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Annotated: Sam Bankman-Fried's “FTX Pre-Mortem Overview”
Annotating Sam Bankman-Fried's attempts to explain the FTX collapse.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,217 posts.
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Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki
Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki A year ago, my good friend Casey Watson suggested that I try using a per...
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ZestCash is Not Good.
A couple of days ago, TechCrunch featured a favorable story about a new startup called ZestCash, which provides an online lending alternative to existing payday loans (I'm not going to link to them directly, you can get to them on your own easily enough). The story regurgitates ZestCash's copy about the evils of the…
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The History of S.u.S.E
The other enterprise Linux company
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Libc++'s Implementation of std::string
I. Introduction
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Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier
In 1950, when computing was little more than automated arithmetic and simple logic, Alan Turing asked a question that still reverberates today: can machines think?
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A peek inside Japan's largest “Dagashi” store
Every morning, 67-year Hideyuki Akiyama drives to his store along the rural roads of Okayama in Western Japan. Today is no different. A line of excited customers queuing up before the shutters are open. “Disneyland isn’t our land of dreams, this is!” says one 20-something woman. “This”
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WordPerfect for UNIX (1992)
I found this interesting print-ad for WordPerfect for UNIX, apparently the best UNIX product of 1992! (Very) Belated congratulations Corel!
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How I made a website with Svelte
Just like last year, I made a list of the best media I enjoyed over the year. This includes music, films, series and games.
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In defence of the boring web
Having recently had the pleasure of doing most of my internet interactions on a tablet or a smartphone because my laptop was ‘hors de combat,’ I was able to further reflect on the state of the modern web. 1 With Web 2.0 being already passé, Web 3.0 being not the latest fad any more, and talks of Web 4.0, 4.5, and 5.0…
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Set up a cheap cloud hosted adblocker in an hour for $2.50 a month
👋 Linux commands, bash scripts, and tech pro-tips.
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Colorize Your CLI
A passionate engineering student who writes about Unix related topics and tech stuff.
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Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet
In July 2012, responding to allegations that the video-chat service Skype—owned by Microsoft—was changing its protocols to make it possible for the government to eavesdrop on users, Corporate Vice President Mark Gillett took to the company’s blog to deny it. Turns out that wasn’t quite true. Or at least he—or the…
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CVE-2024-9956 – PassKey Account Takeover in All Mobile Browsers
Phishing PassKeys credentials using browser intents
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The tyranny of the wagon equation
A mathematical extension to ACOUP's recent blog post on military logistics
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Hardware-accelerated Linux virtual machines on jailbroken iPhone 12 / iOS 14.1
I unlocked Hypervisor.framework on my jailbroken phone and modified UTM, a popular QEMU port for iOS, to run arm64 Linux in a VM at full native speed. …for the clickbait - and to show iPhone’s untapped potential.
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How I Teach Classes Remotely
Technology, running tech companies, data science, religion, translation technology, natural language processing, backups, p-adic linguistics, academia
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Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code
“shouldn’t this have been published a few months ago?” yeah, probably. I even considered submitting it to the AoC contest. time is a real beast. The title is clickbait. I did not design and implement a programming language for the sole or even primary purpose of leaderboarding on Advent of Code. It just turned out…
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Analyzing HN readers' personal blogs
Analyzing the little guys
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Crafting Interpreters with Rust: On Garbage Collection
I became interested in implementing programming languages a few years ago and discovered [Crafting Interpreters](https://craftinginterpreters.com/) by Bob Nystrom. At the time, I had experience with Rust and decided to use it to follow the book. Albeit, being a noob, I managed to implement a fully functional bytecode…
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Call Me Maybe: Chronos
Chronos is a distributed task scheduler (cf. cron) for the Mesos cluster management system. In this edition of Jepsen , we’ll see how simple network interruptions can permanently disrupt a Chronos+Mesos cluster
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The Mathematics of Paul Graham's Bias Test
A major problem in detecting biased decisionmaking is the problem of unknown inputs. For example, suppose a venture capitalist has a public portfolio which has funded 75% male founders and 25% female. Is this venture capitalist biased against women? It's impossible to know - perhaps only 10% of his applicants were …
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When 70M people visit your joke site
What happens when 70 million people visit your joke site?
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Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup
Find where WhatsApp chats live in an iPhone backup, decrypt an encrypted iOS backup with Python, and read your messages from ChatStorage.sqlite.