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How I Got my $3500 Camera Kit Stolen on KitSplit
Please read before renting out your own gear!
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,182 posts.
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Give Firefox a chance
We live in the era of browser monopoly. Google occupied the whole web by its Chrome. Chrome has more...
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Tarkovsky's films online for free
Mosfilm, one of the largest film studios in the USSR during the Soviet era, has put full-length versions of many of its most acclaimed and influential films on
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Bootstrapping a SaaS Startup from Scratch
No co-founders. No funding. No connections. No customers. No — you’re not nuts.
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Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find out Elon Musk’s stance before providing you with an answer. …
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Taking a break from social media makes you happier and less anxious
In my writing on technology and culture I try to be judicious about citing scientific studies. The issues involved in our ongoing wrangling with digital ... Read more
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Python dicts are now ordered
There were several moments over the last few weeks when I heard people discuss differences between Python lists and dicts and one of the first ones mentioned was that lists are ordered and dicts are not.
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Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
Investigating the seahorse emoji doom loop using logitlens.
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Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides
Were you aware of it: Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint slides. Don't just take my word for it: open up the network monitor of your...
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When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
Many security-conscious people probably think they’d never fall for a phone-based phishing scam. But if your response to such a scam involves anything other than hanging up and calling back the entity that claims to be calling, you may be in for a rude awakening. Here’s how one security and tech-savvy reader got taken…
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It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
It may not be possible for us to ever reach empirical definitions of "good code" or "clean code", which means that any one person's opinions about another person's opinions about "clean code" are necessarily highly subjective. I cannot review Robert C. Martin's 2008 book Clean Co...
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HN comments are underrated
HN comments are terrible . On any topic I’m informed about , the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong . Most of the time, there are zero comments from people who know anything about the topic and the top comment is reasonable sounding but totally incorrect. Additionally, many comments are gratuitously…
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Willingham sends Fables into the public domain
Here, below, is the press release I sent out today to explain what I did and why.
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Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
"In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In engineering, if you do not know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state."
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There is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format.
Also see Xiph.Org's new video, Digital Show & Tell , for detailed demonstrations of digital sampling in action on real equipment!
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Why I’m Leaving Elm
Why I can't use Elm, and can't recommend it to others.
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The shittiest project I ever worked on (2013)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Biohacking Lite
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service
TL;DR: we have discovered XMPP (Jabber) instant messaging protocol encrypted TLS connection wiretapping (Man-in-the-Middle attack) of jabber.ru (aka xmpp.ru) service’s servers on Hetzner and Linode hosting providers in Germany. The attacker has issued several new TLS certificates using Let’s Encrypt service which were…
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A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b)
A visual proof that a2 – b2 = (a + b)(a – b). Sophie Germain wrote, “It has been said that algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but diagrammatic algebra.”
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My product is my garden
I’ve been part of the internet startup scene for a while. There are so many different camps: the bootstrappers, the VC-backed tech-bros, the crypto “investor...
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Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy
Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy: A game save and RCE exploit for the Tony Hawk game series that can be used to hack Xbox, Playstation 2, Gamecube, and Xbox 360 consoles.
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uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
uBlock Origin's volunteer team will no longer chase Facebook's shifting ad-detection tricks, calling it a 'disgusting anti-user site.' Here's what that means for your feed.