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Your TV can see through walls
Walking between the receiver and TV station causes a slight disturbance to the signal, but it's nothing to write home about:
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,696 posts.
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Locating the source of a mysterious beep
Our house has a box room, full of boxes that we still haven’t unpacked from our last move. A couple of weeks ago something in that room started intermittently beeping. …
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Horible public key tricks
So, I've always been somewhat annoyed at SSL/TLS. It requires everyone to go through a complex "ACME" dance just to put up a public website. Worse, certificates expire every few months, so it's not a one and done thing: even with automation, maintaining a certificate requires care to ensure the ACME client always has…
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Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game
LLMs can make complete multi-level games that are fun.
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I saw your HN comment
I used to love getting emails from people in response to things I’ve written online, blog posts or Hacker News comments, but in the last 2 years it’s changed from mostly signal to mostly noise. I’ve …
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Try Gleam
Why a Rust developer might feel at home in Gleam, and where the BEAM is a different world.
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What is malloc doing, anyway?
malloc has a very nice and simple interface: you ask for a certain amount of memory, and you’re given a void pointer to your block of contiguous bytes that’s been magicked into existence. Once you’re done with it, you call free with the same pointer and the memory disappears into the ether.
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Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine – Fun with big computers
Fun things to do with big computers
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A Critique of GPUI
Personal Notes
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RIP, Harvest
I’ve been a self-employed contractor for about a decade now, and I’m bummed about Harvest .
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Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world
I've always had a soft spot for this particular car brand. Our family has owned a few of them over the years, and they've served us incredibly well. In 2023, I bought a new four wheel drive/SUV from them, and it was the first time I had
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I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists
The AI bubble is a speculative concept that the AI industry is extremely over-valued. If true, the value of most companies involved in AI (several of whom are worth well over a trillion dollars) will collapse, devastating the entire economy. If you check any online discussion about the financial situation …
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The Web Is More Than Enough
Web browsers enable incredibly rich app development—and that’s radically easier than it used to be.
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How I'm fighting the AI brain fry
If you work with Claude Code or Codex from the terminal, you know this one.
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I'm not a fan of Deno's security model (2024)
this has been bothering me for a while now, so I want to write down my thoughts so I can get it out of my head and move on. we’re gonna talk about how Deno approaches security, specifically with its permissions system, and why I think this approach is fundamentally insecure and misleading.
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Person of Interest
A few days ago, I started watching Person of Interest, and I haven’t been able to stop. Aside from the fact that the show feels even more relevant today than...
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Petered
We’re looking in the wrong place for the imposters among us.
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Writing as a thinking tool
In middle school I could not get through long passages no matter how hard I tried. I would read an entire page and find that nothing had reg...
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Goodbye Claude, hello Pi
I’ve been a longtime Claude Code user, ever since it became available in the Claude Pro subscription plan over a year ago. I remember the first time I used it, feeling giddy as it spat out messy Python code for whatever random weekend project I was working on, all from a single prompt. I’m certain that in a few years…
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The end of Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers group
In 2023 after the ChatGPT release, it was clear to me that research needed to be more organized to succeed than was typical within Microsoft Research . The amount of support and focus which other research groups were applying was great enough that even with a clever idea pursued by one person it was likely to arrive…
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Five memorable books about programming (2008)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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How Long Can Life Wait?
Just because you haven’t moved from the sofa doesn’t mean you’re dead.
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They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7
Why half a million people learned to program in Pascal, when you’d think they had no earthly reason to.
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Terry Pratchett's Study
This is not a replica of Terry Pratchett’s study. To do that, I would have needed pictures from every angle and exact measurements, so this is just a small part of a study, where Terry Pratchett might have felt at home, in scale 1:12. If you read “The Borrowers" as…
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Running a law firm on Free software
I started running decoded.legal - a small English law firm, focussing on Internet, telecoms, and tech law - on Free software, both client and server side, around five years ago. I have used Free software in my personal life for a lot longer than that.
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I toured Unitree's factory. I'm more bullish on the West
Everyone thinks China's robot factories are automated. They aren't. The robots are Chinese; the robots that make robots will be Western.
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Libghostty 1.0
libghostty-vt 1.0 is here. libghostty is a portable, high-performance C library for terminal emulation, extracted directly from the core of Ghostty. The 1.0 release means both the library itself and the C ABI are now stable.
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AI is dramatically accelerating AI research
If acceleration compounds, the naive extrapolation implies superintelligence within a year