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How the AI Bubble Will Pop
The artificial intelligence boom is the most important economic story in the world. But the numbers just don't add up.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 6,220 posts.
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The cultural decline of literary fiction
What happened?
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SQL nulls are weird
Yes, you read that right. SQL does treat all NULLs as distinct values. I learnt this a while back while working on Convoy and again on LiteQueue: a Golang a queueing library. Basically, any column wi
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The Hollow Men of Hims
An admittedly partial - but deeply troubling - case against America's most brazen medical grift, involving Chinese knockoffs, subscription traps, and prescription gas station sex pills.
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In Search of AI Psychosis
Folie a deux ex machina
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`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)
TIL: `satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword
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Ruby on Rails Audit Complete
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Ruby on Rails . Ruby on Rails (or “Rails”) is an open source full stack web-application framework. Thanks to the help of X41 D-Sec , GitLab , and the Sovereign Tech Agency , Rails can provide more secure versions of the…
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Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC: In the past 18 months, we have been working on an ARM notebook based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X1 Elite SoC (X1E). At this point, we are putting the project on hold. There are several ...
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Microsoft became incompetent in IT
You know what: Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT. I develop open-source code. But that never made me one of the “I hate proprietary software or IT giant corporations” types. …
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How do I get into the game industry
Every now and then someone tells me that their child loves video games and wants to get into the game industry, then asks me how...
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Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff
World’s Largest Fan-Generated Entertainment & Gaming Platform | Fandom Fandom’s brands help fans get more out of the entertainment and games they love,…
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Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license
Get the tools and support you need to transform your CAD and 3D data into immersive, interactive apps and experiences with Unity Industry.
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Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon
Here’s a look at what we announced at LlamaCon and how you can get started with our newest releases.
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Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020)
Peep Show, a British tv series running from 2003 to 2015, starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as a pair of miserable, co-dependent roommates living in Croydon, London, is the most realistic por…
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Matt Trout has died
"No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away,"(Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett) It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Shadowcat co-founder, Matt S. Trout. Matt started Shadowcat Systems with Mark Keating in 2005 after a few years of each of them working for other people's…
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Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2025214 points83 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of al…
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How hard would it be to display the contents of an image file on the screen?
I want to view a picture of a funny cat I found on the web. How hard can it be?
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Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate
An exploration of how well AI generates system architecture diagrams
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Remote Prompt Injection in Gitlab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft
The Legit research team unearthed vulnerabilities in GitLab Duo.
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Linux Capabilities Revisited
Technical blog by Stephan Berger (@malmoeb)
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Taking a Look at Compression Algorithms
Dissecting various compression algorithms.
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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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Everything is Ghibli
When we got “create anything” and all made the same thing
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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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The Internet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)
The Internet Slum
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How many artists' careers did the Beatles kill?
The sinister side of rock 'n' roll
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Odin: A programming language made for me
In my book Understanding the Odin Programming Language I wrote that “Odin incorporates some of my favorite C best practices, straight into the language”. But I didn’t really elaborate on the details. Let’s do that here! This brings me to talking a bit about a previous job I had. Back in 2021 I worked at a place called…
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Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?
Reading research papers and articles about chain-of-thought reasoning makes me frustrated. There are many interesting questions to ask about chain-of-thought…
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Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022)
Drilling beneath the hype to expose the truth
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We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch
We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch.