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For example, think questions like "What happens when you type an address in your browser and hit enter?" Questions which one could answer by going at great lengths and demonstrate the familiarity with the whole stack…

I'm curious as to what is your way of finding out about the latest books worth reading, either updated editions of already well-known ones, or brand new?

Hey HN! I want to share a project I've been working on: a handcrafted virtual stack machine with a reduced instruction set. The programs for the VM are written in a minimal, dynamically-typed, Turing-complete…

For context, I'm in my late 20s and wrote my first snippets almost a decade ago. Initially, I considered enrolling in a formal program, but my math skills at the time (required for passing the entrance exam) were far…

I wrote a minimal traceroute(1) clone that leans on asynchrony to reduce the time spent tracing a route. Underneath, it uses ICMP to do its job. The plan is to add support for UDP tracing and a path maximum transmission…

My initial exposure to English was through video games. Then as a fifth-grader, I was sent to a private language school where I had group classes with other kids. However, being a kid as I was, I was never aware that…

Undoubtedly, an average person knowing how to interpret facial expressions and, more broadly, body language and emotions could benefit in many ways in their daily life. However, I am specifically wondering about job…