Hacker Wisdom
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What bug made you laugh after hours of frustration?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28891751/google-maps-bug-displayed-marker-changes-depending-on-zoom-level
Tell me about the best programmer you worked with
https://a.co/d/9SuUXIn
Do you still bookmark websites?
https://www.are.na/ya-1sec/bookmarks-1ntdk32bur0
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bookmark-search/fcjphnojgeikgjajhlihdjnljnbpfhmi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundoku
https://floccus.org/
https://github.com/jamesrr39/chrome-bookmark-search/blob/master/src/dal/chromeBookmarkFetcher.ts
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+linkding
https://github.com/sebsauvage/Shaarli
https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/bookmarks
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=password4321%20container&sort=byPopularity&type=story
https://karakeep.app/
https://linkding.link/
https://linkhut.org/
https://notes.kateva.org/2024/09/the-end-times-have-come-for-pinboardin.html
https://raindrop.io
https://tab-session-manager.sienori.com/
Does Microsoft gain anything from the constant annoying rebranding?
https://i.insider.com/4e0b340dcadcbbdd35120000
VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project
https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/standards/complaints/
https://bitstring.software/
https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/accept-or-reject/
https://www.deepki.com/about/#certifications-awards
https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle3
https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2024-10/edpb_guidelines_202401_legitimateinterest_en.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_(video_game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_Jack%27s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Computer
https://github.com/deepkit
https://github.com/voided-org
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/hubfs/Reports/lf_ar24_121524a.pdf?hsLang=en
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44894521
https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1glo8tv/petition_at_the_european_parliament_on_the/
https://scr.wfcdn.de/6759/Apple-vs.-Apfelkind-1319197155-0-0.jpg
https://startupnews.com.au/news/the-buildkite-story/
https://www.theverge.com/news/758192/apple-cinemas-lawsuit-response
https://web.archive.org/web/20230916074647/https://deepkit.io/blog/introducing-deepkit-framework
https://x.com/rough__sea/status/1953335245412946327
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4NIFzG8NcU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5XfYTgm4x8
F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs
https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/4004-series/amd-epyc-4124p.html
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/refs/heads/master/tools/aapt2/
https://www.androidauthority.com/best-app-stores-936652/
https://apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/issues
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/issues.en.html#i386-reduced-support
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-hat-enterprise-linux-9-for-the-x86-64-v2-microarchitecture-level
https://www.ebay.com/str/evolutionecycling
https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=epmt_5_6_a
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_10h
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions#Later_versions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel
https://f-droid.org/en/news
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/call-for-help-making-free-software-builds-of-the-android-sdk/4685
https://github.com/CompassMB/MBCompass/issues/90
https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Discoverium/
https://github.com/docker-library/mysql/issues/1055
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/593
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/593#note_2681207153
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/593#note_2690000843
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/172048751
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/438515318?pli=1
https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-July/143289.html
https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/4/25/409
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/u-s-says-chinese-telecom-giant-huawei-did-business-iran-n1136551
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19914838
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505229
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38926156
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44799861
https://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2575933-beschietingen-bij-zoektocht-naar-eten-elke-dag-op-een-ander-lichaamsdeel
https://source.android.com/docs/core/virtualization
https://wiki.debian.org/InstructionSelection
https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/frugal-computing/
https://xkcd.com/1172/
https://youtu.be/eunYrrcxXfw
How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?
https://www.google.com/search?q=bob+firestone+job+interview+answers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmp_--Oow5o
How can ChatGPT serve 700M users when I can't run one GPT-4 locally?
https://artificialanalysis.ai/?models=gpt-oss-20b%2Cgemma-3-27b%2Cgemma-3-12b%2Cgpt-4-turbo%2Cgpt-4
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09343
https://www.baseten.co/resources/guide/the-baseten-inference-stack/#the-challenge-of-building-fast-cost-efficient-and-reliable-inference
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177.amp
https://bdachelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/23196026000027-BD12NWES-12-000-BTU-Inverter-Technology-Window-Air-Conditioner
https://www.cerebras.ai/system
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/openai-sees-5-billion-loss-this-year-on-3point7-billion-in-revenue.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/google-will-let-companies-run-gemini-models-in-their-own-data-centers.html
https://docs.vllm.ai/en/stable/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoscaling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistics_engineering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development
https://fin.ai/research/think-fast-reasoning-at-3ms-a-token/
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-bleach-vinegar
https://www.infracloud.io/blogs/inference-parallelism/
https://jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/
https://lmsys.org/blog/
https://medium.com/@wearegap/a-brief-introduction-to-optimized-batched-inference-with-vllm-deddf5423d0c
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44149238
https://openai.com/api/pricing/
https://openai.com/index/march-20-chatgpt-outage/
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/openai-taps-google-unprecedented-cloud-deal-despite-ai-rivalry-sources-say-2025-06-10/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-energy-carbon-emissions-chatgpt
https://www.seangoedecke.com/inference-batching-and-deepseek/
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/gpu/48u/srs-gb200-nvl72
https://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20didn%27t%20Larrabee%20fail%3F%5D%5D
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g60763-d477541-Reviews-Rice_to_Riches-New_York_City_New_York.html
https://ut.philkr.net/advances_in_deeplearning/
https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1876104315296968813
Hardware and software for scanning and OCR old magazines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_scanning
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#document-management
What alternatives to GitHub are you using?
https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/220795/where-should-i-host-software-for-individual-papers-in-2025-now-that-github-is-pa
https://blog.tangled.sh/stacking
https://codeberg.org
https://forgefed.org/
https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/server/
https://git-send-email.io/
https://git.disroot.org/
https://radicle.xyz
https://srctree.gr.ht/repo/srctree
https://srht.site/limitations
https://tangled.sh
https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core
Is the rise of AI tools going to be the next 'dot com' bust?
https://ethanding.substack.com/p/windsurf-gets-margin-called
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CSCO/
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/INTC
What toolchains are people using for desktop app development in 2025?
https://akkartik.name/freewheeling
https://avaloniaui.net/
https://beeware.org/project/toga/
https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystemObserver
https://flutter.dev/multi-platform/desktop
https://www.get-notes.com/
https://github.com/9001/copyparty/
https://github.com/flamendless/Slab
https://github.com/mappu/miqt
https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
https://github.com/QotoQot/Octospace
https://github.com/reciperium/temporis/
https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/3988
https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
https://kivy.org/
https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
https://linklever.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44800048
https://rpdillon.net/redbean-tiddlywiki-saver.html
https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/cross-platform-tuis-are-easier-than-cross-platform-guis/
https://xojo.com
Individual Bestbuy email subscription pages are apparently indexed by Google
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/block-indexing
What are your favorite obscure but brilliant C/C++ libraries?
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/links/libs
https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal
https://judy.sourceforge.net/
