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Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages
How we bypassed Apple's regulatory restrictions, built a Faraday cage and enabled georestricted features on the Airpods Pro 2 for our grandparents.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
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Visualizing 13M Bluesky users
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Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles
Roll out the red carpet. Starting today, anyone in Los Angeles can take fully autonomous rides 24/7 with Waymo One – rolling through Santa Monica, Hollywood Boulevard, USC, and everything in between.
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Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1
2024-11-13 : An earlier version of this report asserted that consumers with auto-commit enabled could lose data by automatically committing offsets returned by the most recent poll. This claim was based in part on Confluent’s documentation , which states:
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The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
The Case Against Student Use of Computers, Tablets, and Smartphones in the Classroom
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When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
Exercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, MIT researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and deteriorating nerves.
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Defensive Communication (1961)
I provide this HTML version of a historical article because it was not easily available but was central to my article: Reagle, J. (2010). “Be nice”: Wikipedia norms for supportive communication. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (Special Issue on Web Science) , 16(1), 161–180…
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The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture
Revisiting the timeless von Neumann Architecture
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Steve Jobs, NeXTSTEP, and early object-oriented programming (2016)
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile “app revolution” are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to the beginnings of…
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What I wish someone told me about Postgres
I’ve been working professionally for the better part of a decade on web apps and, in that time, I’ve had to learn how to use a lot of different systems and tools. During that education, I found that the official documentation typically proved to be the most helpful.
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Bus Number – The GitHub plugin my coworkers asked me not to write
This blog post was written together with <mclare> , who made coooool visualizations like the picture at the end of the post!
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How I ship projects at big tech companies
What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project
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Visualizing World War II
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you’ll know that maps and history are two of my favorite things. I love history because I love learning about the vast panoply of the human …
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High Levels of Banned PFAS Detected in Hershey's Packaging
The U.S. legacy producer The Hershey Company offers a “ growing portfolio of delicious snacks to pair with every occasion. From indulgent treats to a boost of protein between meals, or a bag of popcorn to share during movie night, we love creating moments of goodness through our 90+ brands .”
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The online sports gambling experiment
Related: Book Review: On the Edge: The Gamblers
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Security Is a Useless Controls Problem
We're all a bunch of chimps in a cage
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Testing the Z80 Chip with a 1970s Beauty
The Fairchild Sentry 610 was optimized for engineers
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ML in Go with a Python Sidecar
Machine learning models are rapidly becoming more capable; how can we make use of these powerful new tools in our Go applications?
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Making a trading Gameboy: A pocket exchange and algo trading platform
An exchange and algo trading station in your pocket!
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Optimizing a WebGPU Matmul Kernel for 1 TFLOP
Building Surfgrad, a high-performant, WebGPU-powered autograd library
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How Chordcat works – a chord naming algorithm
chordcat is a chord-naming application and a pet project of mine. It is written in C++ and SFML.
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The Internet Gopher from Minnesota
Structured Text on the Internet before the World Wide Web
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SST: Container Support
SST now natively supports building containerized applications.
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Way too many ways to wait on a child process with a timeout
I often need to launch a program in the terminal in a retry loop. Maybe because it's flaky, or because it tries to contact a remote service that is not available. A few scenarios:
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Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube” that allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube from the Photos app.