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Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see
How mindless consumption is making our FYPs worse.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,815 posts.
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Reading across books with Claude Code
In which we teach an agent to read syntopically.
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Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels
Learn what a unikernel is and how it compares to a Linux container. Build and run your first unikernel inside a playground box.
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Our approach to advertising
OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.
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6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
Update: March 11, 2026 If you use Certbot, see Six-Day and IP Address Certificates Available in Certbot for details on requesting these certificates. Short-lived and IP address certificates are now generally available from Let’s Encrypt. These certificates are valid for 160 hours, just over six days. In order to get a…
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America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws
Zoning and food safety laws add up to outlaw tiny restaurants operated by one or two staff.
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Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
If you don’t want any of their services, you can turn Siri off in its settings, and disable indexing and search in Spotlight settings. Or you can use mdutil, if you know its limitations.
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Cloudflare acquires Astro
The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare! Astro remains open-source, MIT-licensed, and platform-agnostic. With Cloudflare's support, we're focusing 100% on building the best framework for content-driven websites. Astro 6 beta is available now.
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The Dilbert Afterlife
Sixty-eight years of highly defective people
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Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025)
In keeping with my passion (?) for displaying local news articles in unexpected places , I figured it would be a fun project to try and see what it would take to display current local news on the Nintendo Wii console’s News Channel .
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Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing
Why DuckDB has become my go-to tool for data processing, offering simplicity, speed, and powerful features.
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SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others
UC Berkeley’s SETI@home, one of the most popular crowd-sourced research projects ever, turned up some 12 billion signals of interest. A lengthy analysis found 100 worth another look.
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My Gripes with Prolog
It's not my favorite language
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All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible
In the Game of Life, which still lifes can be produced by crashing gliders together? We’ve known for a few years that the answer cannot be “all of them”, because in 2022 Ilkka Törmä and Ville Salo found a patch of still life that, if it exists in the universe, must have existed since the beginning of time. And so…
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Why senior engineers let bad projects fail
When I was a junior engineer, my manager would occasionally confide his frustrations to me in our weekly 1:1s. He would point out a project another team was working on and say, “I don’t believe that …
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Data is the only moat
How different adoption models drive better applications
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‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid
"Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground."
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CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem
Time to upgrade
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Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console
Wiz Research discovered CodeBreach, a critical vulnerability that risked the AWS Console supply chain. Learn how to secure your AWS CodeBuild pipelines.
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LLM Structured Outputs Handbook
A practical handbook for developers using LLMs to get structured outputs.
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Design and Implementation of Sprites
So that we may educate as well as horrify: the internals of our new Sprites execution platform.
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Conditions in the Intel 8087 floating-point chip's microcode
In the 1980s, if you wanted your computer to do floating-point calculations faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor ...
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High-Level Is the Goal
Why should anyone care about low-level programming?
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The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)
In 1998 Looking Glass Studios released the stealth game Thief: The Dark Project . This was just as 3D hardware acceleration was taking off, so due to the development cycle it didn't use hardware acceleration; it was a purely software-rendered game.
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Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
Today Raspberry Pi launched their new $130 AI HAT+ 2 which includes a Hailo 10H and 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM. With that, the Hailo 10H is capable of running LLMs entirely standalone, freeing the Pi's CPU and system RAM for other tasks. The chip runs at a maximum of 3W, with 40 TOPS of INT8 NPU inference performance in…
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Have Taken Up Farming
ex program, en farm
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To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical …
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Improving the performance of WAT parser
The personal blog of Pig Fang.