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Linux Capabilities Revisited
Technical blog by Stephan Berger (@malmoeb)
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,234 posts.
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Taking Up Animation as a Hobby
Whatever else happens, you made a movie... Nobody can take that away. A hundred years from now, when we're all dead and gone, people will be watching this fucking thing.
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PostgreSQL's Hash Indexes Are Now Cool
Since I just committed the last pending patch to improve hash indexes to PostgreSQL 11, and since most of the improvements to hash indexes w...
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Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms
Dissecting various compression algorithms.
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There are good reasons for saying hello.
Know why? Well, unless the receptionist was just talking to a person with approximately the same size vocal cavity as you, she or he has no hope of understanding you.
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Jitsi privacy flaw enables one-click stealth audio and video capture
A Jitsi feature allows an attacker to transmit user's microphone and camera in the background without their consent.
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Planning Go 1.20 cryptography work
My plans for Go 1.20 include landing the crypto/ecdh package, making progress on moving math/big out of the security perimeter, and a batch of crypto/tls work.
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Useful algorithms that are not optimized by Jax, PyTorch, or TensorFlow
In some previous blog posts we described in details how one can generalize automatic differentiation to give automatically stability enhancements and all sorts of other niceties by incorporating graph transformations into code generation. However, one of the things which we didn’t go into too much is the limitation of…
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Happy 10th Birthday Compiler Explorer
Wishing Compiler Explorer a very happy tenth birthday
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My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part Three
Hi everyone! Here's part three of my favorite programming, computer, and science books. If you're just joining, please see part one and part two for introduction. This time I'll be sharing my favorite books about Unix, logic programming, thermodynamics, and mathematical foundations of computer science. In one of the...
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The exploding toilet
Not all mistakes are fatal. Some are worse.
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Diffusion Forcing: Next-Token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusion
Official Website of Diffusion Forcing
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Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev
A Visual Guide to RNNs, CNNs, Transformers, and Calibration, with Hands-On Experiments on Accuracy and Efficiency
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Getting free of toxic tech culture
Hi, I am Valerie Aurora, systems archictecture consultant, writer, and cat appreciator. At Bow Shock Systems , I solve difficult systems problems in networking, file systems, and operating systems. In 2023 I moved permanently to Amsterdam after 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Everything is Ghibli
When we got “create anything” and all made the same thing
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OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics
By the time I got out of bed yesterday, I had three people ask me if I'd seen the OpenAI announcement that the Partition Principle does not (...)
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Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers
For those who aren’t regular readers: as a followup to this post, there are four posts detailing the basic four methods of proof, with intentions to detail some more advanced proof techniques in the future. You can find them on this blog’s primers page. Do you really want to get better at mathematics? Remember when…
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When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army
DEF CON has alienated many hackers by officially aligning its geopolitics with those of the U.S. military and announcing partnerships with the authoritarian countries of Bahrain and Singapore.
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Why static languages suffer from complexity
People in the programming language design community strive to make their languages more expressive, with a strong type system, mainly to increase ergonomics by avoiding code duplication in final software; however, the more expressive their languages become, the more abruptly duplication penetrates the language itself.
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The Internet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)
The Internet Slum
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Why [Insert Thing Here] Is Not a Password Killer
These days, I get a lot of messages from people on security related things. Often it's related to data breaches or sloppy behaviour on behalf of some online service playing fast and loose with HTTPS or passwords or some other easily observable security posture. But on a fairly regular
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2/3 of kids bike to school in Assen because it was designed that way (2013)
It's quite well known that Dutch children cycle to school and it's increasingly well known that the freedom of Dutch children is a good p...
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I took down my Starlink dish (but haven't cancelled)
Today's video is about Starlink—I've had an active subscription since last February, and as it's been a year, I figured I should post an update. The tl;dr: when I had a new roof put on late last summer, I took down 'Dishy McFlatface', but I haven't put the dish back up. I have been holding out hope I could transfer my…
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Writing HTML in HTML
I've just finished the final rewrite of my website. I'm not lying: this is the last time I'm ever going to do it. This website has gone through countless rewrites – from WordPress to Jekyll to multiple static site generators of my own – but this is the final one. I know so, because I've found the ultimate method for…
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The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced
In a time before crypto, Twitter, and AI slop, we had communities, real experiences, and beautiful TV…
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You're enlightened – now what?
Suppose you are enlightened.
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