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Disassembling an Amazon Blink Mini camera
I used Ghidra twice, so that means I'm officially an expert in reverse engineering
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,224 posts.
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I wish I'd self-published sooner
It took until this year to write my first eBook and now it generates revenue while I sleep. What's holding you back? Learn from my experience so far.
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Entropy explained, with sheep (2016)
An explorable blog post about entropy, with sheep.
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Build Your Own FPGA (2012)
The Open 7400 Logic Competition is a crowd-sourced contest with a simple but broad criteria for entry: build something interesting out of discrete logic chips. It's now in its second year, and this time around I was inspired to enter it.
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Rust and C++ on Floating-Point Intensive Code
I have developed some interest in the Rust programming language. Rust is a systems programming language which means it gets out of the way of developers interested in reaching low-level internals of a system. What sets it aside from other systems languages though is: Borrow checking to guarantee memory safety…
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Ruby 3.0 and the new FiberScheduler interface
A few days ago on Christmas day 2020, Matz released Ruby 3.0. Like every year, a host of interesting new features was included with the new version. Most articles I have read so far focus more on the new ways to introduce type hints and the Ractor system but for me the most interesting addition was the introduction of…
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Designing for a right to repair
Designing from cradle to grave is no longer good enough. We need to postpone that grave as long as possible. This is how to design for a right to repair.
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How I'm using Helix editor
My Helix editor config and how I am using it
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Wood Joint Strength Testing
So I set out to do some more thorough experiments, this time using more samples and actually measuring the breaking force of the joints.
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You Don’t Need Permission
I was pleasantly surprised to hear from Suresh, an ex-student I’ve known for a long time. A U.S. citizen he was now the head of sales and marketing for a company in London selling medical devices t…
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Thoughts on Cloudflare
Thoughts on its role and impact on the web’s landscape.
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More malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store
So far I discovered 18 malicious extensions with 55 million users in total. Most popular ones are: Autoskip for Youtube, Crystal Ad block and Brisk VPN. They have been active for two years, undetected by Google.
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Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API
Performance results naturally depend on the underlying hardware. The following benchmarks show the execution times for sorting 50 million doubles using different sorting implementations. The measurements were taken on an Apple M1 system using Clang and on an AMD Ryzen 3 Linux system using GCC , both compiled with the…
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Text Editor Data Structures: Rethinking Undo
Undo and redo have been a staple operation of text editors probably since the first typo was ever made, yet there has not been a lot of innovation around refining the idea of what undo and redo could be. Let’s explore what I mean…
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GitHub Renamed Me (2014)
Github Renamed Me - We will change your SSH keys and you will like it
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Understanding Connections and Pools
What connections are, how they affect our systems, and how and why pooling works.
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Feeding data to 1000 CPUs – comparison of S3, Google, Azure storage
Benchmarking throughput and latency of Amazon AWS Simple Storage Service (S3), Google Cloud Storage (GCS) and Microsoft Azure Storage object storage services
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Machine learning can run on tiny, low-power chips
Photo by Kevin Steinhardt When Azeem asked me to give a talk at CogX, he asked me to focus on just a single point that I wanted the audience to take away. A few years ago my priority would have bee…
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A History of the Silmarils in the Fifth Age
[Spoiler warning for The Silmarillion] I. The Silmarillion describes the fate of the three Silmarils. Earendil kept one, and traveled with it through the sky, where it became the planet Venus. Maed…
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Learnings from fine-tuning LLM on my Telegram messages
For most people I interact with, I’m just another text-based program for the most of the time. If input and output are so simple, could I be replaced by the model? For this to work, the model would need to not only understand my writing style but also know a lot about me. The best source for this is my Telegram…
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Extracting Chinese Hard Subs from a Video, Part 1
I’ve been watching the Chinese TV show 他来了，请闭眼 (Love Me If You Dare). It’s a good show, kinda reminiscent of the BBC series Sherlock, likewise a crime drama ...
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Why is the Quintic Unsolvable?
In this article, I hope to convince you that the quintic equation is unsolvable, in the sense that I can’t write down the solution to the equation \[ ax^5 + bx^4 + cx^3 + dx^2 + ex + f = 0 \] using only addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to an integer power, and taking an integer root. In fact, I…
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