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Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer (andrew-quinn.me)

22 hours ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | best

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"Courage to quit" matters more for seniors (andrew-quinn.me)

a week ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | newest

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Ask HN: How do you search for DevOps talent in 2025?

3 weeks ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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Lessons learned from 2 years of operating a tiny news archive (andrew-quinn.me)

a month ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | newest

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Bleg: Where Is the DevOps for Yocto? (andrew-quinn.me)

3 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | newest

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LLMs solve the biggest problem with language textbooks (andrew-quinn.me)

3 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | newest

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Code should be clean because business isn't (andrew-quinn.me)

3 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | newest

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The dark forest of political communication (andrew-quinn.me)

3 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | frontpage

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Tarsnap is cozy (andrew-quinn.me)

3 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | frontpage

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Digital resiliency 2025, my first self-audit (andrew-quinn.me)

3 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | newest

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It's okay to solve a problem twice (andrew-quinn.me)

4 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | frontpage

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Militant Contentment (andrew-quinn.me)

4 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | newest

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Death worries me because I have things to do (andrew-quinn.me)

4 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | newest

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You don't need CGO to use SQLite in your Go binary (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

5 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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The second wave of spaced repetition apps (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

5 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Turning 30 (andrew-quinn.me)

5 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | newest

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Switching Vim colorschemes based on which keyboard layout I have active (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

5 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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1000 Days Without Drinking (andrew-quinn.me)

6 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | frontpage

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Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

6 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | frontpage

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LLM, JavaScript, GitHub Pages, localStorage: A recipe for free, tiny apps (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

6 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Show HN: Finyap – fzf-assisted writing practice for my foreign language learning (github.com/hiandrewquinn)

6 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.com | newest

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LLM tutored writing practice for secondary language acquisition (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

6 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

1

Consider the Cronslave (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

7 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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We should use prediction markets for long term software maintenance (andrew-quinn.me)

7 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | newest

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LLMs make Perl great again (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

7 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | frontpage

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Recreating a video from raw captured network traffic (2023) (thesloth.me)

7 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | thesloth.me | frontpage

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Show HN: A tiny landing page for all my Finnish language learning software (finbug.xyz)

7 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | finbug.xyz | newest

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Show HN: Audio2anki – Use Whisper to turn YouTube vids into listening practice (github.com/hiandrewquinn)

8 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.com | newest

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Vibe Coding and Complementary Goods (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

9 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Binary search isn't about search III. Loop invariant of rightmost element search (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

9 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Binary search isn't about search II. Loop invariant of leftmost element search (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

9 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Binary search isn't about search (it's about invariants) (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

9 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Show HN: I built a fast, single-file TUI Finnish-English dictionary in Go (github.com/hiandrewquinn)

9 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.com | newest

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Things you should never do: Use Expect to autotype SSH passwords in scripts (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

10 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Alass – Automatic Language-Agnostic Subtitle Synchronization (github.com/kaegi)

10 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.com | newest

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SQLite Is Learnable (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

10 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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`Python -m http.server` as ephemeral file server (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

11 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Ask HN: Technical reasons to favor FreeBSD over Debian for servers?

12 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Do you keep a Feynmanesque problem list? What's on it?

12 months ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Does anyone use the IEEE software development standards?

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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Common-sense security for SSH on a new Debian server (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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The self-hosted to DevOps engineer pipeline (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? [2023] (andrew-quinn.me)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | newest

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PHP and Web Dev Phobia (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Ask HN: Who's working on SaaS for elder care?

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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Minimum Viable Hugo (github.com/siilikuin)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.com | newest

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How I ask GPT-4 to make tiny Python scripts in practice (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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The highest personal ROI program I have written so far (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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My pet theory of how great software gets started (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | frontpage

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The Simple Economics of Open Source (2000) [pdf] (hbs.edu)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | hbs.edu | newest

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Ask HN: Does IT still run on Java 8?

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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What scripting languages come out of the box on Debian 12? (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | frontpage

2

Valuable software is about letting people do new things (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Software Engineers as Mental Athletes (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Shell Bling Ubuntu: Turn a new Ubuntu box into a developer's workhorse (github.com/hiandrewquinn)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.com | newest

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OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Quickstarts and Slowstarts (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Ask HN: Where do you keep your messy stack of Markdown notes?

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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Lessons learned from 6 months of operating a tiny news archive (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | best

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Build 100 Websites - my dev log (build-100-websites.fun)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | build-100-websites.fun | newest

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Doing is normally distributed, learning is log-normal (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | best

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Tmux is worse-is-better (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | best

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Ask HN: ISO Interesting Startups in Warsaw

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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The Basic AI Drives – Stephen M. Omohundro [pdf] [2008] (selfawaresystems.com)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | selfawaresystems.com | newest

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Disable browser history to write better internal docs (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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I'm turning 30 so I'm switching to OpenBSD (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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PHP Is Web Shell (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | frontpage

2

People You Should Be More Like: My Father (hiandrewquinn.substack.com)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | substack.com | newest

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Check My Math – Nix vs. the Most Complicated Program on Earth (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Ask HN: How is Clojure for DevOps work?

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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The unreasonable effectiveness of VMs in hacker pedagogy (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | frontpage

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A gentle introduction to ESR's `reposurgeon` (andrew-quinn.me)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | newest

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Why and how I build terrible things (andrew-quinn.me)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | newest

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fd, xargs, bat = quick document review (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | frontpage

2

Ask HN: What new shell tools have recently excited you?

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: How do you handle a bad job market while you're still employed?

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: What Is My Job?

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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A color blind color vision scientist's personal account (consc.net)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | consc.net | newest

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Ask HN: Evidence for remote work equalizing real estate costs worldwide?

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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The Cognitive Style of Unix (2010) (vivekhaldar.com)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | vivekhaldar.com | frontpage

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Speed paint videos for software installations (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

a year ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Most 2 digit numbers not divisible by 2, 3, or 5 are prime (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Subdirectory-scoped aliases with `Git –local alias.xyz` (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Things Word has that SSGs don't (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Traceroute uses UDP by default, not ICMP (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Cloud translation is more expensive than I thought (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Pomodoros and Leverage Ratios (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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The Rule of Four: Heuristic for asynchronous technical communication (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Hosting on Azure? Don't forget UTF-8 (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Art of the Dotflag (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Art of the dotflag – `.nojekyll`, `.gitkeep` and their ilk (hiandrewquinn.github.io)

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.io | newest

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Ask HN: How does `lnav` run its playground which you can just SSH into?

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: What's the easiest way to sell a bunch of SQLite databases online?

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Sysadmins?

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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Show HN: 3 scripts to turn a stock Ubuntu live USB into a modern devbox (github.com/hiandrewquinn)

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | github.com | newest

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Ask HN: How do you handle writing huge amounts of required documentation?

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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Ask HN: How do I work to live, instead of live to work?

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest

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Thoughts on [Turning] 29 (andrew-quinn.me)

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | andrew-quinn.me | frontpage

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Ask HN: Do electrical engineering majors work harder than CS majors?

2 years ago | hiAndrewQuinn | ycombinator.com | newest