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An oral history of Bank Python
The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,177 posts.
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GDPR: Don't Panic
In another week the GDPR , or the General Data Protection Regulation will become enforceable and it appears that unlike any other law to date this particular one has the interesting side effect of causing mass hysteria in the otherwise rational tech sector.
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Give Me Back My Monolith
It feels like we’re starting to pass the peak of the hype cycle of microservices. It’s no longer multiple times a week we now see a blog post of “How I migrated my monolith to 150 services”. Now I often hear a bit more of the counter: “I don’t hate my monolith, I just care that things stay performant”. We’ve actually…
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MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
Reverse engineering reveals how Paint and Photos embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images.
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The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
“Under His Eye,” she says. The right farewell. “Under His Eye,” I reply, and she gives a little nod.
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The pro-Israel information war
Israeli gov-led Zoom calls, WhatsApp chat logs, and other docs provide a window into the massive effort to shape online discourse and silence pro-Palestinian voices.
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Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
How to be a pro programmer
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DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS
A couple of months ago I did a performance comparison between some of the top free DNS Resolvers available. It was just after Quad9 had…
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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
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Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
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Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
That’s right — this little device is what stood between me and the ability to run an even older piece of software that I recently unearthed during an expedition of software archaeology.
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Quake on an oscilloscope
A summary of some problems I faced when tinkering with Quake to get it play nicely on an oscilloscope.
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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools
You don’t want to have a conversation with your computer, you want to build.
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Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
Back when there were rumors of Google building an operating system, I thought “Lol.” Then I watched then-PM Sundar Pichai announce Chrome OS. My heart raced. It was perfect. I got my email through Gmail, I wrote documents on Docs, I listened to Pandora, I viewed photos on TheFacebook.
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Why I'm a Pirate
Why I’m a Pirate! par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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The 49MB web page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
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The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
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Overkill objects for everyday life
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I've got
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Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
Over 11 hours of coding videos on evaluation, inference-time scaling, reinforcement learning, and distillation, with Python and PyTorch.
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Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now
Over the past decade, the timing of PostgreSQL major releases has become very predictable: no earlier than the middle of September, and no l...
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I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
I was one of the very first advocates for AWS back when it was brand new - SQS, S3, EC2 SimpleDB - it was a lot smaller back then. In fact I...
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Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
Oh boy yet more linux kernel vulns
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I don't like passkeys
Why passkeys are a step back for personal security: examining account lockout risks, platform lock-in, hardware key limits, and fragile recovery flows.