Articles by xeonmc
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A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf] (worrydream.com)

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Comparing Tim Berners-Lee's Solid to ATProto's PDS (2025) (solidproject.org)

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Patchbin – A pastebin supercharged for Git collaboration (github.com/picosh)

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Pay and Sit – The Coin-Operated Private Park Bench [video] (vimeo.com)

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How to Make a Progressive Web App Out of Your Existing Website (2019) (xeiaso.net)

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The Quiltmaker's Gift (2000) (archive.org)

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The George Business, by Roger Zelazny (1980) (eternal-flame.org)

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Cory Doctorow's self-hosted did:web Bluesky server (pluralistic.net)

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Apple's Type C dongle beats Audiophile DACs (2020) (audioreviews.org)

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Pluralistic: If you build it (and it works), Trump will come (and take it) (pluralistic.net)

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What Agentic AI "Vibe Coding" in the Hands of Actual Programmers / Engineers (stochasticlifestyle.com)

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What Does Steeling Do? Part 1 (scienceofsharp.com)

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How poor site design outed a furry councilman (flayrah.com)

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Comparison Table of Centralized/Decentralized/FOSS/Proprieta... Messengers (eylenburg.github.io)

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Steinway Spirio: The most famous concert pianos got a major tech upgrade (2024) (technologyreview.com)

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History Respawned: Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014) [video] (youtube.com)

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History Respawned: Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (2018) [video] (youtube.com)

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Signal Contingency Plan (DeltaChat) (signal-contingency-plan.info)

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How Ed Snowden Taught Me to Smuggle Secrets Past Danger (2014) (theintercept.com)

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Chatmail Protocol - using email as transport layer routers (chatmail.at)

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How Toy Story 2 got "rm -rf / "-ed (2012) (thenextweb.com)

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America's collapsing consumption is the disenshittification opportunity (pluralistic.net)

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The Great Dictator's Speech (1940) [video] (youtube.com)

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Solving Rush Hour, the Puzzle (2018) (michaelfogleman.com)

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YouTube's Creepiest Dad? The Disturbing Rise of Jordan Matter [video] (youtube.com)

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VK_EXT_present_timing Merged (github.com/khronosgroup)

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Upcoming Delta Chat release with calls (delta.chat)

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Nintendo Gamecube Controller Protocol (int03.co.uk)

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Quietly, symbolically, US control of the internet was just ended (2016) (theguardian.com)

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Hosting an ATProto PDS without containerization (char.lt)

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Pay to Reject personalised ads [video] (youtube.com)

5

Yuru-Kyara (wikipedia.org)

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This World of Ours (2014) [pdf] (usenix.org)

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FULU Foundation Hardware Bounty Program (fulu.org)

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DIY conversion of old laptop into portable Server Crashcart/KVM Console/LapDock (instructables.com)

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Taproot – web interface for editing data in your ATProto PDS manually (atproto.at)

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Discord Off-Platform Behavior Policy (2025) (discord.com)

1

Physically-Based Shading at Disney, by Brent Burley (2012) [pdf] (disneyanimation.com)

2

Fresh Fish Sold Here (kathakids.com)

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Kaze no Matasaburo (Matasaburo of the Wind), by Kenji Miyazawa (1934) (selftaughtjapanese.com)

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Industrial Society and Its Future (1995) (wikipedia.org)

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Secret History of Windows ZIPFolders (2021) [video] (youtube.com)

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Disable YouTube Shorts Through Parental Controls (2022) (support.google.com)

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-2000 Lines of code (2004) (folklore.org)

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The Top 100 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord (1997) (eviloverlord.com)

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What to Use Instead of PGP (2024) (soatok.blog)

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Ask HN: Paper pad "self-prompting" as rubber-duck-with-a-context-length?

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Terpstra Keyboard (terpstrakeyboard.com)

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Using Windows 10 past EOL (via LTSC supported to 2032) (massgrave.dev)

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Ask HN: Minecraft's UI element style (vs. modern flat glass interface)

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What Is OAuth and How Does It Work? (fusionauth.io)

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Upcoming Changes to the Chrome Root Store (googleblog.com)

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How FIDO2 works, a technical deep dive (michaelwaterman.nl)

3

Contrapunctus XIV Completions (halfofthealphabet.wordpress.com)

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The Art of Fugue – Contrapunctus I (2021) (ethanhein.com)

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The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us (pluralistic.net)

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Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?

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The Machine Stops (1909) (standardebooks.org)

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SDL3 examples: Full game and app demos (libsdl.org)

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Hyatt Regency walkway collapse – A Case Study [pdf] (amazonaws.com)

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TheForger's Win32 API Tutorial (winprog.org)

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Riot Games sends cringy edgelord employee to threaten fan project creator (2021) (resetera.com)

3

How Unreal Engine 5 Is Killing Games [video] (youtube.com)

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Ask HN: your one-off HTML applet tailored to personal use?

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The Year That Killed Received Pronunciation – D. Geoff Lindsey [video] (youtube.com)

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The secret of the tera-keyboard (2013) (scifiinterfaces.com)

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GitHub to impose limit on owned repositories per user, starting April 28th (github.blog)

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(Technology Connections) The correcting feature of typewriters [video] (youtube.com)

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Richard Feynman on Education in Brazil (v.cx)

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Ask HN: How can I browse public GitHub repos on 128kbps connection?

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The Gemini protocol as seen by cURL's creator (haxx.se)

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Firing order, Crankshaft design and piston design explained [video] (youtube.com)

2

English as She Is Spoke (1855) (wikisource.org)

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Oliver Heaviside and the theory of transmission lines (2021) (pa3fwm.nl)

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Patent CN111203499A: A Towed Submarine Cable Cutting Device And Cutting Method (patents.google.com)

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A brief history of the RFC format (2021) (apnic.net)

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Drop a Raspberry on It (2012) (dmagazine.com)

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Riot's kernel-anticheat: $100k bounty to solve DDoS affecting T1&other pro teams (hackerone.com)

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Windows 7 Icons Design Guideline (microsoft.com)

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Introdution to Computer architecture explained with Minecraft [video] (youtube.com)

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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (2015) (csail.mit.edu)

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(2004) How Microsoft Lost the API War (joelonsoftware.com)

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The Orbitron: A gallery of atomic orbitals (2002) (shef.ac.uk)

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Watch Escapements in Motion (abbeyclock.com)

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Tablet Training for Parrots (parrotkindergarten.com)

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Unix Beards (usenix.org.uk)

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Chinese idiom: 揠苗助長 — “to help crops grow by pulling them out of the ground” (wiktionary.org)

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Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3 with Redstone circuit & noteblocks (youtube.com)

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Spiral of Fifths: The Difference Between the Sharps and Flats (youtube.com)

1

Ask HN: Gaussian Splat for position-correct cubemap reflections?

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LAPACK Release 3.12.0 (github.com/reference-lapack)

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Arthur C. Clarke: The Food of the Gods (bestreadables.com)

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The Value of Interactions [video] (youtube.com)

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Request for Position: WebUSB API (github.com/mozilla)

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LAPACK Release: releases from 1.0 to 3.1.1 (github.com/reference-lapack)

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Screenshots from Windows 95 (guidebookgallery.org)

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Public Comments on the California Math Framework (sites.google.com)

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Ask HN: How likely/unlikely is GitHub to enshittify at some point in the future?

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Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows (microsoft.com)

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The Palmer Method of Business (Hand)Writing [pdf] (thepalmermethod.com)