Articles by susam
227

Attention Media ≠ Social Networks (susam.net)

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Mirfield man's tears of joy after lost voicemail of wife retrieved (2015) (bbc.co.uk)

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Why Is Debian Called the Universal Operating System? (itsfoss.com)

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MicroGPT - Train and inference a GPT in pure, dependency-free Python (200 lines) (gist.github.com)

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Personal websites with a /now page (nownownow.com)

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Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law [pdf] (congress.gov)

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Three Inverse Laws of AI and Robotics (susam.net)

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One Year of Work for Ten Seconds of Film [video] (youtube.com)

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Attention Media ≠ Social Media (susam.net)

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Stories From 25 Years of Software Development (susam.net)

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Pilot mistakenly attempted to take off from a taxiway at Brussels Airport (brusselstimes.com)

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Wikipedia Template: Committed Identity (wikipedia.org)

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Ask HN: Weekend Social: What personal chore did you automate recently?

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Transport for London Interchange Signs Standard [pdf] (tfl.gov.uk)

3

Ask HN: Weekend Social: Top two programming languages and what they can borrow?

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Donald Knuth – The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves (yakshav.es)

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Joseph Wright of Derby – All Works (wikiart.org)

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Three Inverse Laws of Robotics (susam.net)

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Kagi Small Web (kagi.com)

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Ask HN: Share your personal website

1

Keeping 20,000 GPUs Healthy (modal.com)

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A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project (archlinux.page)

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Accessibility Concerns Over Bakerl0.0 Line Advertiser's Rebrand (bbc.co.uk)

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Personal Websites with a /now Page (nownownow.com)

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Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet? (wired.com)

1

Who Was Caroline Haslett? (bbc.co.uk)

1

Akiyoshi Kitaoka's Optical Illusions: The Latest Works #72 (2024) (ritsumei.ac.jp)

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"Goto Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful (1987) (acm.org)

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How to sync Mac and Linux /home (2024) (sive.rs)

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The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023) (superjumpmagazine.com)

2

Equal Length Words (susam.net)

2

Penn and Teller Help Rob Pike and Dennis Ritchie Play a Prank on Arno Penzias [video] (youtube.com)

2

Creating Your Own Website (32bit.cafe)

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How I Make These ASCII Pictures and Links to Other Tutorials (2000) (archive.org)

3

Love Actually is around Heathrow (2021) (heathrow.com)

1

My Coding Adventures in 2025 (susam.net)

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Introduction to LoongArch (kernel.org)

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The Duodecimal Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 1, Year 1209 [pdf] (dozenal.org)

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Dear ACM, you're doing AI wrong but you can still get it right (recoil.org)

2

How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit? (mjg59.dreamwidth.org)

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Keyboard shortcuts – Perform common Firefox tasks quickly (support.mozilla.org)

2

Larry Wall, the Guru of Perl (1999) (linuxjournal.com)

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Scripting on the Lido Deck (2000) (archive.org)

2

I Fed 24 Years of My Blog Posts to a Markov Model (susam.net)

4

Three Dogs Stroll (reddit.com)

2

Show HN: A minimum viable Markov gibberish generator in 32 lines of Python (github.com/susam)

1

The curious case of Mark V. Shaney (2008) [pdf] (rice.edu)

1

HTML 3.2 Reference Specification (1997) (w3.org)

10

Powers of Ten (1977) [video] (youtube.com)

2

Planets and dwarf planets' tilt and rotation speed (wikimedia.org)

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The difference between meteorological and astronomical seasons (2025) (rmets.org)

2

Lisp Style & Design (1990) [pdf] (archive.org)

1

Transactions for Ghostty (hackclub.com)

1

It's Not Always ICache (matklad.github.io)

4

How do lava lamps help with encryption? (cloudflare.com)

2

How can I have a Win32 drop-down combo box with a read-only edit control? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

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An ortographical typo in Zen of Python text (2008) (python.org)

2

N-gated Hacker News (mastodon.social)

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Zork is now open source (zarfhome.com)

2

content_scripts won't load with pdf.js tabs (2018) (bugzilla.mozilla.org)

2

Unique shape of star's explosion revealed just a day after detection (eso.org)

3

Demystifying a visual illusion: Why we see colour that's not there (southampton.ac.uk)

3

Temml: A TeX-to-MathML conversion library in JavaScript (temml.org)

12

3M Diskette Reference Manual (1983) [pdf] (retrocmp.de)

4

FDD – Diskettes (retrocmp.de)

1

Re: A Few Comments on 'Age' (2019) (groups.google.com)

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When do the clocks go back? (rmg.co.uk)

1

'Muggle' Goes into Oxford English Dictionary (2003) (bbc.co.uk)

1

What are good math abbreviations? (reddit.com)

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Scrolls vol. 23 – IndieWeb, Fediverse and Cybersecurity (shellsharks.com)

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The impact of syntax colouring on program comprehension (2015) [pdf] (ppig.org)

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Apple's Jobs says Michael Dell should eat his own words (2006) (appleinsider.com)

2

Who is André Nicolas, the #2 all-time user on Math SE, and what happened to him? (reddit.com)

1

Internet Tilde Perfectly Conveys Something We Don't Have the Words to Explain (thecut.com)

1

I Reinstated My Guestbook After 20 Years! (susam.net)

1

Counting Mutually Attacking Knight Placements with Closed Form Expression (susam.net)

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Is "Open Source" ever hyphenated? (2024) (opensource.org)

2

How We Picked the Name 'Monzo' (2016) (monzo.com)

3

Lycos Buys Tripod for $58 Million (1998) (nytimes.com)

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I Reinstated My Guestbook After 20 Years! (susam.net)

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Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012) (boardgames.stackexchange.com)

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Codeberg Pages is now in maintenance mode (codeberg.org/codeberg)

2

Why, in old books, are dates often given with the years redacted? (2012) (english.stackexchange.com)

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The winter solstice: the most human of days (sgtscholar.wordpress.com)

3

Was da Vinci recognized as an inventor during his time, or mainly as an artist? (history.stackexchange.com)

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Analysis of Text Entry Performance Metrics (2009) [pdf] (archive.org)

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Synchronous Text (2019) (tive.org)

2

Why can recv() in client program receive messages even after calling shutdown()? (stackoverflow.com)

1

WebAIM's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Checklist (webaim.org)

2

WebAIM: Seizure and Vestibular Disorders (webaim.org)

1

Counting Mutually Attacking Knight Placements (susam.net)

1

Tooltips and Toggletips (2017) (inclusive-components.design)

2

NMS Ceefax (nmsceefax.co.uk)

14

Teletext in North America (computer.rip)

1

Change the default temp file prefix to be "SQLite" spelled backwards (2006) (sqlite.org)

1

Miller-Rabin Speed Testing Examples (susam.net)

4

ZFS scrubs check (much) less than you probably think they do (2018) (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2006) [pdf] (gaussianprocess.org)

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Mutually Attacking Knights Placements (susam.net)

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eBPF Networking Techniques – Packet Redirection (2023) (ldelossa.is)