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The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
After 15 years at Google, the creator of JJ joins ERSC as Chief Technology Officer.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,939 posts.
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Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence
Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence.
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Fine, I'll build my own text editor
The one where I build my own text editor (until I get bored).
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Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it
Authorization terminology often conflates ideas and presents complementary technologies as rivals. This post proposes a new taxonomy.
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The browser's main thread is expensive
What comes to mind when you hear "frontend optimization"? For most of us it's things like reducing network requests, shrinking the bundle,…
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Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS
There’s only so much room on your screen. Pop-ups, overlays, and ads can take over fast, getting between you and what you came to do. That’s where
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We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora
Could we get more cache space with the same hardware? We prototyped compression inside Cloudflare's cache to find out.
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Io_uring Without Readahead
Someone opened a PR to implement readahead in Turso. It was a throwaway implementation, but a good excuse to measure io_uring and understand more about it.
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EFF to Courts: Don't Rewrite Copyright over AI Hype
New markets, new ideas, and new creators are actually what copyright is supposed to promote, not restrict. Using copyright to lock in existing gatekeepers and massive rightsholders’ profits helps neither the public nor individual artists.
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Invisible Companies
Why do boring, moat-less businesses mint outsized profits for decades? On competitive neglect, the strategy hiding in plain sight.
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Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters
The optimizations behind Wasmi 2.0, and how they compare to Wasm3 and Stitch.
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Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs
I trained a small transformer from scratch in 1.5hrs on a 5090 Beats many LLMs, and scores the same as TRM/HRM
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AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too
If AI is so great, why are the only new tech giants GenAI companies?
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2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
In 2004 I played too much RuneScape on a 56k modem that died the moment Mum picked up the phone. A 3D world, up to a couple of thousand players on a server, dozens on screen at once - in the browser, on 5 kilobytes per second. It worked. Let’s follow a single step and see how.
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Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…
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Top Web Design Styles of 1993
It is difficult to estimate how many web pages created in 1993-1994 made it into the new millenium in their premordial way. If you manage to find something that was put online that time, it would in the best case display a 1995-1996 skin. But there is a way to find pages that live for ever in 1993.
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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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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.