The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,833 posts.
These are the not the work of carpenters who care about the backs of the cabinets they’re building. These icons are so bad, they look like the work of untrained “How hard can it be?” dilettante carpenters who only last a few days on the job before sawing off one of their own fingers.
How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
Earlier this month I covered Jonathan Clark's effort to reverse-engineer the Pi Zero 2 W, and just yesterday, I discovered TubeTime reverse-engineered the Compute Module 5. i reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5! check it out at github.com/schlae/cm5-r... [image or embed] — Tube Time…
Starting in 2026 and in select countries first, Android apps must be registered to a verified developer in order to be installed.
Recently, Socket.dev published research highlighting malicious gems designed to steal social media credentials. We wanted to use this as an opportunity to share more about how RubyGems.org security...
On July 30, 2025, the U.S. government issued an executive order titled “Termination of De Minimis Treatment for All Countries” regarding mail to the United States.
Reasons why you should consider breaking your hardware up into MiniPCs.
Modifying the MX Ergo trackball mouse to fix its micro-USB charging, loud switches, and bloated software issues.
When I first started writing for a real publication, I taught myself “reporting” with a simple self-made curriculum unfolding over six or seven articles. The first two pieces I wrote from my head, with reference to things I already knew or to books I’d read. For the third, I actually got out of the house, but didn’t…
In which we answer every question you've ever had about digital color, and some you haven't.
OAuth was first introduced in 2007.
An interview with Dinamo’s Johannes Breyer on the custom Arial “revival” typeface.
The purpose of Standard Thermal is to make energy from solar PV available 24/7/365 at a price that is competitive with US natural gas.
At the time of writing, the most recent Adobe Reader 25.x.y.z 64-bit installer for Windows 11 weights 687,230,424 bytes . After installation, the program includes 'AI' (of course), an auto-updater, sprinkled ads for Acrobat online services everywhere, and 2 GUIs: 'new' and 'old'.
We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed
“Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don't like me!”
How to check your Mac is booting in Full Security, and how to read its log to verify all the key steps involved in that process.
A simple typo of ghcr.io to ghrc.io would normally be a small goof. You’d typically get a 404 or similar error, finally work out the issue, fix it, and move along. But in this case, that typo appears to be doing something very malicious, stealing GitHub credentials. What’s ghcr.io? First, a quick bit of background…
Railway Mania, dot-com, AI. Technology bubbles follow a pattern older than any of them. What's different this time is that everyone knows the script.
The DMCA online safe harbor is a notice-and-takedown scheme. Web hosts aren’t liable for copyright-infringing third-party uploads unless and until the copyright owner submits a proper takedown notice to the host, at which point the web host can remain legally...
Most of what modern software engineers do involves APIs: public interfaces for communicating with a program, like this one from Twilio. I’ve spent a lot of time…
SQLite doesn’t do fsync unless specified.
After 15 years as a software engineer, I realized I had never actually built and published a game.
written by Eric J. Ma on 2025-08-23 | tags: python runtime llm security namespace compilation execution functions toolbot monkeypatching
One of Germany's biggest ISPs changed how their DNS works, right after I exposed an organization that they’re part of.
Do we have to disclaim how we use AI ?
