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Someone behind the software
I think good products carry something of the people who make them. Their experience, what they care about, and how they think things should work.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,696 posts.
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The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction
In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087, a chip that made floating-point operations much faster in the IBM PC and other systems. Although the 808...
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Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?
[This is a guest post by Francesco Maggi. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Large language models (LLMs) and the research systems b…
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Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching
Java 17 introduced sealed classes, which allow you to explicitly list the allowed sub-types of an interface or base class. For example, here’s a toy example using a sealed interface and records (in…
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A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse)
Have you ever had a weird idea, and then it worked, but you can't really believe it?
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The Brain Sandwich
The brain sandwich is a practical AI coding workflow: understand the problem, let an agent help, then verify and explain its work before sharing it.
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Parser Combinators
Better than regex!
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The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
Did you realize the film was actually manipulating you?
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I built a programming language that LLMs can't use
I built KillSwitch, an esoteric language designed to confound LLMs and coding agents, and benchmarked the major models against it.
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It's still ok to enjoy programming
Programming is fun!
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I Became a Citizen of Japan
I became a citizen of Japan. Let me share about it. Some is my anecdotal experience, some my opinion, and some facts. Parsing which of these is what in each sentence is not going to happen. EDIT: I have seen some online reaction to this, and appreciate your kind comments. If you are thinking abou
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Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick
Making an 88x31 book-button using ImageMagick
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Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust
Modifying the optical properties of biological tissues with tartrazine
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Microsoft Teams is a red flag
Teams looks free because it comes in the bundle. The people paying for that choice are the ones stuck using it every day.
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You could have invented transformers from memory
Every layer is a memory store
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C++26: The New Debugging Header
If you’ve ever needed to hit a breakpoint programmatically in C++, you’ve probably written something like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 #if defined(_MSC_VER) __debugbreak(); #elif defined(__clang__) __builtin_debugtrap(); #elif defined(__GNUC__) && (defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__)) __asm__ volatile("int3"); #else…
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One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux
A vulnerability in Broadcom’s proprietary WPS implementation enables unauthenticated attackers within WiFi range to leak memory and achieve unauthenticated remote code execution on millions of routers. This post covers its discovery through agentic vulnerability research, exploitation across eCos and Linux platforms…
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JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
JPEG XL has landed, but how does it compare?
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Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game
In the last post, I got the game’s clouds to look passable. But after looking at it during playtesting, I still wasn’t satisfied with the way the overall picture of how sea, sky and clouds came together. With some small tweaks, things started to look a lot better.
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What was a Token Ring network?
Token Ring and ARCNET once competed with Ethernet as networking standards
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RFC8950: Announce IPv4 with an IPv6 next-hop
This post covers how RFC8950 gives the ability to route IPv4 over IPv6 BGP sessions with IPv6 next-hops
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My old job feels distant now
I can hardly remember first experiencing ChatGPT. Its become so infused into my professional life, that going back to that first moment, or moments, is difficult. Instead a blur of a few moments. At some point, I realized it was a better Google. It was very similar to when Stackoverflow took off, and how Google search…
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I love software rendering
Sharp pixels, gritty colour banding, and DOS games running at resolutions their own era couldn’t manage. Why I still prefer the software renderer, and why it needs a fast PC.
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Lean now ships with verified kernels
Leonardo de Moura — Creator of Lean and Z3
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The Folders Programming Language
Created 2015 | Updated 2026 | One of Forty-Four Esolangs , by the creator of Rivulet and Velato
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Laptop Based on 6502 CPU
Gauntlet now has a case, it's 3D printed and there's a few bits I need to adjust, but for a first go I'm really pleased…
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What I self-host
I’ve always had a foot in the self-hosting world, long before it was called that. My freshman year of university, I ran a website from a Linux box underneath my bed. There was some downtime when my roommate got tired of the fan noise and turned it off. For several years I ran MythTV , then XBMC (later known as Kodi).
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Why are we even doing all this?
[This is a guest post by Rikab Gambhir. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] First, they came for the artists, and I did not speak out…
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Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr
PLEASE stop putting skid malware on torrent sites as South Park episodes