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Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking
A Tailwind CSS v4 plugin for CSS mask fades on scroll containers. Add one class and content edges dissolve into any surface.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,713 posts.
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One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux
A vulnerability in Broadcom’s proprietary WPS implementation enables unauthenticated attackers within WiFi range to leak memory and achieve unauthenticated remote code execution on millions of routers. This post covers its discovery through agentic vulnerability research, exploitation across eCos and Linux platforms…
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How to run a city builder on 16 MHz
Do you feel spoiled by modern hardware? I know I do. Even the cheapest CPUs have at least 4 cores nowadays, running billions of operations per second. The idea that you could run any software on le…
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How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?
One of the most fascinating sequences in Atari’s arcade manufacturing process in the early 80s, was the application of the fabulous artwork that adorned all of its cabinets from the golden ag…
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Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie (2011)
<img src="http://stevehanov.ca/blog/images/acer.jpg"/> If you have a web site with a search function, you will rapidly realize that most mortals are terrible typists. Many searches contain mispelled words, and users will expect these searches to magically work. This magic is often done using levenshtein distance. In…
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How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform
A guide to bringing up the Linux Kernel and a userspace application on a new hardware (or in this case, a self-made emulator)
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After AI takes everything
Prompted by letters from three engineers, the author asks what remains for humans as AI takes over execution, naming judgment, taste, and derivation as irreplaceable, and warns against the erosion of subjecthood.
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The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker
The implicit contract — work hard, stay employed, build a life — is broken.
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Layoff Thinking
Were you recently laid off? I have some, hopefully, helpful thoughts to survive the maelstrom of self-doubt and pain that's swirling around inside your head.
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Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver
I bought an NVIDIA DGX Spark! It's actually quite a competent general purpose computer while being super tiny and power efficient. It basically just has an ARM CPU, a decent NVIDIA GPU (with the same number of CUDA cores as the RTX 5070), 128 GB of unified memory, and a 4 TB SSD.
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Version control second coming
The very same week we signed our first ever angel investor for Plastic SCM, in early summer of 2005, Linus Torvalds announced Git. I had spent more than a year pitching investors to build a new version control, and suddenly the creator of Linux was building one himself. That week I understood the road ahead was going…
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The stagnancy of publishing and the disappearance of the midlist
How did we get here? And how do we get back?
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Stop using grey text (2025)
Dear web designers:
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Chess invariants
Chess is a lot trickier than it looks. It has so many rules: castling, en passant, pawn promotion, pinning, the discovered check, and the de...
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Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits
I've been moving my home storage over to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 as part of a larger ...
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LLMs may have helped my RSI
Just a place to store my random thoughts and contributions to the world.
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How much of HN is AI?
TL;DR: 62% as of September 2026. This is up from ~40% in February.
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The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car
Oof, what a beauty. In the 1960s, four Porsche 912s were customized for use as police cars in Japan. This one, which was used in Kanagawa until 1973, is the onl
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Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers
Synchronization barriers let you test for race conditions with confidence.
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Focus
The best time to stop a distraction is before it starts. The second best time is now.
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The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users
If you're not a screen reader user yourself, you might be surprised to learn that the text to speech technology used by most blind people hasn't changed in the last 30 years. While text to speech has taken the sighted world by storm, in everything from personal assistants to GPS to telephone systems, the voices used…
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More on Version Control
This may have some legs
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Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis
Get ready to scroll. In 2017, Wollaton Hall in Nottinghamshire hosted an exhibition, Dinosaurs Of China: Ground Shakers To Feathered Flyers. Wollaton Hall Curator Adam Smith arranged for the SVPCA …
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Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers
Two recently-hyped developments in AI engineering have been Geoff Huntley’s “Ralph Wiggum loop” and Steve Yegge’s “Gas Town”. Huntley and Yegge are both…
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Performance of WebAssembly Runtimes in 2026
I wanted to know if WebAssembly runtimes are getting faster.
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The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere
For the past couple of weeks, you could get my latest book — The Secret Life of Circuits — directly from the publisher.
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Cameras built to police Iranians became the regime's Achilles' heel
On the irony of cameras built to police Iranians becoming the regime’s Achilles’ heel
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Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory
A modular, compile-checked tutorial for learning category-theory ideas through a tiny Rust ML pipeline.