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Last updated: 5 Aug 2020 ·
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Fun
- Neal Stephenson Debian bug report 1997-01-10
- “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch 2014-11-24
- LKML: Jonathan Corbet: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happy 2014-11-24
- Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Sudoku solver
- How to programmatically find out if computer is on
- Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub!.
Hacker News
- What do you self-host?
- How to get your IP unbanned on HN.
- What's the most valuable thing you can learn in an hour?
- How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)
- Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
- Ask HN: What do you use to manage dotfiles?
- Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
- Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?
- Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
- Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?
- Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
Stack Overflow
- vi - Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi.
- c++ - The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List
- javascript - How does the “this” keyword work?
- python - What is the purpose of the word 'self'?
- date - Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30?
Stack Exchange
- How do I draw a pair of buttocks?
- Is this duplo train track under too much tension?
- It's not mathematics that you need to contribute to
- Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture?
Imgur
Wikipedia
- Programming
- Technology
- Philosophy
- Literature
- Unusual articles
- List of lists of lists
- List of Internet phenomena
- List of linguistic example sentences
- Empirical evidence for the spherical shape of Earth
- Lamest edit wars
- Tree of Ténéré
- Petrichor
- The Blue Marble
- AFI 100 Years... series
- Olbers' paradox
- El Paquete Semanal
- Sharenting
- Barbenheimer
- Dancing mania
- Death drive
- Brandolini's law
- Darwin among the Machines - 1863
- Climate fiction
- Pfeilstorch
- Rhythm 0
- Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
- Bakhshali manuscript
- Letter from Iddin-Sin to Zinu
- Lindy effect
- Sator Square
- Operation Vula
- Nobel disease
Misc
- Programming
- Things Every Hacker Once Knew - Eric S. Raymond
- Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years - Peter Norwig
- What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic - Oracle docs.
- Challenging projects every programmer should try
- How to store dotfiles - Atlassian
- Removing sensitive data from a repository - GitHub Help
- Keyboard shortcuts - GitHub Help
- Gmail Search Operators
- Things You Didn't Know About GNU Readline
- syntax across languages
- Practice CTF List - Jordan Wiens
- Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing
- Filenames and Pathnames in Shell (bash, dash, ash, ksh, and so on): How to do it Correctly
- Ten Things I Wish I’d Known About bash
- Draw SVG rope using JavaScript · Muffin Man
- Hexing the technical interview - Aphyyr
- Typescripting the technical interview - Richard Towers
- A Senior Engineer’s Guide to the System Design Interview | interviewing.io
- 1-Line Layouts
- The A-Z of Programming Languages - Computerworld - 2008-2010
- Putting the "You" in CPU
- xmas.c, 1988
- tinywm: window manager in 50 lines of c
- SQL for the Weary
- A search engine in 80 lines of Python
- GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy - Jay Mody
- GPT in 500 lines of SQL
- Knuth 3:16 (2002)
- Bit Twiddling Hacks
- Mathematics
- Literature
- Philosophy
- How to study philosophy as an amateur? - Existential Comics
- Accounting
- Music
- How to Make a Crossword Puzzle - The New York Times
- How to speak Silicon Valley: 53 essential tech-bro terms explained - The Guardian.
- The 500-mile mail
- I may be the only evil (bit) user on the internet
- Pi is wrong! - Bob Palais
- The Pi Manifesto - No, really, pi is right!
- 101 EASY WAYS TO SAY NO
- Visualizing quaternions, an explorable video series - Grant Sanderson, Ben Eater
- An Explanation of Cricket
- Filmmaking Process - Walt Disney Animation Studios
- Jennifer Dewalt | 180 Websites
- Ten Lessons I wish I had been Taught - Gian-Carlo Rota (1996)
- Graphing Calculator Story
- Visualizing Algorithms
- File Picker meme - InstallGentoo Wiki
- 1922: Why I Quit Being So Accommodating
- This is a web page.
- How to be a Consultant, a Freelancer, or an Independent Contractor · Jacques Mattheij
- MathFiction
- Mathematics in Movies
- The Mathematical Movie Database
- How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations - Datawrapper Blog
- Text-only websites
- Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin 2014 Q1 - Money creation in the modern economy
- City Syndromes: 10 mental illnesses named after world cities - Big Think
- The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans
- Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass (2000)
- Cool Science Tricks
- Car allergic to vanilla ice cream
- Things you're allowed to do
- How SSH port became 22
- Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened - Nelson P. Repenning, John D. Sterman
- Underrated reasons to be thankful
- Losing my son
- How to destroy the Earth
- IMG_0416 - ben-mini
- IMG_0001
- Fast
- Slow
- Scripts I wrote that I use all the time - Evan Hahn
- Terence Tao, at 8yo (1984)