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Linux on the Atari Jaguar
The challenges around porting Linux to an old videogame console by Atari
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,709 posts.
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Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them
Much have been said about futility of trying to validate email addresses. Generally accepted advice is that you should just send verification link and don’t care about trying to validate it beforehand.
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CodePen 2.0
Noting perhaps my largest personal career accomplishment, which is launching CodePen 2.0. Far more work, believe it or not, than the entire creation of the original CodePen. This isn’t the pl…
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Data Compression Explained (2012)
Copyright (C) 2010-2012, Dell, Inc . You are permitted to copy and distribute material from this book provided (1) any material you distribute includes this license, (2) the material is not modified, and (3) you do not charge a fee or require any other considerations for copies or for any works that incorporate…
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Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
Note for numberphiles: all numbers have been rounded to their first significant digit, because I’m a fan of Rob Eastaway’s “zequals” method of getting to the point when it comes to estimation. It’s much more valuable to walk away with the heuristic “some dude got a 300x memory reduction by swapping out a database he…
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Poisson Disk Sampling
Stripe Across is a grog. We hope you enjoy it.
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Programming is Art
When I started programming, my whole day revolved around development. I’d wake up, write code, and go to sleep. And that’s how it was day in and day out. My entire social circle consisted of people who also wrote code. I studied frameworks, libraries, and various programming languages.
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Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)
In the past few months, I’ve been stress-testing how far AI coding agents can take us when building real, production-grade distributed systems. The result: a Rust-based multi-Paxos consensus engine that not only implements all the features of Azure’s Replicated State Library (RSL) [1] — which underpins most major…
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Stop Advertising in Your Commits
Co-authored-by: ur mom
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China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000
The Radical Asymmetry of Modern Warfare (P2)
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Deep dive into Turso, the “SQLite rewrite in Rust”
I love Rust and I love SQLite, so you can guess. Iwas pretty excited when I lerned that "SQLite was rewritten in Rust" What is SQLite, actually? 2 things: a
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Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle
I'm writing 30 posts in 30 days at Inkhaven. This is number 26.
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Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results
Yesterday Anthropic published two new cryptanalysis results, both outputs of Claude Mythos, their (still) unreleased advanced model. The first of these results attacks a signature scheme called HAW…
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Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC with DOS
VisiCalc started it, but 1-2-3 finished it. "It" being the discussion of what a spreadsheet can be, and also VisiCalc itself.
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I swear the UFO is coming any minute
Links 'n' updates
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Planet Labs' open satellite feed
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing
Alt title: The reports of tokenmaxxing’s death are greatly exaggerated.
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The iPhone's Last Stand?
Siri isn’t state of the art, but as long as it works — and it appears it does — it’s good enough for the consumer market.
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Intel 486 CPU announced April 10, 1989
The killer app for the 486 didn't come out until a year or so later
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How to choose colors for your CLI applications (2023)
Let’s say you’re creating a CLI tool which has to display syntax highlighted source code. You begin by choosing some colors which look nice with your chosen terminal theme:
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Agent memory as a file format
Memoryfields - a vastly simpler way to do agent memory
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Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase
When a codebase is large and complex, it's risky to big changes. Here's a structured way to approach
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How well do agents use test/verification techniques?
We previously noted that, while it's easier than ever to hit a particular quality bar by having coding agents use effective test techniques, software quality seems to be getting worse , indicating that whatever defaults developers are using may not work very well. Here, we test if simple instructions to agents to use…
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Emacs Bedrock 2.0
Bedrock is a minimal, human-crafted starter-kit for Emacs, and today I’m pleased to announce that version 2.0 of Bedrock is available! This release requires Emacs 31, which came out in August 2026. If you are unable to upgrade Emacs that high, you should be able to remove some of the Emacs 31-specific config without…
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Getting Creative with Perlin Noise Fields
How to make infinite design variations using Perlin noise fields, a simple generative algorithm.
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Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
python has 6 pre-declared "constants": True , False , None , __debug__ , Ellipsis (or equivalently ... ), and NotImplemented . but they all behave slightly differently, for some reason.
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Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way
This isn't quite right , but it's the type of wrong that cites its sources and hides in the part you'd never think to fact check:
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How to compromise your system with a job interview
The current situation on the IT job market is hard. So you are lucky when a recruiter on LinkedIn reaches out to you having a suitable match for a new position based on your prior experience. It might not be what it seems at a first glance.