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A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled Copyleft Trolls (2022)
Copyleft trolls, robosigning, and Pixsy.
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Training LLMs from ground zero as a startup
Chronicles of training strong LLMs from scratch in the wild
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Ace of Aces: Why you should do maths as a game designer
Every now and again you come across something that stretches your brain in a new direction. Last week I stumbled on a magic trick of a Choose Your Own Adventure: Al Leonardi’s Ace of Aces, a paper …
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Cracking Meta's Messenger Certificate Pinning on macOS
Bypassing certificate pinning in Meta’s Messenger application on macOS.
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Array languages vs. the curse of the spreadsheet
It has been said that the most popular programming language in the world is the spreadsheet (and in particular these days, Excel). There...
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JEDEC publishes GDDR7 graphics memory standard
ARLINGTON, Va., USA – MARCH 5, 2024 – JEDEC Solid State Technology Association , the global leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, is pleased to announce the publication of JESD239 Graphics Double Data Rate (GDDR7) SGRAM. This groundbreaking new memory standard is available for free…
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Linux Touchpad Like MacBook Update: 2023 Progress on Smooth Scrolling
Bill is driven by the challenge of how best to quantify valuable questions that defy quantification. It's possible this instinct may have been awakened in Bill at age 14, when he won a soft, stuffed bunny at the orthodontist for guessing the number of jelly beans in the gumball machine.
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This Is Knuth 3:16 (2002)
A Celebration of Donald E Knuth
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New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search
We’re making updates to show less unoriginal, low-quality content on Search.
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The "missing" graph datatype already exists. It was invented in the '70s
This post is a response to/inspired by The Hunt for the Missing Data Type ( HN ) by Hillel Wayne. I suggest reading his article first.
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Kagi and Wolfram
Building a search engine is hard. Delivering accurate and reliable search results requires processing vast amounts of data, understanding complex queries, and constantly evolving to meet user expectations. In an era where AI-generated content is becoming...
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Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
Committee to Protect Journalists2024449 points807 commentscited by 3Society, Policy & Culture details
Editor’s note: In keeping with CPJ’s methodology, data will be updated as new information becomes available. See CPJ’s database for the most current data on killed journalists. As of September 24, 2026, CPJ’s preliminary investigations show that at least 247 journalists and media workers are among the more than tens…
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Nerdy internals of an Apple text editor
Fascinating engineering details behind Paper.
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Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Cloudflare Announces Firewall for AI
Cloudflare is one of the first providers to safeguard LLM models and users in the era of AI
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Interactive SQLite Documentation: Experiment with Queries in Real-Time
At SQLite Cloud, we are dedicated to making database management as seamless and intuitive as possible. Today, we are thrilled to unveil a groundbreaking addition to our platform - the Interactive SQLite Documentation! Now, alongside our comprehensive...
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The Future That Never Was
In 1990, the strategic PC operating system of Microsoft and IBM was not DOS, not Windows, but OS/2. The first 16-bit OS/2 was initially released in 1987 with a reduced feature set, but by the end of 1989, OS/2 1.2 completed two major features: The Presentation Manager GUI (first seen in OS/2 1.1) and installable file…
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Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper
Following our announcement of the early preview of Stable Diffusion 3, today we are publishing the research paper which outlines the technical details of our upcoming model release, and invite you to sign up for the waitlist to participate in the early preview.
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Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)
Learn how liquidation preferences and drag-along rights can leave startup founders with zero payout—even in a half-billion dollar exit
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My talk on CSS runtime performance
A few months ago, I gave a talk on CSS performance at performance.now in Amsterdam. The recording is available online: (You can also read the slides.) This is…
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Based: Simple linear attention language models
BASED is a linear attention architecture that decodes without a KV-cache, delivering a 24x throughput improvement over Transformers with FlashAttention-2.
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How I keep myself alive using Golang
In this blog I explore how I use an incident management mindset to manage a complex medical condition. I hope you enjoy it!
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Borrow checking without lifetimes
This blog post explores an alternative formulation of Rust’s type system that eschews lifetimes in favor of places . The TL;DR is that instead of having 'a represent a lifetime in the code, it can represent a set of loans , like shared(a.b.c) or mut(x) . If this sounds familiar, it should, it’s the basis for polonius…
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There are only 12 binaries in Talos Linux
Updated October 2025 to reflect the growth in binaries from 12 to <50.
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Git Worktrees and GitButler
How do git worktrees help you work on more than one branch at the same time, and how does that differ from virtual branches in GitButler?
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Opus 1.5 released: Opus gets a machine learning upgrade
This 1.5 release is unlike any of the previous ones. It brings many new features that can improve quality and the general audio experience. That is achieved through machine learning. Although Opus has included machine learning — and even deep learning — before (e.g. for speech/music detection ), this is the first time…
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Improving Network Performance with Linux Flowtables
We’re building an open source alternative to AWS. For IPv4 assignment and firewall rules, we use Linux’s Netfilter / Nftables. This subsystem provides a powerful way to handle packets addressed to the host. We recently came across flowtables - a network acceleration feature in the Linux kernel that works like a…
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The hunt for the missing data type
A (directed) graph is a set of nodes, connected by arrows (edges). The nodes and edges may contain data. Here are some graphs: All graphs made with graphviz (source) Graphs are ubiquitous in software engineering: Package dependencies form directed graphs, as do module imports. The internet is a graph of links between…