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Linux is an interpreter
And why you would want to exec a cpio
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,961 posts.
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What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?
EDIT: removed a couple of false positives based on comments from people. 2/04/2026: added a GitHub repository with data for this post
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Seeing like a spreadsheet
How the commercial spreadsheet reshaped America
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I decompiled the White House's new app
The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.
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Treason in the Futures Markets
People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets
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Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?
Executives love AI while ICs stay skeptical. The divide comes down to non-determinism: who is evaluated on judgment versus deterministic execution.
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Researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals textile revolution
UA researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals key aspects of textile revolution in the Bronze Age
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Agents of Chaos
Natalie Shapira 1 Chris Wendler 1 Avery Yen 1 Gabriele Sarti 1 Koyena Pal 1 Olivia Floody 2 Adam Belfki 1 Alex Loftus 1 Aditya Ratan Jannali 2 Nikhil Prakash 1 Jasmine Cui 2 Giordano Rogers 1 Jannik Brinkmann 1 Can Rager 2 Amir Zur 3 Michael Ripa 1 Aruna Sankaranarayanan 8 David Atkinson 1 Rohit Gandikota 1 Jaden…
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Make macOS consistently bad unironically
Alongside the various bugs you get, one of the issues of upgrading to MacOS 26 is that it has one of the most notorious inconsistency issues in window corners. I'm not sure what exactly pushes product designers to like …
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Back to FreeBSD – Part 2 – Jails
Before we explore FreeBSD jails, it is worth refreshing our understanding of how Linux solved the same problem with LXC (Linux Containers).
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15 Years of Forking
Today marks 15 years of Waterfox!
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I am leaving the AI party after one drink
Personal website of Lara Aigmüller. Thoughts about web frontend development, music, and more…
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Claude Code Historical Performance
Historical Claude Code performance tracker across model generations on SWE-Bench-Pro.
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Last gasps of the rent seeking class?
Over the past fifty years, the U.S. economy built a giant rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations: things take time, patience runs out, brand familiarity substitutes for diligence, and most people are willing to accept a bad price to avoid more clicks. Trillions of dollars of enterprise value depended on…
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OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 Processors
Many people know, or have heard of, the Motorola 68000 architecture. These processors have been used in many machines: in the first generations of Apple Macintosh computers, in the ever-rivals Amiga and Atari ST home computers, in many workstations built by Sun , HP and NeXT (to name only a few), but also in many…
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The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner
A fabulously gay blind Romance author.
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Should QA exist?
There are a lot of challenges in the way QA and engineering work together. Many eng leaders think you shouldn't have QA. I dig in.
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Hold on to Your Hardware
A warning about rising prices, vanishing consumer choice, and a future where owning a computer may matter more than ever as hardware, power, and control drift toward data centers and away from people.
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Reinventing the pull request
We have significantly improved how code reviews work in Lubeno. We think code review should do more than catch bugs, it should also help teams reduce comprehension debt. In this post, I want to explain how that idea shaped our recent work on code review in Lubeno.
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A Faster Alternative to Jq
An introduction to the jsongrep tool, a technical explanation of its DFA-based search engine, and performance results against popular JSON query tools.
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Agent-to-agent pair programming
What if you could let Claude and Codex work together as pair programmers, talking to each other directly? One of them as the main worker and the other as a reviewer.
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A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support
Life support is the hardest technical obstacle to the human exploration of Mars.
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We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year
Learn how AI was used to rewrite JSONata into a faster Go library, reducing costs and improving data processing performance.
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Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi
After learning Apple killed off FireWire (IEEE 1394) support in macOS 26 Tahoe, I started looking at alternatives for old FireWire equipment like hard drives, DV cameras, and A/V gear. I own an old Canon GL1 camera, with a 'DV' port. I could plug that into an old Mac (like the dual G4 MDD above) with FireWire—or even…
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We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do
I don’t think people have thought hard enough about how bad this could get.
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CERN to host a new phase of Open Research Europe
In an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE) , an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organisations. Aligned with the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access (2022)…
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John Bradley, author of xv, has died
John Bradley, the longtime member of this community who was the founder, producer, and lead guitarist of Booster Patrol, died on March 20. He was 61. I couldn’t think of a better way to pay tribute to the man who was both a bandmate and a friend than to write a song for him in […]