nivethan

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• Posthog Trash

  by nivethan on 11/1/2025, 6:06 AM with 0 comments

• HTML Modals

  by nivethan on 10/21/2025, 11:46 AM with 0 comments

• Life-Size Human Statue Found at Göbeklitepe

  by nivethan on 9/30/2025, 9:26 PM with 2 comments

• Remind Me in 10k Years

  by nivethan on 9/29/2025, 4:37 PM with 0 comments

• The Magnus Archives Transcripts

  by nivethan on 9/24/2025, 2:21 AM with 0 comments

• Silly booby traps in FreeBSD and NetBSD

  by nivethan on 9/19/2025, 1:14 PM with 0 comments

• Five Whys

  by nivethan on 9/13/2025, 2:52 AM with 1 comments

• A Web Framework for Zig

  by nivethan on 9/11/2025, 5:42 PM with 23 comments

• The National UFO Reporting Center Online Database

  by nivethan on 9/9/2025, 4:01 PM with 0 comments

• SCP-1313 – Equation for Bear

  by nivethan on 9/2/2025, 9:27 PM with 0 comments

• Kitty Terminal Protocol Extensions

  by nivethan on 9/1/2025, 5:10 AM with 0 comments

• Why Go Out (2013)

  by nivethan on 8/25/2025, 6:00 PM with 0 comments

• Two Sentence Journal

  by nivethan on 8/12/2025, 3:48 PM with 0 comments

• Reader-LM: Small Language Models for Converting HTML to Markdown (2024)

  by nivethan on 8/11/2025, 6:43 PM with 0 comments

• The Search Engine for Vintage Computers

  by nivethan on 7/8/2025, 4:20 AM with 1 comments

• Touching the back wall of the Apple store

  by nivethan on 6/27/2025, 2:45 AM with 226 comments

• Vanilla Web Components

  by nivethan on 5/30/2025, 3:37 PM with 0 comments

• Stop Flirting with Me Just Because I'm Breathing

  by nivethan on 5/22/2025, 11:02 PM with 3 comments

• Word Vomits (2012-2025)

  by nivethan on 5/20/2025, 8:43 PM with 0 comments

• Super Creepy Laptop Ad

  by nivethan on 5/20/2025, 7:20 PM with 1 comments

• Mountains with a Fuji View

  by nivethan on 5/18/2025, 6:02 AM with 0 comments

• If nothing is curated, how do we find things

  by nivethan on 5/17/2025, 3:51 PM with 253 comments

• A Pose Reference Tool

  by nivethan on 5/17/2025, 2:42 PM with 0 comments

• W3C Core Style Sampler

  by nivethan on 5/14/2025, 4:15 AM with 0 comments

• About Green Screens and mouse-clickable UIs

  by nivethan on 5/12/2025, 4:50 AM with 0 comments

• Minimalist Mobile Phone

  by nivethan on 4/29/2025, 4:09 AM with 1 comments

• How to program a text adventure in C

  by nivethan on 4/27/2025, 5:25 AM with 50 comments

• We hold our gadgets (2015)

  by nivethan on 4/26/2025, 4:44 AM with 0 comments

• by nivethan on 4/26/2025, 4:43 AM with comments

• Miniwebproxy – Proxy to the Miniweb (2017)

  by nivethan on 4/22/2025, 6:56 PM with 0 comments

• Using a dedicated administration workstation for a home infrastructure

  by nivethan on 4/22/2025, 6:53 PM with 0 comments

• Are Racks Bad for Snakes? [video]

  by nivethan on 4/22/2025, 1:20 PM with 0 comments

• Enrichment Increases Brain Volume in Snakes [video]

  by nivethan on 4/11/2025, 1:18 PM with 1 comments

• Learning to Program with Haiku

  by nivethan on 4/10/2025, 3:41 AM with 64 comments

• The Church FAQ

  by nivethan on 3/14/2025, 2:00 AM with 173 comments

• by nivethan on 2/28/2025, 5:06 AM with comments

• Animal Grief (2015)

  by nivethan on 1/7/2025, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• Build a Text Editor with Rust (2021)

  by nivethan on 12/12/2024, 4:30 AM with 0 comments

• National Security Just Called, They Can't See the Email Traffic

  by nivethan on 11/15/2024, 8:20 PM with 14 comments

• How Competition Affects Writing

  by nivethan on 11/13/2024, 5:11 PM with 0 comments

• Hallucinatory 'voices' shaped by local culture (2014)

  by nivethan on 11/5/2024, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• You Don't Learn (2016)

  by nivethan on 10/27/2024, 3:02 PM with 0 comments

• A Simple and Efficient Implementation for Small Databases [pdf]

  by nivethan on 10/27/2024, 2:56 PM with 1 comments

• Ancient hominin hands were a lot more like ours than we thought

  by nivethan on 10/22/2024, 6:41 PM with 0 comments

• Steve Jobs "never had any designs. He has not designed a single project" (2010)

  by nivethan on 9/19/2024, 3:15 PM with 2 comments

• The Photos That Exposed American Child Labor (2016)

  by nivethan on 9/17/2024, 6:33 PM with 0 comments

• Feed Score, Take One

  by nivethan on 8/23/2024, 2:41 PM with 0 comments

• The Ugliest Beautiful Codebase

  by nivethan on 8/3/2024, 2:46 AM with 0 comments

• What Is Generative Art? (2022)

  by nivethan on 5/19/2024, 11:43 PM with 77 comments

• Earners vs. Owners

  by nivethan on 5/17/2024, 7:13 PM with 0 comments

• American Folklore Map

  by nivethan on 4/17/2024, 2:57 PM with 0 comments

• The GUI should be better. A lot better

  by nivethan on 4/10/2024, 4:42 AM with 2 comments

• The Design of Evil (2019)

  by nivethan on 4/9/2024, 6:35 PM with 0 comments

• Inventing – For the Worse? (2017)

  by nivethan on 4/1/2024, 4:19 PM with 0 comments

• Is It Time for You to Set Up Tailscale ACLs?

  by nivethan on 3/9/2024, 3:46 PM with 0 comments

• Svelte 5 Runes – only dead fish follow the current

  by nivethan on 2/3/2024, 3:27 AM with 0 comments

• Photos of Silicon Valley

  by nivethan on 1/31/2024, 3:02 PM with 13 comments

• Black Ships and Samurai

  by nivethan on 1/28/2024, 5:30 PM with 0 comments

• Memex Revisited [pdf]

  by nivethan on 1/11/2024, 5:10 PM with 1 comments

• Drawing.garden

  by nivethan on 1/10/2024, 11:32 PM with 131 comments

• Calling Out the Unsaid

  by nivethan on 1/10/2024, 12:33 AM with 0 comments

• You can't do that because I hate you

  by nivethan on 12/28/2023, 8:01 PM with 203 comments

• Terra Amata (Wikipedia)

  by nivethan on 12/25/2023, 5:09 PM with 0 comments

• R83 – The Pick Operating System and Database

  by nivethan on 12/20/2023, 2:34 PM with 1 comments

• Quantum Bogo Sort (2012)

  by nivethan on 11/17/2023, 3:24 PM with 0 comments

• Dave Learns How to Fork (2021)

  by nivethan on 11/12/2023, 3:13 PM with 0 comments

• What if we replace guns and bullets with bows and arrows? (2022)

  by nivethan on 11/10/2023, 1:37 PM with 182 comments

• Endemic SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health

  by nivethan on 11/7/2023, 2:42 PM with 0 comments

• Digital Abyss vs. Personal Gardens

  by nivethan on 8/31/2023, 3:01 PM with 0 comments

• Extend a C/C++ Project with Zig (2021)

  by nivethan on 8/22/2023, 1:48 PM with 36 comments

• by nivethan on 8/20/2023, 2:40 PM with comments

• A Dead Simple File Upload System

  by nivethan on 8/10/2023, 1:02 AM with 1 comments

• I Quit Medicine (2016)

  by nivethan on 8/7/2023, 10:23 PM with 0 comments

• Design and Disappointment

  by nivethan on 7/21/2023, 1:19 PM with 0 comments

• by nivethan on 7/21/2023, 1:17 PM with comments

• Reddit: Let's rewrite a better one in Common Lisp (2005)

  by nivethan on 7/6/2023, 4:31 AM with 2 comments

• Clash of the Islanders (2021)

  by nivethan on 7/4/2023, 1:39 PM with 0 comments

• Stupid Template Languages (2010)

  by nivethan on 6/16/2023, 3:08 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What are some interesting and different shells environments?

  by nivethan on 6/8/2023, 11:52 PM with 0 comments

• Evolutionary Tree of Life – Homininae

  by nivethan on 6/7/2023, 1:10 AM with 0 comments

• ActivityPub.Academy

  by nivethan on 5/10/2023, 5:56 PM with 0 comments

• Implementing Wc -l in a Browser

  by nivethan on 4/26/2023, 3:32 PM with 0 comments

• Why do prime numbers make these spirals? (2019)

  by nivethan on 4/26/2023, 12:14 AM with 100 comments

• Space Elevator

  by nivethan on 4/19/2023, 4:14 PM with 207 comments

• Image Handling in Web Development

  by nivethan on 4/14/2023, 6:34 PM with 0 comments

• Chasing Rainbows

  by nivethan on 4/7/2023, 3:32 PM with 0 comments

• Orphans of Netscape

  by nivethan on 3/14/2023, 6:42 PM with 0 comments

• Becoming the first DevRel at Tailscale

  by nivethan on 1/31/2023, 4:17 PM with 51 comments

• A coastline 100M years ago influences modern election results

  by nivethan on 1/19/2023, 7:40 PM with 0 comments

• Messina Denaro: How Italy caught ‘most wanted’ mafia boss after 30 years

  by nivethan on 1/18/2023, 3:05 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Koinos Kosmos – News from Around the World

  by nivethan on 1/16/2023, 5:13 AM with 4 comments

• How many Sundays can a person enjoy in their life?

  by nivethan on 1/6/2023, 9:25 PM with 0 comments

• Forty-Two

  by nivethan on 1/4/2023, 4:51 PM with 0 comments

• U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets

  by nivethan on 12/28/2022, 4:24 PM with 0 comments

• Game Mechanic Explorer

  by nivethan on 12/21/2022, 7:50 PM with 0 comments

• by nivethan on 11/25/2022, 8:36 PM with comments

• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

  by nivethan on 11/10/2022, 4:38 PM with 1 comments

• Dabblers and Blowhards

  by nivethan on 11/9/2022, 8:49 PM with 15 comments

• OpenSSL Alarm Fatigue

  by nivethan on 11/2/2022, 3:01 AM with 1 comments

• Bitcoin and Economic Nihilism

  by nivethan on 10/10/2022, 12:17 AM with 5 comments

• Tutorial – Write a Shell in C (2015)

  by nivethan on 9/28/2022, 4:53 AM with 0 comments

• How to build and boot a custom disk image in QEMU

  by nivethan on 9/7/2022, 3:51 PM with 0 comments

• Simple Programming Problems

  by nivethan on 9/2/2022, 3:44 PM with 1 comments

• Filesystem hierarchy standard (2013)

  by nivethan on 7/29/2022, 2:16 PM with 50 comments

• by nivethan on 7/3/2022, 4:29 PM with comments

• Writing Coherently at Scale

  by nivethan on 6/30/2022, 5:44 PM with 0 comments

• Site Update: Hero Images

  by nivethan on 6/8/2022, 7:30 PM with 0 comments

• An Explanation For –?

  by nivethan on 4/14/2022, 4:03 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: LeftWrite, a site to slow down and write about what you read

  by nivethan on 1/7/2022, 3:00 PM with 2 comments

• Switching from Nginx to Caddy

  by nivethan on 1/2/2022, 8:52 AM with 1 comments

• by nivethan on 12/31/2021, 4:17 AM with comments

• The Demise of the Girlboss

  by nivethan on 9/6/2021, 1:19 AM with 0 comments

• Working Better in Windows 98

  by nivethan on 8/26/2021, 2:34 PM with 0 comments

• Black woman charged more than white man for the exact same Uber ride in Toronto

  by nivethan on 8/19/2021, 10:34 PM with 3 comments

• Cloud Identification Guide

  by nivethan on 7/15/2021, 6:19 PM with 0 comments

• PoolsideFM Is Becoming Poolsuite

  by nivethan on 5/28/2021, 2:23 AM with comments

• A Web Server in Bash

  by nivethan on 5/1/2021, 5:52 PM with 0 comments

• Standard Chair and Table

  by nivethan on 4/14/2021, 7:39 PM with 0 comments

• Reptyr: Changing a Process's Controlling Terminal(2011)

  by nivethan on 11/25/2020, 2:16 PM with 0 comments

• A Gemini Client in Rust

  by nivethan on 11/10/2020, 2:19 AM with comments

• Show HN: A Hacker News clone in rust tutorial

  by nivethan on 10/27/2020, 6:47 AM with comments

• Robot’s parents proud of her for finally passing CAPTCHA test

  by nivethan on 10/23/2020, 12:24 AM with comments

• A Qqgamehall Storm

  by nivethan on 5/19/2020, 5:10 AM with 0 comments

• Firefox Array.sort isn't a stable sort (switch to MergeSort)(2003)

  by nivethan on 5/2/2020, 2:43 AM with 0 comments

• Identifying Fake YM2612s

  by nivethan on 3/1/2020, 3:07 PM with 0 comments

• Text Manipulation Online – The Easy Way

  by nivethan on 2/26/2020, 2:56 PM with 3 comments

• So Long: A Common but Mysterious Goodbye

  by nivethan on 1/22/2020, 9:40 PM with 1 comments