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Gartner's grift is about to unravel
swyx recognizes $IT as a visionary short in the DX Tips Magic Quadrant of Boomer Relics That No Longer Make Sense
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
Discover how native ACME protocol support simplifies SSL/TLS certificate management by enabling direct configuration within NGINX.
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An argument for increasing TCP's initial congestion window (2024)
Introduction Google has a long history of performing networking research, making changes, and pushing those changes to the entire internet. In 2011, they published one of my favorite papers, which described their decision to increase the TCP initial congestion window from 1 to 10 on their entire infrastructure. This…
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This website is for humans
I don't want Google's shitty AI-generated ramen
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New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients
LOS ANGELES — A new drug-releasing system, TAR-200, eliminated tumors in 82% of patients in a phase 2 clinical trial for individuals with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer whose cancer had previously resisted treatment. In the majority of cases, the cancer disappeared after only three months of treatment…
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Coalton Playground: Type-Safe Lisp in the Browser
I wanted to share a side project I’ve been tinkering with for a while and finally got around to shipping: Coalton Playground – basically a web-based REPL for Coalton, which is this inte…
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Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 2
Note for subscribers: if you are interested in my Ada programming articles only, you can use this RSS feed link. Link to Part 3 here . As ...
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Pebble Time 2* Design Reveal
It's real and it's magnificent
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I'm worried it might get bad
Starting to worry things might get very bad, very soon
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When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army
DEF CON has alienated many hackers by officially aligning its geopolitics with those of the U.S. military and announcing partnerships with the authoritarian countries of Bahrain and Singapore.
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So what's the difference between plotted and printed artwork?
A common source of confusion that I experience when posting my artwork on social media is: _why?_ Why use a plotter when you could use a printer? It's slower. Less exact. More expensive. It fails, far too often. Inkjet printers became ubiquitous in the 1980s because they solved nearly all of these problems. So why are…
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SuperSight: A graphical enhancement mod for Brøderbund's "Stunts"
Clickbait disclaimer: Stunts was actually created by Distinctive Software; Brøderbund was only the publisher. But nobody heard about Distinctive , and I wanted to be sure this article does not get confused with the one about Disney's Stunt Island . Sorry about that.
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Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks
Report incorrectly blocked sites on UK ISP and mobile networks.
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A gentle introduction to anchor positioning
Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is.
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Go 1.25 Release Notes
The latest Go release, version 1.25, arrives in August 2025 , six months after Go 1.24 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility. We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
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The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know
I want a new protocol, tentatively called “Let Me Know” (LMK). The purpose is to provide someone an anonymous way to get notified when a singular, specific event occurs. Here’s a basic use case: Some random blog author has published Parts 1 and 2 of a series. You enjoyed it, and you want to know…
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500 days of math
I recently crossed 500 days of practicing math daily with Math Academy. I wrote about my experience after 100 days here. TL;DR: I am still very impressed by the Math Academy system and highly…
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Let's get real about the one-person billion dollar company
The biggest hurdle is not AI capability, but founder pain tolerance.
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Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
Claude Sonnet 4 now supports up to 1 million tokens of context—a 5x increase that lets you process entire codebases, synthesize extensive document sets, and build agents that maintain coherence across hundreds of tool calls.
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Evaluating LLMs playing text adventures
When we first set up the llm such that it could play text adventures , we noted that none of the models we tried to use with it were any good at it. We dreamed of a way to compare them, but all I could think of was setting a goal far into the game and seeing how long it takes them to get there. I just realised there’s…
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Recto – A Truly 2D Language
Recto is a 2D programming language that uses nested rectangles as its core syntax, encoding structure and recursion directly in space instead of a linear stream of text. Recto explores new ways to write, parse, and reason about code—and even natural language—spatially.
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Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot
Google is killing a decade of its shortened links. Will you enlist in the fight against link rot?
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ARM adds neural accelerators to GPUs
Explore Arm Neural Technology, the first to integrate neural accelerators into GPUs, enhancing mobile graphics with AI.
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What's the strongest AI model you can train on a laptop in five minutes?
What’s the strongest model I can train on my MacBook Pro in five minutes? I’ll give the answer upfront: the best 5-minute model I could train was a ~1.8M-param…
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Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux
On Linux, Control-C and Control-V don't work for copying and pasting in terminals. The Control modifier is used for its original purpose of inserting control codes. Instead, terminal apps require an extra Shift modifier, like Control+Shift+C. But what if there were hidden shortcut combos for
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Radicle 1.3.0
Sovereign code infrastructure.
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Qodo CLI agent scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified
Read about Qodo scores 71.2% on SWE-bench Verified in our blog.
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Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity
A subtle G++ bug from 2012, C++20’s new comparison rules, and legacy Boost code can collide to crash Solidity’s compiler on valid code. We unpack the surprising chain reaction and how to fix it.
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Weathering Software Winter (2022)
This is a blog post based on a transcript of a talk by Devine on November 26th 2022. Watch the video version on (YouTube). The slideshow presentation was made using Adelie .