Ask HN: Are things getting more convenient but less satisfying?

I read a post on HN recently where a guy in his teens used to visit a construction site to watch how peopled worked and even help them for small fee. Now he could just watch a YouTube video about it in 10 different ways but the experience differs in that the workers used to treat him well and converse […]

Ask HN: Examples of Microkernels?

I’m reading through the MIT xv6 OS handbook and code (here: https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv/) and they mention the fact that they created it as a monolithic kernel since most unix systems are monolithic. They then introduce the microkernel concept. Are there microkernel concepts out there (especially code) I can check out? I’m curious to see how userspace processes communicate to kernel processes […]

Ask HN: A Math Study Program?

I took math courses through high school up to calculus in college and a course on discrete math, which i did well in. I just got John Stillwell’s “Mathematics and It’s History” and I’m dazzled by the way math is presented and the beauty inherent in it, unlike the way it was taught to me in school. However, I’m starting […]