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Galileo Project now fully funded for expedition to study an interstellar meteor
Wonderful news! We just received full funding for the Galileo Project expedition to scoop the fragments of the first interstellar meteor…
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TinyBase v2.0: reactive data store for local-first apps
This is a reverse chronological list of the major TinyBase releases, with highlighted features.
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NaN Boxing (2020)
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Using WebTransport
The WebTransport API offers low-latency, bidirectional, client-server messaging. Learn about its use cases, and how to give feedback about the future of the implementation.
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Retrospection and Learnings from Dgraph Labs
It's been almost nine months since I left Dgraph Labs, a company that I spent 6 years of my life building -- after a layoff followed by a failed Series B round (unsurprisingly, and in that order).
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35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx
Have you ever wondered about the performance delta between Caddy and Nginx? Wonder no more.
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The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020)
How we interact with programming environment matters more than the language, but such interaction has never been widely studied. Inspired by the idea of 'complementary science', this essay recovers interesting ideas from how programming used to be done using Commodore 64 BASIC. Reading about interactions is not enough…
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Metaprogramming in Python
How you can use metaprogramming in Python and how it can simplify certain tasks.
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Malvertising on Microsoft Edge's news feed pushes tech support scams
While Google Chrome still dominates as the top browser, Microsoft Edge, which is based on the Chromium source code, is gradually gaining more...
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Please don't be spooky
A piece of advice I wish I could give my manager is don't be spooky. My manager regularly messages me things like Hey, can you talk? or Got a minute now? ...
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Confirmed the MOS 7600/7601 Pong chip is a true microcontroller
In a previous article I discussed the MOS 7600 and 7601 "Pong in a chip" ICs, manufactured by MOS Technology (of the famous 6502) and act...
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I had a dream
As I slept fitfully, still recovering from COVID, I had one of the more interesting dreams of my life: I was desperately trying to finish some PowerPoint slides in time to give a talk. Uncharacteri…
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Macwright.com redirects HN readers away
Farewell to orange
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Did GoogleAI just snooker one of Silicon Valley’s sharpest minds?
Clever Hans and how corporate AI plays the media, in 2022
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Godot 4 Beta 1
It has been a long road to Godot 4.0 with 17 alpha builds distributed in 2022, and continuous development effort since 2019. We aren’t done yet, but today marks a major milestone on the road to Godot 4.0: the first beta is out!
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Cloud Spanner now with a free trial
Create a 90-day Spanner free trial instance with 10GB storage at no cost. Try Spanner free.
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Hacking the PS4 / PS5 Through the PS2 Emulator
In this article I will discuss how I successfully escaped the PS2 emulator developed for the PlayStation 4. See also Part 2 , covering the next part of the exploit chain, and PlayStation's response to the research.
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BliKVM PCIe puts a computer in your computer
This is the BliKVM PCIe, a full computer on a PCI Express card. This is an IP KVM (Internet Protocol Keyboard-Video-Mouse) that can be put inside another computer or server. Most server motherboards already have remote 'lights-out' management functionality built in. Most frequently this is referred to as IPMI…
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The number input is the worst input
Think that web form has got your number? If you used input type="number", you may be surprised to find that it doesn't.
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What it takes to make a game by yourself
Macrocosm is a mobile game that takes you from atom to galactic empire across seven interconnected stages where making progress in one stage gives you a boost in the next! This post is a deep dive into the (nearly) four years of free time I spent making it.
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“I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquired by Avast
I don't care about cookies has been acquired by Avast and remains free to use.
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Have I reached the Douglas Adams Inflection point?
The all-knowing sage Douglas Adams had this to say about technology: Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can…
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TIL–Python has a built-in persistent key-value store (2018)
Simplex Sigillum Veri