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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,872 posts.
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A brief history of Dell Unix (2008)
[update December 2021: files for 86Box install at update December 2020: Dell Unix on 86Box “Today let me present Dell Unix more properly, with 1024×768, 256 colors video and proper networking…
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So you think you know box shadows?
So you think you know box shadows huh? I bet you didn't know they could do this.
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Prometheus metrics saves us from painful kernel debugging (2022)
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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Relationships are coevolutionary loops (2023)
Looking for Alice, part 3
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Deluge of Fake Mac App Store Reviews
Yesterday I discovered a deluge of recent fake customer reviews for a number of top paid apps in the United States Mac App Store. (Each country has its own version of the App Store with separate reviews.) I've now checked the reviews for all of the current top 40 paid apps in the Mac App Store, and 8 of those apps…
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Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance
The Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped appliance is an integrated hardware and software solution that lets you run workloads at the tactical edge.
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Minuteman missile communications
A programming note: I am looking at making some changes to how I host things like Computers Are Bad and wikimap that are going to involve a lot more recurring expense. For that and other reasons, I want to see if y'all would be willing to throw some money my way. If everyone reading this gave $3 a month, we could…
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Mining JIT traces for missing optimizations with Z3
In my last post I've described how to use Z3 to find simple local peephole optimization patterns for the integer operations in PyPy's JIT. An example is int_and(x, 0) -> 0. In this post I want to scal
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A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout (2023)
Dr. John Ousterhout is a computer science luminary who has made significant contributions to the fie
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1989 Networking: NetWare 386
Thanks to the recent warez mega dump, another long lost gem has come to light: NetWare 386, also known as NetWare 3.0.
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Converting Codebases with LLMs
Leverage LLMs with context like code structure, libraries, and screenshots to streamline code conversion tasks and accelerate development.
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Technical Details on Today's Outage
Learn more about the technical details around the Falcon update for Windows hosts.
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What happened to BERT and T5?
A Blogpost series about Model Architectures Part 1: What happened to BERT and T5? Thoughts on Transformer Encoders, PrefixLM and Denoising objectives
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Playing guitar tablatures in Rust
Introducing Ruxguitar, a guitar tablature player written in Rust
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The Later Years of Douglas Adams
If God exists, he must have a sense of humor, for why else would he have strewn so many practical jokes around his creation? Among them is the uncanny phenomenon of the talented writer who absolutely hates to write.
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Postgres vs. Pinecone
We respond to Pinecone's recent blog post comparing Postgres and Pinecone. We show that Postgres can outperform Pinecone in the same benchmarks Pinecone covered in their article.
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Instrumenting Python GIL with eBPF
Learn how to measure the impact of Python GIL contention on application latency using eBPF, with real workload examples.
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Building the new hypermedia systems
A shiny new edition of Hypermedia Systems is out! Apart from incorporating typo and grammar fixes sent in by readers, the book was completely redesigned inside with a new layout. To achieve a much higher fidelity of design, we ported the book to Typst --- the hot new LaTeX replacement.
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FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges
Federal Communications Commission unanimously votes to significantly reduce prison communication costs.
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Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern
Ryanair Airlines is an excellent example of a company that will use as many dark patterns as possible...
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Ruby methods are colorless
👋🏼 This is part of series on concurrency, parallelism and asynchronous programming in Ruby. It’s a deep dive, so it’s divided into 12 main parts: Your Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 1 Your Ruby programs are always multi-threaded: Part 2 Consistent, request-local state Ruby methods are colorless The…
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What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it
Not doing anything with it is exactly the point.
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Double trouble: ESA's Gaia hit by micrometeoroid and solar storm
Launched in December 2013, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft is on a mission to map the locations and motions of more than a billion stars in the Milky Way with extreme precision.But it’s not easy being a satellite: space is a dangerous place. In recent months, hyper-velocity space dust and the strongest solar storm in 20 years…
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What would it take to recreate Bell Labs?
For most of the 20th century, AT&T was almost entirely responsible for building and operating America’s telephone infrastructure.
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Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.
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Back to the future: Are hackers the future of amateur radio?
Last fall, under the aegis of Ham Radio Village , I was awarded a grant to take my one-day Tech class on the road. Ham Radio Village believes that more people in technical fields should have amateur radio licenses and that amateur radio is underrepresented in the hacker, STEM/STEAM, and maker communities. Currently…