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NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor
In March 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz, a (de)-compression software that is regularly used at the core of Linux distributions to unpack source tarballs...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,109 posts.
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PyTorch Internals: Ezyang's Blog
This post is a long form essay version of a talk about PyTorch internals, that I gave at the PyTorch NYC meetup on May 14, 2019.
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When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)
Let's first not talk about why this can happen, but deleting /lib, /usr/lib, or some other essential runtime files happens quite a lot (as you can see: here, here, here, and here). In this post, I will only discuss what happens when you delete /lib on Linux and how to recover from that. The easy
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Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
Monster Cables, which makes extremely high-priced stereo cables, has apparently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable, alleging various kinds of infringement. Bad move – the pres…
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MySQL transactions per second vs. fsyncs per second (2020)
Just wondering how many transactions or writes per second MySQL can handle? While it depends on many factors, fundamentally, about as many transactions as MySQL can commit to disk per second. A modern disk can do ~1000 fsyncs per second , but MySQL will group multiple writes with each fsync. An okay rule-of-thumb…
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Use Long Options in Scripts
Many command line utilities support short form options (-f) and long form options (--force). Short form is for interactive usage. In scripts, use the long form.
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I want a good parallel computer
The GPU in your computer is about 10 to 100 times more powerful than the CPU, depending on workload. For real-time graphics rendering and machine learning, you are enjoying that power, and doing those workloads on a CPU is not viable. Why aren’t we exploiting that power for other workloads? What prevents a GPU from…
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The Road Not Taken Is Guaranteed Minimum Income
The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.
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Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle
Which is exactly why Trump wants to get rid of it
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Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024)
Software engineer by day, software engineer by night also.
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Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of big-company HR practices. I’m more of the First Break all the Rules type. Despite my general skepticism of many standard practices, we still do annual performance reviews at my company, though I’m thinking seriously of dropping
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Numbering should start at zero (1982)
To denote the subsequence of natural numbers 2, 3, ..., 12 without the pernicious three dots, four conventions are open to us
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The indieweb doesn't need to “take off”
There's a corner of the Internet where people have been reclaiming their digital independence by hosting their own websites and promoting the idea of owning your own content. It's called the IndieWeb. The community has its own website , IRC channels, social media presence, etc. as well
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Derivatives and Logarithms of 3D Transforms
Understanding derivatives and logarithms of transforms
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The F-35 as a Subscription Service
by Benjamin Cook (into by Tom Cooper)
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Leaking Passwords and more on macOS
A security research blog.
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I fear for the unauthenticated web
LLM and AI companies seem to all be in a race to breathe the last breath of air in every room they stumble into. This practice started with larger websites, ones that already had protection from ma...
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Block AI Scrapers with Anubis proof-of-work
I got tired with all the AI scrapers that were bullying my git server, so I made a tool to stop them for good.
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The Frontend Treadmill
A lot of frontend teams are very convinced that rewriting their frontend will lead to the promised land. And I am the bearer of bad tidings. If you are building a product that you hope has longevity, your frontend framework is the least interesting technical decision for you to make. And all of the time you spend…
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Understanding Solar Energy
The biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as solar PV or simply solar panels.
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How I accepted myself into Canada's largest AI hackathon
i <3 firebase
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Doge to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data
A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the latest exhibit in the Trump administration’s continued disregard for basic cybersecurity protections. The message instructed recently-fired CISA employees to get in touch so they can be rehired and then…
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LLM Agents Are Simply Graph – Tutorial for Dummies
Ever wondered how AI agents actually work behind the scenes?
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The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp
A conversation with lead producer Laura Kröger on the making of Odysseus and what it would take to become a permanent institution.
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AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding
Blindspots in LLMs I’ve noticed while AI coding. Sonnet family emphasis. Maybe I will eventually suggest Cursor rules for these problems.
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How popular is Donald Trump?
Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump — and all presidents since Truman.
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How fast the days are getting longer (2023)
Here in the northern hemisphere the vernal equinox just passed and the days arequickly getting longer. One of my col...
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Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP
Reverse Engineering Reality
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Learning about Innovation from Half a Century of Conway's Game of Life
Stephen Wolfram investigates the discovery of structures since the Game of Life was invented--searching possibilities versus invention by explicit effort. A thorough look at oscillators, modularity, glider guns.
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The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
Where have the amateur researchers gone, and how do we bring them back?