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Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go
Translating Rob Pike's simple and elegant C regex matcher to Go.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,210 posts.
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Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop
We’re launching a crowdfunding campaign around our Novena open hardware computing platform. Originally, this started as a hobby project to build a computer just for me and xobs – something that we would use every day, easy to extend and to mod, our very own Swiss Army knife. I’ve posted here a couple of times about…
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How I Stole a User's Siacoin
A lesson in Sia wallet seed safety
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Pwning the Nix ecosystem
ptrpaws's blog on reverse engineering, programming, vr finds and miscellaneous stuff.
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2D Liquid Simulator with Cellular Automaton (2017)
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A Simple ELF
The Ivory Tower is a blog about software engineering and development philosophy by Anders Sundman.
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Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming?
Last week, MIT CSAIL published Sparks of Weight-Space Programming. Given the raw weights of a small network, GPT-6 Astra could tell which game it had been …
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A Lean companion to Analysis I
Almost 20 years ago, I wrote a textbook in real analysis called “Analysis I”. It was intended to complement the many good available analysis textbooks out there by focusing more on foun…
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ECDSA smartphone key extraction using $2 magnetic probe
We show that modern cryptographic software on mobile phones, implementing the ECDSA digital signature algorithm, may inadvertently expose its secret keys through physical side channels: electromagnetic radiation and power consumption which fluctuate in a way that depends on secret information during the cryptographic…
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Interactive Go programming with Jupyter
Introduction of a new feature-rich golang Jupyter kernel
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Patrick Winston Explains Deep Learning
Patrick Winston is one of the greatest teachers at M.I.T., and for 27 years was Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (which later became part of CSAIL ).
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The origin of the cargo cult metaphor
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a...
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Intel CEO Letter to Employees
Lip-Bu Tan announces 15% workforce reduction
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That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think
Some years ago I decided to install a server at home for use as a NAS (network-attached storage) in my home network, and for an Internet-facing server. I live in a place where blackouts are very in…
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DevOps is a failure
It’s probably difficult for most people to recall the first time they heard a word, but I remember hearing the word “DevOps” for the first time. I was having a
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The silent majority in software
I was re-reading Nixon’s 1969 “silent majority” speech last week (Smithsonian ran a good breakdown in 2017), mostly because YouTube’s algorithm
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Avoiding Complexity with Systemd
Using systemd to avoid having to write some risky code
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The Strongest El Niño Ever
With all the July runs in, dynamical models give a ~90% chance of a record-setting event
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Why Go is doomed to succeed
Golang was explicitly engineered to streamline projects built by large groups of programmers with different skill levels, and there is no larger such group than the open source community.
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A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique)
A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique), AI-powered improvements, and recent statistics
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You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (2014)
The way I thought you used a dictionary was that you looked up words you've never heard of, or whose sense you're unsure of. You would never look up an ordinary word -- like example , or sport , or magic -- because all you'll learn is what it means, and that you already know.
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Modern PHP
While I wasn’t paying attention, PHP got quite good
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