Articles by xeonmc
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[flagged] Why Math Dumped OpenAI (raymyers.org)

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TheScuderia.net – The online voice of Ferrari F1 (thescuderia.net)

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Universal Paperclips (decisionproblem.com)

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Every Plaform is Hitler: mourning friendships lost (aria.dog)

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The Most Impossible Rise of a City Ever: Phoenix, Arizona [video] (youtube.com)

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Audit on bureaucratic timeline of concrete embankment involved in Jeju Air crash (simpleflying.com)

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The Lexus LS 400 Happened When the Government Tried to Protect Detroit [video] (youtube.com)

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Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes (ethw.org)

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Extreme SIMD: Optimized Collision Detection in Titanfall (2018) [video] (youtube.com)

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FOSDEM 2026: Multi-relay msging & cryptographic identities w/ DeltaChat/Chatmail (fosdem.org)

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Neo-Luddites: The Gen Z Backlash to Big Tech [video] (youtube.com)

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Riot Engineering: How VALORANT Solved Peeker's Advantage (2020) (riotgames.com)

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Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?

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Riot Engineering: How VALORANT Solved Peeker's Advantage (2020) (riotgames.com)

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George Orwell's guide to making a perfect cup of tea (1946) (orwellfoundation.com)

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DeltaChat 2.48: zero metadata, group description, native audio/video call & more (delta.chat)

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The Wonderful World of Slide Charts, Wheel Charts and Perrygrafs (sphere.bc.ca)

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Comparison Between ATProto and Tim Berners-Lee's Solid Protocol (solidproject.org)

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Building an 8-bit breadboard computer – playlist (youtube.com)

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The Nightingale – Hans Christian Andersen (1844) (gilead.org.il)

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The Economist Who Solved the Free-Rider Problem (developingeconomics.org)

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GitHubDesktopPlus: Fork of GitHub Desktop for alt. git hosts & better UX (github.com/pol-rivero)

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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)

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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)

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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)