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AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an accidental expert on Conway's Game of Life
https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Information-Theory-Psychedelic-Technologies-ebook/dp/B094ZJ4PW8
https://catagolue.hatsya.com/home
https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-working-game-of-tetris-in-conways-game-of-life
https://content.wolfram.com/sites/13/2018/02/01-3-1.pdf
https://davidhampgonsalves.com/solar-powered-conways-game-of-life/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_of_Life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life#Undecidability
https://www.franzai.com/
https://github.com/nicolasloizeau/scalable-gol-computer
https://golly.sourceforge.io
https://golly.sourceforge.io/
https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm
https://kong.cash/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrincipleofComputationalEquivalence.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40124682
https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xzypl/something_i_remember_from_seatac_in_the_80swas/
https://youtu.be/R9Plq-D1gEk?t=600
How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
https://baldphone.com/
https://www.charlie.com/
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/mcnealy-sees-huge-nc-growth/
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/FileSystemOverview/FileSystemOverview.html
https://www.faronics.com/es/products/deep-freeze
https://github.com/nix-community/impermanence
https://github.com/ProfileCreator/ProfileCreator/wiki
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/assigned-access/overview
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/iot-enterprise/customize/unified-write-filter
https://www.lively.com/phones/jitterbug-smart4/
https://www.macworld.com/article/672451/how-to-share-screens-on-mac-ipad-iphone.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40127728
https://support.apple.com/en-us/109365
https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/set-up-assistive-access-devcd5016d31/ios
https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/welcome/ios
https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework
https://ublockorigin.com/
https://vanillaos.org/
https://youtu.be/cZSNhJcKFf4
How to Make News Aggregation Work in 2024?
https://news.google.com/
https://techmeme.com/river
What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?
https://ajxs.me/blog/Introduction_to_Reverse-Engineering_Vintage_Synth_Firmware.html
https://www.atarimania.com/pgesoft.awp?version=37332
https://blog.brownplt.org/2024/04/21/forge.html
https://boricj.net
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/umar-zameer-acquittal-court-northrup-1.7181096#:~:text=Outside%20court%2C%20however%2C%20Toronto%20Police,different%20outcome%2C%22%20he%20said
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/Seizure_disorders
https://dimensions.ai
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_engineering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2#Character_substitution_errors_in_scanned_documents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method
https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/support/knowledge-base/universal-licensing-system-uls-resources/applying-new-license
https://fourays.lon.dev
https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-my-roommate-with-targeted-facebook-ads/
https://github.com/arcuru/chaz
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/jbig2dec/blob/master/jbig2.c#L287
https://github.com/benhamad/blog/blob/main/2024-04-12-dramalive.md
https://github.com/boricj/ghidra-delinker-extension
https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/computer/blob/main/bin/pdf_contrast.py
https://github.com/jvolkman/repairwheel
https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/pull/75
https://github.com/skx/cpmulator
https://github.com/sunir/NvChad
https://github.com/ZQuestClassic/ZQuestClassic
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/DocView-Conversion.html
https://gsprogolf.com/
https://johnowhitaker.dev/all.html
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/01/01/some-notes-on-nixos/
https://kittenlabs.de/real-gaming-router/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/bcp-utility?view=sql-server-ver16
https://mathoverflow.net/a/63298/5734
https://matrix.to/#/%23thisweekinmatrix%3Amatrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=envs.net&via=element.io
https://musictheory.pugetsound.edu/mt21c/frontmatter.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33238283
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39601201
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40065821#40069048
https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-server/
https://solvespace.com
https://start.me/p/1997pL/inequality-for-the-pragmatic-idealist
https://sunaku.github.io/engram-keyboard-layout.html
https://vesc-project.com
https://wxt.dev/
https://youtu.be/zr8dtT9siq4?si=akpHbgmLrtIcgXJk
https://www.youtube.com/@HexiBase
https://www.youtube.com/@MFMP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FeqF1-Z1g0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dejend_kx94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-5Y9Z7DK4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVum3vWlh4Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK60ROb2RKI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1O0pwUMbnw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5K9HBiJpuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE9rEQAGpLw
Which books/resources to understand modern Assembler?
https://www.agner.org/optimize/
https://www.agner.org/optimize/#manuals
https://aosabook.org/en/v1/llvm.html
http://blog.vmchale.com/article/jit
https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/nasmtutorial/
https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/cpu-optimization-guide
https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/index.html
https://github.com/brianrhall/Assembly
https://github.com/deosjr/nand2tetris
https://github.com/Highload-fun/platform/wiki
https://idcp.marist.edu/assembler-resources
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/intel-sdm.html
https://mariokartwii.com/armv8/
https://www.nand2tetris.org/
https://www.nasm.us/xdoc/2.13.03rc1/html/nasmdoc0.html
https://ofrak.com/tetris/
https://opensecuritytraining.info/IntroX86.html
https://p.ost2.fyi/courses
https://rayseyfarth.com/asm/index.html
https://redballoonsecurity.com/
https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/elf/x86_64-abi-0.99.pdf
https://stackoverflow.com/a/17309038
https://uops.info/
https://www.youtube.com/@ChibiAkumas
Is iCloud a viable alternative to Dropbox? Any other alternatives?
https://calmdocs.com
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255263958
https://docs.syncthing.net/users/relaying.html#security
https://eclecticlight.co/2023/07/24/how-to-fix-problems-with-icloud-and-icloud-drive/
https://go.zoho.com/lAl
https://help.dropbox.com/installs/macos-support-for-expected-changes
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/
https://www.maestral.app/
https://mega.io/
https://mega.io/storage
https://mountainduck.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
https://proton.me/drive/download
https://rclone.org/docs/
https://tidbits.com/2023/10/12/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-insanity-unsticking-icloud-drive/
Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe52_7L-JqY6OqhL0FJICtmx2iNpCekzFMbWshlzwoJTa3BSg/viewform
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_buster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=hi%20are%20u%20lonely%20want%20ai%20gf&sort=byDate&type=comment
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%20Are%20you%20lonely%3F%20Do%20you%20want%20an%20AI%20girlfriend%20&sort=byDate&type=comment
https://microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387562
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39981911
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115155
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117443
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117510
https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pwdisswordfishc
https://paulgraham.com/spam.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/s/A5nvuZBLab
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/216679607--Verification-Levels
https://xkcd.com/810/
Outstanding Programmers
https://www.adama-platform.com/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/not-a-linux-distro-review-serenityos-is-a-unix-y-love-letter-to-the-90s/
https://bellard.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Kistiakowsky
https://github.com/ankane?tab=repositories&type=source
https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/HammockDrivenDev.md
https://internetmuseum.se/english/
https://joeldare.com/how-to-lose-money-with-25-years-of-failed-businesses
https://justine.lol/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27833064
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814161
https://pragprog.com/titles/ahptl/pragmatic-thinking-and-learning/
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/why-we-stopped-making-einsteins
https://tynan.com/thekey/
https://www.wired.com/2010/12/mf-spotify/
How do you store your knowledge?
https://stephango.com/obsidian-web-clipper
LLaMA 3 single points of failure and torrents? (HuggingFace Outage)
https://academictorrents.com/browse.php?cat=6
Are there wrapper/runner programs that encrypt writes and decrypt reads?
https://blog.mnus.de/2020/05/sandboxing-soldatserver-with-bubblewrap-and-seccomp/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
https://kb.parallels.com/8832
Improve Writing (AI) for Apple Notes?
https://www.raycast.com/pro
What is the best AI conference for a tech leader to attend?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15jyJP1TbuWenzBD0OahZp_s_egV78DNfDTxse2-VBco/edit?usp=sharing
What are your go to shell one-liners?
https://cheat.sh/<toolname>
https://www.website-name.com
Can a Meta Quest 3 be connected to a PC using HDMI?
https://immersed.com
Any calory-tracking app without the need for an account?
https://github.com/openfoodfacts
https://macrofactorapp.com
https://www.nutracheck.co.uk/CaloriesIn/Product/Search?desc=orange
https://www.nutritionvalue.org
What Is the Cardinality of URLs?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximum-length-of-a-url-in-different-browsers
What would a TikTok ban look like?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
Why do people need more than git to manage dotfiles?
https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
https://www.gnusto.com/
Underrated HN Posts and Comments
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hnrelevant-related-storie/iajhnkeiioebplnbfkpnlnggkgblmoln
https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
Best Open E-Reader?
https://calibre-ebook.com/
https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book
https://www.kobo.com/
https://yingtongli.me/blog/2018/07/29/kobo-sd.html
How can I get better at explaining things?
https://dn790000.ca.archive.org/0/items/OnWritingWell/on-writing-well.pdf
https://english-grammar-lessons.com/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-meaning/
Any good books on ray tracing?
https://pbrt.org/
https://raytracing.github.io/
Do you monitor SSD disk writes regularly to prevent excessive SSD wear?
https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/sysstat/iostat.1.en.html
What are you building with AI?
https://github.com/vinhnx/VT.ai
Best distro for me? tired of windows10 toxic abusive interface
https://www.protondb.com/explore?sort=playerCount
Please recommend how to manage personal serverss
https://colmena.cli.rs/
https://github.com/elitak/nixos-infect
https://github.com/lattice0/true_libopenvpn3
https://search.nixos.org/options
https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/
https://www.vagrantup.com/
https://xiaoyehua.dev/posts/nixos-on-oracle-arm-machine
Have you migrated to Proton mail/calendar/pass/etc.? How was it?
https://mail.proton.me/u/1/inbox
https://www.migadu.com
https://proton.me/blog/engineering-message-content-search
https://proton.me/mail/download
https://proton.me/support/proton-mail-export-tool
https://proton.me/support/subscribe-to-external-calendar
https://proton.me/support/troubleshooting?product=mail
https://protonvpn.com/support-form?ref=contact_product_vpn
Why did software become worse lately?
https://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087369