1951
Tell the EU: Don't Break Encryption with "Chat Control"
The EU’s Chat Control law would scan private messages and weaken encryption. Sign Mozilla Foundation’s petition to defend privacy and protect our digital future.
New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
1952
Hacking with AI SASTs: An overview of ‘AI Security Engineers’ / ‘LLM Security Scanners’ for Penetration Testers and Security Teams
Reviewing AI Security Engineers: How ZeroPath found 200+ bugs in curl and why AI SASTs are becoming a viable replacement for traditional tools.
1953
The Ruby community has a DHH problem
The Ruby community can no longer afford to stand silent in the face of DHH and his toxic ideas.
1954
Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News
HN should be treated as an external comment section for the internet to the extent that it can’t substitute for the internet, much less for your own thinking. At its best, HN is a map to new questions and a window onto new angles. The landscape itself remains elsewhere.
1955
Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used
A developer's lament about Xcode's opaque errors, unreadable project files, and Apple's culture of pretending everything is fine.
1956
Download responsibly
This month we’ve ramped up the infrastructure behind the download server, and downloads should now be available earlier and faster. There’s also a small technical change in that requests for a “…latest” file will now be answered with a HTTP redirect to the specific latest version (see previous blog post).
1957
DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms (2024)
Whither Major Depression?
1958
1959
Be careful with Go struct embedding
The gophers nested too greedily and too deep.
1960
How can I influence others without manipulating them?
Learn practical ways to influence others ethically using five respectful approaches that build trust, commitment and genuine buy-in.
1961
A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy
What a week it's been as a Ruby Central Board Member.
1962
DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list
Why does Space Station 14 crash with ANGLE on ARM64? 6 hours later…
1963
UUIDv7 Comes to PostgreSQL 18
PostgreSQL 18 adds native support for UUIDv7. A timestamp-based UUID variant that plays nicely with btree indexes. Here's what that means for you.
1964
I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode
This is what happens when you ban yourself from coding
1965
Disk Utility still can't check and repair APFS volumes and containers (2021)
Don’t waste time trying to discover which files are still open when you want to check or repair an APFS disk and Disk Utility throws an error. Here’s the solution.
1966
What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?
From magical to frustrating in months. Why AI coding agents feel like dial-up internet and what ultra-fast inference could unlock for developer productivity.
1967
Universities should be more than toll gates
Personal writing by Walid Dib, and a collection of games, apps, and companies I’ve built.
1968
Vibe coding cleanup as a service
The rise of AI-powered coding has created an unexpected market: cleaning up the technical debt from prompt-generated software. Here's why 'Vibe Coding cleanup' is becoming a legitimate service category and what it means for the future of software development.
1969
Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD
Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD.
1970
1971
The bloat of edge-case first libraries
How building edge-case first led to bloated, overly-granular libraries and what we can do about it
1972
AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
AI was supposed to empower junior developers. In reality, it has become a tool that makes seniors more valuable while exposing the gaps in software culture.
1973
macOS becomes iOS: Safari video controls
At WWDC 2018, Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi asked, “Are you merging iOS and macOS?” This rhetorical question was presumably in response to widespread criticism. Federighi's rhetorical answer was, “No. Of course not.”
1974
Philips announces digital pathology scanner with native DICOM JPEG XL output
Philips announces digital pathology scanner with native, configurable DICOM JPEG and JPEG XL output in world first
1975
Designing NotebookLM
Designer, builder, and visual storyteller. Now building Huxe. Previously led design on NotebookLM and contributed to Google AI projects like Gemini and Search. Also shoot photo/video for brands like Coachella, GoPro, and Rivian.
1976
Systemd can be a cause of restrictions on daemons
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…
1977
Is Zig's new writer unsafe?
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
1978
Images over DNS
Some places say 255 bytes. They are wrong . Within a TXT record there are multiple character-strings (RFC 1035 section 3.3.14 ) and those are limited in length (because a single byte is used for their length), however there can be many of them.
1979
A vibrator helped me debug a motorcycle brake light system
A tale of debugging hardware with unconventional methods. How I perfected the firmware of BrakeBright (a motorcycle safety device) using a vibrator.
1980
FLX1s phone is launched
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