271
The highest quality codebase
Blog post
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,109 posts.
272
Fun with uv and PEP 723
How to use uv and the Python inline script metadata proposal PEP 723 to run scripts seamlessly.
273
The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden
The demoscene has become a national UNESCO-heritage in Sweden, thanks to an application that Ziphoid and me did last year. This has already happened in several European countries, as part of the international Art of Coding initiative to make the demoscene a global UNESCO heritage. I think this makes
274
All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
Google pays for 80%+ of the development budget of all major web browsers, and soon, the US will force Google to stop supporting their…
275
Oracle attempt to hide cybersecurity incident from customers?
Being a provider of cloud SaaS (Software-as-a-service) solutions requires certain cybersecurity responsibilities — including being…
276
987654321 / 123456789
The ratio 987654321 / 123456789 is very nearly 8. What about the analogous ratio in other bases?
277
UK's hardware talent is being wasted
Imperial, Oxford, and Cambridge produce world-class engineers. Yet post-graduation, their trajectory is an economic tragedy - and a hidden arbitrage opportunity.
278
Two billion email addresses were exposed
I hate hyperbolic news headlines about data breaches, but for the "2 Billion Email Addresses" headline to be hyperbolic, it'd need to be exaggerated or overstated - and it isn't. It's rounded up from the more precise number of 1,957,476,021 unique email addresses, but other
279
Notes on Managing ADHD
Strategies and tactics for staying productive.
280
AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering
AGI is a harmful and wasteful fantasy that runs counter to the principles of efficient and effective engineering.
281
If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
Let’s get a few things out of the way before I go any further with this seemingly impertinent thought, because it’s nowhere near as snarky as it sounds.
282
Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs
We found vulnerabilities in the FIA's Driver Categorisation platform, allowing us to access PII and password hashes of any racing driver with a categorisation rating.
283
WordPress Is in Trouble
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that moved away from WP Engine. I think this…
284
My stages of learning to be a socially normal person
a slow progression
285
The best programmers I know
I have met a lot of developers in my life. Late…
286
Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites
Save and Share: Click. Ugh. Another one. You know the drill. You land on a new website, eager to read an article or check a product price, and before the page even finishes loading, it appears: the dreaded cookie banner. A pop-up, a slide-in, a full-screen overlay demanding you “Accept All,” “Manage Preferences,” or…
287
Greenland is a beautiful nightmare
Greenland is a complicated topic here in Denmark. The former colony that is still treated a bit like a colony is something that inspires a lot of emotions. Greenland has been subjected to a lot of unethical experiments by Denmark, from taking their kids to wild experiments in criminal justice.
288
Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
Andy rises from the ashes of his dead startup and discusses what happened in 2024 in the database game.
289
Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line
You can fault Tim Cook for a number of things. Number one on the list, of course, is that he is not Steve Jobs. The nerve of that man!
290
Accountability Sinks
Accountability engineering in institution design
291
A critical look at MCP
"MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs. Think of MCP like a USB-C port for AI applications. Just as USB-C provides a standardized way to connect your devices to various peripherals and accessories, MCP provides a standardized way to connect AI models to different data…
292
A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
The issues described in this article were resolved after this article was posted.
293
“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number
You can be, do, and have whatever you want, except for not spilling user information
294
An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system
Personal website for some random tidbits I work on
295
I tried making artificial sunlight at home
Some time ago, I saw this video by DIY Perks where they make artificial sunlight at home with a 500W LED and a gigantic (1.2m) parabolic reflector. I've been...
296
/dev/null is an ACID compliant database
/dev/null is web scale
297
Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii
If you are reading this message, the experiment below is still ongoing. This page was served to you by a real Nintendo Wii.
298
I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad
If a book has been in print for forty years, I can expect it to be in print for another forty years. But, and that is the main difference, if it survives …
299
Python’s new t-strings
Dave Peck's home on the web. Dave is an independent software developer, investor, and civic technologist.
300
XMLUI
In the mid-1990s you could create useful software without being an ace coder. You had Visual Basic, you had a rich ecosystem of components, you could wire them together to create apps, standing on …