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Regulations Enabling 6 GHz Wi-Fi
Use the interactive map below to explore the latest global regulations enabling 6 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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A Pixel Parable
An imagined town is at least as real as an actual town.
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Writing a simple pool allocator in C
I found out about pool allocators some time ago, and I really liked its simplicity and high performance, so I decided to write my own. This article was initially inspired by Dmitry Soshnikov’s article . It’s also worth mentioning that this article was discussed in Hacker News .
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Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors. 1 The Pentium incl...
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Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China
Akamai provides a global CDN that serves visitors inside and outside of China via the Akamai global network and strategic in-country partners.
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How Do You Like What You've Built?
Recently, a colleague asked me for a code review on some complex UI changes. The idea was to make an...
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A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis
A messy experiment that changed how we think about AI code analysis Last week, I watched our AI choke on a React codebase - again. As timeout errors flooded my terminal, something clicked. We’d been teaching AI to read code like a fresh bootcamp grad, not a senior developer. Here’s what I mean.
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A story on home server security
Happy New Year! Or so I thought. After a refreshing Christmas vacation with my family, I was stashing something away in our storage room when I noticed the server fan running at maximum speed. This was very unexpected, considering my server is powered by an Intel i3 and should handle all the light tasks I run quite…
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How NAT Traversal Works (2020)
Learn how NAT traversal works, how Tailscale can get through and securely connect your devices directly to each other.
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Remote code execution via MIDI messages
Blog post about a reverse engineering project
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Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately
Imagine shrinking satellite technology that predicts the weather into a device that transmits vital information about the health of the person wearing it.
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University of Alabama Engineer Pioneers New Process for Recycling Plastics
Researchers at the University of Alabama have developed a way of more efficiently and effectively recycling polymers.
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The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Networks (2010)
http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-evaporative-cooling-effect/
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The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless
First off, no, your ANT+ devices aren’t goin...
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Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects
Struggling to finish side projects due to limited time? In my latest blog post, I share how I improved my productivity using AI tools like LLMs and Cursor IDE. Learn to refine specs, bootstrap code, and iterate effectively to rapidly build and deploy your projects—even with a busy schedule.
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One Dog vs. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack
a bunch of weird and random technical stuff
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How to draw an outline in a video game
🖍️ Explaining multiple techniques for rendering outlines and highlights for real-time applications. This includes vertex object-space as well as screen-space methods. This can be used to render outlines in Unity or Unreal. Outlines can be used for gameplay reasons or aesthetics.
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Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot
Together with some friends, I decided earlier this year to particpate in the Carbage run 2025 Winter edition. This is a 6-day journey in winter all the way through Sweden to the polar circle, and back down to Helsinki in a group of roughly 400 cars. One small catch (you might have guessed it from the name): your car…
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China is the manufacturing superpower
The US is the world’s sole military superpower. It spends more on its military than the ten next highest spending countries combined. China is now the world’s sole manufacturing superpower. Its production exceeds that of the nine next largest manufacturers combined. This column uses the recently released 2023 update…
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Do Files want to be Actors?
Is 1970s distributed systems theory finally meeting 2020s kernel development?
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I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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The State of Generative Models
In the face of disruptive technologies, moats created by closed source are temporary. Even OpenAI’s closed source approach can’t prevent others from catching up. So we anchor our value in our team — our colleagues grow through this process, accumulate know-how, and form an organization and culture capable of…
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Conscious unbossing
Conscious unbossing - 52% of Gen-Z professionals don’t want to be middle managers
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Choosing an op-amp for your project
Just say no to LM741 and LM324 / LM358.