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Why new hires often get paid more than existing employees
Last Updated: January 24, 2026One of the most enlightening moments in my career was when I discovered a…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
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We switched to Java 21 virtual threads and got a deadlock in TPC-C for Postgres
We revise some fundamental background and highlight an important concern behind Java 21 virtual threads: deadlocks might be unpredictable
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Bluesky has launched RSS feeds
Now that Bluesky's got its own RSS feeds, here's what you should know
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Pwned Certificates on the Fediverse
As well as the collection and distribution of compromised keys , the pwnedkeys project also matches those pwned keys against issued SSL certificates. I’m excited to announce that, as of the beginning of 2024, all matched certificates are now being published on the Fediverse , thanks to the botsin.space Mastodon server.
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PIDs: Creating Stable Control in Games
Using a game use-case to motivate and explain PIDs
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Immediate Mode GUI Programming
Articles and programs by Elias Naur
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A lowering strategy for control effects in Rust
The Rust language has incrementally grown a set of patterns to support control-flow effects including error handling, iteration, and asynchronous I/O. In The registers of Rust , boats lays out four aspects of this pattern shared by Rust’s three effects. Today these effects are typically used in isolation, or at most…
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Big Tech's role in enabling link fraud
Link fraud is increasingly undermining trust in major online platforms, including Google, Bing, and X (Twitter).
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High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98
Fang-Pen Lin's blog about programming
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Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri
Walk into any Japanese convenience store and you will always find a shelf dedicated to one item: onigiri. The onigiri, often translated as “rice ball”, literally means “grasping a fistful” and is in many ways Japan's original fast food, before fast food. Quick to make, quick to eat, easy
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Scrum Sucks
Breaking news: Scrum is bad.
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Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)
Why is everyone in such a rush? Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 24 Hours alongside endless variations offering to teach C, SQL, Ruby, Algorithms, and so on in a few days or hours. The Amazon advanced search for [ title: teach, yourself, hours, since: 2000 and found 512 such books…
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Norwegian: Bokmål vs. Nynorsk
Språkrådet arbeider for å styrke det norske språket og språkmangfoldet. Språkrådet er statens forvaltningsorgan i språkspørsmål og følger opp den norske språkpolitikken.
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Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover
[English]These are currently difficult times for customers and resellers of VMware products who want to reorder, extend licenses or simply activate product licenses. After the Broadcom takeover…
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Slashing data transfer costs in AWS
There are lots of ways to accidentally spend too much money on AWS, and one of the easiest ways is by carelessly transferring data. As of writing, AWS charges the following rates for data transfer:
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The M2 is more advanced than it seemed
Apple’s M2 chip uses a newer version of the CPU core instruction set. This increases its capability, thus how well it will cope with future apps and macOS, compared with the M1.
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Before I reach my enemy, bring me some heads
Lessons from the plagiarists of the steppe
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When Random Isn't
This post is an anecdote from over a decade ago, of which I lost the actual code. So please forgive me if I do not accurately remember all the details. Some details are also simplified so that anyone that likes computer security can enjoy this article, not just those who have played World of Warcraft (although the…
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Leaving Arizona – the Story of the Motorola 6800 part 2 and creation of the 6502
Part 2 of The Story of the Motorola 6800
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Some memories of Niklaus Wirth
January 2024
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Ancestry to paywall formerly free features included with DNA kit
Ancestry is in the process of revamping its DNA services with higher prices and new fees, including a new paid offering called AncestryDNA Plus that paywalls formerly free features. Here's what we know, and what you can do if you have ever purchased an AncestryDNA kit.
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The $500M Dollar Typo
It's amazing how a series of small but unfortunate events can quickly add up to one very expensive problem. Like the time one person fat-fingered the wrong year on a mainframe JCL job, Ronald Reagan died, and the US postal service lost $500 million.
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Project Bluefin: an immutable, developer-focused, Cloud-native Linux
Today we "relaunched" ublue-os/bluefin as projectbluefin.io. This is a beta until Spring 2024. Bluefin is a custom image of Fedora Silverblue by a bunch of cloud-native nerds. We want a reliable desktop experience that runs everything but we're too lazy to maintain anything. So we
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Ruffle: 2023 in Review
It's been a very busy 2023 for Ruffle, so much so that we didn't find the time to write a new progress report with everything going on! Let's fix that!
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Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released
We are announcing a new Crystal release with several new features and bug fixes.
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Building a Faraday cage with data passthrough for ESP32 reverse engineering
Instructions for building an affordable Faraday cage
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How to delete your data from data brokers
Digital safety is public safety. We're building the knowledge, standards, and tools people need to face online harm — together.
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Coding Self-Attention, Multi-Head Attention, Cross-Attention, Causal-Attention
This article will teach you about self-attention mechanisms used in transformer architectures and large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 and Llama.