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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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Google announces agreement to acquire Wiz
Google signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz. This deal will make it easier for companies to protect themselves across major clouds.
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Stamina Is a Quiet Advantage
Stamina is one of the most universally useful traits you can develop. It's a more broadly applicable advantage than things that are situationally useful.
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Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate
An exploration of how well AI generates system architecture diagrams
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Sync Engines Are the Future
We've been building frontends that talk to backends for years. But in the meantime the browser has become an OS. In that case what should your stack look like?
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The model is the product
Old data, new models
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Moving away from US cloud services
Relying on US cloud services poses legal and political risks for EU users, so I'm moving away from US cloud services. Here's how and why I did it.
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Build a Container Image from Scratch
Build a Container Image from Scratch — Danish Prakash
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20 Years of YC / HN
I saw recently that YCombinator celebrated its 20th anniversary. Hacker News is slightly younger, but to me the two go hand in hand. As far as I can tell, I actively started reading Hacker News around 2011. I don’t remember how I heard about it. It was probably on Reddit or Digg. Once I found it, I started reading…
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Zero-knowledge proofs, encoding Sudoku and Mario speedruns without semantic leak
We published our video on zero-knowledge proofs! Surprisingly, making this video took a lot of work. Zero-knowledge proofs for coloring are one of those algorithms that, in hindsight, seem beautifu…
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But how to get to that European cloud?
The very short version: It has now become clear that European governments can no longer rely on American clouds, and that we lack good and comprehensive alternatives. Market forces have failed to deliver a truly European cloud, and businesses won’t naturally buy as yet unproven cloud services, even when adorned with a…
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Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design
In 1968, Douglas Engelbart demonstrated a computer system called the oN-Line System, or NLS. The NLS is the source of a lot of computer firsts. Among other things, Engelbart showed video conferencing, collaborative text editing, embedded graphics, copying and pasting, and hypertext - all of it accessible through a…
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The High Heel Problem
This article looks at how different types of shoes can affect game development and examines how games deal with this in practice.
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After 47 years, OpenVMS gets a package manager (VSP)
Published: 17-03-2025 20:33 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
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Archival Storage
I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk with...
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Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers
Taara is now an independent company with a mission to bring high-speed, affordable and abundant connectivity to people everywhere using beams of light.
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Chaos in the Cloudflare Lisbon Office
Cloudflare is now using a wall of waves in our Lisbon, Portugal office to create entropy and strengthen Internet security, turning liquid chaos into secure, unpredictable encryption.
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uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users
uv download statistics overtake Poetry for Wagtail users
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The exceptional Jordan algebra (2020)
In the early 1930s, Pascual Jordan attempted to formalise the algebraic properties of Hermitian matrices. In particular: Hermitian matrices form a real vector space: we can add and subtract Hermiti…
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How Cursor (AI IDE) Works
Turning LLMs into coding experts and how to take advantage of them.
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Next generation LEDs are cheap and sustainable
Cost, technical performance and environmental impact – these are the three most important aspects for a new type of LED technology to have a broad commercial impact on society. This has been demonstrated by LiU-researchers in a new study.
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Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
The Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) is the successor to WHOIS, which is being sunsetted on 28 January 2025.
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Zlib-rs is faster than C
We've released version 0.4.2 of zlib-rs , featuring a number of substantial performance improvements. We are now (to our knowledge) the fastest api-compatible zlib implementation for decompression, and beat the competition in the most important compression cases too.
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AI Is Making Developers Dumb
LLMs are making software engineers dumber.
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Microsoft's 1986 IPO
Its market cap hit $777 million and Bill Gates' net worth reached $350 million
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Our interfaces have lost their senses
We programmed them by punching cards, plugging in wires, and flipping switches. Programmers walked among banks of switches and cables, physically choreographing their logic. Being on a computer used to be a full-body experience.
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Teach, Don't Tell (2013)
This post is about writing technical documentation. More specifically: it's about writing documentation for programming languages and libraries.