The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
Starting in mid-January 2025, Volexity identified several social-engineering and spear-phishing campaigns by Russian threat actors aimed at compromising Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts. These attack campaigns were highly targeted and carried out in a variety of ways. The majority of these attacks originated via…
Basketball has evolved into a game of calculated decision-making. From a game of points, assists, and rebounds, it has progressed into using thousands of data points to optimize every element of the game.
Here’s a Mastodon thread from a year ago. Just a quick check on how ChatGPT’s getting on … Me: Who reassigned the species Brachiosaurus brancai to its own genus, and when? ChatGPT…
For the last month, I have been working through Nand2Tetris: The Elements of Computing Systems; Building a Modern Computer from First Principles . I recently completed part 1. This first half of the text illuminates the process of building a computer purely from elementary logic gates. Each chapter is comprised of an…
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
I woke up this morning about an hour ahead of my alarm, the sky already light, birds calling.
Do my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry.
Update (July 2026): I have started FFmpegKitNext, a source-only continuation of FFmpegKit’s build toolkit and wrapper library.
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
Forgotten musings on the economics of AI, an intelligence explosion, and machine consciousness
The library for web and native user interfaces
The library for web and native user interfaces
Carolina researchers publish a groundbreaking study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field.
The key question is: Can you detect AI agent traffic on your application today? We tested multiple AI agent toolkits across high-traffic consumer sites, and the results were clear—legacy detection techniques (CAPTCHAs, IP blocking, user-agent filtering) are largely ineffective. Here’s what we found.
At Terrateam, we are big fans of Fly.io. The service is hosted there and it’s served us well. Just deploy your TOML file, get your infrastructure, do something else with the rest of your day. One of the interesting sides of Fly is that they invest heavily in server-side SQLite. They’ve written a number of blog posts…
The other enterprise Linux company
AI coding assistants are React evangelists.
Everybody hates working on legacy projects, me as well. Working on one, however, helped me get a deeper understanding of the dev process.
Intel has built a suite of AI tools for Audacity, useful for spoken word audio and music alike. These AI features run 100% locally on your PC.
Read on to learn how we used network packet captures and BPF to debug web server performance, ultimately uncovering a Linux kernel performance issue. This investigation was a collaboration between myself and my colleagues.
Go 1.24 enhances WebAssembly capabilities with function export and reactor mode
From the Zed Blog: A tool that predicts your next move. Powered by Zeta, our new open-source, open-data language model.
This summarizes the frustratingly ambiguous state of the evidence for pretty much any "Does X cause Y?" question you might have.
Link to: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/12/apple-resumes-advertising-on-x/
Today we are announcing a new privacy feature coming to Kagi Search. Privacy Pass is an authentication protocol first introduced by Davidson et al., in [1], and recently standardized by the IETF as RFCs [2—4]. Our...
IRB you kidding me?
While playing Anno 1800 , I noticed something which I’ve never noticed before in any other game (but to be fair, I don’t play too many city builders): The sun keeps a position relative to the camera and thus the shadows alway s fall from left to right:
