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  1. Incremental Parsing in Go

    posted on Sat Oct 22 13:45:00 UTC 2022 by willdaly | view on HN

    This post is an attempt to explain the incremental parsing algorithm aretext uses for syntax highlighting, which is a special case of parsing.

  2. Speaking Up for Sass

    posted on Sat Oct 22 16:11:06 UTC 2022 by lioeters | view on HN

    The article discusses the pros and cons of using the Sass CSS preprocessor, with a focus on how it can be helpful for those supporting websites intended for use in enterprises or government.

  3. Archery World Record: Most arrows through a keyhole

    posted on Sat Oct 22 13:17:13 UTC 2022 by zdw | view on HN

  4. Linux: What Can You Epoll?

    posted on Sat Oct 22 16:22:51 UTC 2022 by todsacerdoti | view on HN

    The article discusses how epoll can be used to monitor various types of file descriptors, including network sockets, timerfd, signalfd, inotify, and child processes.

  5. Show HN: First open source data discovery and observability platform

    posted on Sat Oct 22 12:14:06 UTC 2022 by ndementev | view on HN

    ODD is an open-source data discovery and observability tool that helps to efficiently democratise data, power collaboration and reduce time on data discovery through modern user-friendly environment.

  6. CSS Dig

    posted on Sat Oct 22 16:16:24 UTC 2022 by mhb | view on HN

    This article is about how specificity wars are frustrating and how adding new CSS will only make the situation worse. It suggests finding potential problem areas and making a plan to fix them.

  7. Gpwgraph – PipeWire Graph Qt GUI Interface

    posted on Sat Oct 22 10:46:33 UTC 2022 by jlpcsl | view on HN

  8. The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)

    posted on Sat Oct 22 13:30:53 UTC 2022 by pmoriarty | view on HN

    The article discusses how The Office is not just a cynical view of working life, but a fully realized theory of management that falsifies 83.8% of the business section of the bookstore, based on Hugh MacLeod's Company Hierarchy cartoon.

  9. Washington Pizza Index (1998)

    posted on Thu Oct 20 11:35:17 UTC 2022 by tosh | view on HN

    The demand for pizza has increased due to the impeachment hearings and war management at the Pentagon.

  10. NEC’s Tetris Processor

    posted on Thu Oct 20 21:08:22 UTC 2022 by zdw | view on HN

    The article is about a man's journey to get ahold of the game Tetris for an old computer.

  11. Getting Out of a Rut

    posted on Sat Oct 22 12:54:11 UTC 2022 by beepdyboop | view on HN

  12. RISC in 2022

    posted on Sat Oct 22 06:02:48 UTC 2022 by todsacerdoti | view on HN

    The article discusses the pros and cons of various design features of instruction sets and how they have changed over time.

  13. Ask HN: Are there recorded instances of people being framed through hacking?

    posted on Sat Oct 22 11:26:17 UTC 2022 by desertraven | view on HN

  14. Some People Who Appear to Be in a Coma May Be Conscious

    posted on Sat Oct 22 16:02:32 UTC 2022 by TeacherTortoise | view on HN

  15. A moonshot for coral breeding

    posted on Sat Oct 22 02:55:04 UTC 2022 by Petiver | view on HN

    The article discusses the process of breeding elkhorn coral in order to help preserve the endangered species.

  16. Hitting a Moose

    posted on Fri Oct 21 19:14:07 UTC 2022 by quickfox | view on HN

    The article is about the author's experience of getting her car totaled in Alaska and having to explore different parts of the state while it was being repaired.

  17. Roguelike Celebration 2022: a festival about roguelike game design and procedur

    posted on Sat Oct 22 16:12:56 UTC 2022 by todsacerdoti | view on HN

    The Roguelike Celebration is a community-generated weekend of talks, games, and conversations about roguelikes and related topics, including procedural generation and game design that is open to fans, players, developers, scholars, and everyone else!

  18. A Nobel Laureate Revisits the Great War’s African Front

    posted on Fri Oct 21 10:55:18 UTC 2022 by mmq | view on HN

    The article is about the novel "Paradise" by Abdulrazak Gurnah and how it relates to the question of how African soldiers ended up fighting for their colonizers.

  19. Amsterdam looks incredibly realistic in the new Call of Duty

    posted on Sat Oct 22 05:51:46 UTC 2022 by doener | view on HN

    The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to continue using twitter.com.

  20. The French Art of Cheese-Label Collecting

    posted on Fri Oct 21 00:01:38 UTC 2022 by Caiero | view on HN

    This article is about the hobby of collecting cheese labels that have been affixed to French Camembert’s round wooden boxes for over 100 years.

  21. Welcome to Puma 6: Sunflower

    posted on Sat Oct 22 10:10:30 UTC 2022 by thunderbong | view on HN

    Puma 6 brings performance improvements for most applications, experimental Rack 3 support, support for Sidekiq 7 Capsules, and more.

  22. Princeton lab simulates nuclear war

    posted on Sat Oct 22 09:20:40 UTC 2022 by data_maan | view on HN

    This four-minute audio-visual piece is based on independent assessments of current U.S. and Russian force postures, nuclear war plans, and nuclear weapons targets which shows the evolution of the nuclear conflict from tactical, to strategic to city-targeting phases.

  23. Science, technology and innovation isn’t addressing world’s most urgent problems

    posted on Sat Oct 22 11:59:16 UTC 2022 by giuliomagnifico | view on HN

    The report finds that research in high-income and middle-income countries contributes disproportionally to a disconnect with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

  24. Some People Are Mosquito Magnets, and They're Stuck That Way

    posted on Sat Oct 22 15:23:10 UTC 2022 by gmays | view on HN

  25. Drone photos reveal an early Mesopotamian city made of marsh islands

    posted on Thu Oct 20 05:12:26 UTC 2022 by diodorus | view on HN

    The article is about how a ground-penetrating eye in the sky has helped to rehydrate an ancient southern Mesopotamian city, tagging it as what amounted to a Venice of the Fertile Crescent, and how this has important implications for how urban life flourished nearly 5,000 years ago between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

  26. Ask HN: HNers with multiple sclerosis, can we get in touch?

    posted on Sat Oct 22 11:01:36 UTC 2022 by mush_room | view on HN

  27. Refurb Weekend: PowerBook 1400

    posted on Sat Oct 22 04:52:55 UTC 2022 by todsacerdoti | view on HN

    The article discusses the author's love for their PowerBook 1400 laptop, which was handed down to them in 2001. They discuss how modular the laptop is and how they upgraded it over time, eventually adding a solar panel. They also mention the issue of the laptop's plastic components being load-bearing and susceptible to breaking.

  28. Molasses: DIY Shazaam

    posted on Sat Oct 22 04:10:19 UTC 2022 by metadat | view on HN

    Molasses is a Module Oriented Large Archive Specialized Slow Exhaustive Seacher that is used to find the closest matching module to a sampled audio file.

  29. Designing Logic Systems Using State Machines by Christopher R. Clare

    posted on Sat Oct 22 07:43:00 UTC 2022 by todsacerdoti | view on HN

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  30. Remote work changed their lives. They’re not going back to the office

    posted on Sat Oct 22 14:02:29 UTC 2022 by pcl | view on HN

    The article discusses how Atlassian, a company founded by Cannon-Brookes, had to do a lot of retooling to make the policy of allowing employees to work from anywhere functional.