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The Vivaldi browser will not support Google’s FLoC
At Vivaldi, we stand up for the privacy rights of our users. We do not approve of Google’s new FLoC technology. It creates privacy risks for users on the web.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 11,897 posts.
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Play GTA V in your Browser, Sort of
Inspired by a blog post to run your own cloud gaming service which uses a VPN and Steam's In-Home Streaming, I thought I could do this, too, but in the browser.
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Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript (2015)
I wrote Gitlet to show how Git works under the covers. I wrote it to be readable. I commented the code heavily.
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Beginner's guide to longevity research
A beginner's guide to longevity research
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Home-Built Scanning Tunneling Microscope (2015)
Scan Head STM Tips Vibration Isolation Electronics Software Scans Image Gallery Useful Links This project is my attempt to build a low-cost scanning tunneling microscope (STM) capable of atomic res…
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GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search
“Don’t use chatbots as search engines” was great advice for several years... until it wasn’t. I wrote about how good OpenAI’s o3 was at using its Bing-backed search tool back …
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Assange Hearing Day 6
I went to the Old Bailey today expecting to be awed by the majesty of the law, and left revolted by the sordid administration of injustice. There is a romance which attaches to the Old Bailey. The name of course means fortified enclosure and it occupies a millennia old footprint on the edge of London’s […]
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BBR, the new kid on the TCP block
A look at Google's delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm, called BBR.
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German Chaos Computer Club analyzes and releases government malware
The largest European hacker club, "Chaos Computer Club" (CCC), has reverse engineered and analyzed a "lawful interception" malware program used by German police forces. It has been found in the...
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A common urban intersection in the Netherlands (2018)
Can urban intersections be designed in such a way that motor traffic, cycling and walking flow smoothly and that the potential conflicts of these very different types of traffic crossing each other…
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Material 3 Expressive
Google's research reveals how expressive design improves UX, usability, and evokes positive emotions in users
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Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures
Typographic ligatures are when multiple characters appear to combine into a ...
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Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp
Mitchell Hashimoto takes on a new individual contributor role at HashiCorp.
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Elixir RAM and the Template of Doom
I will attempt to convince you, in two lines of code, that Elixir is more interesting than any programming language you’ve ever used.
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AdaCore and Ferrous Systems Joining Forces to Support Rust
AdaCore is the leading provider of commercial software solutions for Ada, C and C++ — helping developers build safe and secure software that matters.
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Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work
Humans are hard-wired to dream, to create, to innovate. Each of us seeks to do work that gives us purpose — to write a great novel, to make a discovery, to build strong communities, to care for the sick. The urge to connect to the core of our work lives in all of us. But...
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Lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup, Dinnr
(Background: Dinnr was an ad-hoc, same day ingredient delivery service. Select a recipe on our website, and we deliver everything you need…
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Compromising a Linux desktop using 6502 opcodes on the NES
Overview A vulnerability and a separate logic error exist in the gstreamer 0.10.x player for NSF music files. Combined, they allow for ve...
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Turing Oversold?
It is not the fault of Turing, though.
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Generative Models
This post describes four projects that share a common theme of enhancing or using generative models, a branch of unsupervised learning techniques in machine learning. In addition to describing our work, this post will tell you a bit more about generative models: what they are, why they are important, and where they…
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Sunset at the South Pole
Hunkering down for the winter!
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Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with
This post contains my own opinions, not the opinions of my employer or any open source groups I belong or contribute to.
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B-Trees and Database Indexes
B-trees are used by many modern DBMSs. Learn how they work, how databases use them, and how your choice of primary key can affect index performance.
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I Broke Rust's Package Manager for Windows Users
Last weekend I was playing around with a way to represent null-terminated UTF8 strings in Rust. Rather than just toying with it forever, I decided ...
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Scaling your API with rate limiters
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Password Managers: Under the Hood of Secrets Management
February 19, 2019
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How to learn mathematics: the asterisk method
All original material on the geometry.org website is Copyright (C) 1999–2025, Alan U. Kennington.
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AWS Certificate Manager: Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
I am fascinated by things that are simple on the surface and complex underneath! For example, consider the popular padlock icon that is used to signify that traffic to and from a web site is encrypted: How does the browser know that it should display the green padlock? Well, that’s quite the story! It all […]