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Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)
We shipped a new feature to the Chrome DevTools MCP server that is going to make it a lot easier for your coding agent to debug your current browser sessions.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,962 posts.
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The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure
How early-stage clinical trials became unnecessarily expensive and inefficient—and how we can fix them, inspired by a recent story about a dog treated for cancer.
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Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform
Office.eu launches in The Hague as a 100% European alternative to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, built on open-source technology and European infrastructure.
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Write up of my homebrew CPU build
The blog of an engineer from Canada
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LLM Architecture Gallery
A gallery that collects architecture figures from The Big LLM Architecture Comparison and related articles, with fact sheets and links back to the original sections.
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In Memoriam: John W. Addison, my PhD advisor
John Addison (1930–2025) died March 7, 2025, at the age of 95. He was my PhD advisor at UC Berkeley, and I count myself extraordinarily lucky to have worked under his guidance. My condolences go ou…
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What makes Intel Optane stand out (2023)
Once in a while new hardware is released that makes a difference. Such a device is the Intel Optane series of high-performance SSD’s for professional use, which was released in late 2017. In this case I’m talking about the Intel Optane P4800X and P5800X and their consumer counterparts ( 900P and 905P ). All drives are…
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Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager
Traditional Wayland compositors have a monolithic architecture that combines the compositor and window manager into a single program. This has the downside of requiring Wayland window managers to do the significant work of implementing an entire Wayland compositor as well.
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Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories
The Glassworm supply chain attack is back. Researchers uncovered malware hidden in invisible Unicode characters across 150+ GitHub repositories, plus npm packages and VS Code extensions.
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Harold and George Destroy the World
I have been thinking a lot lately about these two fellows. If you are not lucky enough to know them already, those are Harold and George from the Captain Underpants series of books (among others)…
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The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product
I spent 100 hours vibecoding an app and it's not as simple as people say.
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A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)
What is machine learning? See how it works with our animated data visualization.
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The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books
I was a pretty avid reader as a kid, but as I transitioned to adulthood, my ability to focus on the written page withered. It seems I’m not alone: PISA reports reveal unprecedented drops in reading ability , professors in elite universities claim that humanities students can’t finish books , and looking around me, it…
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LotusNotes
I tend to focus on the origin of the computer within the military. Particularly in the early days of digital computing, the military was a key customer, and fundamental concepts of modern computing arose in universities and laboratories serving military contracts. Of course, the war would not last forever, and…
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The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ
Am I naïve in expecting Artificial Intelligence to be smart? Is my interpretation of the word “intelligence” too literal? And when an AI behaves stupidly, who’s to blame? The programmers or the AI entity itself? Is it even proper to make a distinction between the two? Or does the AI work in so mysterious a way that…
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Rack-mount hydroponics
how to grow plants in a server rack
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A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm
The algorithm in this post needs “double buckets” to be reliable. Otherwise, the two sides can split on bucket boundaries and fail to converge. If the first bucket fails, compute an additional bucket step for convergence. My algorithm trades slow startup for less infrastructure.
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How kernel anti-cheats work
Modern kernel anti-cheat systems are, without exaggeration, among the most sophisticated pieces of software running on consumer Windows machines. They operate at the highest privilege level available to software, they intercept kernel callbacks that were designed for legitimate security products, they scan memory…
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SBCL Fibers – Lightweight Cooperative Threads
A draft design document describing lightweight userland cooperative threads for SBCL.
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Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft
Airbus is working at full throttle to offer the German Air Force an operational Uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (UCCA) system by 2029.
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Hazardous substances found in all headphones tested by ToxFREE project
PRAGUE, 18 February 2026 – A landmark international study across five Central European countries has found hazardous chemicals in every single pair of headphones analysed, from premium models to cheap imports. Authors say the results reveal a systemic failure in consumer safety regulation acros...
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Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam
OpenTTD has been available on the Steam Store for the past five years. During that time, we’ve built up an incredible player base, attracting lots of new players to the game. Starting today however, OpenTTD will no longer be directly available as a standalone game on Steam. It can instead be obtained as part of a…
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Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all
I think I’ve finally pinpointed why it is that I have an allergic reaction when I’m confronted with a text that has me as the intended recipient, but that has been run through an LLM to change or “clean up” the wording - especially if it’s internal communication or even direct communication. Well, at the very least, I…
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Launching the Claude Partner Network
We’re launching the Claude Partner Network, a program for partner organizations helping enterprises adopt Claude.
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Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5
So where has the last six months gone ? I was planning on getting images done for Fedora 44 Beta but I was unwell and busy and ran out of time. So what better time to get them out than Pi Day! .
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MCP is dead; long live MCP
Understanding the social media zeitgeist around CLIs and the premature death of MCP
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It's time to move your docs in the repo
AI agents address the remaining concerns with having your documentation alongside your code in version control
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Sunsetting Jazzband
Jazzband is sunsetting. New signups are disabled. Project leads will be contacted before PyCon US 2026 to coordinate transfers. The wind-down plan has the timeline. The retrospective looks back at the past decade.
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What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable
Sound economic planning and policymaking requires trustworthy data. Private data can serve as a complement but not fully replace official U.S. statistics.