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"No inventions; no innovations" A History of US Steel
Last week, US Steel announced it was being acquired by Japanese steel company Nippon Steel.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,299 posts.
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Everyone's getting ghosted, the new normal in tech recruiting
The new normal in tech recruiting
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In 2024, please switch to Firefox
This December, if there's one tech New Year's resolution I'd encourage you to have, it's switching to the only remaining ethical web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts on social media, Firefox's market share is slipping. We should not let that happen. There are two main reasons why switching is important…
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Gentoo goes Binary
News and information from Gentoo Linux
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Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)
Roman soldiers weren't paid in salt, and they weren't given "salt money". Dictionaries of the 1700s and early 1800s are to blame for this myth.
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Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
Before Apple had even released its Developer Transition Kit, virtualisation was already one of the 3 pillars of software support on Apple silicon Macs.
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First personal search engine prototype
I've implemented a first prototype of my personal search engine which I will abbreviate as "pse" from here on out. I implemented it using three Bash scripts relying on sqlite3 , wget and PageFind to do the heavy lifting.
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Kaspersky discloses iPhone hardware feature vital in Operation Triangulation
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has unveiled a previously unknown hardware feature in Apple iPhones, pivotal to the Operation Triangulation campaign. The team presented this discovery at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg.
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The Web Is Fantastic
No not that web. The real web.
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Unprivileged process injection techniques in Linux
I'm joev, a security engineer 👋 You may know me from my work at Apple or on Metasploit, or from my CVEs.
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Smallest Typeface
Anders de Flon. Type design information compiled and maintained by Luc Devroye.
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You can't do that because I hate you
An infuriating pattern that devs need to stop.
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Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
When our CTO said "I'll upgrade your MacBook if you can prove it's worthwhile", we embarked on a journey including (re)building a Go hot-reloader, instrumenting developer builds, analyzing compiler performance, and feeding an AI model the data until we had an answer.
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Repurposing Hugo as a wiki
As part of a project that I’m working on, I decided to see if I could repurpose the excellent Hugo website framework (which also powers this very site) as a single-user wiki of sorts.
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Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives
Connect with Lunduke and other members of Lunduke community
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Cold-blooded software
It’s 2004 and I’m sitting in one of the largest lecture halls at my university. I’m a computer science major but I’m taking a course on natural history — plants and animals — as one of my electives.
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It's not microservice or monolith; it's cognitive load
How understanding cognitive load and team capacity can help you decide on an architectural style
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How random is xkcd? (2015)
Apparently Randall Munroe gets a lot of messages saying that the “random” button on xkcd is biased.
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IDEs we had 30 years ago
A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's
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Formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason
I can mathematically prove the game's not fun.
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4B If Statements
I recently stumbled upon this screenshot while researching social media on the train. Of course, it was followed by a cascade of spiteful comments, criticizing this fresh programmer’s attempt to solve a classical problem in computer science. The modulus operation.
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Generation Junk
Nothing I Buy Works
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Book list for streetfighting computer scientists (2022)
2025 edition. this is very different from most "best books for programmers" lists you'll see, with Code Complete and Clean Code and Wistful Wanking for Practical Wankers and Design Slatterns and titles like that. you'll figure all that out as you go along. these are books to read so that you can cut motherfuckers with…
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Docs Deserve More Respect
A plea for more respect for documentation and technical writing in the software development industry.
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No new iPhone? No secure iOS: Looking at an unfixed iOS vulnerability
A look at the messy reality of iOS vulnerabilities: which bugs get patched, which quietly linger, and the challenges of tracking real device risk over time.
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HyperRogue, a open-source non-Euclidean roguelike: new weapons
HyperRogue version 13.0 is released on Steam and itch.io ! Again, it was quite a long time since the last major update (12.0, from 2021)....
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