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France's tax agency got hacked (in French)
Après l'ANTS, le piratage de la DGFiP marque un nouveau palier. Experts de l'État numérique, de la cybersécurité et du politique décryptent cet incident.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,713 posts.
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NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta
A signals-and-noise course left me writing Monte Carlo math on paper and wishing the notation itself would run. Nine years later, with an AI agent doing the heavy lifting, NoiseLang became a real Monte Carlo language that runs the same fused kernel on the GPU, on every CPU core, and on WebAssembly.
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On The Need For Understanding
blog dot information dash superhighway dot net2026118 points45 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
I saw this Mastodon post from Andy Wingo recently: in these days of coding agents and what-not, i often think of gerald sussman's comm...
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Using Thunderbird for RSS
It adds RSS to my primary communications application, which works great.
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Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2026118 points33 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In th…
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Cash issuing terminals
In the United States, we are losing our fondness for cash. As in many other countries, cards and other types of electronic payments now dominate everyday commerce. To some, this is a loss. Cash represented a certain freedom from intermediation, a comforting simplicity that you just don't get from Visa. It's funny to…
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80386 Memory Pipeline
The FPGA 386 core I've been building now boots DOS, runs applications like Norton Commander, and plays games like Doom. On DE10-Nano it currently runs at 75 MHz. With the core now far enough along to run real software, this seems like a good point to step back and look at one of the 80386's performance-critical…
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Making ASCII Art in Vim
I like using Vim to make ASCII art. I don't use any plugins; Vim already has a bunch of built-in features that are super useful for making ASCII art!
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Ju Ci: The Art of Repairing Porcelain
Ju ci (锔瓷), the Chinese craft of repairing broken porcelain has roots dating back to the Song dynasty (960-1279), with illustrations of craftsmen mending pots appearing in Chinese paintings as earl…
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A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap
I’m writing this so you don’t slap your forehead like I almost did when I decided to run swap in production to absorb memory spikes.
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LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
In 1623 the German Wilhelm Schickard produced the first known designs for a mechanical calculator. Twenty years later Blaise Pascal produced a machine of an improved design, aiming to help with the large amount of tedious arithmetic required in his role as a tax collector. The interest in mechanical calculation showed…
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All I wanted was a custom domain email
Student, entrepeneur, researcher
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I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer
I'd rather argue with strangers on the Internet.
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If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you
The 'AI replaces junior engineers' argument ignores basic economics. Junior employees aren't just cheap labor. They're salary insurance, pipeline protection, and the only hedge companies have against a senior workforce that increasingly doesn't need the job.
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OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family
An adventure in making a utility
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Package management is a wicked problem
Why fixing package managers is harder than it looks.
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When online commenters detect my art as AI
Here is a collection of screenshots (obfuscated) of dozens and dozens of online comments from many platforms (Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook) containing accusations or confusion that my artworks and comics are AI-generated. Despite creating every piece by hand, despite sharing timelapses, the comments keep…
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Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2
mattst88's blog - Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2
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Latent Space as a New Medium
Lately I’ve been asking myself: what might artificial intelligence be good for besides answering questions and writing code?
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Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch
In 1994 I got my first computer: an Intel i486 DX2-66 with 4 MB RAM and a 512MB harddisk. The software was IBMs OS/2 and Microsofts Windows 3.11. In the next four years I was upgrading this machine every few months with more RAM (up to 16MB), a CD-ROM-drive and a soundblaster card. So I learned upgrading this machine…
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Back to FreeBSD – Part 2 – Jails
Before we explore FreeBSD jails, it is worth refreshing our understanding of how Linux solved the same problem with LXC (Linux Containers).
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Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word
The Akihabara institution that every Japanese maker knows — run on cash, instinct, and one founder’s restless curiosity
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One night in Uzbekistan: Why was this one data point so influential?
We have a comment coming out in Nature next week that is going to cause the retraction of a high-profile paper by Kotz et al. from last year (the second most cited climate paper in the news in 2024).
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Why etymologies matter: How tracing words can illuminate history (2024)
How tracing words can illuminate history
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Vacuum-Form Signage
Branding Main Street America and a rabbit hole into the history behind the vacuum-formed signage found in our daily lives
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Category Theory Illustrated – Types
In this chapter we will talk about types. This might be disappointing for you, if you expected to learn about as many new categories as possible (which you don’t even suspect are really categories till the unexpected reveal)—we’ve been talking about the category of types in a given programming language ever since the…
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Cursed circuits #5: capacitance multiplier
Capacitor vendors don't want you to know this! Save money on capacitors by spending more on other components
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A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator
About a eight weeks ago I had virtually no interest in calculators. Blank, dull, tedious-looking objects that remind me of long, arduous rainy afternoons in 1980’s/1990’s school maths classes.
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SVG-Line: Better Status Bars for Emacs – Charlie Holland's Blog
Emacs provides four useful status bars (mode-line, header-line, tab-bar, and tab-line), but each imposes different, inconsistent limits on multi-line layout, al...
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Why current LLM costs are not sustainable
AI has a cost problem. The solution that will emerge will be simpler than we expect.