12 Months of Mandarin(isaak.net)

454 points by misiti3780 2 years ago | 249 comments

A personal blog post on Isaak.net recounting the author's experience learning Mandarin Chinese over twelve months.

Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus(nijho.lt)

63 points by wasting_time 4 months ago | 38 comments

Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime(vitaut.net)

219 points by karagenit 2 years ago | 89 comments

Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window(tyler.io)

123 points by donatj 11 months ago | 70 comments

Optimizing the unoptimizable: a journey to faster C++ compile times(vitaut.net)

42 points by coffeeaddict1 2 years ago | 14 comments

Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program(github.blog)

47 points by soheilpro 3 months ago | 22 comments

When Random Isn't(orlp.net)

338 points by orlp 2 years ago | 124 comments

Blog post recounting a teenage anecdote about exploiting predictable randomness in World of Warcraft Lua add-ons, framed as a computer security story.

Anime fans stumbled upon a mathematical proof(scientificamerican.com)

475 points by classichasclass 1 year ago | 220 comments

Scientific American article on how an anime fan's question about watching episodes in every order led to a proof on superpermutation lengths.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely(old.reddit.com)

520 points by rajeevk 3 years ago | 549 comments

An r/technology discussion thread on old Reddit linking an Independent article reporting that the Reddit blackout protest will continue indefinitely.

What to Know About JavaScript in 2026(blog.master.dev)

17 points by eustoria 1 month ago | 2 comments

A blog post outlining what developers should know about the JavaScript language and ecosystem in 2026.

Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?(animebythenumbers.substack.com)

387 points by zdw 1 year ago | 276 comments

Substack article from Anime By The Numbers examining a change in how Crunchyroll releases new anime that has degraded subtitle quality after layoffs.