The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,109 posts.
I should have titled this post “I hate S3”. 📢 What is the status quo? FTP is dead (yay), SFTP is too dependent on SSH and unix authentication. AWS made S3 pervasive and now every webapp that needs to store files assumes you’ll be able to connect it S3. This …
Typst's math mode has a strange precedence problem that most people using it will run into at some point.
“Your name was brought up.”
Deriving the basic mathematical properties of the Smith chart from electrical engineering
Quick reference for how to turn off AI features in Firefox
When you paste ChatGPT’s response instead of your own feedback, you’re not being helpful. You’re being lazy and creating more work for everyone.
A lot of people say AI will make us all “managers” or “editors”…but I think this is a dangerously incomplete view!
Personal website talking about some stuff I've made and technology
If DM could form a BH at the center of a planet, wouldn’t that then collapse the planet into that BH, consuming it? Wouldn’t the same apply to stars, extinguishing them?
Sound: Kalason oto (often simply “ kalason ”) Location : Alahan Panjang, Kab. Solok, West Sumatra This post is dedicated to Pak Budahar - a real Minang musical legend who literally spread music across Sumatra, providing sweet solace to his passengers for decades. Next time you honk your horn,
/dev/null is web scale
Non-verbal, blurry thinking is faster and can search in a broader way, but it is more error-prone than verbal thought.
A long rant about Apple's design choices.
Colin Campbell explains how Redwood drains every drop of capacity from used batteries before they are recycled.
a loss plateau that looked like my mistake turned out to be a PyTorch bug. tracking it down meant peeling back every layer of abstraction, from optimizer internals to GPU kernels.
I recently spun up a .onion mirror of this website.
Or why robots are playing DOOM now
The dream of hypermedia can come to fruition in a world where clients can not only parse, but navigate with intent.
In this post I’ll just rambling about ASN.1; parts of the compiler implementation, and some of the tool’s output rather than the tool itself as its still too WIP to really advertise on its own yet.
Since this article will probably have more reach than my usual rambling, It'll be written in English (but let's not make a habit of it).
Just a few personal thoughts. Notes to myself, to people who use and love this app everyday.
Lambda calculus is for wimps. Real programmers use combinatory logic.
In this article, we will discuss zippers in the Clojure language. These are an unusual way to work with collections. Using a zipper, you can traverse a data structure arbitrarily and modify its content as well as search in it. A zipper is a powerful abstraction that pays off over time. However, it is not as…
If you’ve read anything about compilers in the last two decades or so, you have almost certainly heard of SSA compilers , a popular architecture featured in many optimizing compilers, including ahead-of-time compilers such as LLVM, GCC, Go, CUDA (and various shader compilers), Swift 1 , and MSVC 2 , and just-in-time…
The popular book from the "world's most famous living psychiatrist" is riddled with blatant misrepresentations
We found vulnerabilities in the FIA's Driver Categorisation platform, allowing us to access PII and password hashes of any racing driver with a categorisation rating.
In December of 2012, I was home for Christmas, reading Hacker News. And that’s when I saw “ Rust 0.5 released ."" I’m a big fan of programming languages, so I…
Yesterday, OpenAI announced Atlas, its AI browser. To the surprise of literally nobody, it’s Chromium with AI slapped on top. Perplexity also has a …
This post covers the same material as my !!Con 2024 talk , for which the slides are here .
