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Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s
A breakdown of Claude's memory implementation, how it differs from ChatGPT, and what these opposite approaches reveal about each company's philosophy.
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Bulletproof host Stark Industries evades EU sanctions
In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd. , a bulletproof hosting provider that materialized two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine and quickly became a top source of Kremlin-linked cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns. But new findings show those…
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Conway's Game of Life, but musical
Breed unique melodies with genetic algorithms! Explore Conway's musical life and cultural evolution patterns. Interactive AI music lab
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An engineering history of the Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project, the US program to build an atomic bomb during WWII, is one of the most famous and widely known major government projects: a survey in 1999 ranked the dropping of the atomic bomb as the top news story of the 20th century. Virtually everyone knows that the project built the bombs that were dropped…
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DOOMscrolling: The Game
Can a game work where all you do is scroll?
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You’re a slow thinker. Now what?
Figuring out how to lean in to my thinking style
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Introduction to GrapheneOS
In this blog post, you will learn about the security oriented smartphone operating system GrapheneOS
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The Socratic Journal Method: A Simple Journaling Method That Works
Journaling doesn’t need to be a chore. In this post, I share The Socratic Journal Method, my simple twist on journaling that turns blank pages into meaningful conversations. It’s a method designed to help you reflect, stay consistent, and actually enjoy the process.
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Tarsnap is cozy
I have been aware of tarsnap for a long time, but only recently did I actually get around to using it for anything, as a result of my big personal digital resiliency audit for 2025. For those of you not in the know, tarsnap is “online backups for the truly paranoid”, and tarsnap the command-line program is the…
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Kerberoasting
I learn about cryptographic vulnerabilities all the time, and they generally fill me with some combination of jealousy (“oh, why didn’t I think of that”) or else they impress me w…
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I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory
Picture Tom Nook greeting you with a sentence nobody at Nintendo wrote. That is what “animal crossing llm” usually points to: an experimental fan…
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Hypervisor in 1k Lines
Write your first hypervisor from scratch, in 1K LoC.
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Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0
Trombone emoji skanking it's way into our hearts …
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The value of bringing a telephoto lens
Learn darktable step-by-step and dive deep into…2025122 points131 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
They usually aren't light, and they certainly aren't small, but the unique perspective a telephoto lens brings makes it an indispensable part of your kit, even when traveling. Let's review some shots taken with a telephoto to see how we can justify its size and weight.
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We all dodged a bullet
That NPM attack could have been so much worse.
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How to use Claude Code subagents to parallelize development
Updated 2026-07-10 for the agent-teams era. Originally published September 2025. A subagent in Claude Code is a separate agent your session spawns to do a...
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Weird CPU architectures, the MOV only CPU (2020)
I like CPU architectures, especially weird, interesting and unusual ones. For example, the Intel iAPX 432 is still something I would love to play around with. Recently, I realized that a working CPU can be made with just a simple Move instruction. For this to work, everything needs to be memory mapped. The ALU…
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YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
Yesterday I saw this Bluesky post from Adrian Black. He runs Adrian’s Digital Basement, a retro computer repair channel I really enjoy. In the post, he points out a trend I didn’t know about: YouTube views seem to have fallen off a cliff recently.
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Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs
Missing the Forest for the Sequence Trees.
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No adblocker detected
Internet ads are horrible: They waste your time, and the industry behind them is actively making the internet a worse place. Payouts are so small that the only way to survive is to turn your site into an ad-filled hellhole with no real substance. (see: Modern social media )
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I don't like curved displays
where my words occasionally escape /dev/null
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Racintosh Plus – Rackmount Mac Plus
I own a Macintosh Plus from 1986, I found it in the mid 2000's on my college campus on a free-to-a-good-home shelf (Mad Marc's shelf in the chemistry building) in great shape and with its mouse, keyboard, and an HD-20 external hard disk drive. That silly computer has been on the journey with me ever since, leaving…
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Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
Explore how to recreate Apple's stunning Liquid Glass effect using CSS, SVG Displacement Maps, and refraction calculations.
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The elegance of movement in Silksong
Pain never felt this good
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YouTube views are down (don't panic)
September 15 update: @YouTubeInsider confirmed that the issue is related to viewers who have adblockers enabled—YouTube's been in an arms race with ad blocking tools, and the fallout is a substantial cut in counted views for creators who have a large audience watching from desktop. Many YouTube content creators…
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iPhone dumbphone
I used Apple Configurator to turn my iPhone into a dumb phone. I can only access the apps and websites I want to use, and it’s feeling great!
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Clankers Die on Christmas
I’m sorry, but I can’t help with that. We acheived AGI. The clankers died on Christmas. This post is scheduled to automatically publish: 2025-12-25. Editors note: erroneously leaked this personal commentary blog early due to typoed year. Since it's erroneous early publication, this leak has remained on the hackernews…