:25 PM with 0 comments

• Chat Wars

  by msvan on 11/17/2016, 5:43 PM with 0 comments

• Applications of topology in computer algorithms

  by msvan on 10/27/2016, 3:32 PM with 0 comments

• The rise of the global capital (2014)

  by msvan on 9/21/2016, 1:30 AM with 0 comments

• How Harambe Became the Perfect Meme

  by msvan on 9/12/2016, 10:01 PM with 0 comments

• Medical benefits of dental floss unproven

  by msvan on 8/2/2016, 3:47 PM with 6 comments

• Declassified: America's Secret Flying Saucer (2013)

  by msvan on 7/27/2016, 11:15 PM with 0 comments

• Storing and Querying a Unidirectional Graph in MySQL

  by msvan on 6/2/2016, 6:40 PM with 0 comments

• The IPO is dying. Marc Andreessen explains why. (2014)

  by msvan on 5/7/2016, 5:22 PM with 0 comments

• Containing Multitudesl

  by msvan on 4/9/2016, 5:16 PM with 0 comments

• MIT scientists build world's first scalable quantum computer

  by msvan on 3/4/2016, 9:37 PM with 0 comments

• The Current State of Venture Capital in 2016

  by msvan on 3/2/2016, 11:49 PM with 0 comments

• Notes on Artificial Intelligence

  by msvan on 2/16/2016, 12:39 AM with 0 comments

• Upvote someone you disagree with today

  by msvan on 2/15/2016, 10:42 PM with 1 comments

• US economic system unfair, say most Americans

  by msvan on 2/13/2016, 8:37 PM with 3 comments

• Awesome browser extensions for GitHub

  by msvan on 2/13/2016, 5:37 PM with 0 comments

• Software Is Reorganizing the World (2013)

  by msvan on 2/9/2016, 10:32 AM with 0 comments

• Lenses with Immutable.js

  by msvan on 1/23/2016, 5:08 PM with 0 comments

• Inside Soulection: How an Unusual Music Startup Found the Sound of Tomorrow

  by msvan on 1/22/2016, 12:32 AM with 0 comments

• Dear GitHub

  by msvan on 1/14/2016, 9:33 PM with 463 comments

• Wrte.io – email paywall

  by msvan on 1/14/2016, 8:56 PM with 1 comments

• What subversive thing will be mainstream tomorrow?

  by msvan on 1/14/2016, 12:23 PM with 1 comments

• Warbler.js: A simple parser combinator library with emphasis on ease of use

  by msvan on 1/9/2016, 7:45 AM with 0 comments

• Apps are bigger than Jesus

  by msvan on 1/6/2016, 12:44 AM with 0 comments

• A Short Lesson in Perspective (2012)

  by msvan on 9/3/2015, 3:48 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Part-time, remote jobs?

  by msvan on 8/30/2015, 4:36 PM with 12 comments

• The Transpacific Partnership and “Free Trade”

  by msvan on 7/6/2015, 11:08 PM with 0 comments

• The myth destroying America: Social mobility is beyond ordinary people’s control

  by msvan on 3/9/2015, 2:25 AM with 0 comments

• Hedonic treadmill

  by msvan on 2/3/2015, 5:03 AM with 0 comments

• by msvan on 2/2/2015, 8:43 AM with comments

• Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures

  by msvan on 1/6/2015, 7:59 AM with 1 comments

• Fiction is an outdated medium

  by msvan on 12/15/2014, 3:44 AM with 0 comments

• Leaving Academia (2013)

  by msvan on 12/5/2014, 7:25 AM with 74 comments

• ​Mandatory Mandarin: Portuguese kids take compulsory Chinese class

  by msvan on 11/4/2014, 2:42 AM with 0 comments

• Henry Box Brown

  by msvan on 10/1/2014, 5:20 AM with 0 comments

• Thousands rally in Hong Kong as democracy campaign heats up

  by msvan on 9/27/2014, 9:18 PM with 0 comments

• The Sierpinski Triangle page to end most Sierpinski Triangle pages

  by msvan on 8/25/2014, 1:59 PM with 0 comments

• Stockholm – it's not a coincidence

  by msvan on 6/18/2014, 8:55 PM with 106 comments

• Numbers Aplenty

  by msvan on 6/5/2014, 6:34 AM with 13 comments

• 24, the Monster, and quantum gravity

  by msvan on 6/3/2014, 11:08 AM with 52 comments

• Making Music is Hard

  by msvan on 5/3/2014, 4:52 PM with 0 comments

• Can I get a job at SpaceX after graduating from a low-ranked program?

  by msvan on 4/30/2014, 2:00 PM with 0 comments

• Albert Einstein: Why Socialism?

  by msvan on 4/29/2014, 11:17 PM with 0 comments

• English is Just Easier

  by msvan on 4/28/2014, 3:46 AM with 1 comments

• Your Looks and Online Dating (2009)

  by msvan on 4/20/2014, 9:25 PM with 1 comments

• The Value of a Degree

  by msvan on 4/17/2014, 11:23 AM with 0 comments

• Curiosity and Mathematics

  by msvan on 4/13/2014, 3:34 PM with 0 comments

• What's an efficient way to change my 200+ account passwords?

  by msvan on 4/12/2014, 12:05 PM with 1 comments

• Coq in a Hurry

  by msvan on 4/10/2014, 5:28 PM with 0 comments

• A not-so-brief aside on reigning in chaos (2012)

  by msvan on 4/6/2014, 11:21 PM with 0 comments

• by msvan on 4/3/2014, 11:25 AM with comments

• How Do You Know If A Startup Will "Make It"?

  by msvan on 4/2/2014, 3:47 PM with 0 comments

• V8: a tale of two compilers

  by msvan on 3/31/2014, 3:45 PM with 0 comments

• Static Single Assignment for functional programmers

  by msvan on 3/31/2014, 3:34 PM with 0 comments

• Ωmega Users' Guide

  by msvan on 3/30/2014, 7:59 PM with 0 comments

• Learning JavaScript Design Patterns

  by msvan on 3/29/2014, 10:47 PM with 0 comments

• Ethereum

  by msvan on 3/29/2014, 4:19 PM with 58 comments

• How come 32.5 = 31.5?

  by msvan on 2/12/2014, 11:08 PM with 0 comments

• HTTP/1.1 418 I'm a Teapot (RFC 2324)

  by msvan on 2/10/2014, 1:14 PM with 0 comments

• Why do chocolate chip cookies have 37% (1/e) chocolate in them?

  by msvan on 1/26/2014, 4:40 PM with 23 comments

• Machine Learning: A Love Story

  by msvan on 1/26/2014, 6:04 AM with 1 comments

• The Generic Dilemma (2009)

  by msvan on 1/21/2014, 11:32 PM with 0 comments

• What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs to Know About Encodings

  by msvan on 1/19/2014, 5:15 AM with 0 comments

• MetaOptimize Q+A - machine learning, natural language processing...

  by msvan on 1/15/2014, 4:44 AM with 0 comments

• Simo Häyhä - Shot 505 people with a sniper

  by msvan on 1/14/2014, 1:21 PM with 0 comments

• Predictious - The Bitcoin Prediction Market

  by msvan on 1/14/2014, 5:40 AM with 0 comments

• 7 Traits of Wantrepreneurs: How to convince yourself that you can't make it

  by msvan on 1/3/2014, 3:13 AM with 0 comments

• Connected China

  by msvan on 1/1/2014, 2:21 PM with 0 comments

• by msvan on 12/31/2013, 12:01 AM with comments

• Tydlig - A new kind of iPad calculator

  by msvan on 12/6/2013, 6:41 PM with 4 comments

• BitTorrent - a new P2P app (2001)

  by msvan on 12/4/2013, 1:14 AM with 0 comments

• World of Mathematics

  by msvan on 12/3/2013, 10:40 PM with 50 comments

• PayPal Could Embrace Bitcoin

  by msvan on 12/3/2013, 6:04 PM with 0 comments

• CS 6964 Image Processing: Image Mosaicing

  by msvan on 11/26/2013, 11:51 PM with 0 comments

• The Gigaom guide to deep learning: Who’s doing it, and why it matters

  by msvan on 11/25/2013, 9:21 PM with 0 comments

• Neural Networks Class

  by msvan on 11/25/2013, 1:52 PM with 0 comments

• Motivation behind Definition of Matrix Multiplication

  by msvan on 11/24/2013, 11:35 PM with 0 comments

• The world's longest domain name

  by msvan on 11/24/2013, 3:06 PM with 1 comments

• Facebook on Terminal

  by msvan on 11/23/2013, 9:10 PM with 0 comments

• by msvan on 11/23/2013, 3:21 PM with comments

• HTML5 Canvas Fluid Simulation

  by msvan on 11/19/2013, 10:15 PM with 2 comments

• Diophantus' Arithmetica

  by msvan on 11/19/2013, 3:15 PM with 0 comments

• Kernighan's Lever

  by msvan on 11/17/2013, 10:06 PM with 0 comments

• The Bitbuf

  by msvan on 11/17/2013, 9:53 PM with 0 comments

• Gosper curve

  by msvan on 11/15/2013, 11:20 PM with 0 comments

• A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart

  by msvan on 11/15/2013, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• Monads and Gonads (Douglas Crockford)

  by msvan on 11/6/2013, 11:24 AM with 0 comments

• The great reversal in the demand for skill and cognitive tasks

  by msvan on 11/5/2013, 11:50 PM with 0 comments

• Letters to a Young Poet (1903)

  by msvan on 11/3/2013, 7:04 PM with 0 comments

• The Correlation Between Music and Math: A Neurobiology Perspective

  by msvan on 10/30/2013, 1:44 AM with 0 comments

• Cantor's Diagonal Proof

  by msvan on 10/29/2013, 2:10 AM with 26 comments

• Letters of Note: Make Your Soul Grow

  by msvan on 10/28/2013, 5:27 PM with 0 comments

• An enormous theorem: The classification of finite simple groups

  by msvan on 10/28/2013, 1:15 AM with 20 comments

• C--

  by msvan on 10/27/2013, 12:04 PM with 72 comments

• Outside In

  by msvan on 10/25/2013, 12:56 PM with 0 comments

• NoUiSlider

  by msvan on 10/23/2013, 9:27 PM with 0 comments

• It Will Be Exhilarating

  by msvan on 10/23/2013, 4:42 PM with 0 comments

• Reset your life

  by msvan on 10/20/2013, 3:35 PM with 50 comments

• In 1897, an Indiana bill was going to redefine Pi

  by msvan on 10/17/2013, 1:29 PM with 13 comments

• Battery University: Basic to Advanced Battery Information

  by msvan on 9/30/2013, 1:31 PM with 0 comments

• Open Letter to My Students: No, You Cannot be a Professor (2011)

  by msvan on 9/23/2013, 8:27 PM with 109 comments

• The Revenue Table (imperial units edition)

  by msvan on 8/23/2013, 4:12 PM with 0 comments

• Amit’s Game Programming Information

  by msvan on 8/22/2013, 10:50 PM with 0 comments

• Letters of Note: Take your pick

  by msvan on 8/22/2013, 5:03 PM with 0 comments

• An Earthshaking Announcement - Donald Knuth (2010)

  by msvan on 8/18/2013, 9:02 PM with 0 comments

• Cryptomnesia

  by msvan on 8/18/2013, 1:50 AM with 0 comments

• What Tau Sounds Like

  by msvan on 8/16/2013, 11:41 AM with 1 comments

• Cinema of Nigeria

  by msvan on 8/14/2013, 2:31 PM with 0 comments

• The Wow signal

  by msvan on 8/13/2013, 6:55 AM with 0 comments

• Pixel Shaders: Proposal for an Interactive Introduction to Graphics Programming

  by msvan on 8/11/2013, 5:54 PM with 21 comments

• Flat Surface Shader

  by msvan on 8/11/2013, 4:59 PM with 36 comments

• OpenFL: High-performance framework for desktop, iOS, Android, HTML5 [...]

  by msvan on 8/10/2013, 6:40 PM with 0 comments

• You should date an illiterate girl

  by msvan on 8/10/2013, 6:06 PM with 0 comments

• Silent Circle: Another U.S. secure email service closes to protect users

  by msvan on 8/9/2013, 1:17 PM with 0 comments

• The Hyperbolic Nature of Dried Fruit Slices

  by msvan on 8/7/2013, 1:14 PM with 0 comments

• Spotify vs Musicians: 10 things to read to better understand the debate

  by msvan on 8/4/2013, 9:17 PM with 0 comments

• From North Korea With Love: A Tablet With No Internet Access

  by msvan on 8/3/2013, 8:54 PM with 0 comments

• Uruguay Moves To Make Marijuana Legal

  by msvan on 8/1/2013, 6:00 PM with 0 comments

• Russia To Ban Swearing On The Internet | Techdirt

  by msvan on 7/30/2013, 12:09 PM with 0 comments

• Why China Has Two Internets, Not One, And What To Do About It

  by msvan on 6/29/2013, 1:34 PM with 0 comments

• The Reason Why Nobody Likes Your Content

  by msvan on 6/9/2013, 6:59 PM with 1 comments

• Wyden Warns of Potential Public Backlash From Allowing Secret Law (2011)

  by msvan on 6/8/2013, 11:04 AM with 0 comments

• Printer steganography

  by msvan on 6/7/2013, 2:41 PM with 0 comments

• Life hacks from the dark side

  by msvan on 6/6/2013, 6:55 PM with 0 comments

• Using Python to Code by Voice

  by msvan on 6/6/2013, 6:38 PM with 0 comments

• Babbage Difference Engine in Motion

  by msvan on 6/6/2013, 12:27 PM with 0 comments

• On Artificial Intelligence

  by msvan on 6/6/2013, 12:18 PM with 0 comments

• by msvan on 6/4/2013, 9:06 PM with comments

• Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness

  by msvan on 5/31/2013, 9:42 PM with 8 comments

• Jaron Lanier: Why Facebook Isn't Free

  by msvan on 5/31/2013, 1:34 PM with 0 comments

• HyperText Design Issues: Topology

  by msvan on 5/30/2013, 5:22 PM with 0 comments

• Ultimate Guide to SaaS Pricing

  by msvan on 5/25/2013, 1:08 AM with 1 comments

• Aaron Swartz Documentary

  by msvan on 5/24/2013, 10:49 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: If you weren't coding for a living, what would you like to be doing?

  by msvan on 5/21/2013, 7:13 PM with 16 comments

• Larry Page Complete Q & A at Google I/O 2013

  by msvan on 5/16/2013, 8:41 PM with 0 comments

• Speaking English is Betrayal

  by msvan on 5/11/2013, 8:36 PM with 1 comments

• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good

  by msvan on 5/10/2013, 9:30 PM with 65 comments

• Design for the New Normal (Revisited) | superflux

  by msvan on 5/6/2013, 10:00 PM with 0 comments

• How to Fold a Julia Fractal

  by msvan on 4/28/2013, 1:34 PM with 0 comments

• Creating a Radial Menu in CSS

  by msvan on 4/26/2013, 10:00 PM with 79 comments

• Building a Rotating CSS Cube (Stack Overflow)

  by msvan on 4/26/2013, 9:59 PM with 0 comments

• How I sold 22 copies of my game in 3 weeks on Android

  by msvan on 4/25/2013, 12:34 AM with 2 comments

• Four must-read predictions about the Chinese mobile game market in 2013

  by msvan on 4/23/2013, 9:51 PM with 0 comments

• The Best Card Trick (Clever Math)

  by msvan on 4/18/2013, 6:28 AM with 0 comments

• How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves

  by msvan on 4/18/2013, 5:17 AM with 34 comments

• China's cyber-hacking: Getting Ugly

  by msvan on 2/23/2013, 10:14 AM with 0 comments