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by archmaster 3y ago
(Part of this might be that all this HN traffic is overwhelming my tiny server a bit, I'm working on getting it smoother live rn)
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by archmaster 3y ago
Yeah, sorry, Hacker News has successfully made my server chug a lot :) I'm working on it right now and hopefully will be working better soon! In the meantime I've increased timeouts so loading will be longer but it should work bet
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by archmaster 3y ago
Hi! I'm Lexi. I'm 17, and one of the things I'm interested in right now is gaining a deeper understanding of how computers work and showing that in new ways. A few months ago I published https://cpu.land (discussi
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Show HN: How did your computer reach my server?(how-did-i-get-here.net)
659 points by archmaster 3y ago|137 comments
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by archmaster 3y ago
Interesting article at first glance, although I definitely have to reread when I'm actually... awake Is that my Water.css color scheme from so many years ago I see? :)
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by archmaster 3y ago
Thank you so, so much for the kind words. I'm always learning, and I'm sure my style will change — hopefully for the better — but it's really nice to hear that cpu.land was anywhere close to as well-written as I was hoping!
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by archmaster 3y ago
I am glad you enjoyed and learned something, thank you! Thank you for the nitpick on the 4004! I think I will actually make a minor correction about that. I know about the Program Counter terminology, and explicitly chose not to use it to b
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by archmaster 3y ago
I am really happy to hear that, because that was exactly my goal! Thank you.
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by archmaster 3y ago
I am very glad you liked it! Julia Evans is one of my biggest inspirations ever. I have a lot of her zines. SHE ACTUALLY READ MY ARTICLE EARLIER AND I JUST ABOUT EXPLODED https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/16893318624
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by archmaster 3y ago
justine tunney is an amazing inspiration! glad you enjoyed :)
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by archmaster 3y ago
I covered this: > I talked to GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 a decent amount while writing this article. While they lied to me a lot and most of the information was useless, they were sometimes very helpful for working through problems. LLM assistanc
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by archmaster 3y ago
I have 10,610 songs in my music library, I listen to a lot of different music! Linkin Park, however, is quite popular — of course, "In the End" itself was widely shared as a meme when I was younger, but I've also just heard i
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by archmaster 3y ago
That's true - some level of technical knowledge is assumed, but I'm fine with that. Every article needs an audience. I can't write something that's perfect for everyone.
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by archmaster 3y ago
i see. hmmmmm ... that's not supposed to happen, and it works fine on both nixos and ubuntu for me. may be something funky going on, i'll see if i can take a look sometime soon.
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by archmaster 3y ago
not sure if your formatting is messed up, but these commands should work: $ sudo setcap CAP_NET_RAW+ep ./arpchat $ ./arpchat perhaps try sudo on the arpchat binary if not
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by archmaster 3y ago
From my testing, it can break through a lot of things!
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by archmaster 3y ago
Glad you like the PDF! Fun fact: it's actually the print stylesheet output of the one-pager edition. Hit Ctrl-P on https://cpu.land/editions/one-pager (pref. in Chrome)
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by archmaster 3y ago
Hey, I made this! I also made this other thing on HN today ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37062422 ), really cool to see ArpChat as well (guess someone went through my profile). It was a super fun project and I learne
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by archmaster 3y ago
LWN is one of my favorite websites. I learned more from LWN articles (probably mostly yours lol) than most other resources on the internet when researching for my article. I actually quoted you from 19 years ago! https://cpu.land
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by archmaster 3y ago
I think you are very correct, and I don't like it. There should be more "online books" that are in depth and correct!
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by archmaster 3y ago
Thank you + I hope you enjoy! I would really appreciate your feedback if you finish.
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by archmaster 3y ago
re Figma: that's a good idea, I can definitely include SVGs I'll check out Gustavo Duarte's posts!
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by archmaster 3y ago
I am a big fan of Learn You a Haskell! Was absolutely lovely when I was learning FP.
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by archmaster 3y ago
"Wrong" is perhaps not the most accurate word. I most often found information to be either extremely oversimplified such as to be unhelpful, or outdated and no longer relevant for current systems. Although, yes, some things were j
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by archmaster 3y ago
I'm glad you enjoyed it! > It's also a very good idea to write these types of resources when you teach yourself something new because it clarifies your thought process and helps you identify parts that are still unclear even th
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by archmaster 3y ago
Interesting! I've always been most interested in conveying information to people — human-computer interactions, interface and app design, educational writing like this article. Before I got into programming I was OBSESSED with this ama
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by archmaster 3y ago
Thank you! Looks hardware-y and very interesting, I may well read through it at some point.
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by archmaster 3y ago
Oh, thank you for the suggestion! I of course know of Tanenbaum by reputation but I've never read the book.
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by archmaster 3y ago
When many people read an article on the web, they keep their eyes in one small vertical area on the page and scroll to shift the text (rather than reading the whole visible area and then scrolling to the next "page"). However, whe
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by archmaster 3y ago
I taught myself everything — my parents are not technical and sorta disliked computers (which I'm sure helped motivate me lol). So what helped me most was just experimenting a lot, banging my head against a wall repeatedly. When I got

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