Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,219 posts.
The Cinema Industry is using its own standards for creating and distributing movies in a secure way. The DCI (Digital Cinema Initiatives) specification defines everything from file formats and encryption to the projection systems itself.
I've been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backups at around 1 GB/sec. But... I want more. I upgraded my rack and my NAS to 25 GbE a couple years ago, and wanted to upgrade my main workstation, too.
In April 2024, I found and reported two critical bugs to Sei Network concerning their layer-1 blockchain. One of these issues impacted the chain’s availability, and the other its integrity. The Sei Foundation awarded me $75,000 and $2,000,000 respectively for these reports.
A programmer's text editor is their castle
A major caveat in tools like sudo and doas for that matter is that they rely on setuid binaries and privilege escalation in order to run commands as root.
We say Lox is a “high-level” language because it frees programmers from worrying about details irrelevant to the problem they’re solving. The user becomes an executive, giving the machine abstract goals and letting the lowly computer figure out how to get there.
Misadventures in 16bit reverse engineering, programming WTFs and general rants about the IT industry.
How Postgres’ v7 UUIDs are made monotonic, and why that’s a great feature.
1991: T and P of ChatGPT, distillation, deep residual learning, LSTM, GAN
A nice blog
Economists are often stereotyped as claiming that firms are very economically efficient, i.e., that they very effectively minimize costs and maximize profits.
I was trying to make my predictions for the new Formula One season by studying the aerodynamics of the cars, their cornering speeds, their ability to run with different amounts of fuel. Then it hit me: I have no idea what I'm doing.
Learn how to setup and use vale, a syntax-aware prose linter with neovim for technical writing be it personal blogs or technical documentation.
Sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that Microsoft Corp. is slated to release a software update on Tuesday to fix an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows . Those sources say Microsoft has quietly shipped a patch for the bug to branches of the U.S…
TL;DR Instead of attaching tooltips directly to document.body, attach them to a predefined div in document.body. BAD html my tooltip ...
Typical Age DE forum post: The pathfinding in the game is terrible. First off, Age of Empires Definitive Edition is a remaster of...
WhatsApp has been plagued by numerous issues in their security: easily stolen passwords, unencrypted messages and even a website that can change anyone’s status. But that streak is not yet over.
Bioinformatics, genomics, and Javascript
