wmat

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• Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI

  by wmat on 6/24/2025, 4:02 PM with 1 comments

• A Quick Journey into the Linux Kernel

  by wmat on 4/16/2025, 2:44 PM with 0 comments

• Powering your Hugo blog with Bluesky Comments

  by wmat on 1/21/2025, 3:50 PM with 1 comments

• by wmat on 12/9/2024, 4:50 PM with comments

• Improving Linux networking performance with io_uring and memcached

  by wmat on 12/9/2024, 4:46 PM with 0 comments

• The Next Front in the US-China Battle over Chips

  by wmat on 1/12/2024, 1:34 PM with 0 comments

• OpenAI setup a multi-million deal to buy chips from Altman-backed company

  by wmat on 12/6/2023, 7:32 PM with 18 comments

• When Sri Lanka Banned Synthetic Fertilizers, the Country Imploded

  by wmat on 9/12/2022, 6:05 PM with 6 comments

• Intel Pathfinder IDE for RISC-V Released. Free for Community Users

  by wmat on 8/30/2022, 7:13 PM with 1 comments

• Professor Edward Lank, 1972–2022

  by wmat on 3/29/2022, 5:35 PM with 0 comments

• Geekisp Is Closing Down

  by wmat on 1/21/2021, 8:39 PM with 0 comments

• IBM Supercomputer Summit Attacks Coronavirus

  by wmat on 3/20/2020, 6:36 PM with 0 comments

• by wmat on 3/20/2020, 6:31 PM with comments

• Effects of Personality Traits on Pull Request Acceptance

  by wmat on 3/16/2020, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• 'More than we expected': Ocearch spots 5 great white sharks off Cape Breton

  by wmat on 9/23/2019, 7:39 PM with 0 comments

• by wmat on 5/18/2018, 6:22 PM with comments

• Are Aliens Trying to Contact Earth?

  by wmat on 12/24/2016, 12:26 AM with 2 comments

• Linux 2017 – The Road to Hell

  by wmat on 7/13/2016, 7:48 PM with 0 comments

• Born for It

  by wmat on 4/25/2016, 9:43 PM with 0 comments

• The Greatest Introductory RaspberryPi Hacking Article Ever

  by wmat on 2/9/2016, 1:56 PM with 0 comments

• Is Ian Murdock OK?

  by wmat on 12/29/2015, 3:05 AM with comments

• Euclidean Circles

  by wmat on 12/8/2015, 3:13 PM with 0 comments

• Hummingbird Hunting with Millennium Falcon Drone

  by wmat on 11/9/2015, 12:27 AM with comments

• Paul Bigsby: His Guitars and Inventions

  by wmat on 11/8/2015, 1:32 PM with 0 comments

• Variations on Stupid

  by wmat on 11/7/2015, 4:16 PM with 0 comments

• Is Psychology a Science?

  by wmat on 11/7/2015, 4:11 PM with 2 comments

• Cold War Era Hardware Keyloggers

  by wmat on 11/6/2015, 8:20 PM with 0 comments

• Sheep Farts Force Malaysian Bound Flight Emergency Landing

  by wmat on 11/5/2015, 2:41 AM with 0 comments

• Pea whistle steganography

  by wmat on 11/4/2015, 1:22 AM with 0 comments

• Gravitation Description and Equations

  by wmat on 11/4/2015, 1:03 AM with 0 comments

• Restoring Mars: A Strategy to prepare Mars for human colonization

  by wmat on 11/4/2015, 12:59 AM with 0 comments

• Secret Radio Stations by the Numbers

  by wmat on 10/29/2015, 4:12 PM with 0 comments

• Satellite Finder Online

  by wmat on 10/29/2015, 4:07 PM with 2 comments

• Satellite Finder Online

  by wmat on 10/29/2015, 3:16 AM with 0 comments

• A Society of Victims (2006)

  by wmat on 10/29/2015, 3:15 AM with 0 comments

• Five Things Old Programmers Should Remember

  by wmat on 10/16/2015, 1:41 AM with 0 comments

• Why You Should Join Our Startup

  by wmat on 10/9/2015, 7:24 PM with comments

• Ranking the Actors That Have Played Steve Wozniak

  by wmat on 10/8/2015, 11:24 PM with 0 comments

• Linux on Android

  by wmat on 10/4/2015, 2:41 AM with 0 comments

• Amazon EC2 as a Build Server

  by wmat on 9/15/2015, 7:41 PM with 0 comments

• About the Systemd controversy

  by wmat on 8/31/2015, 12:34 AM with 2 comments

• Space booze? Why NASA just sent whiskey to the ISS

  by wmat on 8/24/2015, 11:15 PM with 0 comments

• Taking Action Against Harassment in Tech

  by wmat on 6/13/2015, 1:34 PM with comments

• Free Embedded Linux with Buildroot Training Course

  by wmat on 6/9/2015, 1:31 AM with 0 comments

• Aswesome Craigslist Add for a Genetic Engineer

  by wmat on 4/10/2015, 1:31 PM with 1 comments

• Learn Unix the Hard Way

  by wmat on 1/18/2015, 2:59 PM with 17 comments

• Debt Portraits

  by wmat on 1/14/2015, 2:43 AM with 0 comments

• What Terrorists Want from You

  by wmat on 1/14/2015, 2:41 AM with 0 comments

• Why ACPI on ARM?

  by wmat on 1/14/2015, 2:33 AM with 0 comments

• BSDCan Call for Papers Ending Soon

  by wmat on 1/14/2015, 2:29 AM with 0 comments

• My OpenBSD Story

  by wmat on 12/28/2014, 7:50 PM with 32 comments

• Why E-Voting Will Always Be a Bad Idea

  by wmat on 12/20/2014, 3:13 PM with 6 comments

• Bootstrapping POWER8 Little Endian and Common Pitfalls

  by wmat on 12/20/2014, 3:12 PM with 3 comments

• Christmas Lights with Individual LED Control

  by wmat on 12/20/2014, 3:11 PM with 0 comments

• Double Prosthetic Arm with Mind Control

  by wmat on 12/20/2014, 3:10 PM with 0 comments

• Web content fits better on a tall monitor

  by wmat on 12/20/2014, 3:02 PM with 48 comments

• Li Xiaodong wins Canada’s new global award for architecture

  by wmat on 10/14/2014, 12:11 AM with 0 comments

• Calgary removes sculpture that burns through clothing

  by wmat on 10/10/2014, 7:53 PM with 0 comments

• Fox Naps on City Bus

  by wmat on 7/23/2014, 9:33 PM with 0 comments

• What Great Scientists Did When They Weren't Doing Science

  by wmat on 7/19/2014, 1:09 PM with 0 comments

• Speilberg a disgusting dinosaur hunter

  by wmat on 7/11/2014, 10:19 PM with 0 comments

• A Minimal Linux Setup for Kernel Development

  by wmat on 2/17/2014, 9:02 PM with 0 comments

• Waiting In Line 3D - World's Most Boring Video Game

  by wmat on 11/29/2013, 3:01 AM with 1 comments

• by wmat on 11/29/2013, 2:55 AM with comments

• It's Not the Morphine, it's the Size of the Cage

  by wmat on 9/17/2013, 2:35 AM with -1 comments

• PICJUG: A FOSS Replacement for the FT232 USB Chip

  by wmat on 9/16/2013, 8:35 PM with 1 comments

• They call these organisms the "Problematica."

  by wmat on 9/3/2013, 6:43 PM with 0 comments

• Canadians on the moon? Yes, by 2030

  by wmat on 8/26/2013, 1:00 PM with -1 comments

• BBM user guides for Android and iOS arrive online, launch imminent?

  by wmat on 8/23/2013, 1:29 AM with 0 comments

• Sony to launch PlayStation 4 on Nov. 15

  by wmat on 8/20/2013, 11:41 PM with 0 comments

• Racy ads for Science World censored

  by wmat on 8/16/2013, 12:27 AM with 0 comments

• The Olinguito: New mammal species discovered

  by wmat on 8/16/2013, 12:24 AM with 0 comments

• Hillbilly Tracking of Low Earth Orbit Satellites

  by wmat on 7/23/2013, 7:37 PM with 33 comments

• Jaron Lanier: We're Being Enslaved by Free Information

  by wmat on 7/19/2013, 2:15 AM with 14 comments

• Minecon 2013 reveal.

  by wmat on 6/27/2013, 1:30 PM with 0 comments

• China regains top spot on fastest supercomputer list

  by wmat on 6/17/2013, 1:39 PM with 0 comments

• Canadian UFO sightings surged in 2012

  by wmat on 5/16/2013, 1:39 AM with 1 comments

• Ground control to commander: Thanks for bringing sexy back to space

  by wmat on 5/16/2013, 1:37 AM with 0 comments

• Geoscientists find oldest water on Earth in underground mine

  by wmat on 5/16/2013, 1:35 AM with 0 comments

• Assassin’s Creed designer Patrice Desilets “fired” by Ubisoft

  by wmat on 5/8/2013, 8:10 PM with 0 comments

• This smart foam chair self-assembles by sproinging into shape

  by wmat on 4/26/2013, 4:48 PM with 0 comments

• Randomized studies of productivity

  by wmat on 2/7/2013, 1:18 AM with 2 comments

• Four Hours of Concentration

  by wmat on 2/5/2013, 9:37 PM with 86 comments

• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

  by wmat on 2/5/2013, 12:29 PM with 1 comments

• PirateBox

  by wmat on 1/16/2013, 4:31 AM with 0 comments

• The Rise and Fall of Languages in 2012

  by wmat on 1/9/2013, 1:03 AM with 22 comments

• Still Forbidden

  by wmat on 1/8/2013, 5:52 PM with 0 comments

• Finding 2013 in Pi

  by wmat on 1/1/2013, 10:04 PM with 8 comments

• Things Startup Founders Should Understand About Channel Partnerships

  by wmat on 12/31/2012, 8:36 PM with 0 comments

• On Being Under the Influence at Ikea

  by wmat on 12/17/2012, 12:35 PM with 1 comments

• Hacker SuperBand Rush to be Inducted into Rock & Roll hall of Fame

  by wmat on 12/12/2012, 2:41 AM with 0 comments

• Rush to Finally Enter Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

  by wmat on 12/11/2012, 11:12 PM with 0 comments

• There are other compilers than $(CC)

  by wmat on 12/6/2012, 1:13 AM with 0 comments

• Computer Science: Filling the Education Pipeline Gap

  by wmat on 12/6/2012, 1:10 AM with 0 comments

• Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole

  by wmat on 12/5/2012, 10:04 PM with 0 comments

• Top Claims Made by Creationists to Counter Scientific Theories

  by wmat on 12/5/2012, 10:02 PM with 0 comments

• Asterix: The Great Unsung Fantasy Hero

  by wmat on 12/5/2012, 10:01 PM with 0 comments

• Space mission reveals moon's 'battered' history

  by wmat on 12/5/2012, 9:59 PM with 0 comments

• Can white-space Wi-Fi really work for cities?

  by wmat on 12/5/2012, 9:58 PM with 0 comments

• Navy Lays Off Dolphins, Replaces With Robots

  by wmat on 12/5/2012, 8:55 PM with 0 comments

• Smartphones Could Soon Sense Your Emotions

  by wmat on 12/5/2012, 3:26 PM with 0 comments

• Coding Error Causes SaskTel Customers to Receive Bills up to $100,000

  by wmat on 12/5/2012, 3:25 PM with 0 comments

• The Amazing Zeta Code

  by wmat on 12/5/2012, 3:21 PM with 0 comments

• RC car transforms into RC robot

  by wmat on 12/5/2012, 3:12 PM with 0 comments

• Using GCC with TI Stellaris Launchpad – A more in depth look

  by wmat on 12/5/2012, 3:11 PM with 5 comments

• Sometimes Art Is About Balance

  by wmat on 12/5/2012, 3:05 PM with 0 comments

• Why I Like the New C++

  by wmat on 12/4/2012, 12:22 AM with 0 comments

• Q&A: Bigfoot himself comments on new findings that confirm his existence

  by wmat on 12/1/2012, 1:31 PM with 0 comments

• Canadian scientists create a functioning, virtual brain

  by wmat on 11/30/2012, 1:54 AM with 1 comments

• Huge diamond planet found, twice the size of Earth

  by wmat on 10/12/2012, 12:13 AM with 0 comments

• Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks

  by wmat on 10/11/2012, 10:46 PM with 1 comments

• 9 Learning Adversaries and their Antidotes

  by wmat on 9/21/2012, 12:49 PM with 0 comments

• Hire Based On Talent, Not Location

  by wmat on 9/17/2012, 12:52 PM with 0 comments

• The Tolkien Professor

  by wmat on 8/30/2012, 12:36 AM with 0 comments

• Why Do Some Arguments Seem Wrong?

  by wmat on 8/30/2012, 12:33 AM with 1 comments

• Leonid Levin will receive the Knuth Prize

  by wmat on 8/30/2012, 12:30 AM with 0 comments

• Let Me man That For You

  by wmat on 8/29/2012, 5:17 PM with 0 comments

• Ported iOS Game 30% Faster on Blackberry Playbook

  by wmat on 8/27/2012, 12:41 PM with 7 comments

• A Faculty Address

  by wmat on 8/20/2012, 3:12 AM with 1 comments

• On Feeding Your CPU With Data

  by wmat on 8/15/2012, 4:08 AM with 0 comments

• Software Engineering Distilled to 20 Tweets

  by wmat on 8/15/2012, 4:06 AM with 0 comments

• Killing a Stackless Bug

  by wmat on 8/12/2012, 9:41 PM with 0 comments

• 30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Paul Mundt

  by wmat on 7/26/2012, 7:44 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What's with all the Vim posts lately?

  by wmat on 7/12/2012, 7:27 PM with 11 comments

• Become a Google Power Searcher

  by wmat on 6/30/2012, 11:55 AM with 0 comments

• “Girls can’t program in their heads”: gender & games in the computing classroom

  by wmat on 6/30/2012, 11:53 AM with 0 comments

• America’s Wildfires Can Be Seen From Space

  by wmat on 6/30/2012, 11:48 AM with 0 comments

• Scientists to hold back time - for a second

  by wmat on 6/30/2012, 11:44 AM with 0 comments

• Why C and not C++?

  by wmat on 4/16/2012, 2:40 PM with 0 comments

• Intel launches high-end server chip for the cloud

  by wmat on 3/6/2012, 9:41 PM with 0 comments

• LulzSec leader Sabu was working for us, says FBI

  by wmat on 3/6/2012, 9:40 PM with 0 comments

• Frightening Math

  by wmat on 3/6/2012, 3:40 AM with 2 comments

• by wmat on 3/2/2012, 3:18 AM with comments

• Giant Prawn Discovered Off New Zealand Coast

  by wmat on 2/3/2012, 8:24 PM with 0 comments

• 2012 Alan Turing Year

  by wmat on 1/1/2012, 3:24 PM with 1 comments

• Globe & Mail celebrity photo caption writer FTMFW

  by wmat on 10/12/2011, 10:11 PM with 1 comments

• Aliens could end global warming or kill us

  by wmat on 8/20/2011, 2:19 PM with 1 comments

• Map tracks Antarctica on the move

  by wmat on 8/20/2011, 1:17 PM with 0 comments

• Reindeer herder finds baby mammoth in Russia Arctic

  by wmat on 8/20/2011, 1:15 PM with 1 comments

• by wmat on 8/12/2011, 6:17 PM with comments

• Geek Technologies That survive 25 to 50 Years Later

  by wmat on 8/12/2011, 2:53 PM with -1 comments

• Chirping birds 'swapping insults like rappers'

  by wmat on 8/12/2011, 1:19 PM with 1 comments

• Tracking Crime in Real Time

  by wmat on 8/12/2011, 1:16 PM with 0 comments

• Evidence That ADHD Is a Genetic Disorder

  by wmat on 8/12/2011, 1:15 PM with 71 comments

• Software Predicted Risk in California West Nile Virus Epidemic

  by wmat on 8/12/2011, 1:12 PM with 0 comments

• Smart Skin: Electronics That Stick and Stretch Like a Temporary Tattoo

  by wmat on 8/12/2011, 1:11 PM with 1 comments

• Honda plans nuclear mission for ASIMO robot

  by wmat on 8/12/2011, 1:10 PM with 0 comments

• Kernel Hackers Share Git Tips

  by wmat on 8/12/2011, 1:31 AM with 0 comments

• Addressing the Latest Facebook Privacy Issue

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 8:17 PM with 0 comments

• Lambdas For Junior Developers

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 7:58 PM with 0 comments

• A Modern Look at How the Enterprise Determines What It Thinks It Needs

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 7:56 PM with 0 comments

• RIM: BES image flaws open door to attacks

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 7:50 PM with 0 comments

• Strange Planet is Blacker Than Coal

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 7:47 PM with 0 comments

• Scientists Pop Atoms in Microwave, Out Comes Quantum Entanglement

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 7:44 PM with 0 comments

• Mad Catz Cyborg Rat Albino first hands-on

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 7:41 PM with 0 comments

• IPhone App Simulates Teen Dating Abuse

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 7:39 PM with 0 comments

• Chinese Authorities Find 22 More Fake Apple Stores

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 7:37 PM with 0 comments

• Linux 20 Years: Anecdotes from 1998

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 12:15 PM with 16 comments

• Just Before Release

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 12:10 PM with 0 comments

• 8 Reasons Why Google+ Will Beat Facebook in the Long Term

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 12:03 PM with 0 comments

• Google Code Now Has Online Code Editing

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 11:49 AM with 0 comments

• Turning the Back of Your Hand into a Mouse

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 11:45 AM with 0 comments

• Amazon and Walmart launch iPad web apps to evade Apple's app policies

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 11:43 AM with 21 comments

• The Apple store with no products

  by wmat on 8/11/2011, 11:41 AM with 0 comments

• Needed: A better language for embedded systems programming

  by wmat on 8/9/2011, 9:56 PM with 0 comments

• Apple blocks sale of Samsung's Android fondleslab across EU

  by wmat on 8/9/2011, 8:23 PM with 0 comments

• Got an STD? Send your partners an anonymous email - CTV News

  by wmat on 8/9/2011, 8:23 PM with 0 comments

• Tsunami caused Manhattan-sized iceberg in Antarctica

  by wmat on 8/9/2011, 8:19 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Is Search in the footer broken?

  by wmat on 8/9/2011, 5:02 PM with 2 comments

• China hit by 500,000 cyberattacks in 2010

  by wmat on 8/9/2011, 4:53 PM with 0 comments

• Hacking QR codes for fun and profit.

  by wmat on 8/9/2011, 3:33 PM with 0 comments

• 7 Things I Love About Sinatra » RubySource

  by wmat on 8/9/2011, 3:30 PM with 0 comments

• My Not So Great Visit to the Apple Store

  by wmat on 8/9/2011, 2:56 PM with 1 comments

• IEEE Geek Life: DIY Workbench Essentials

  by wmat on 8/9/2011, 2:20 PM with 0 comments

• Engineering Radio: the latest news in the electronics industry

  by wmat on 8/4/2011, 3:43 PM with 0 comments

• Universe Sandbox

  by wmat on 8/4/2011, 3:29 PM with 0 comments

• 9800 Feet Underground at Kidd Creek Mine in Northern Ontario, Canada

  by wmat on 8/2/2011, 3:46 PM with 32 comments

• Software Optimization Resources

  by wmat on 7/22/2011, 7:49 PM with 0 comments

• RIM Acquires JayCut mobile video editing company.

  by wmat on 7/22/2011, 7:38 PM with 0 comments

• Interview: Embedded Linux Hacker - David Anders

  by wmat on 5/11/2011, 7:03 PM with 0 comments

• Muppet Alignment Chart

  by wmat on 3/9/2011, 4:24 PM with 0 comments

• Setting Up Qt Development Environment for BeagleBoard-xM

  by wmat on 11/2/2010, 11:17 PM with 0 comments

• Finland Gives Citizens Right to Broadband

  by wmat on 7/1/2010, 6:54 PM with 0 comments

• Speeding up cross-compiling with ccache and distcc on Debian

  by wmat on 6/15/2010, 2:00 AM with 0 comments

• The LLDB Debugger

  by wmat on 6/8/2010, 5:54 PM with 34 comments