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Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk
Read this Tcl/Tk hands-up/primer to find out how the open-source Command Tool Language toolkit can help you develop cross-plaform tools for Windows, Linux, macOS and even Android.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,793 posts.
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How to get a free .arpa domain
Learn how to get a free .arpa domain by abusing IPv6 reverse DNS delegations on Hurricane Electric, configuring deSEC, and hosting a live website.
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Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Google today reached the final milestone in a browser-extension transition that has been years in the making, all remaining Manifest V2 extensions were removed from the Chrome Web Store.
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The safest job from AI may be writing
Today, tech folk are scrambling to change their workflows to meet newly inflated 5X productivity quotas, while getting pummeled under the co...
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I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
I turned three security cameras into an automatic bird identification system using BirdNet-Go. Now my wife and I can track every bird species that visits our yard in real-time.
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We are rebuilding Monica
We are rebuilding Monica from scratch, and this new series will document how.
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Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex
An Introduction to File Formats and ImHex by Reverse Engineering FEZ's Save File Format
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I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked
The frozen pizza aisle has become the national security risk du jour
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Agent memory as a file format
Memoryfields - a vastly simpler way to do agent memory
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A CVE Dispute
A few years years ago the curl project signed up and became a CNA. This means that we are masters of and can allocate our own CVE identifiers. For any security problems within our territory, it is we who decides if the issue should get a CVE or not. No more bogus CVEs. 57 CVEs … Continue reading a CVE dispute →
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Malleable software = solid bases and custom code
In 2019 I bet on the no-code revolution. That bet aged so-so. Here is the new one.
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OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor
OpenShot 4.0 adds professional color grading, screen and webcam recording, local object masks, 10 new effects, a cleaner native timeline, and faster creative workflows.
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How an MIT research project became the Julia programming language
Julia, the programming language that originated as a research project at MIT, has gained a loyal following among scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and others. The free and open-source language counts more than 1 million users, including people at thousands of companies and universities around the world.
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ReactOS 0.4.16
ReactOS is a free, opensource reimplementation of windows
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Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
In this post, we explore how a simple website summary request hijacks Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode and achieves code execution with 60-80% attack success …
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OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
How a push for simpler setup and a first-class browser experience grew into OpenClaw 2.0.
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P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names
How Wirewiki's domain-name autocomplete renders suggestions next frame for 99% of keystrokes.
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Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable
It's possible to just connect two computers together with Ethernet and do a bit of IP configuration:
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Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT
How NAT broke the concept of an internet connection
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Understanding ChatGPT Work
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here’s what I’ve figured out …
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How to build a diffusion language model
An introduction to diffusion language models and the research advances that underlie today's diffusion LLMs. We describe the building blocks of recent open-source models, starting from simple masking diffusion, and including techniques for iterative refinement, post-training, and variable-length generation. Material…
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Matrox: Graphics for Professionals
Graphics for Professionals
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“I just chose words carefully”
A blog about software craft and quality
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Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)
Fully discrete methods dominated for a few years, but language models based on continuous diffusion are making a comeback.
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Making the Internet Boring
I once overrode my own website blocker for 444 minutes. After that I stopped relying on willpower and started making the internet boring: app deletions, LeechBlock, grayscale mode, and a custom userscript.
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Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, providing lab space for astronauts and experiment...
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Coordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
An emoji flipbook presentation by Alex Komoroske about how dysfunctional organizational dyanmics arise even when individuals are well-behaved
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Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
After about two years since the last beta, and only about a week after Haiku’s 25th birthday, Haiku R1/beta6 has been released! See “Release Notes” for the release notes, “Press contact”, for press inquiries … and …
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Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
A security issue in Omarchy’s default Docker configuration meant that essentially every program running in the user’s desktop session could escalate to root without a password, sudo, or a privilege prompt. If you use Omarchy, the most important takeaway is simple: update to 4.0.1. I reported this issue privately…
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Startup Anti-Patterns
An anti-pattern is a commonly used process, structure, or pattern of action that, despite initially appearing to be an appropriate and effective response to a problem, has more bad consequences than good ones.Simeon Simeonov first wrote an introduction to the value of startup anti-patterns back in 2013. To sum it up…