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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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Hilbert space: Treating functions as vectors
The tools of linear algebra are extremely useful when working in Euclidean space (e.g. \mathbb{R}^3 ). Wouldn’t it be great if we could apply these tools to additional mathematical constructs, such as functions and sequences? Hilbert space allows us to do exactly this - apply linear algebra to functions.
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Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs
Our statement detailing an incident concerning a legacy system. We outline our commitment to transparency, accountability, and planned investment in cyber security research.
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Reverse Engineering Yaesu FT-70D Firmware Encryption
This article dives into my full methodology for reverse engineering the tool mentioned in this article. It's a bit longer but is intended to be accessible to folks who aren't necessarily advanced reverse-engineers.
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Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon
WIRED's Andy Greenberg discusses a revelation that turned his decades-long reporting on its head: Bitcoin became a criminal's worst nightmare.
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My dad could still be alive, but he's not
cw: death dad died this summer, from his first heart attack, barely a week after his 57th birthday. i get the first call at 11:30pm from mom, who lived...
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Android developer verification: Early access starts
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Valve is about to win the console generation
Valve does nothing and still wins
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Marble: A Multimodal World Model
Marble, our frontier multimodal world model, is available to everyone starting today
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GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients
In an analysis of more than 6,800 colon cancer patients across all University of California Health sites, researchers found that those taking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) medications were less than half as likely to die within five years compared to those who weren’t on the drugs (15.5% vs. 37.1%
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GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
We’re upgrading the GPT-5 series with warmer, more capable models and new ways to customize ChatGPT’s tone and style. GPT-5.1 starts rolling out today to paid users.
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How Tube Amplifiers Work
How Tube Guitar Amplifiers Work
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Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet
Digital ID is a new way for users to create an ID in Apple Wallet using their U.S. passport, and present it with the privacy of iPhone or Apple Watch.
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How Much OpenAI Spends on Inference and Its Revenue Share with Microsoft
EDIT: I am updating this post to reflect that these numbers are based on accrual accounting, meaning that these amounts are from the quarters I am referencing. Anyone telling you otherwise is misinformed. As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium
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Anthropic invests $50B in US AI infrastructure
Anthropic is partnering with Fluidstack to build data centers in Texas and New York, creating roughly 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs.
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Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
OpenAI is fighting the New York Times’ demand for 20 million private ChatGPT conversations and accelerating new security and privacy protections to protect your data.
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The Geometry Behind Normal Maps
Tangent space is often presented as a confusing block of shader math. This is a deep dive into what tangent vectors actually mean, how they emerge from UVs to bridge 2D and 3D space, and the geometry that makes normal mapping possible.
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Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting
The core of Micro.blog’s mission is to make it easy for people to own their presence on the web. At first, it was a simple blog host that also
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A brief look at FreeBSD
Recently I've been playing around with FreeBSD in a virtual machine. The reason for this is that (if all goes well) some time in December my new Framework laptop will arrive, replacing my current X1 Carbon that is starting to show signs of old age (e.g. a keyboard where certain keys don't always work). Framework in…
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Chat Control 2.0 through the back door
Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the alarm. Using a "deceptive sleight of hand," a mandatory and expanded Chat Control is being pushed through the back door, in a form even more intrusive tha
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I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset
As you may remember, or completely not know, I have a bit of a fascination with old rotary phones . Occasionally, when people learn about this fascination, they donate their old rotary phones to me, so I have ended up with a small collection.
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What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO
Linus Torvalds worked for them after he completed his degree, but left in 2003
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Simulating a Planet on the GPU: Part 1 (2022)
A year-long journey through polygon meshes, cubemaps, and smoothed-particle hydrodynamics in pursuit of a modern SimEarth
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Blame as a Service
Productized scapegoating
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You will own nothing and be (un)happy
Hi! I'm a raccoon, and this is my trash can :] It's full of my thoughts about the mess of being human. No human is perfect, including me, and that's why we are so fascinating.
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The Uselessness of "Fast" and "Slow" in Programming
Every field of human activity has its unique characteristics, and programming is no exception.
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Performance hacks for faster Python code
Learn practical optimization hacks, from data structures to built-in modules, that boost speed, reduce overhead, and keep your Python code clean.
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.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser
Avalonia is bringing .NET MAUI to Linux and WebAssembly, delivering on the community's most requested features since MAUI launched.