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Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44%
Edited to add: I wrote a followup post to address comments here and elsewhere that advertising is working as intended. This paper has been ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,191 posts.
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My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle
8. The Homelessness Experiment - Corentin Trebaol
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A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users.
In essence, a phishing attack is a kind of hack used by cybercriminals to trick victims into performing a certain activity. These emails are frequently sent
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Mendon, Missouri
Mendon, Missouri. Population 171. There’s really nothing here. The tiny town is located off Route 11, just south of Yellow Creek. You’re three hours west of Saint Louis, two hours […]
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Google is Forcing Routebuilder to Shut Down
TLDR: Google suddenly claims a “terms of service” violation on a route plotting site that has been built on the Maps API for a decade.
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Dark mode in a website with CSS
This page has a dark mode. Try it! Supporting prefers-color-scheme was easy, though there were a couple surprising details to address.
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Anatomy of a Moral Panic
On September 18, the British Channel 4 ran a news segment with the headline, 'Potentially deadly bomb ingredients are ‘frequently bought together’ on Amazon.'
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DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade
DuckDB’s spatial extension cut geo setup to two lines of SQL, and interest in geospatial data turned upward the moment it shipped.
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
Hi! I'm Natalya! I'm a classically trained fine artist who spent 6 years teaching people how to paint, draw, and grow their creativity. I am now a front end developer, and I love writing code as much as I love painting. I have a degree in Studio Art, a bachelor's in Developmental Psychology, and a master's degree in…
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Pinboard Turns Five
Today marks five years since I launched the website that my mom still refers to as ' the other bedbugs '. Happy business birthday to me!
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How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s
I didn’t know what to expect from this 1937 video explanation of how wire photos were transmitted to newspapers, but a double stunt sequence featuring an airpla
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CheatGPT
This week I stepped out of one world and landed in another. It started while I was marking assignments in a few of my programming courses.The quality of the code I was reading was amazing! My students were doing the sorts of things that my open source peers do:
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Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
I’ve been in London for the last month and have heard policymakers react to the wake up call Elon Musk just delivered. The decision of the U.S. to shut off intelligence and throttle the military v…
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The Eternal Sloptember
I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of…
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Objects should shut up
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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I hate GitHub Actions with passion
I can’t overstate how much I hate GitHub Actions. I don’t even remember hating any other piece of technology I used. Sure, I still make fun of PHP that I remember from times of PHP41, but even then I didn’t hate it. Merely I found it subpar technology to other emerging at the time (like Ruby on Rails or Django). And…
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There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets
LLMs were invented in four major developments... all of which were datasets
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Docker not ready for primetime
I love Docker . It's so freakin' useful for distributing predictable runtime environments.
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Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear
Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear. Here's why that's dangerous.
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Google collects metadata from Android phones
[German]It seems that Google has established a surveillance function for Android phones. They are claiming the right, to collect and store meta data from incoming/outgoing phone calls and SMS from…
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A fork on GitHub is no fork
Github may block access to your repos and there is nothing you can do about it A few years ago I made a project with a friend and we collaborated on Github in h
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ESP32 Buyer’s Guide: Different Chips, Firmware, Sensors
The ESP 32 was the most fun side project for me in 2022. For those who don’t know: the ESP32 is a small, cheap and wifi-enabled microchip. Many smart devices that you buy on Amazon have an ESP32 inside. It’s really amazing what you can do with a board that costs less than a good sandwich.
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Getting good results from Claude Code
An updated version of my user-level CLAUDE.md is featured in this post from December 2, 2025. I've been experimenting with LLM programming agents over the past few months. Claude Code has become my favorite. It is not without issues, but it's allowed me to write ~12 programs/projects in
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Auditing GitHub users’ SSH key quality
If you have just/as of late gotten an email about your keys being revoked, this is because of me, and if you have, you should really go through and make sure that no one has done anything terrible to you, since you have opened yourself to people doing very mean things to you for what is most likely a very long time.