HN blogs - 31/10/24

Technical Women and Women-in-Tech https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/women_in_tech (HN source)

Lessons from one too many model spreadsheets https://www.elliotcsmith.com/lessons-from-one-too-many-model-spreadsheets/ (HN source)

Memecoins Are the Point http://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2024/10/memecoins-are-point.html (HN source)

The Dunning-Kruger Effect in LLMs https://www.ddmckinnon.com/2024/10/31/dans-weekly-ai-speech-and-language-scoop-32/ (HN source)

Of Virtual Turduckens https://mrtnmgs.com/blog/turduckens/ (HN source)

TIL emalloc() auto-exits on out-of-memory errors https://jcbhmr.me/blog/til-emalloc (HN source)

Get Me Out of Data Hell https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/get-me-out-of-data-hell/ (HN source)

"My Computer" to "This PC": language evolution in brand-centric consumer culture https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog/2024/10/my-computer-to-this-pc-evolution-of-brand-centric-language.html (HN source)

Gamers Are Weird https://www.kumari.net/networking/funny/gamers-are-weird (HN source)

Declutter the Web: Browse every site with just ONE fixed-width font https://ctrl-c.club/~captain/posts/2024-10-31-declutter-the-web-browse-every-site-with-just-one-font.html (HN source)

Problem Solving vs. Problem Picking https://gkk.dev/posts/problem-solving-vs-problem-picking/ (HN source)

Demystifying the Regular Expression That Checks If a Number Is Prime https://illya.sh/the-codeumentary-blog/regular-expression-check-if-number-is-prime/ (HN source)

Running a Million Empty Tests https://kodare.net/2024/10/31/a-million-tests.html (HN source)

Typing fast is not so important https://morgan.zoemp.be/slowdown/ (HN source)

Circles, Sines and Signals https://jackschaedler.github.io/circles-sines-signals/aliasing.html (HN source)

Help fight the proprietary software monsters https://pointieststick.com/2024/10/30/help-fight-the-proprietary-software-monsters/ (HN source)