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lost+found
Unsorted pile of links I sometimes urgently need in the middle of a conversation.
Some file systems contain a special directory, called lost+found under Unix, where a file system check places lost and potentially corrupted files when the correct location cannot be determined, and so requires manual intervention by the user.
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A never-ending blog exploring keyboards, input devices, shortcuts, typing habits, and the ergonomics behind it all.
See the list of Do-It-Yourself Keyboards. -
An overview of global data and long-term trends.
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Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism
Good online communities die primarily by refusing to defend themselves.
Also available in Russian. -
A fast-paced intro to a new programming language or tool.
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Articles by Bartosz Ciechanowski
Interactive articles about physics, math, and engineering.
This is probably the best website on the entire internet. My favorite post is the one about bicycles. -
The Cursed Computer Iceberg Meme
An endless hall of shame and weirdness of computers.
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A briliant interactive guide to the game theory of why and how we trust each other.
The rest of this site is also pretty good. -
Torrenting can leave traces.
Check torrent downloads and distributions for your own or your neighbor's IP address. -
Requests over the network can fail.
An interactive study of common retry methods for developers. -
“There are many ways to navigate a project inside IntelliJ IDEA (or any other editor) that doesn’t necessarily include having to look through a list of tabs and figure out where you have to click next.”
Post from the VP of Program Management at JetBrains. -
An Interface Designed for Touch Typists
If you think VIM is insane, you should definitely read about WordStar, which is still quite popular among many fiction writers.
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Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
Different opinions on writing code without using
overcomplicatedadvanced tools. -
An investigation into one of the many reasons why no one should use products from Apple.
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Yr from NRK and Meteorologisk Institutt
A weather forecast site with a no-nonsense interface.
Direct links: Belgrade, Istanbul and Yekaterinburg. -
A crowdsourced map to navigate cities using marked areas and user-generated tags.
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This service calculates shadows from mountains, buildings, and trees for any date and time, and displays them on a map.
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A comparison tool lets you compare the affordability of two cities side-by-side.
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A massive CIA database on almost every country in the world.
Handy when you need to check what kind of power outlets a country uses before you get there. -
Rules for Writing Software Tutorials
Most software tutorials suck. Here's how to make one that doesn't.
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A sentence using every letter of a given alphabet at least once.
An additional list in Russian and other languages. -
about:translations
Firefox has a built-in translator. Not so smart, but works offline.
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A rant about how modern software won’t let you customize it anymore.
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Bug reporting for the web.
If a site breaks in one browser but not another, it’s a web compatibility bug. Report it. -
An esoteric and educational programming style based on the atomic parts of JavaScript.
It uses only six different characters to write and execute code. -
Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
Unicode is broken. You can encode data in any unicode character.
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A list of the world’s biggest myths and misconceptions — with myth-busting included.
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A Mathematician’s Lament — by Paul Lockhart
A passionate critique of how math is taught and a vision of how beautiful it could be instead.
Also available in Russian.