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Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
From my experience, people like functions like "map" and "filter", but not "reduce".
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,939 posts.
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The Beauty of Roundabouts
I have a weird soft spot for roundabouts. Maybe because I'm a software engineer and the roundabout strikes me as the simple, elegant solution while the traffic light intersection is the ad-hoc, over-engineered mess.
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OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others
Part 1 of a series that takes an unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, and Oppo/OnePlus/Realme devices, with a single strategy.
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The case against JPEG XL
Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec.
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Open-source AI and open models reading list
How to get up to speed on open models and their implications.
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Due to concerns about malicious applications, GPT2 will not be released (2019)
We’ve trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization—all without task-specific training.
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The contagion of fear
I have a difficult confession to make — a shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me.
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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Explore Claude Fable 5.1's proposed solution to Sir Thomas Urquhart's Cyphral Distich, a centuries-old cipher, with the reasoning behind the result.
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Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)
ABSTRACT In May 2003, the University of Wisconsin - Madison found that it was the recipient of a continuous large scale flood of inbound Internet traffic destined for one of the campus' public Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers. The flood traffic rate was hundreds-of-thousands of packets-per-second, and hundreds of…
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I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc
A bungled Assetnote scan
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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
I accidentally clicked a shady YouTube ad that mimics an iOS “Storage Full” alert, reported it (twice), and Google still said it was fine. Meanwhile, Gemini flags it in seconds for deceptive design...
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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side
A blog about software craft and quality
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Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
It came after ud0 and ud1.
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'Fingerprints' inside the Sun could reveal if it once swallowed a planet
drupal-media[data-view-mode=half_page_width] { display: inline-block; width: 50%; } It is thought the Sun may have engulfed a super-Earth-sized planet early in its h...
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Homebrew 7.0.0
Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0. The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs moving to Tier 3.
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JetKVM Mini
A JetKVM from $33, wired or wireless. New open-source firmware, the same web interface.
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Aligned to whom?
You are relying very heavily on the priors of the model to do a good job for you. What happens when you cannot judge whether those priors are good?
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After Math
[This is a guest post by Silvia De Toffoli and Eamon Duede. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Silvia De Toffoli (University School …
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Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped their containment to cheat on assigned tasks while attempting to evade detection, and coordinated toward goals nobody had…
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Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
Small local libraries are now becoming travel destinations
1103
Giving up on smart rings
The downsides to wearing a fitness-tracking device on your finger
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P(doom)
Are we all going to die?
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Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
Real-SWE benchmarks frontier AI models on private production codebases licensed from real companies. Eighteen models across twenty-five tasks.
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An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
Dear Dario, You published We Must Pace the Frontier today, which committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asked governments to require every other frontier company to match. Sam Altman agreed within hours.1 The stated goal is to slow down the pace of AI progress. I believe you’re being sincere, so…
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Reversing Factorio's RNG
This post details how Factorio's random number generation works, how it can be reversed and how I used that knowledge to predict and manipulate the RNG with pure in‑game mechanics.
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Compressing a flag to 11 bits
I recently saw an interesting YouTube video by “Physics for the Birds”. The main video is about matrixes, but he used flags to explain some of the operations on matrixes:
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Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction
In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards. Moreover, floating...
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I made a build visualizer to understand Bun's compile times
I built buildprof (Github), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep: Watch the …