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uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
uBlock Origin's volunteer team will no longer chase Facebook's shifting ad-detection tricks, calling it a 'disgusting anti-user site.' Here's what that means for your feed.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 49,177 posts.
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What sort of maths are LLMs good at?
For the sake of anyone who might read this blog post in the distant future (a month from now, say), let me mention that I am writing it a few days after OpenAI announced that it had solved ten majo…
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The Road to MS-DOS 2.0
One little step toward UNIX
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Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS
The Pascal language was named after Blaise Pascal (see picture), a French mathematician who was a pioneer in computer development history. In 1641, at the age of eighteen, Pascal constructed the first arithmetical machine, arguably the first computer. He would improve upon the instrument eight years later. In 1650…
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Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?
A blog about computers, functional languages, Lisp, and Scheme.
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The Human Is the Loop
After a few weeks away from AI, I see my usage wasn't always productive or healthy.
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Making holograms with a pen plotter
I have a pen-plotter! It’s great. It’s like having a printer but slow and it breaks more often. I got it on eBay and it came sorta broken and I immediately spent the difference between what I paid and the price of new one fixing it. Now it’s fixed!
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How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
A Newspaper Classifieds Story
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What I learned by putting GitHub Copilot behind a MitM proxy
A look inside Copilot’s network traffic, harness, memory, and how context is becoming the product.
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Nvidia's Risky Business
Nvidia is finding new ways for its customers to raise money, and it’s expanding the risk of the AI buildout significantly.
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Don't classify, hallucinate
A useful pattern for LLM classification at scale is to let it hallucinate plausible, fake entities. Then resolve to real ones.
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What's the best programming language for coding agents?
This somewhat widely cited post (I keep seeing it cited, anyway) suggests that dynamic languages and/or languages that represent things more concisely are more token efficient. It seems to be cited enough that LLM search results agree. For example, when I searched for "dynamic vs static language token cost" (no…
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Itadakimasu: A word you say to the food, not the cook
On a small Japanese word that everyone has heard and almost everyone has misaddressed, and what changes when you find out who it is for.
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A fortuitous decade as an indie software developer
Ten years and one day ago, on August 9, 2016, I abruptly quit my job. I mark this occasion as the beginning of my indie software developer career. Happy anniversary to me and to my customers!
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Felix and I
He is young – twenty four – sitting at the black computer table by the wall of his living room. I’m looking at him side-on. He’s silhouetted by the huge window with a gorgeous view of the neighbourhood church. Green trees outside. The sun is shining brightly. It’s summer. Probably “The Hot Summer”, when our friends G…
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Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines
A mildly interesting analysis of what models know and what it tells us about how they were trained.
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The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich (2021)
$\newcommand\of{\subseteq}\newcommand\N{\mathbb{N}}\newcommand\R{\mathbb{R}}\def\<#1>{\left\langle#1\right\rangle}\newcommand\Z{\mathbb{Z}}\newcommand\Q{\mathbb{Q}}\newcommand\ltomega{{{<}…
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Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb
The largest tell for me to tell where culture and sentiment is shifting for AI tools is usually X, viral GitHub repositories and Hacker News. One of these tells I’ve been seeing a lot lately is skills like I have ADHD and Agents.md instructions such as giving outputs in only ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.
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Defending my own brain against enshittification
If you haven't had Belvita breakfast cookies, you have probably had Biscoff cookies, which are similar. These are a classic airline snack. You've probably ha...
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Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open
How a missing Firestore security rule on tl;dv exposed 181,874 meetings from 84,312 users across 35,003 domains, including live calls I could join uninvited, and how six months of disclosure got me nothing but seen receipts.
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What Happened to HackerOne?
The rise and fall of the largest bug bounty platform in the world
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The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)
Don't update positively on your extremist beliefs whenever you hear a bad argument against them
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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
LLMs are used for any things. Learning new things is one of the top use cases.
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Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia
use WASD + Mouse or tap on the screen to walk around :) Amulet of St. Michael in Kyiv, Ukraine (reconstructed with GaussianSplatting.jl, ~6M Gaussians)
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Differential Heuristics
In 2005 Google showed off Google Maps, which lets you drag the map around instead of reloading the page like MapQuest and others used. That’s the feature that got everyone’s attention. But what got my attention was a feature they added in 2007 where you could drag the start/end points on a route [1] , and it would…
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Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
Last week I launched a project called Dark Hours, which was a website utility to give you an idea of what could be seen in the sky that night. A developer who …
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Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
I found my old reMarkable 2 paper tablet, bought in 2021, it had sat unused for ~4 years or so. The device was in a sorry state:
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There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order
What is so special about the number 19?