Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,203 posts.
For months, supporters of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, assured the government that Meta and Google were bluffing when they warned that a bill based on mandated payments for links was unworkable and they would comply with it by removing links to news from their platforms. However, what has been readily apparent for…
From a person who really shouldn't be giving others advice.
Two decades ago I had a better Mac desktop experience than I have today. I only had a single low res (by todays standards) screen, yet I felt like Hugh Jackman in Swordfish - deftly navigating more than nine displays without thinking, muscle and spatial memory working seamlessly together. TLDR; I built an app to…
I spent the morning reading material Safety Data Sheets, because someone on the internet was wrong!
A conversation with a Wizard
I am fortunate to be one of those people who started tinkering with code in their teens, and then found themselves in the position where their hobby could not only pay rent, but afford a comfortable standard of living, even in New York City.
Do you have a phone, tablet, or laptop (or, well, any device…) which will only take a physical SIM, but with which you’d like to use eSIMs?
It’s well established that estimating software projects is hard. This is true, but you should learn how anyway.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said today it will be transitioning away from requiring biometric data from taxpayers who wish to access their records at the agency’s website. The reversal comes as privacy experts and lawmakers have been pushing the IRS and other federal agencies to find less intrusive methods for…
Feeling like a kid in a candy store, once more
Alone on a Friday night, in need of some inspiration, you decide to relive some of your past programming conquests. The old archive hard drive slowly spins up, and the source code of the glory days scrolls by... Oh no. This is not at all what you expected. Were things really this bad? Why did no one tell you? Why were…
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
OR: the long overdue forest fire
Have you ever wondered about the performance delta between Caddy and Nginx? Wonder no more.
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Thinking through how the conventional OSS security embargoes no longer buy us time, and what open source maintainers might do instead to respond
A detailed analysis
JPEG is a clever image compression algorithm that exploits a human perceptual bias and the structure of natural images. It makes a change of basis before encoding so that the rewritten image representation concentrates the signal that humans are most perceptive to, and thus, the remaining details can be discarded…
A few months ago I asked myself "What if I could write a game in Rust, but use Unreal as a renderer?". After a bit of thinking I came to the conclusion that exposing the Unreal renderer to Rust via C ffi was way more work than I was willing to do. But what if I could just build on top of Unreal instead? I could just…
In this post, we explore how a simple website summary request hijacks Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode and achieves code execution with 60-80% attack success …
(Non-clickbait title: building a 4-bit adder in Cities:Skylines.)
Today at the Chaos Computer Congress ( 30C3 ), xobs and I disclosed a finding that some SD cards contain vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution — on the memory card itself. On the dark side, code execution on the memory card enables a class of MITM (man-in-the-middle) attacks, where the card seems to be…
So HackerNews is currently down. It happens, we’ll probably find out why when it returns. For a while yesterday, all HN URLs were returning error messages from CloudFlare, apparently their CD…
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What is machine learning? See how it works with our animated data visualization.
How Varkos was built: a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with you, follows complex instructions and evolves through shared experiences.
The images described here are generated by analysing the following series for each point (c x ,c y ) on the plane.
