vorador

POSTS

• Show HN: Rebuilding GPT2 inference in ~500 lines of (commented) code

  by vorador on 8/26/2025, 2:12 PM with 0 comments

• Tell HN: Please remember to fill out an 83(b) election after joining a startup

  by vorador on 8/14/2023, 2:29 PM with 4 comments

• Being Grateful

  by vorador on 11/24/2022, 10:15 PM with 0 comments

• Heroku resetting passwords for “a portion” of their users immediately

  by vorador on 5/4/2022, 12:36 AM with 168 comments

• Show HN: Coding interviews stress me out, so I built a takehome test tool

  by vorador on 3/22/2022, 1:50 PM with 15 comments

• The Abysmal State of Macintosh Emulation (2020)

  by vorador on 2/13/2022, 9:31 AM with 2 comments

• Let's build an online code sandbox

  by vorador on 1/2/2018, 5:08 PM with 1 comments

• Show HN: A very simple Lisp interpreter in 250 lines of literate Python

  by vorador on 7/1/2017, 4:41 PM with 1 comments

• Duke Nukem 3D source code review (2013)

  by vorador on 5/6/2016, 2:31 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What's your best automation hack?

  by vorador on 3/22/2016, 2:51 PM with 0 comments

• Anatomy of a crypto vulnerability

  by vorador on 3/18/2016, 5:50 PM with 0 comments

• 3 Things I Learned as an Engineer Doing Customer Support

  by vorador on 12/24/2015, 6:29 AM with 0 comments

• Recreating retro shaders with WebGL

  by vorador on 12/20/2015, 11:06 PM with 0 comments

• The Advertising Bubble

  by vorador on 11/16/2015, 5:54 AM with 325 comments

• Profiling Python in Production

  by vorador on 9/29/2015, 6:07 PM with 2 comments

• Sales page teardown: Snappy

  by vorador on 1/6/2015, 7:57 AM with 1 comments

• The Biology of Sloppy Code (2010)

  by vorador on 11/13/2014, 2:15 PM with 1 comments

• Valve’s Design Process for Creating Half-Life

  by vorador on 9/1/2014, 5:33 AM with 0 comments

• Debuggers: Russ Cox

  by vorador on 7/15/2014, 6:52 AM with 0 comments

• Debuggers: Marc-André Cournoyer

  by vorador on 7/8/2014, 7:30 AM with 0 comments

• James Hague

  by vorador on 7/1/2014, 9:56 AM with 13 comments

• Debuggers: My heisenbug

  by vorador on 6/17/2014, 6:45 AM with 0 comments

• Show HN: I ask other programmers about the interesting bugs they've met

  by vorador on 6/10/2014, 6:19 AM with 0 comments

• When programmers write sale pages

  by vorador on 4/16/2014, 5:40 AM with 5 comments

• All The World's A Stage

  by vorador on 4/7/2014, 6:20 AM with 0 comments

• You probably shouldn't leave your job to work on an indie game.

  by vorador on 3/28/2014, 7:02 AM with 0 comments

• Steam, Humble Bundles and sales cannibalization

  by vorador on 3/9/2014, 5:07 PM with 0 comments

• Programming and negativity

  by vorador on 3/1/2014, 7:38 AM with 0 comments

• Make Your Own AngularJS, Part 1: Scopes And Digest

  by vorador on 2/10/2014, 7:30 AM with 0 comments

• Building JavaScript Projects With Make

  by vorador on 2/6/2014, 1:54 PM with 0 comments

• The ups and downs of trampolining

  by vorador on 1/26/2014, 7:19 PM with 0 comments

• Sorting and searching at the library

  by vorador on 12/23/2013, 9:44 AM with 0 comments

• Kite status report 1

  by vorador on 12/12/2013, 8:00 AM with 0 comments

• Show HN: I'm working on an open-source Gmail replacement

  by vorador on 11/6/2013, 6:57 AM with 180 comments

• We don't want your coffescript

  by vorador on 9/28/2013, 6:48 AM with 50 comments

• Flattery

  by vorador on 3/13/2013, 5:05 PM with 0 comments

• How The Economist sells more subscriptions

  by vorador on 9/29/2012, 7:15 AM with 1 comments

• Doom 3 Source code review

  by vorador on 6/9/2012, 5:24 AM with 60 comments

• Time Machine for every Unix out there

  by vorador on 3/9/2012, 6:36 AM with 0 comments

• An interview with Anders Heljsberg (2003)

  by vorador on 9/6/2010, 7:12 PM with 0 comments

• Who goes Nazi?

  by vorador on 8/5/2010, 4:00 PM with 0 comments

• Walt Disney's 25 million reasons to re-release Snow White

  by vorador on 6/13/2010, 5:46 PM with 0 comments

• How to Create Native-looking iPhone/iPad apps in HTML

  by vorador on 5/10/2010, 6:11 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What makes a presentation great ?

  by vorador on 4/22/2010, 4:41 PM with 4 comments

• Stewart Brand: From hippy icon to nuclear enthusiast

  by vorador on 4/20/2010, 8:48 AM with 0 comments

• He Conquered the Conjecture

  by vorador on 4/19/2010, 4:51 PM with 0 comments

• The Party's Over: China's Endgame

  by vorador on 4/15/2010, 7:40 PM with 37 comments

• Ask HN: Do you use mind-mapping software ?

  by vorador on 4/14/2010, 6:33 PM with 0 comments

• Steve Martin on being funny and more

  by vorador on 3/29/2010, 11:58 AM with 1 comments

• Management secrets of the Grateful Dead

  by vorador on 3/3/2010, 7:58 PM with 0 comments

• Roll Your Own DSL

  by vorador on 2/23/2010, 7:40 PM with 0 comments

• Continuations Made Simple and Illustrated

  by vorador on 2/21/2010, 6:29 PM with 5 comments

• The Rule of Least Power

  by vorador on 2/16/2010, 7:02 PM with 0 comments

• Determining control-flow and types in scripting languages

  by vorador on 2/12/2010, 7:31 AM with 0 comments

• A Revealing Interview With Steve Jobs (1994)

  by vorador on 1/31/2010, 3:20 PM with 0 comments

• Shouts and echoes

  by vorador on 1/27/2010, 8:59 AM with 0 comments

• An audience with Brian Eno

  by vorador on 1/24/2010, 8:16 AM with 8 comments

• Keywords: Anger

  by vorador on 1/24/2010, 8:02 AM with 0 comments

• What are the reasons why startups usually do better than big entreprises ?

  by vorador on 1/22/2010, 10:14 AM with 0 comments

• Simon Peyton Jones on How to give a good research talk

  by vorador on 1/10/2010, 6:23 PM with 0 comments

• Write a web browser in python

  by vorador on 1/9/2010, 6:15 AM with 3 comments

• Why You Should Use OpenGL and Not DirectX – a rebuttal

  by vorador on 1/8/2010, 7:31 PM with 0 comments

• Ruby and C (Part 1)

  by vorador on 1/4/2010, 8:31 PM with 1 comments

• Offline Web Applications

  by vorador on 1/4/2010, 6:25 AM with 1 comments

• Roger Federer as Religious Experience

  by vorador on 1/4/2010, 6:19 AM with 12 comments

• Bootstrapping a startup with Smalltalk (2006)

  by vorador on 12/29/2009, 2:31 PM with 7 comments

• Should Old Articles Be Forgot

  by vorador on 12/29/2009, 6:52 AM with 0 comments

• Faster, NASA, Faster

  by vorador on 12/21/2009, 10:21 AM with 51 comments

• I can make it arbitrarily fast if I don’t actually have to make it work.

  by vorador on 12/15/2009, 7:09 AM with 1 comments

• Tinywm, a window manager in 50 lines of C

  by vorador on 12/14/2009, 7:11 PM with 8 comments

• Termite : Erlang-style concurrency for Gambit Scheme

  by vorador on 12/14/2009, 11:38 AM with 7 comments

• Mediterranean Is Scary Laboratory of Ocean Futures

  by vorador on 12/13/2009, 8:06 PM with 1 comments

• The Ten Brands That Will Disappear In 2010

  by vorador on 12/11/2009, 6:48 AM with 0 comments

• What Not To Build

  by vorador on 12/9/2009, 2:43 PM with 72 comments

• Dicing with life

  by vorador on 12/8/2009, 10:58 AM with 0 comments

• Why So Few In Dubai Saw The Debt Crisis Coming

  by vorador on 12/8/2009, 6:32 AM with 1 comments

• The Landscape of Music

  by vorador on 12/5/2009, 3:58 PM with 13 comments

• What We Shouldn't Learn From Steve Jobs

  by vorador on 11/29/2009, 10:37 AM with 0 comments

• Randy Pausch lecturing on time management

  by vorador on 11/24/2009, 6:14 PM with 0 comments

• Unburied bodies tell the tale of Detroit

  by vorador on 11/22/2009, 8:20 PM with 0 comments

• How I quickly recovered from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

  by vorador on 11/17/2009, 6:46 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Good websites about UI design

  by vorador on 11/11/2009, 7:45 PM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: Any startup looking for an intern ?

  by vorador on 10/22/2009, 8:54 PM with 0 comments

• What happened? A rant about the work ethic of many musicians

  by vorador on 10/21/2009, 3:38 PM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: What do you wish you had known before starting up ?

  by vorador on 10/16/2009, 9:36 AM with 34 comments

• Goldman Sachs Is Robbing Us Blind

  by vorador on 10/16/2009, 6:03 AM with 42 comments

• Beep-It: A Portable, Open, DIY Optical Theremin

  by vorador on 10/6/2009, 5:41 AM with 0 comments

• SCO: not dead yet?

  by vorador on 9/9/2009, 8:12 AM with 0 comments

• Kaleidoscope: Imlementing a language with llvm

  by vorador on 7/16/2009, 11:25 AM with 0 comments

• Limewire is a bunch of hypocrites

  by vorador on 7/3/2009, 12:49 PM with 11 comments

• Can Games Become 'Virtual Murder?'

  by vorador on 7/1/2009, 4:44 PM with 0 comments

• Linux Kernel Design Patterns - Part 1

  by vorador on 6/28/2009, 6:28 AM with 0 comments

• Debugging the Mars Pathfinder

  by vorador on 6/22/2009, 3:17 PM with 2 comments

• Darcs' Theory of patches

  by vorador on 6/18/2009, 2:55 PM with 8 comments

• The Shrinking of Detroit

  by vorador on 6/14/2009, 6:17 PM with 22 comments

• Alan Cox: How I ported Linux to the 68k Macintosh

  by vorador on 6/10/2009, 4:26 AM with 8 comments

• by vorador on 5/28/2009, 12:30 PM with comments

• Why Church chose lambda

  by vorador on 5/27/2009, 6:03 AM with 0 comments

• Growing a Language, by Guy Steele [video]

  by vorador on 5/26/2009, 7:07 AM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: I am bored. What programming language should I learn ?

  by vorador on 5/21/2009, 10:45 AM with 12 comments

• Twittjr, or using a PC-Jr to browse twitter

  by vorador on 5/13/2009, 8:27 PM with 7 comments

• Rob Pike on Richard Stallman

  by vorador on 5/13/2009, 6:13 PM with 54 comments

• Reverse-Engineering DOS 1.0 - Part 1: The Boot Sector

  by vorador on 5/7/2009, 3:07 PM with 0 comments

• SARS Sleuth Tracks Swine Flu

  by vorador on 5/5/2009, 4:35 PM with 0 comments

• Old-school programming techniques you probably don't miss

  by vorador on 4/29/2009, 4:30 PM with 31 comments

• The Long Now Blog : “Endangered Languages, Lost Knowledge and the Future”

  by vorador on 4/25/2009, 7:28 AM with 0 comments

• The Dream Scheme Operating System

  by vorador on 4/23/2009, 8:08 PM with 0 comments

• Stifflog - Stiff asks, great programmers answer

  by vorador on 4/22/2009, 6:30 PM with 3 comments

• Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson

  by vorador on 4/22/2009, 6:24 PM with 9 comments

• Twitter brain interface

  by vorador on 4/21/2009, 3:09 PM with 1 comments

• Scala for Java Refugees

  by vorador on 4/20/2009, 7:10 PM with 0 comments

• YouTube - A Narrative History of BSD by Kirk McKusick

  by vorador on 4/20/2009, 5:18 PM with 0 comments

• Getting Cloudy: Clojure on Google App Engine

  by vorador on 4/14/2009, 6:53 AM with 0 comments

• Courtney Love redefines music piracy and blasts the RIAA

  by vorador on 4/9/2009, 9:08 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Any startup looking for a summer intern ?

  by vorador on 4/8/2009, 10:39 AM with 14 comments

• Ask HN: Hacker News for musicians?

  by vorador on 4/5/2009, 5:40 PM with 5 comments

• The Lanchester Marketing strategy

  by vorador on 3/27/2009, 7:51 AM with 0 comments

• Secure Programming for Unix

  by vorador on 3/25/2009, 11:46 AM with 0 comments

• Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python

  by vorador on 3/24/2009, 7:02 PM with 128 comments

• Cook, a smart make replacement

  by vorador on 3/23/2009, 11:45 AM with 0 comments

• Creating passionate users : the case for easter eggs

  by vorador on 3/20/2009, 7:17 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Interesting code to read

  by vorador on 3/11/2009, 5:25 PM with 5 comments

• Disruptive innovations and why great firms are so helpless to survive the impact.

  by vorador on 1/11/2009, 3:27 PM with 1 comments

• Croquet, or the future of virtual worlds

  by vorador on 1/5/2009, 9:32 AM with 0 comments

• Mozilla Ubiquity is the future of web browsers

  by vorador on 1/2/2009, 8:04 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Rate my webapp

  by vorador on 12/23/2008, 6:44 PM with 4 comments

• Ask HN : What article should I print ?

  by vorador on 12/17/2008, 3:31 PM with 5 comments

• Do modern IDEs make us dumber?

  by vorador on 12/5/2008, 8:38 PM with 37 comments

• Use mnemosyne to remember easily things

  by vorador on 11/30/2008, 7:18 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Any startup interested by a junior intern ?

  by vorador on 11/20/2008, 5:50 AM with 6 comments