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Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra
In which I explore the biggest barrier in the busy beaver game. What is Antihydra, what is the Collatz conjecture, how are they connected, and what makes them so daunting?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,109 posts.
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More than DNS: Learnings from the 14 hour AWS outage
A thorough review of a major cloud outage.
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FlightAware Map Design (2024)
Designing new map styles for FlightAware
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You are how you act
You are the sum of your behaviors not your intentions
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I built my own CityMapper
We've all used a public transit router to find a quick route from A to B, such as Google Maps or CityMapper, but how do they actually work?
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Tags to make HTML work like you expect
I was watching Alex Petros’ talk and he has a slide in there titled “Incantations that make HTML work correctly”. This got me thinking about the basic snippets…
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How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in
I’ve been watching the Zig language for a while now, given that it was created for writing audio software (low-level, no allocations, real time). I never paid too much attention though, it seemed a little weird to me and I didn’t see the real need. Then I saw a post from Andrew Kelley (creator of the language) on…
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Microsoft 365 Copilot – Arbitrary Data Exfiltration via Mermaid Diagrams
When Microsoft 365 Copilot (M365 Copilot) was asked to summarize a specially crafted Microsoft Office document, an indirect prompt injection payload triggered the execution of arbitrary instructions to fetch sensitive tenant data, such as “recent emails” and hex encode the fetched output. M365 Copilot then generated a…
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AI Mafia Network – An interactive visualization
An interactive visualization — based on the Acquired Google Podcast Credits to Ben and David (who also appreciated this graph in the Acquired internal Slack!).
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Poison, Poison Everywhere
When I was in high school, my teacher once told us a crazy story.
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Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s
Discover the wild world of Ghanaian and Nigerian hand-painted movie posters. Created by local artists in the 1980s and 1990s, these bold, surreal artworks turned Hollywood films into folk art masterpieces that are so bad they’re brilliant.
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987654321 / 123456789
The ratio 987654321 / 123456789 is very nearly 8. What about the analogous ratio in other bases?
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How ancient people saw themselves
The art of the ancient mirror
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Feed the bots
A week ago , I set up a dynamically generated nonsense maze to catch LLM scrapers. Now, requests to it make up 99.9% of my server's traffic, but my total request volume did not increase. The bots didn't come to my site because of the trap.
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You already have a Git server
If you have a git repository on a server with ssh access, you can just clone it:
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Asbestosis
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Learn Multiplatform Z80 Assembly Programming with Vampires
Platform Specific Series - Lets learn how the hardware of the systems work, so we can get it to do what we want... Covers Amsrad CPC,MSX,ZX Spectrum, TI-83,Enterprise 128/64 and Sam Coupe! Lesson P1 - Basic Firmware Text functions Lesson P2 - More Text Functions, Improvements... and the Sam Coupe! Lesson P3 - Bitmap…
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The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
A detailed walkthrough of the Linux boot process from power button to kernel initialization
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An Update on TinyKVM
Hey all. TinyKVM was open-sourced this february and since then I’ve been working on some things that are very much outside of the scope of…
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The Journey Before main()
A while back, I worked on a RISC-V-based userspace simulator for fun. In doing so, taught myself a lot more than I wanted to know about what happens in-between when the Kernel is asked to run a program, and when the first line of our program’s main function is actually executed. Here’s a summary of that rabbit hole.
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Making a micro Linux distro (2023)
A guide on building a simple Linux distribution from scratch. Detailed guide on building the kernel and the init process. Finally, a little distribution is built with u-root that is capable of connecting to the Internet.
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Result is all I need
Rocky Jaiswal. Christian developer living in Berlin. Blogs about programming & technology.
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ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Customize Nano Text Editor (2022)
DevOps Engineer and Full-Stack Developer with 4+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and scalable web applications.
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The Continual Learning Problem
A perspective on continual learning, motivating our paper on sparse memory finetuning
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Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
In the last two years, code review has gotten much more important. Code is now easy to generate using LLMs, but it’s still just as hard to review. Many software…
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Advice for new principal tech ICs (i.e., notes to myself)
Based on what I've learned from role models and mentors in Amazon
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Carmack on Operating Systems (1997)
I have gotten a significant amount of response on the Quake 2 extension mechanism. I do read everything that comes my way (I can't respond to all of it, though), and I have learned a few things from the mail.
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Image Dithering: Eleven Algorithms and Source Code (2012)
Dithering is still a surprisingly applicable technique, not just for practical reasons (such as preparing a full-color image for output on a non-color printer), but for artistic reasons as well. Dithering also has applications in web design, where it is a useful technique for reducing images with high color counts to…