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Withnail's Coat and I
He may have had tailoring from Hawkes of Savile Row, but Withnail’s coat has a more complicated history.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,803 posts.
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United Wizards of the Coast
MTG Arena workers announce unionization as United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, calling on WOTC to voluntarily recognize their union and begin collective bargaining.
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You can beat the binary search
We sometimes have to look for a value in a sorted array. The simplest algorithm consists in just going through the values We sometimes have to look for a value in a sorted array. The simplest algorithm consists in just going through the values one by one, until we encounter the value, or exhaust the … Continue reading…
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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.
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Networking changes coming in macOS 27
We are under warning that macOS 27 is likely to remove support for AFP, and lately some additional requirements for connection to certain servers. This explains how these could affect you.
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The woes of sanitizing SVGs
Scratch has a long history of SVG-related vulnerabilities. The source of these is that Scratch parses user-generated (ie. attacker-controlled) content into an <svg> element and appends it into the main document for various operations (eg. measuring SVG bounding box in a more reliable way than viewbox or width/height).
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“Why not just use Lean?”
I have been told that when proposing to formalise mathematics these days, you have to explain why you are not using Lean. And that reminds me why I left the dependent-typed world 40 years ago: its cultism, insularity and conformity. Lean is a great language with good tools, a large library and a huge, enthusiastic…
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Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight
Update, 29 April 2026 This post was picked up on Hacker News and crossed 100 comments. I love that this sparks emotions. As always, there is a fair mix of reactions, which is exactly what you would expect from HN. Scroll to the bottom for extra responses to some of the comments. … Cloud Next was intense. I wrote the…
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Men who stare at walls
I came across a video by Simple Lucas describing a routine to improve focus and productivity. The routine was basically: Don’t use any screens/entertainment when trying to focus on work. When you start to feel mentally drained, sit and stare at a wall for x minutes to recover focus. I’ve been trying it, and it’s a…
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4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
Lapsus$ posted Mercor on its leak site. Voice biometrics plus ID documents in one bundle is a deepfake-ready kit. Here is what to do.
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It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)
In an industry that pressures developers to always be shipping side-projects, it can be helpful to be retrospective with the projects that don't make the cut
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Patch applies fake diffs from commit messages
I share what I know.
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The Prompt API
Discover the infinite possibilities of the Prompt API.
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TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough
Each mini-demo below covers one concept used later. Skip the ones you already know.
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I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
Friendster was the first social network. It has a long history, but the website friendster.com went dead in 2015 and the company officially…
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Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet
A previously unknown 2005 cyber sabotage framework patches high-precision calculation software in memory to silently corrupt results.
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AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
Read about the hidden divide between self-inflicted irrelevance and real engineering leverage.
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If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you
The 'AI replaces junior engineers' argument ignores basic economics. Junior employees aren't just cheap labor. They're salary insurance, pipeline protection, and the only hedge companies have against a senior workforce that increasingly doesn't need the job.
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Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
The Dillo 3.3.0 release contains several new features, configuration options and bug fixes. It is the first release to provide experimental support for FLTK 1.4 (see the details below).
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GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
What would you do if your organization had used a domain name for 27 years, and the registrar holding the domain seized it without any advance warning? All
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SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
SWE-bench Verified is increasingly contaminated and mismeasures frontier coding progress. Our analysis shows flawed tests and training leakage. We recommend SWE-bench Pro.
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Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Self-updating screenshots
A blog by James Adam, of lazyatom.com fame.
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The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.
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EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
A technical look at the EU age verification reference app — the gap between marketed and shipped cryptography, relay attacks the protocol can't stop, and why the 'privacy-preserving' system is a trojan horse for digital ID infrastructure.
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Meetings are forcing functions
A recurring meeting serves as a powerful forcing function for long-running projects.
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I have officially retired from Emacs
This past Tuesday I typed C-x C-c in Emacs for the last time after 20 years of daily use. Though nearly half that time was gradually retiring it, switching to modal editing, then to Vim. Emacs is a platform, and I’d grown accustomed to its applications, especially those I built myself. There was no particular hurry…
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When the cheap one is the cool one
Apple and Porsche both figured out the same secret that the cheapest product in the lineup can be the most exciting. It just takes a little intention.
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How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way
I was very excited to get the latest version of my PCB from the manufacturer.
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USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
I spend time investigating a non-existing bug today because I misunderstood a USB term. So I made myself a cheat sheet. Maybe it will save time to someone.