Articles by weird_user
41

Double-mirror illusion (journalofillusion.net)

63

The evolution of the On/Off power switch symbol (2008) (nzeldes.com)

96

The story of titanium (construction-physics.com)

2

Indiana Almost Made π 3.2 (hillelwayne.com)

13

Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003) (idlewords.com)

9

Don't let websites overwrite clipboard in Firefox (superuser.com)

3

When the Null Pointer Is Valid (build-your-own.org)

1

The God of War (yarchive.net)

2

Why Do Interviewers Ask Linked List Questions? (hillelwayne.com)

1

The Remarkable Pneumatic People-Mover (damninteresting.com)

2

Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method (eatonphil.com)

1

Digital Fly-by-Wire: The Apollo Guidance Computer's Final Gift [video] (youtube.com)

4

Favorite Wikipedia articles about science (austinhenley.com)

3

Things Programmers Can Do in 1 Week (build-your-own.org)

103

Nuclear Conversion for Starship (toughsf.blogspot.com)

27

Super-Earths in Need for Extremly Big Rockets (2018) (arxiv.org)

1

Bootstrapping Instruction Set (dercuano.github.io)

2

Levenshtein automata can be simple and fast (2015) (julesjacobs.com)

3

Let's build A distributed, concurrent editor (wellquite.org)

1

Challenges in Building Large-Scale Information Retrieval Systems (2009) [pdf] (googleusercontent.com)

2

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998) (stanford.edu)

2

Build a Tiny Compiler from Scratch (hackaday.com)

69

Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused (2018) (codingnest.com)

1

Roguelike Tutorial – in Rust (2019) (bracketproductions.com)

1

Bombing Belugas (loe.org)

3

/dev/clipboard: The most unixy thing on Windows (build-your-own.org)

3

NoSurf – Stop wasting life on the net (nosurf.net)

2

Duelling at the Olympics (royalarmouries.org)

1

Power Delivery in a Modern Processor (realworldtech.com)

1

Hawaiian Carnivorous Caterpillar – Eupithecia (hawaiianforest.com)

1

How to Find Security Holes (canonical.org)

2

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (hpmor.com)

2

The Demiurge’s Older Brother (slatestarcodex.com)

1

How many flavours of Multiverse are there? (nothingeverhappensto.me)

1

The Corvids – Birds with brains (ravens, crows, jays, magpies) (flatrock.org.nz)

54

a[low:high:max] in Golang – A Rare Slice Trick (build-your-own.org)

2

A Twitter Analog to PageRank (thenoisychannel.com)

2

Tell HN: Use less pinky finger when programming (build-your-own.org)

1

Vibratory Bowl and Linear feeder [video] (youtube.com)

1

Culture Matters (danluu.com)

2

Fine Structure (qntm.org)

2

Torchships (projectrho.com)

123

Advice to Aimless, Excited Programmers (2010) (dadgum.com)

2

New Book: “Build Your Own Database” (build-your-own.org)

1

LDM: My Favorite ARM Instruction (2020) (keleshev.com)

2

Podsadka – Failed Plan to Win the Moon Race (astronautix.com)

2

From First Principles: Why Scala? (lihaoyi.com)

1

Silent Drum (jaimeoliver.pe)

1

Lake Untersee – An Antarctic Lake (wikipedia.org)

2

Crafting an ELF Executable (build-your-own.org)

1

Address Zero (Linus Torvals) (2009) (yarchive.net)

2

Show HN: Tiny Compiler Targeting X64 – The Pretty Laughable Programming Language (github.com/byo-books)

4

High-level assembly language from ForwardCom (forwardcom.info)

1

Earth at Night [pdf] (nasa.gov)

30

How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century? (2021) (lowtechmagazine.com)

1

What Order Should I Make Things In? (osdev.org)

1

Show HN: Build Your Own Regular Expression Engines (build-your-own.org)

6

Show HN: The “Build Your Own Redis” Book Is Completed (build-your-own.org)

1

Color Photos from the World War I Era (damninteresting.com)

3

Palindromic Rolling Hash (2016) (aleclownes.com)

113

Show HN: Hacker News Without News (build-your-own.org)

2

Tcl: Everything Is a Symbol (tcl-lang.org)