2011
Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy
Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy: A game save and RCE exploit for the Tony Hawk game series that can be used to hack Xbox, Playstation 2, Gamecube, and Xbox 360 consoles.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,273 posts.
2012
Puppeteer Support for Firefox
Puppeteer 23 now supports Firefox, simplifying browser automation and testing across both Chrome and Firefox.
2013
Python extensions should be lazy
Python's memory model is a performance bottleneck. Gauge is solving the monolith/microservices dilemma. We’re building tools to untangle codebases through incremental modularization. Our open-source toolkit supports defining and enforcing rules for interfaces and dependencies. By focusing on high cohesion and loose…
2014
Zen5's AVX512 Teardown and More
This article was supposed to be published all at once on July 30'th. But because of the staggered launch delay into August 8 and 15, some sections of this article were redacted until August 14th.
2015
What Manifest V3 means for Brave Shields and the use of extensions in the Brave browser
Brave is committed to maintaining Manifest V2 support, allowing users to keep their favorite extensions functioning beyond the industry-wide deprecation.
2016
Segment Anything Model and Friends
The Segment Anything Model (SAM) and its successors made a significant leap forward in computer vision, particularly in image and video segmentation. Along with SAM’s innovative approach to promptable segmentation, the literature rapidly evolved to address key challenges like computational efficiency and real-time…
2017
A/B testing mistakes I learned the hard way
Bad experiments are worse than none at all
2018
How Uber tests payments in production
Well-run payment systems are developed by engineers who understand what is the best use of their time: to catch unknown unknowns, and to do it fast.
2019
Linux for UX Designers: What I learn after a year of doing design work on Linux
My experience with moving from Mac to Linux for professional UX and UI design work and how to make the switch yourself.
2020
2021
MNT Pocket Reform first impressions and hardware
Initial experiences with the MNT Pocket Reform, primarily the hardware (and tinkering!)
2022
How French Drains Work
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In February of 2017, one of the largest spillways in the world, the one at Oroville Dam in northern California, was severely damaged during releases from heavy rain. You might remember this. I made a video about it, and then ano
2023
How to let go: Jake's life ends as his daughter's begins
“How to let go: one life ends while another begins. I’m seven months pregnant with our daughter as Jake’s life comes to a close. How do I walk into an uncertain future without him…
2024
YC is doing a first ever Fall batch – applications due by 8/27
In response to overwhelming demand, we are running a YC batch this fall. Applications are now open.
2025
Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright
Back in Dec 2022, when inflation was running high, I built a website for tracking price changes in the three largest supermarkets of my home country, Greece.
2026
Full text search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. alternatives
A comprehensive comparison between Elasticsearch and PostgreSQL for search workloads.
2027
Structured Outputs in the API
We are introducing Structured Outputs in the API—model outputs now reliably adhere to developer-supplied JSON Schemas.
2028
Proton announces release of a new VPN protocol, "Stealth"
Stealth is a new VPN protocol from Proton VPN that overcomes censorship in restrictive countries.
2029
Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap
Exploring different ways to make sense of OpenStreetMap data.
2030
Why Polars rewrote its Arrow string data type
We have completely rewritten the string/binary data structure we use in Polars.
2031
VisiCalc – The Early Days (2003)
Peter Jennings early history of VisiCalc
2032
Moments in Chromecast's history
Take a look back at Chromecast’s history over the past 11 years — and learn about the future of streaming TV with Google.
2033
Crafting formulas: Lambdas all the way down
We build complex mathematical formulas bottom-up using pure lambda calculus. Includes instructions of how to translate Taylor series and other approximations to lambda terms.
2034
2035
A Better Light Source for Scanning Color Negative Film
Narrowband trichromatic (RGB) light sources are superior to broadband (white) light for scanning color negative film; there are very good reasons why all commercial film scanners use RGB. ( film scanners were using blue LEDs at least a decade before they would be widely used in consumer products! ) Scanning film with…
2036
No Salt
This is by my brother, Sam. I arrived to Arizona late Saturday, after learning that my brother has only a few days left before cancer ends him. Jake’s wife, Bess, confessed that she had neither the…
2037
Building rqlite 9.0: Cutting disk usage by half
rqlite is a lightweight, open-source, distributed relational database written in Go. It is built on the Raft consensus protocol and uses SQLite as its storage engine. Development of 9.0 has begun and aims to reduce disk usage by approximately 50%. This goal will be achieved through a high-level design overhaul…
2038
Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
The context is smarter than you.
2039
Replacing Liquid Metal on an Asus Zephyrus G15's CPU
I’ve been using the Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 as my daily driver for a few years now. Laptops (gaming laptops especially) pack a lot of heat-generating components in a small and thin space, where the only airflow comes from the small blower fans in the system. In the case of the Zephyrus G15, there’s approximately 120…
2040
Debugging a rustc segfault on Illumos
Using `mdb` and `pmap` to find the cause of a crash.