Build full “product skills” and you'll probably be fine — and Ken Thompson's keynote talk about a jukebox he built [video]

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Build full “product skills” and you’ll probably be fine twitter.com \| points: 841 \| comments: 738

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Ken Thompson’s keynote talk about a jukebox he built [video] youtube.com \| points: 418 \| comments: 352

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Bitwarden PINs can be brute-forced ambiso.github.io \| points: 297 \| comments: 193

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UBS agrees to buy Credit Suisse bloomberg.com \| points: 280 \| comments: 215

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Analyzing a failed drill bit with an electron microscope [video] youtube.com \| points: 226 \| comments: 46

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Alternative facts: How the media failed Julian Assange harpers.org \| points: 202 \| comments: 276

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People had to be convinced of the usefulness of electricity smithsonianmag.com \| points: 201 \| comments: 236

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Learning the ropes: why Germany is building risk into its playgrounds (2021) theguardian.com \| points: 190 \| comments: 104

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Build Your Own Redis with C/C++ build-your-own.org \| points: 171 \| comments: 63

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Plane Lands/Takes Off in Only 20 Feet (2013) kottke.org \| points: 167 \| comments: 61

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Leaving China persuasion.community \| points: 162 \| comments: 149

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UBS offers to buy Credit Suisse for up to $1B ft.com \| points: 157 \| comments: 112

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Regenerating Jordan’s native forests theguardian.com \| points: 155 \| comments: 56

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The curious case of a memory leak in a Zig program iamkroot.github.io \| points: 154 \| comments: 68

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Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31 nitter.bird.froth.zone \| points: 153 \| comments: 114

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‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman lied about his lifetime of lies nypost.com \| points: 151 \| comments: 99

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JPEG-XL vs. AVIF and Others: 27 Images Compared giannirosato.com \| points: 150 \| comments: 107

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Learning BASIC Like It’s 1983 (2018) twobithistory.org \| points: 150 \| comments: 76

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Tell HN: Instagram’s API has broken, support tickets ignored, status page green news.ycombinator.com \| points: 146 \| comments: 67

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Meditations on Moloch (2014) slatestarcodex.com \| points: 146 \| comments: 54

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