HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

pss314

143 karma · joined May 11, 2024

submissionscomments
pss314··on So you want to parse a PDF?
pdfgrep (as a command line utility) is pretty great if one simply needs to search text in PDF files https://pdfgrep.org/
pss314··on What to expect from Debian/Trixie
Introduction to Debian packaging https://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#packaging-tutorial

Best Packaging Practices https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best...

pss314··on “Dynamic Programming” is not referring to “computer programming”
Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002) [pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42482289
pss314··on DNS traffic spiked as Musk–Trump clash boosted Truth Social (+268%) and X (+20%)
If one is running a pi-hole, then you might want to consider configuring the pi-hole instance with unbound. https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/
pss314··on Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens
Per this reddit post, at the Santa Clara location there were some 5090 GPU retail boxes filled with crossbody backpacks instead of the GPU. Microcenter did eventually track this to a particular supplier.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Microcenter/comments/1kymzcd/update...

pss314··on Introduction to a Self Managed Life
Accompanying videos:

FUTO's Guide to a Self Managed Life: part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et5PPMYuOc8

FUTO's Guide to a Self Managed Life: part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fW9TV1WQi8

pss314··on Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a big ITAD site
"Stock Must Go USA" store on ebay looks worth exploring for deals on used devices :-) https://www.ebay.com/str/rebornelectronicsusa
pss314··on How I set up new MacBooks
In the case of an existing Brewfile, make sure to execute "brew bundle dump --force" to overwrite the Brewfile with updated list of formulae, kegs etc.
pss314··on Building a Linux Container Runtime from Scratch
I loved this hands-on presentation Containers From Scratch by Liz Rice from few years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fi7uSYlOdc.

Today, Linux containers in (less than) 100 lines of shell by Michael Kerrisk was published https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RUiVAlJE2w.

pss314··on Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
NDTV, one of India's news organizations, reported the article "HMPV Outbreak In China: Symptoms, Spread And What You Should Know" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/hmpv-outbreak-in-china-sympt...
pss314··on New ThinkPad X9 comes without TrackPoint
A few months ago after updating the UEFI firmware on my Thinkpad T14 Gen 4 (Intel), debian 12 bookworm (stable repo - kernel version 6.1) would become unresponsive (desktop freezing, wifi malfunctioning). After updating the kernel to version 6.11 via bookworm backports, the issues were resolved.

Then there's also Firmware missing for most devices on Thinkpad T14 Gen 4 Intel https://github.com/fwupd/firmware-lenovo/issues/358

pss314··on Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002) [pdf]
The Change Problem video of Algorithmic Toolbox course on Coursera briefly mentioned about the origins of Dynamic Programming which was wonderful to know. https://www.coursera.org/lecture/algorithmic-toolbox/change-...
pss314··on Ask HN: Great maker projects for 8th grade kids and above?
Crunch Labs of Mark Rober https://www.crunchlabs.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@MarkRober
pss314··on Go structs are copied on assignment (and other things about Go I'd missed)
I liked Cloud Native Go by Matthew A. Titmus and Concurrency in Go by Katherine Cox-Buday.
← PreviousPage 2 of 2