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Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface
How an Apple legend approached the world’s most powerful psychedelic as a user-experience problem to be solved.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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Apple vs the Law
Apple & Google at the EU DMA compliance workshops, June 2025.
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Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an answer. …
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Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency
Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, an EFF investigation has found.Our review of...
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AI coding tools can reduce productivity
Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate Gains
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Grok 4
Released last night, Grok 4 is now available via both API and a paid subscription for end-users. Update: If you ask it about controversial topics it will sometimes search X …
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Lossless Float Image Compression
Back in 2021 I looked at OpenEXR lossless compression options (and I think my findings led a change of the default zip compression level , as well as change of the compression library from zlib to libdeflate . Yay blogging about things!) . Then in 2023 I looked at losslessly compressing a bunch of floating point data…
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Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.
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What is Realtalk’s relationship to AI? (2024)
An independent nonprofit research lab, whose mission is to enable universal literacy in a humane dynamic medium. This involves inventing a humane form of computing, and developing educational and community-based institutions in which a culture can grow. [more]
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Is Gemini 2.5 good at bounding boxes?
Can Gemini 2.5 replace CNN for object detection?
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Monitoring My Homelab, Simply
Don’t get me wrong, I understand that they’re essential for large fleets of services with fast-changing software and teams of oncallers working around the clock to understand the complex ways that complex systems fail… but my stuff doesn’t change that often, failures are mundane and low-scope, and I’m the only person…
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A Century of Quantum Mechanics
On 9 July 1925, in a letter to Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg revealed his new ideas, which were to revolutionise physics
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Optimizing a Math Expression Parser in Rust
Optimizing a math expression parser for speed and memory.
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Diagnosing a Double-Free Concurrency Bug in Rust's Unbounded Channels
Explore how Materialize engineers diagnosed and resolved a rare concurrency bug in Rust's unbounded channels that led to undefined behavior through double-free memory errors.
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Matt Trout has died
"No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away,"(Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett) It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Shadowcat co-founder, Matt S. Trout. Matt started Shadowcat Systems with Mark Keating in 2005 after a few years of each of them working for other people's…
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I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft
Within free open source software (and free content more generally), there are two major categories of copyright licenses:
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Why you should delete WhatsApp and install Signal
WhatsApp is not private or secure. Please consider using Signal instead.
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The death of partying in the USA
Young Americans today spend 70 percent less time attending or hosting parties than they did at the beginning of the 21st century. Why?
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Would You Like an IDOR With That? Leaking 64m McDonald's Job Applications
When applying for a job at McDonald's, over 90% of franchises use "Olivia," an AI-powered chatbot. We discovered a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to access more than 64 million job applications. This data includes applicants' names, resumes, email addresses, phone numbers, and personality test results.
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Let Kids Be Loud
In Defense of Outdoor Play
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Evolution Mail Users Easily Trackable
A dns-prefetch tag in an HTML email makes Evolution Mail do a DNS lookup on open, even with remote content blocked. The developers blame WebKitGTK.
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Configuring Split Horizon DNS with Pi-Hole and Tailscale
Post describing how I've configured pihole to return different results to clients on my tailnet than those on the LAN.
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The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL
How RL training will scale up to thousands of diverse environments, similar to how pretraining scaled up text corpora.
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Tree Borrows
external page Neven Villani , external page Johannes Hostert , external page Derek Dreyer , external page Ralf Jung
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Million Times Million
Is a million times a million a billion or is it a trillion ? For my entire childhood, it was a billion, only for me to grow up and realise, as an adult, that it had better be a trillion!
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Astro is a return to the fundamentals of the web
Why Astro is perfect for content-driven sites: island architecture, zero JS by default, and blazing-fast performance.
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ESIM Security
In a result of its research investigation efforts, Security Explorations, a research lab of AG Security Research company, conducted security analysis of eSIM technology.
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Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success
Eleven init systems enter, one init system leaves.