Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,290 posts.
The American Medical Association is not a charitable organization. The American Medical Association is not an educational organization. The American Medical Association is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation, designed from the ground up to enrich its executives and serve its own bureaucratic interests…
How to save hours by trimming videos without reencoding or rerendering.
There’s an art and even a bit of magic around simple frontend code. Writing such code comes with a few preconditions: perhaps a firm understanding of core technologies, a lot of practice, public scrutiny, and then some. Thoughts.
Using Java or Python in a professional IDE like IntelliJ IDEA, NetBeans, PyCharm, or Eclipse is not a good first introduction to programming for computer science students, whether they’re in the field to become web developers, systems software engineers, or academic computer science researchers.
Microsoft FrontPage has its thorns, but don't discount the fact that those thorns are attached to a rose.
Can GPT-3 compute the ultimate question about life, the Universe and everything?
This a rant, written at midnight, after battling software errors. Set your profanity filters accordingly. I despair over the state of software engineering - specifically, stability. We seem to have lost the understanding that computers are there to do the hard work for us. And I don't think we ever believed in a…
Explaining the different mental model Deno has about managing dependant code.
To celebrate being alive for a billion seconds, Daniel Bruin built a machine with 100 gears with a 10-to-1 gear ratio…meaning that the overall gear ratio is a g
Tiark Rompf is an Associate Professor at Purdue University. Notes and blog posts on programming, research, CS, software systems.
Writing a solver for “Miracle Sudoku” puzzles in Prolog.
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A powerful approach to nonviolent communication at your company
Introspectable and extensible IDEs with logic programming
Note: This post originally appeared as an update in the crowdfunding campaign for Precursor.
I've been wanting to write a big project in Rust for a while as a learning exercise, and actually started one in late 2018 (a FUSE server implementation). But then life happened and I got busy and never went anywhere with it. Due to certain world circumstances I'm currently spending a lot of time indoors so rust-fuse…
‘Cutting-edge’ is the term usually associated with blockbuster product releases, yet the philosophy of product development central to the…
This is a special post because I fully based on another researcher, s1guza’s 0day. All of this story began from the following tweet: Siguza told us that his 0day was patched in the iOS 13.5 beta3. So this is actually a sandbox escape 0day for the newest, non-beta iOS version (13.4.1). In this post, I’ll…
Usually, x86 tutorials don’t spend much time explaining the historical perspective of design and naming decisions. When learning x86 assembly, you’re usually told something along the lines: Here’s EAX . It’s a register. Use it.
It is well known that Win9x variants prior to Windows 98 have a tendency to crash on fast CPUs. The definition of “fast” is of course fuzzy but the problems were known to occur on AMD K6-2 processors running at 350 MHz or faster as early as 1998. This led to some acrimony when Microsoft attempted to charge $35 for the…
The Graphics Interchange Format ( GIF ) is over 30 years old but is a pervasive part of internet culture. We use GIFs to serve short, silent, and looping videos, which frequently become memes . Entire services exist to create and share them, and many smartphone keyboards have built-in GIF support.
Most climate scientists believe that the melting of the ice sheets will be gradual and linear, but are they right?
_The company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” Things have changed._ 
