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Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival
What the hell is going on with our brains? It seems like the algorithms have already taken over and the scientific literature is catching up with
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date
Gravitational waves from massive black holes challenge current astrophysical models
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Context Rot: How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance
Large Language Models (LLMs) are typically presumed to process context uniformly—that is, the model should handle the 10,000th token just as reliably as the 100th. However, in practice, this assumption does not hold. We observe that model performance varies significantly as input length changes, even on simple tasks…
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Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE.
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Encrypting files with passkeys and age
Encrypting files with passkeys, using the WebAuthn prf extension and the TypeScript age implementation.
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Embedding user-defined indexes in Apache Parquet
Posted on: Mon 14 July 2025 by Qi Zhu (Cloudera), Jigao Luo (Systems Group at TU Darmstadt), and Andrew Lamb (InfluxData)
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Extending That XOR Trick to Billions of Rows
Learn how to extend the classic XOR trick to find thousands of missing values using Invertible Bloom Filters
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Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE
For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit. They sell our precise movements without our knowledge or meaningful consent to a variety of private and state actors, including law enforcement agencies....
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Building Modular Rails Applications: A Deep Dive into Rails Engines
A deep dive into Rails engines through Active Storage Dashboard: structure, isolation, routes, assets and testing. Learn to build modular Rails apps.
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Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions
Why random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions
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You Are in a Box
your data is trapped inside the box that is your program. you can only see what the program author exposes.
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On doing hard things
I've never been known for my coordination, balance, or cardiovascular enthusiasm. In team sports, I was invariably the last one picked – probably only becaus...
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Strategies for Fast Lexers
Making compilation pipelines fast, starting with the tokenizer
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AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why
Metr recently published a paper about the impact AI tools have on open-source developer productivity[^1]. They show that when open source developers working in codebases that they are deeply familiar with use AI tools to complete a task, then they take longer to complete that task compared to other tasks where they…
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Kiro: A new agentic IDE
A new agentic IDE that works alongside you from prototype to production
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From engineer to manager: A practical guide to your first months in leadership
A practical and thoughtful guide for new engineering managers. Learn how to build agreements, avoid micromanagement, run effective 1:1s, and navigate your first months with clarity.
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Death by a Thousand Slops
I have previously blogged about the relatively new trend of AI slop in vulnerability reports submitted to curl and how it hurts and exhausts us. This trend does not seem to slow down. On the contrary, it seems that we have recently not only received more AI slop but also more human slop. The latter … Continue reading…
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Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
Apple's rules and technical restrictions are blocking other browser vendors from successfully offering their own engines to users in the EU.
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How I build software quickly
Know how good your code needs to be for the task at hand. Start with a rough draft. Try to soften requirements if you can. Don't get distracted. Make small changes. Practice specific skills.
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Archaeologists discover tomb of first king of Caracol
UH researchers uncovered the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, founder of Caracol’s royal dynasty. The find includes jadeite treasures, rare pottery and evidence of early ties between the Maya and Teotihuacan, reshaping understanding of Mesoamerican history.
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Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days (2024)
Spoiler : it is also likely already the best BZip2 encoder for a given block size. See the green charts below. Note for subscribers: if you...
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Let's Learn x86-64 Assembly (2020)
The way I was taught x86 assembly at the university had been completely outdated for many years by the time I had my first class. It was around 2008 or 2009, and 64-bit processors had already started becoming a thing even in my neck of the woods. Meanwhile, we were doing DOS, real-mode, memory segmentation and all the…
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Big Data was used to see if TCM was scientific (2023)
People love to show that skeptics were wrong about something, especially when national pride hangs in the balance. The South China Morning Post published the following headline on November 3rd: “Scientists find traditional Chinese medicine is based on a complex network of proteins – 3,000 years before modern science.”…
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Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market
Why is my $8 burger $23 after fees - An average reddit user
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Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars
the AI talent wars challenge the shared trust and mission that aligned founders, employees, and investors
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Happy 20th Birthday, Django
Posted by Thibaud Colas & Benjamin Balder Bach on July 13, 2025
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Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
The amazing thing about Steam and its player base is that they buy games they aren’t going to play. More than likely the person buying your game is not going to play it.
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Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power?
Welcome to LTT Labs - your go-to destination for all things tech. Explore comprehensive test results, insightful commentary, and the latest analysis in hardware.
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Algorithms for making interesting organic simulations
Article explaining simulation algorithms that produce complex organic behaviours, starting with the classic physarum algorithm from Jeff Jones.
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A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
This post is written by a human being (me).