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What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
I liked the UIs of the entire era from 3.0 to 2000, really. I'm mostly using Windows 2000 as an example here because it runs so well in QEMU/KVM and that allows me to easily take screenshots.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,798 posts.
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Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
Discover ENAS, the license-free enterprise storage platform featuring native ZFS, secure UniFi management, scalable petabyte-class capacity, multi-site backups, and shared iSCSI storage for modern business infrastructure.
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Usbliter8: an A12/A13 SecureROM Exploit
This page is taking an unexpected detour...
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W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.
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I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware
This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to find
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We built a persistent agent memory layer on Elasticsearch with 0.89 recall
Persistent agent memory on Elasticsearch: three-index architecture, hybrid retrieval, supersession and DLS isolation. R@10 0.89, zero cross-tenant leaks.
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Excessive nil pointer checks in Go
Let’s talk about nil pointer checks in Go. You want to prevent panics in production, but that doesn’t start with a deferred recover. It starts with defensive programming. Check your inputs, check your bounds, and check pointers for nil before dereferencing them. I’ve started to see more nil checks in Go code. In the…
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Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost
Universities and hospitals are repurposing existing drugs through late-stage trials with funded costs up to 90% lower than those taking place in the pharmaceutical industry.
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.gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git
You can ignore files in .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore
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Can you see three trees?
There's a simple three-part test for whether your city has enough nature. Most fall short.
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A Perceptron in Age of Empires II
An operational NAND gate in Age of Empires II , built with the game's scenario editor. This one can also be built within the game in a two-player setup but it's a lot easier (so to speak) to just script it.
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I hate compilers
You'd think that given the same bytes of input you'd get the same bytes of output. lol. lmao. No, you don't. It's complicated.
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Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
We've all heard people say that Qwen is near-Opus level, but I have receipts and am here to be transparent with you.
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Midjourney Medical
A New Era of Midjourney, announcing Midjourney Medical: full-body Ultrasonic CT and the Midjourney Spa.
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ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content
Mindgard reveals how ChatGPT's image generation safety filters can be bypassed with minor prompt adjustments, producing graphic violent and sexual content without users directly asking for it. Here's what was found, and why it matters.
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A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?
A 30-game battle royale across eleven LLMs, $482 of inference, and one finding that should change how you read model benchmarks.
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Zigzag Decoding with AVX-512
I’ve been working on speeding up AVX-512 vertex decoding in meshoptimizer recently; in the process I stumbled upon two optimizations that I did not end up using but I thought they might be fun to write about! The optimizations that actually made it in require some higher level background / explanations that will have…
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The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate
In a world racing to automate every interaction, the organisations that invest in genuine human connection are quietly building something no algorithm can copy.
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AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.
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How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart
When Japan broke up its national railway in 1987, the new companies agreed on one thing to keep the same.
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Want your images back? That'll be $5
We're in the era of trillion-dollar companies, but that doesn't mean you should leave $5 on the table!
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Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
Why does a five-minute hallway conversation sometimes solve what a week of solo thinking couldn't?
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Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
Original research from 2,000 decision-makers and consumers on AI brand visibility, content trust, and what brands need to do as the web feels less human. 74% say the internet feels less human than it did 10 years ago.
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The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory
UC Irvine neuroscientist Oswald Steward received the 2026 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for discoveries that helped explain how the brain forms and stores memories.
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GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis
Benchmarks and Analysis of GLM-5.2
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