Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,713 posts.
Secure Boot protects a system from an attacker that compromises the boot flow. For example, without Secure Boot it is easy to replace the code that reads your disk encryption password and store it somewhere where the attacker can pick it up later. So ideally you want Secure Boot to be enabled to limit the code that…
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government’s model employee.
How I developed a Klondike Solitaire game for curses in C language as an entry for the IOCCC.
This summer, I learned that one can eat a whole apple. Every part of the apple is edible 1 . Before learning this, I would just eat the flesh and throw away the core. The core seemed hard and jagged and inedible. Turns out, you can eat the whole thing. I suppose I’ve always known that deer eat the whole apple. Why…
Junior programmers are getting destroyed by AI — down 19%, while devs over 40 thrive. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without the job title. The credential market collapsed; the activity exploded. The problem: nobody's building the next generation of senior engineers.
TLDR; get a list of 21,864 domains from the former Yugoslavia’s “.yu” top level domain: download the .CSV
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Including a little dive into the physics behind it
Storage devices such as hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), and NVMe drives are reaching increasingly ridiculous prices an...
Video games are art, but a strange art: their essence is transformation of the player, not description to the player. This makes meaningful criticism nearly impossible—you can point at the moon, but it’s not the moon, and once someone sees it, they no longer need the pointing.
Series: I read it so you don't have to
A startup CTO's guide to what "the best" really means—how to spot non-obvious high performers and the traits that make early-stage teams win.
Why 'indirection has a cost' is usually the wrong reason to inline and what actually costs you.
In which I revisit one of my favorite bugs, the invalid surrogate pair.
Goodbye, old friend. We’ve been traveling together since 2010, and you’ve faithfully served all my virtual machine needs well, first with VirtualBox and then later with libvirt and KVM . But, as they 1 say, all good things must pass.
(If you fancy a puzzle, go look at The Clock first, try to figure out how it works, then come back here for the explanation.) Inspired b...
When a political movement believes that ignorance is strength
A closer look at Mozilla's Firefox 150 "271 vulnerabilities" fixes and what they do, and do not, tell us about the alarming claims we can read online and AI-assisted vulnerability research.
A closer look at the tesseract and the ways we can render it on the screen.
Actually building floating point from scratch!
Life support is the hardest technical obstacle to the human exploration of Mars.
For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed to anonymize and secure online communications. I2P users started reporting disruptions in the network around the same…
A while ago I wrote a small file watcher in Go for my own use with an accompanying blog post . I needed a tool that I could just plop in front of the command I was running as part of my iteration loop. I use it for recompiling C files when I modify them,
Drawing procedural art with Inkscape and an Ender 3 printer
I have a weird soft spot for roundabouts. Maybe because I'm a software engineer and the roundabout strikes me as the simple, elegant solution while the traffic light intersection is the ad-hoc, over-engineered mess.
What the **** does that mean?
Published: 10-04-2026 19:37 | Author: Remy van Elst | Text only version of this article
Extracting my gym’s QR check-in from its Flutter app, with a rooted phone and a lot of ripgrep.
One way of studying literature is through direct experience.
The brain sandwich is a practical AI coding workflow: understand the problem, let an agent help, then verify and explain its work before sharing it.
