Articles by hermitcrab
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Is the golden age of Indie software over? (successfulsoftware.net)

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Factory Tours (scopeofwork.net)

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The Surrender of America's Elites (theatlantic.com)

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‘Based on a True Story’ (2016-2019) (informationisbeautiful.net)

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Updating application icons for macOS 26 Tahoe and Liquid Glass (successfulsoftware.net)

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Software upgrade economics: some real numbers (successfulsoftware.net)

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Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 (theatlantic.com)

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Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing (theatlantic.com)

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What I learned spending $851 on Reddit Ads (successfulsoftware.net)

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The Online Safety Act for forum and blog owners (successfulsoftware.net)

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What border officials can see about you when they scan your passport (stuff.co.nz)

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Many traditional US allies now see the US as more of a threat than China (pewresearch.org)

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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food (theatlantic.com)

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Survival of the Greediest (thenoosphere.substack.com)

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Does taxing the rich cause millionaires to flee? (forkingpaths.co)

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Pile up, the worlds biggest crash test (channel4.com)

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Google's New AI Puts Breasts on Minors–and J. D. Vance (theatlantic.com)

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Eurovision 2025 Jury vs. Public Vote Discrepancies (successfulsoftware.net)

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Python Tariff package (github.com/hxu296)

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Reaching 3M page views on my blog (successfulsoftware.net)

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Facebook was 'hand in glove' with China, BBC told (bbc.co.uk)

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20 years working on the same software product (successfulsoftware.net)

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I won't stop until I have my £620M of Bitcoin back (bbc.co.uk)

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The future is too easy (defector.com)

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Peter Thiel's Apocalypse Dreams (thenerdreich.com)

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2024 YR4 and other dangerous asteroids (starwalk.space)

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The Heat Death of the Internet (successfulsoftware.net)

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Rocket Science for Teenagers [video] (ccc.de)

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Rocket science – how hard can it be? [video] (ccc.de)

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Dr Irving Finkel on AI for Cuneiform Translations [video] (youtube.com)

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Hay-on-Wye: The First Book Town and Its King (curiousrambler.com)

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AI artwork of Alan Turing sells for record $1.3M (bbc.co.uk)

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Data wrangling software EasyDataTransform makes v2 after 80 releases (successfulsoftware.net)

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The Avalon Hill game company [video] (youtube.com)

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Making your own hot sauce (successfulsoftware.net)

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Karman Alpha: amateur rocketry attempt to 100k ft (33 minute documentary) [video] (youtube.com)

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What Would Society Look Like If Extreme Wealth Were Impossible? (theatlantic.com)

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Solar eclipse 2024: Millions in North America will view a blockbuster (bbc.co.uk)

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'Journalists are feeding the AI hype machine' (bbc.co.uk)

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It might be a good thing if someone hates your product (successfulsoftware.net)

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The AI bullshit singularity (successfulsoftware.net)

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Anyone elses company executives losing their shit over GenAI? (reddit.com)

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AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames (newscientist.com)

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Ask HN: Could nitrogen leaks during a Texas execution be dangerous?

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What went right in 2023: the top good news stories of the year (positive.news)

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Visual vs. text based programming, which is better? (successfulsoftware.net)

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'Unseen alien world' of bugs captured (bbc.co.uk)

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Mr Bates vs. the Post Office (itv.com)

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WinterFest 2023 Festival of Artisanal Software (artisanalsoftwarefestival.com)

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What is the index of an empty string in an empty string? (successfulsoftware.net)

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Ask HN: Did you learn civics at school?

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Worst Data Engineering Mistake you've seen? (reddit.com)

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Whatever Happened to NFTs? (bbc.co.uk)

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UK MP stopped from boarding flight 'because name is Mohammad' (bbc.co.uk)

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Onboard video of winning launch for Youth International Rocketry Challenge (youtube.com)

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Kudo – an exiting, effective and safe martial art (youtube.com)

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Adventures in Content Marketing (successfulsoftware.net)

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The Brutal Alternate World in Which the US Abandoned Ukraine (theatlantic.com)

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Passenger Trains in the United States vs. Europe (reddit.com)

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Interactive Xkcd (xkcd.com)

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Space Cities Inside Asteroids? Scientists Say It Could Work (cnet.com)

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A comparison of 7 desktop data wrangling tools with benchmarks (easydatatransform.com)

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Ask HN: Why don't people learning to drive use simulators?

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FogBugz goes dark

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