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I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
I don't want your streaming music service, I just want the music I've collected and care about available to stream.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,824 posts.
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The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
I just discovered that every copy of macOS ships with a hidden PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper. But why?
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The real “must have” tools for programming
Forget programs. The most important productivity tool for programming is your mind. And the next best set of software development tools are ones that take care of you. It isn’t about Git. Or Docker. Or testing frameworks. These are all useful tools. I use them daily. But they are not the most important software…
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Seized Genesis Market data is now searchable in Have I Been Pwned
A quick summary first before the details: This week, the FBI in cooperation with international law enforcement partners took down a notorious marketplace trading in stolen identity data in an effort they've named "Operation Cookie Monster". They've provided millions of impacted email addresses and passwords to Have I
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Read “Gravity’s Rainbow” fifty years later
Or, why you should read "Gravity’s Rainbow" fifty years later.
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CAN Injection: Keyless car theft
This is a detective story about how a car was stolen - and how it uncovered an epidemic of high-tech car theft. It begins with a tweet. In April 2022, my friend Ian Tabor tweeted that vandals had been at his car, pulling apart the headlight and unplugging the cables.
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Unpredictable black boxes are terrible interfaces
Why generative AI tools can be so difficult to use and how we might improve them
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My long goodbye to Windows XP (2022)
Making glulam of the tree of knowledge.
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FBI seizes bot shop ‘Genesis Market’ amid arrests targeting operators, suppliers
Several domain names tied to Genesis Market , a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today. The domain seizures coincided with more than a hundred arrests in…
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Bell Labs gave up its roof to patch the Statue of Liberty
It’s 1986 and you’ve got a 31 tons of copper, in the form of a giant 46 meter tall statue, that’s looking a bit worse for wear.
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The microcode and hardware in the 8086 processor that perform string operations
Intel introduced the 8086 microprocessor in 1978. This processor ended up being hugely influential, setting the path for the x86 architec...
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New tool from curl creator – trurl – for URL parsing and manipulation
trurl is a tool in a similar spirit of tr but for URLs. Here, tr stands for translate or transpose. trurl is a small command line tool that parses and manipulates URLs, designed to help shell script authors everywhere. URLs are tricky to parse and there are numerous security problems in software because of this. ……
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Make your CLI demos a breeze with zero stress and zero mistakes
<p> Running live demos can be stressful. You know what you want to say and show. You prepare the CLI commands you want to run to best showcase what you...
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Mindset shifts for functional programming (with Clojure)
For more experienced functional programmers, most of this post will seem introductory, but I introduce some more advanced stuff near the end. Functional Programming over Canadian Programming Lately, I've been thinking about this Functional Programming journey I've been on. I thought it started when I was twenty, but
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Why TinyML is still so hard to get excited about
This week, I went to the tinyML Summit in Burlingame, Calif. TinyML, or running small machine learning models on constrained devices, is one of the most exciting technologies I’ve encountered. But it’s also the one most likely to put people to sleep when I talk about it. Using local computing to handle object or even…
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How to be a -10x Engineer
To become a -10x engineer, simply waste 400 engineering hours per week. Combine the following strategies:
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Everything Is a Practice
There is no finish line. There is no winning, no losing.
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Even if you can't write assembly, you can read disassembly
This is a very concise introduction to x86 disassembly. It shows that you probably have all the skills to start reading disassembly right now even if you thought it was too complicated for you. It really isn't, see it for yourself.
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How SerenityOS declares ssize_t
This post explores one of my favorite hacks in SerenityOS. I don’t recommend doing this in your codebase, but it has worked for us so far. :^)
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Mapping hospital accessibility with OpenStreetMap
Using OpenStreetMap data to craft a self-hosted interactive map of hospital accessibility in Virginia.
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How HyperCard got its color back
Uli’s blog on programming, game development, pop culture and other boring things.
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We're Knot Friends
It’s April Cools again. For a few summers in high school and undergrad, I was a day camp counselor. I’ve written before about how it helped me develop storytelling skills, but recently I thought of it again because, while I was cleaning out a closet full of old junk, I happened upon a bag of embroidery thread. While…
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Near-lossless image formats using ultra-fast LZ codecs
I think simple ultra-high speed lossy (or near-lossless) image codecs, built from the new generation of fast LZ codecs, are going to become ...
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Saying Goodbye to GitHub
I've been using GitHub since I was eleven years old. To be fair, I didn't really understand git at the time, but I was able to fumble my way through it...
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The day Windows died
As a longtime user of Windows, it was my first choice when preparing the first computer for my son. But that didn't work out as expected.
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A Reply to Josef Průša
On the state of open source 3D printing in 2023
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Optimizing Open Addressing
Your default hash table should be open-addressed, using Robin Hood linear probing with backward-shift deletion. When prioritizing deterministic performance over memory efficiency, two-way chaining is also a good choice.