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The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic
Anthropic faces a Friday deadline to allow domestic surveillance and automated killer robots.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,704 posts.
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Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
This is a catalog of things UNIX-like/POSIX-compliant operating systems can do atomically, making them useful as building blocks for thread-safe and multi-process-safe programs without mutexes or read/write locks. The list is by no means exhaustive and I expect it to be updated frequently for the foreseeable future.
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Giving university exams in the age of chatbots
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript
Building a SPA (Single-page Application) is a complex puzzle: a JavaScript framework that draws the view, an API serving JSON, and 2 independent…
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Notes on Apple's Nano Texture (2025)
2024 Nano Texture Macbook Pro on the left; 2021 Glossy Macbook Pro on the right TLDR: the Nano Texture performs wonderfully anywhere where light used to be a factor and used to force me to shade my screen or avoid the place entirely. I’m less concerned with where I sit indoors. Coffee shops / offices with skylights or…
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Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?
I gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol the same unpublished NP-hard optimization problem, with and without their native /goal mode. Fable 5 is a beast; /goal is not a game changer.
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Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
Unattributed is a former IT person, discovering life after work.
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More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke
Answering questions and concerns.
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Parser Combinators
Better than regex!
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What async promised and what it delivered
The async/await saga is a story where each chapter solves the previous chapter's worst problem while introducing new structural costs. The sequential syntax that made async code readable also obscures the thing that matters: which operations actually depend on each other.
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Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
Today Raspberry Pi launched their new $130 AI HAT+ 2 which includes a Hailo 10H and 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM. With that, the Hailo 10H is capable of running LLMs entirely standalone, freeing the Pi's CPU and system RAM for other tasks. The chip runs at a maximum of 3W, with 40 TOPS of INT8 NPU inference performance in…
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Global Intelligence Crisis
A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future
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A Programmer's Loss of Identity
This is the follow-up to last year’s I’m an American software developer and the "broligarchs" don’t speak for me . In that essay, I tried to express why I was so agonized by the leaders in my industry doing a speedrun towards dystopia and how it all felt so divorced from what technology could, and should be…
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Have Taken Up Farming
ex program, en farm
1546
SQLite as a Document Database (2020)
However recently it added a killer feature: generated columns . (This was added in 3.31.0, released 2020-01-22.)
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First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI
A series of articles about bare-metal programming for x86 PC-type computers, using Linux for development.
1548
Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex
An Introduction to File Formats and ImHex by Reverse Engineering FEZ's Save File Format
1549
Reversing Factorio's RNG
This post details how Factorio's random number generation works, how it can be reversed and how I used that knowledge to predict and manipulate the RNG with pure in‑game mechanics.
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Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering
Understanding Threshold Map in Ordered Dithering.
1551
Another Day Has Come
If you agree that Apple itself was It’s hard to imagine a more orderly, confidence-inspiring, exciting-but-not-at-all-surprising, this-feels-right way to do this.
1552
Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month
I read this post “Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases [from C++ to Rust]. Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.” and it got me curious, how difficult is it really?
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I analysed 20 years of my chats
Importing 1.2 million messages from Telegram, VK, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter into a structured Obsidian vault with local LLM inference - to measure how my friendships work with decay curves, vocabulary shifts, directional sentiment, and conflict rates.
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Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
Here are 21 reasons I delayed getting my EMT licensed, sorted loosely by ridiculousness.
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The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed
The 90's was a decade of considerable improvement in the world of video-game consoles [1] . Each new model brought advanced processing power and better graphics without compromise.
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The room the economy can't see
(This post is written mostly by Claude, you can tell that it isn’t in the same voice as my other work, but it has notes of it. All the personal anecdotes are still from my life, and it’s interesting that this is one of my most popular posts of all time. Go figure. Also Interesting: […]
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The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME
I was playing with the nono agent sandboxing tool and it greeted me with a warning: PATH entries the sandbox can write to: ~/.local/bin/ which looked suspicious.
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Childhood Computing
I recently stumbled upon a nice blog post titled Childhood Computing . It made me think about my own childhood computing experience. I am much older than the author of the aforementioned post, but like them, I too love computers. I have for most of my life.
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Who is vfmaddrnd231pd?
vfmaddrnd231pd is a unique instruction from the FMA instruction set. Most instructions in that set have mnemonics like vfmadd231pd, but here rnd means something very specific. The Intel Software Development Manual documents it as: VFMADDRND231PD – Fused Multiply-Add of Packed Double-Precision Floating-Point Values…