Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 791 posts.
TRSE (or its full original name “Turbo Rascal Syntax error, “;” expected but “BEGIN”) is a complete suite (IDE, compiler, programming language, resource editor) intended for developing games/demos for 8 / 16-bit line of computers, with a focus on the MOS 6502, the Motorola 68000, the (GB)Z80, the M6809 and the X86…
John Maynard Keynes? Paul Samuelson? Winston Churchill? Joan Robinson? Apocryphal?
I can't sleep. I'm lying in bed every night, and images of Gaza are running through my head. Fathers holding their babies, dead, caked in dust. Bombs dropped on homes [1], on hospitals [2], on schools [3]. Tens of thousands of dead [4] in indiscriminate bombings [5]. Children
Since declaring our intention to leave the cloud in October, we've been busy at work making it so. After a brief detour down a blind alley with an enterprise Kubernetes provider, we found our stride building our own tools, and successfully moved the first small application out of the cloud a few weeks ago. Now our…
At approximately 05:00 UTC on March 24, out of an abundance of caution, we replaced our RSA SSH host key used to secure Git operations for GitHub.com.
Why the MyQ integration will be removed in Home Assistant 2023.12
I’m going to cover a lot of ground in this post, so here’s the TLDR: We built a Twitter-scale Mastodon instance from scratch in only 10k lines of code. This is 100x less code than the ~1M lines Twi…
Modern email is a patchwork of protocols and extensions. Here is one article to understand them all.
How a mistake of less than half a millimeter in a single part nearly brought down the world’s largest passenger aircraft.
It works! I am now a full-time independent open-source maintainer. I'm announcing my first cohort of six clients, and sharing some details of how the model works.
Well, that was unexpected. I recorded a couple of crappy videos in 5 minutes, posted them on a Twitter thread, and went viral with 8.8K likes at this point. I really could not have predicted that, given that I’ve been posting what-I-believe-is interesting content for years and… nothing, almost-zero interest. Now that…
Demonstrating that GitHub Copilot trains on non-permissive licenses and cannot filter suggestions properly, while Codeium avoids legal risk.
Recent iPhone models have additional hardware-based security protection for sensitive regions of the kernel memory. We discovered that to bypass this hardware-based security protection, the attackers used another hardware feature of Apple-designed SoCs.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
Christiaan Brand, Group Product Manager We are excited to announce an update to Google Authenticator , across both iOS and Android, which a...
Discover Vector Databases: How They Work, Examples, Use Cases, Pros & Cons, Selection and Implementation. They have combined capabilities of traditional databases and standalone vector indexes while specializing for vector embeddings.
Yesterday, President Joe Biden declared that “it remains to be seen” whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) is “dangerous.” I would beg to differ. I have been writing about th…
CT scans of four USB-C cables from $4 to $129 reveal nine-layer PCBs, length-matched signal traces, and floating pins.
Microsoft Security Response Center Blog
A call-by-call look at context switch logging with the Event Tracing for Windows API.
Legal Twitter is having tremendous fun right now reviewing the latest documents from the case Mata v. Avianca, Inc. (1:22-cv-01461). Here’s a neat summary: So, wait. They file a brief …
Learn to improve the brightness and clarity of images in your mind's eye. Image Streaming is an easy technique to learn. Is it a cure for aphantasia?
A practical comparison of build and test speed between C++ and Rust.
Supply chain security is a hot topic today, but it is a very old problem. In October 1983, 40 years ago this week, Ken Thompson chose supply chain security as the topic for his Turing award lecture, although the specific term wasn’t used back then. (The field of computer science was still young and small enough that…
A deep dive into container scheduling and Flyd, our new orchestrator.
The original ANSI C standard, C89, introduced the concept of “undefined behavior,” which was used both to describe the effect of outright bugs like accessing memory in a freed object and also to capture the fact that existing implementations differed about handling certain aspects of the language, including use of…
Tamás Koczka, Security Engineer In 2020 , we integrated kCTF into Google's Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) to support researchers evalu...
