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OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
There's a new offline mapping program for smartphones, so I thought I'd see how it stacks up against the one I'm already using.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,194 posts.
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Reverse engineering Solos smart glasses
First and foremost: If you’ve got any documentation on this hardware, please contact me! I would love to read the actual specs for this protocol.
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We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own
Refuting the common and flawed argument of
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Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs
I'm going to neuralyze the SPI flash and install some Kelvin Timeline firmware that will allow me to boot and install generic ARM Linux images on a ROCK 5 ITX+.
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What to do with C++ modules?
Note: Everything that follows is purely my personal opinion as an individual. It should not be seen as any sort of policy of the Meson buil...
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Inverting the Xorshift128 random number generator
CVE-2025-7783 is a very recent vulnerability affecting a lot of applications in the Node.js ecosystem including those which use axios or the deprecated request library. In all honesty, this vulnera…
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Code Is Debt
I like to answer this frequent question by way of an example. An example of two companies. It goes something like this:
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How is Ultrassembler so fast?
Ultrassembler is a superfast and complete RISC-V assembler library that I'm writing as a component of the bigger Chata signal processing project.
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When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire
A while ago I treated you to a dissertation entitled “Does The Sun Set On The British Empire?”, and concluded that it doesn't. The UK's widely scattered overseas territories, sparse though they are, mean that the sun is still always shining, somewhere in the world, over British territory.
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Plastic Before Plastic: How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century
How gutta-percha shaped the 19th century
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No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
AI companies are causing a content drought that will eventually starve them.
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Notes on Managing ADHD
Strategies and tactics for staying productive.
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Why haven't quantum computers factored 21 yet?
Craig Gidney's computer science blog
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Run a legal LTE network at home for $100
Yes, you read that right. Without the need for Faraday cages or signal-blocking measures, you can build a legal LTE network at home (in the US) for around $100, capable of transmitting continuously 24/7.
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Git Diagramming "The Weave"
We all know the current US President is one hell of an orator and often assures us that he has “the best words”:
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My phone is an ereader now
I got a Kobo in 2016 after borrowing my mom's old one for a year before that. It probably is responsible for getting me reading again after high school. I used to be an avid reader, the sort of kid who would have to be told to put down the book and go to sleep, and who would then creep slowly to the bookshelf to pick…
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Quirks of Common Lisp Types
Humans have a tendency toward binary thinking (pardon the pun). If it's not A, it's B. Perhaps because Lisps have REPLs, they are often thought of from the outside as being dynamic, interpreted languages. Our years of Python have taught us that such languages don't really have strong typing - it's all a wild guess…
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Affiliates flock to scam gambling machine
Last month, KrebsOnSecurity tracked the sudden emergence of hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. We’ve since learned that these scam gambling sites have proliferated thanks to a new Russian…
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The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters
A quick note on the importance of reading the terms of service!
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You Have to Feel It
You see a series of checkboxes checked. Schedules met. Requirements satisfied. Demos delivered. It's a good day. Good job, you, good job! A promotion is in sight.
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Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?
In which I attempt to be pragmatic. Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the hardware you own? This is a question where freedom, practicality, and reality all collide into a mess. Google has recently announced that Android users will only be able to install apps which have been digitally signed…
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A blog does not need “analytics”
Analytics are a military and financial tool. Your blog is not and you shouldn’t surveil you readers.
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Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy
A checklist for configuring Mozilla Firefox for a more private browsing experience.
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From multi-head to latent attention: The evolution of attention mechanisms
From Multi-Head to Latent Attention: The Evolution of Attention Mechanisms What is attention? In any autoregressive model, the prediction of the future tokens is based on some preceding context …
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Writing a Hypervisor in 1k Lines
Writing a Hypervisor in 1,000 Lines
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Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
When designing software systems, do the simplest thing that could possibly work. It’s surprising how far you can take this piece of advice. I genuinely think…
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SQLite's documentation about its durability properties is unclear
Is SQLite durable by default? What settings guarantee durability? The documentation and even comments from its creator give conflicting answers.
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The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch
Do you register with Google, Amazon or Microsoft to use the web?