Articles by Decabytes
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Rhombus version 1.0 is now available (racket.discourse.group)

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Markiplier discovering the value of On Premise Servers [video] (youtube.com)

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AI is just the latest Monoculture (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: What Architectural Decisions Make You Prefer Windows Dev over Linux?

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What can Emacs learn from Neovim's rise in popularity? (reddit.com)

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Ask HN: How Are AMD GPUs/ROCm for Machine Learning in 2024?

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Ask HN: You are interviewing your programming idol. What questions do you ask?

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The Story of Nel (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: What are some programming habits you picked up from Mentors?

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Rhombus: A New Spin on Macros (2023) (acm.org)

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Ask HN: Has Anyone Tried Single File Development with IDE Code Collapse?

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Rogue Legacy code is now source available (twitter.com/cellardoorgames)

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Quake's Oldest Record Was Finally Broken [video] (youtube.com)

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I Am not Going To Buy A Computer (1987) [pdf] (matthewjbrown.net)

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Ask HN: Thoughts on Tcl as a Language in 2024?

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Ask HN: What Academic Papers do you think will become relevant in 5 years?

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Ask HN: What are your best Emacs tips?

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FPS Controller Design and Build [video] (youtube.com)

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Our Journey with Swift thus far – some reflections (swift.org)

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GCC's Move to C++ (2013) (lwn.net)

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Ask HN: What are good books on Computer History/Lore/Iconic figures in Computing

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New Renderers for GTK (gtk.org)

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Has there ever been an attempt to create a high/low level language pair? (reddit.com)

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Gambit-C: Embedding C code directly in Scheme (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: What is your favorite language to pair with C in a mixed code base?

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Ask HN: Who would be a programming God if they were alive today?

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Nu Game Engine: Practical functional Game Engine written in F# (github.com/bryanedds)

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Ask HN: Functional Programming vets. Thoughts on FP abstractions vs. OOP ones?

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The First 100k Words: Finding Success on Substack Without a Following (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: Tips for Dealing with Eye Strain?

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Is C# Underhyped? (reddit.com)

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From Indiegogo to Orthrus: Rethinking Open-Source Funding (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: What games could you spend a lifetime playing?

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Cyberattack – November 2023 (blender.org)

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Racket branch of Chez Scheme merging with mainline Chez Scheme (groups.google.com)

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Ask HN: What features from old programming languages are worth studying today?

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UAW launches strike against Ford's Kentucky truck plant (cnbc.com)

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The most effective way I know to learn (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: Any resources to browse old computer technical drawings and schematics?

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A low/no code future (deusinmachina.net)

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The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019) (programming.guide)

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Contemplating Loss in the Digital Age (deusinmachina.net)

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GPT-3.5-Turbo-Instruct (openai.com)

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Books for Game Developers (mrelusive.com)

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Unlocking the Power of Translation Through Byte Pair Encoding (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: Stem pioneers who also wrote about Philosophy and meaning of life?

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Why on Earth are we already lamenting the fall of LLMs? (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: If you went back in time. How do you invent computers again?

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The Evolution of Computing: From 8-bit to 64-bit (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: Anyone know why Free Pascal's startup is so fast?

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Chez Scheme vs. SBCL: A Comparison (elmord.org)

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The terminal, core utils, and shell, what's the difference? (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: What are some older programming books that still hold up today?

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Compilation Speed Benchmark (vlang.io)

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The Case for PowerShell on macOS and Linux (deusinmachina.net)

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CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association (oracle.com)

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Berkeley’s Digital Legacy: The Evolution of BSD and Its Influence (deusinmachina.net)

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Steam Deck Certified Refurbished (steampowered.com)

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Tracing the Lines: From the Telephone to Unix (deusinmachina.net)

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My Experience with Pop _OS Linux Distribution (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: What one change in C would make it a better language for you?

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Richard Stallman Incorrect Quotation (2018) (gnu.org)

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Enhancing Emacs Efficiency with Xah Fly Keys (deusinmachina.net)

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Learning to Touch Type Again (deusinmachina.net)

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The Complexity of Open Source and AI (deusinmachina.net)

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Emacs: Xah Fly Keys (xahlee.info)

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Adam Savage Learns Sci-Fi Space Helmet Secrets [video] (youtube.com)

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Racket: Lisp for the modern day (deusinmachina.net)

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The XML Connection: How Docx and Odt Share Common Ground (deusinmachina.net)

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An Ode to Emacs. The Greatest Operating System (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: Do you use docx or odt when you save a word document? Why?

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How are Wine, CrossOver and Proton related? (codeweavers.com)

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Unleashing the Gaming Revolution: CrossOver Mac's DirectX 12 Support Update (codeweavers.com)

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How to Fine-Tune Your ChatGPT Interactions for Better Results (deusinmachina.net)

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I hate almost all software (2011) (tinyclouds.org)

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OpenOffice: The Zombie Software That Won’t Die (deusinmachina.net)

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What is happening in the Pygame community? (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: Examples of LLM work that isn’t being used to replace jobs by humans?

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AAA Gaming's Disappointing Roadmap and How We Got Here (deusinmachina.net)

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Overwatch 2 PvE Hero Mode Canceled: 'A Difficult Choice' (ign.com)

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Understanding the power of bitwise operators (deusinmachina.net)

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Why Programming tugs on Heart strings (deusinmachina.net)

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Writing Cmdlets in other languages (2019) (github.com/powershell)

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Crystal the Language for Humans (deusinmachina.net)

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Amber 2.0 Roadmap (amberframework.org)

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Ask HN: What areas of programming deserve more attention?

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We need more programming languages (deusinmachina.net)

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Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems reach $787,500,000 settlement (cbsnews.com)

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AI generated Drake song is blowing up the Internet (deusinmachina.net)

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The Lighter Side of Open Source with Meme Linux Distros (deusinmachina.net)

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C Strings and my slow descent to madness (deusinmachina.net)

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PRE-Notification Dilemmas (Curl) (haxx.se)

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Ask HN: Besides Video Games what is stopping you from running Linux full time?

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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (steampowered.com)

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Vulkan Problem Statement (github.com/khronosgroup)

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Ask HN: What type of programming content would you like to see more of?

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Is hand coding becoming obsolete? (deusinmachina.net)

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Ask HN: Things in coding ppl expect to be hard but aren't and vice versa

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What do you mean by “Memory Management”? (deusinmachina.net)

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The LTT YouTube channel got hacked to push a crypto scam (linustechtips.com)