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CodeMender: an AI agent for code security
Using advanced AI to fix critical software vulnerabilities
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)
Hi, I’m Brent “Brentmeister” Randall and I’m an engineer on the Gameplay Integrity team for VALORANT . My team is responsible for VALORANT ’s build system, automation framework, game client performance, and server performance. In this arti…
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A quiet change to RSA
Over the course of years, RSA implementations gradually replaced Euler's totient function with Carmichael's totient function.
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Apps SDK
Learn to build plugins for ChatGPT and Codex with skills, MCP servers, and optional UI. Explore developer guides for authentication, testing, and publishing.
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When ChatGPT turns informant
The largely overlooked privacy risks of using AI apps that not only remember your conversations, but are capable of using these to reveal your deepest secrets to others
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"Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore
We are in the middle of the biggest red ocean I have ever seen in software development.
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OpenZL: An open source format-aware compression framework
OpenZL is a new open source data compression framework that offers lossless compression for structured data. OpenZL is designed to offer the performance of a format-specific compressor with the eas…
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Show HN: I'm building a browser for reverse engineers
In the expanding world of AI my heart still lies in AST transforms, browser fingerprinting, and anti-bot circumvention. But my workflow felt... primitive.
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Apple's Unlawful Evil
Apple has removed ICEBlock, a totally legal app that helps people track the movements of the masked snatch-squads who illegally terrorize brown people in America's cities, capitulating to a warrantless demand from Trump's DoJ boss Pam Bondi:
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A beginner's guide to deploying LLMs with AMD on Windows using PyTorch
Get started running LLMs with PyTorch on Windows using AMD consumer graphics hardware.
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More random home lab things I've recently learned
From my series of "Christian's Home Lab adventures", here's some more things I've recently learned / discovered and figured are worth sharing: NVMe SSDs on a Raspberry PI, ARM64 adventures, more zfs troubles, and some cool tools you should try.
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Uv overtakes pip in CI
An opportunity for more opinionated defaults
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An illustrated introduction to linear algebra
Chapter 1: Row vs column picture
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My first contribution to Linux
I upstreamed my first kernel patch, and it was easier than I thought it would be.
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Chess.com regional pricing: A case study
Explore Chess.com’s regional pricing, revealing the cheapest and most expensive countries, and tactics used to prevent price discovery.
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Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server
Since a years we know, or might suspect, our chats are listend on, our uploaded files are sold for advertising or what purpose ever and the chance our social messengers leak our private data is incredibly high. It is about time to work against this.
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State Terror, American Style
Forget about “soft autocracy”
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Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
For a while now I’ve been hearing from engineers who run multiple coding agents at once—firing up several Claude Code or Codex CLI instances at the same time, sometimes in …
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Ohno Type School: A (2020)
OH no Type Co. Retail and custom typefaces. Life’s a thrill, fonts are chill!
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Frederick J. Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"
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Testing two 18 TB white label SATA hard drives from datablocks.dev
It has been 0 days since the last change to my home server.
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A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad
A quick cli script to tell you if your usb-c cable is bad
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A History of Large Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) still feel a bit like magic to me. Of course, I understand the general machinery enough to know that they aren’t, but the gap between my outdated knowledge of the field and the state-of-the-art feels especially large right now. Things are moving fast. So six months ago, I decided to close…
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Under the hood: Vec<T>
Let's look at Vec<T> to get a better understanding of its inner structure.
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CPU cache-friendly data structures in Go
False sharing, AoS vs SoA, random access, branch prediction: re-measured with go test -bench on two machines. Some claims held, some didn't.
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1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
On October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive celebrated an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved and available for access via the Wayback Machine. Event Recaps & Recordings | Photos | Impact Stories | Support the Internet Archive | Press Kit Since 1996, the Internet Archive has worked with libraries and…
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Why we need SIMD
tl/dr: it can deliver big performance speedups at modest area cost
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Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
Investigating the seahorse emoji doom loop using logitlens.
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Should I choose Ada, SPARK, or Rust over C/C++? (2024)
At AdaCore, we’re in the business of supporting people who develop high-integrity software, in particular for embedded systems. In terms of programming…