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Black Hat SEO Case Study: How Mahalo Makes Black Look White
Originally when launching Mahalo, Jason Calacanis claimed that it would be spam free and that SEOs would have hell to pay.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,211 posts.
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Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm
Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm - Personal blog about game development, programming and making
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Finding Free Food with Python
If you live in a major city, there’s a good chance you’ve used (or at least heard of) food delivery services like Postmates, GrubHub, or DoorDash. These services are great for times when I’m behind on groceries or when I’m getting some late night studying in before a big midterm or final. The only problem with these…
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Systems that defy detailed understanding
Last week, I wrote about the mindset that computer systems can be understood, and behaviors can be explained, if we’re willing to dig deep enough into the stack of abstractions our software is built atop. Some of the ensuing discussion on Twitter and elsewhere lead me to write this followup, in which I want to run…
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Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary (2020)
Personal webpage of Fabian Mentzer.
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80386 microcode disassembled
After I posted 8086 microcode disassembled , Ken Shirriff sent me a high-resolution image of the microcode ROM from the 80386. I didn’t expect I would ever do anything with it for a couple of reasons: one is that it’s absolutely huge (94720 bits) compared to the 8086 one (10752 bits) so (even with bitract or similar)…
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A pentester gets root - step by step example
DevOops is a retired machine on HackTheBox. This write-up is a walk through the methodology that leads to root shell.
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New Site Recovers Files Locked by Cryptolocker Ransomware
Until today, Microsoft Windows users who’ve been unfortunate enough to have the personal files on their computer encrypted and held for ransom by a nasty strain of malware called CryptoLocker have been faced with a tough choice: Pay cybercrooks a ransom of a few hundred to several thousand dollars to unlock the files…
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Writing better by answering why, what, how
Three documents I write (one-pager, design doc, after-action review) and how I structure them.
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Building a Distributed Log from Scratch, Part 1: Storage Mechanics
The log is a totally-ordered, append-only data structure. It’s a powerful yet simple abstraction—a sequence of immutable events. It’s something that programmers have been using for a very long time, perhaps without even realizing it because it’s so simple. Whether it’s application logs, system logs, or access logs…
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The case against JPEG XL
Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec.
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Java 26 is here
Java 26 is here, and its main purpose seems to be to provide a solid foundation for future things to come. It comes with a few new features, some performance improvements and multiple enhancements that mention Project Valhalla as the inspiration for their existence. This post has all the info!
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Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets
A while back I wrote that Robert Martin was ruining software by being too good at programming. That was supposed to be a joke. Since then he’s done his damndest to actually ruin software by telling people they’re doing it wrong. His most recent response where he yells at software correctness was the breaking point for…
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Discworld Rules
And LOTR is brain-rot for technologists
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Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?
NBC drops the ball on distribution
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Oh shit, my app is successful and I didn't think about accessibility
Speedrunning A11y in SwiftUI
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I use cheap notebooks
I've had my fair share of nice notebooks over the years, from Moleskines to Leuchtturms. And I love them: I love their smooth leather covers, thick sheets, a...
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Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works
Apple Pay is great, but I think there is some misunderstanding out there about the details of how it works.
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Non-Fungible Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift, like Dave Chappelle, is leveraging the power of the Internet to take control of their art.
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Goodreads has no incentive to be good
Goodreads is full of trolls, spam, and harassment campaigns. They probably like it that way.
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The ‘Zelle fraud’ scam: how it works, how to fight back
One of the more common ways cybercriminals cash out access to bank accounts involves draining the victim’s funds via Zelle , a “peer-to-peer” (P2P) payment service used by many financial institutions that allows customers to quickly send cash to friends and family. Naturally, a great deal of phishing schemes that…
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How to zero a buffer
Now, we don't want to truly change the observable behaviour of our software — but fortunately the C standard has a more liberal concept of "observable" than most people. In particular, the C standard states that the observable behaviour includes accesses to volatile objects . What is a volatile object, you ask? It is…
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Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose
Sure, docker-compose is great, but could we get similar functionality using just the tools that are built into CoreOS? Can we get automatic updates, too? Yes we can! 📦
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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How to do distributed locking
As part of the research for my book , I came across an algorithm called Redlock on the Redis website. The algorithm claims to implement fault-tolerant distributed locks (or rather, leases [1]) on top of Redis, and the page asks for feedback from people who are into distributed systems. The algorithm instinctively set…
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Don't trust large context windows
I recently watched a video that put a name on something I'd been feeling. The author splits an LLM's context window into two zones. There's the smart zone , where the model is sharp, and the dumb zone , where attention drops off and the model starts forgetting what you told it five minutes ago. The cutoff sits…
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Async Rust doesn't have to be hard
An article titled Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming came out today and it's getting a lot of attention. I have a feeling that it's viewed in a wrong context, so I'd like to comment on the issue raised there.