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Postcard is now open source
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening
Unleashing Film Grain Synthesis on Netflix and Enhancing Visuals for Millions
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Introducing tmux-rs
A Rust port of tmux
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Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection
Serverless means it's secure, right?
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Locality of Behaviour (2020)
Carson Gross explores the Locality of Behaviour (LoB) principle, which emphasizes making the behavior of code units obvious on inspection to enhance maintainability. He discusses the tradeoffs between LoB and other software design principles like DRY and SoC, offering insights on balancing clarity, abstraction, and…
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Baba Is Eval
Baba is You is a sokoban puzzle game where the rules themselves have to be manipulated to win. (For the uninitiated, the store page should explain the idea best.) The level of abstraction required to solve most levels makes it a formidable reasoning benchmark, with many reasoning steps being completely orthogonal to…
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Where is my von Braun wheel?
In 1962. There — that answers the clickbaity title right away.
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Tools: Code Is All You Need
The solution to agentic flows was code all along.
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Take Two: Eshell
This is a contribution to the Emacs Carnival 2025-06: Take Two collection of posts on Christian Tietze’s blog. My first take with Eshell many years back did not leave a good impression. My...
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I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets
GitHub Archive logs every public commit, even the ones developers try to delete. Force pushes often cover up mistakes like leaked credentials by rewriting Git history. GitHub keeps these dangling commits, from what we can tell, forever. In the archive, they show up as “zero-commit” PushEvents.
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The War on the Walkman
The Sony Walkman is now iconic of the 1980s, eliciting nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ of owning music, rather than renting it.
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A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel
We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system that stores and distributes the firm’s trading activity data, calle...
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Couchers is officially out of beta
We are out of Beta and in v1: we're releasing a new strategy around safe & active community instead of bashing our competitors, a fancy redesigned landing page, and a bunch of new features to make core couch surfing functionality better!
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Features of D That I Love
This is a beginner-friendly post exploring some of my favourite parts of the D programming language , ranging from smaller quality of life stuff, to more major features.
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The Moat of Low Status
It hurts, but less than you think
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Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients
Gene therapy can improve hearing in children and adults with congenital deafness or severe hearing impairment, a new study involving researchers at Karolinska Institutet reports. Hearing improved in all ten patients, and the treatment was well-tolerated. The study was conducted in collaboration with hospitals and…
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Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)
So my journey with these earbuds started after I saw them on this Mrwhosetheboss video about pointless tech. This device seems to be also popular on TikTok. My suspicions were confirmed, this runs android. So of course i went ahead and bought them. 245 euros later... and they finally arrived!
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Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks
Over-privileged Azure Key Vault roles & API vulnerabilities let attackers steal credentials silently. Learn how Token Security detects & remediates these critical exposure paths.
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What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)
Where I analyse the nootropic ratings I gathered through my recommender system.
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I'm dialing back my LLM usage
From the Zed Blog: Alberto Fortin shares his honest reflection on the reality of using LLMs in production code and why he's taking a more measured approach.
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Yet Another Zip Trick
At hackArcana, we deliver professional educational content authored by world-class experts in programming, binary analysis, and cybersecurity.
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Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)
Both of these sentences divulge too much of the mechanics of getting the Amaya software. If you want to call your reader to action, use something like:
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More assorted notes on Liquid Glass
Discussing icon design, and commenting on some passages of Apple's Adopting Liquid Glass document.
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Using Sun Ray thin clients in 2025
setting up 20 year old hardware is bound to work first try, right? ... right?
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Building a Personal AI Factory
Multiple parallel Claude-Code sessions power a self-improving AI factory where agents write, review, and refine code.
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Figma files for proposed IPO
An update on Figma's path to becoming a publicly traded company: our S-1 is now public.
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The wanton destruction of a creative-tech era
Fastly, you killed glitch.com and ruined your karma for 10,000 years. You have “betrayed yourself for nothing.”
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Code-GUI bidirectional editing via LSP
I built a small proof-of-concept for a system that enables real-time bidirectional editing between any modern code editor and a GUI, enabled by an LSP1 server. Code-based CAD I like working on small projects at home that benefit from CAD. I’m also a programmer with a personal development environment that I’ve spent…