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A new experimental Google app for Windows
Today, we’re launching a new experimental Google app for Windows in Labs to help you find what you need, faster.Now you can search without switching windows or interrupt…
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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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Dolly Parton's Dollywood Express
What Dollywood says about the state of America's Transit
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New 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 on sale now at $120
Announcing the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 for use cases that need more capacity, available now at $120. Plus new Raspberry Pi Carbon Removal Credits.
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Make product worse, get money
It’s so easy
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Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law
A new Mississippi law requires us to block full access to Bluesky unless all users complete age checks. We have concerns about this law’s implementation.
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The most famous transcendental numbers
The mathematical constant pi represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It is the most famous ratio in mathematics both on Earth and probably for any advanced civilization in the universe. The number pi, like other fundamental constants of mathematics such as e = 2.718..., is a…
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Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs
In AI circles, a “centaur” describes a certain kind of machine/human collaboration, in which “decision-support” systems (which the field loves to call “AI”s) are paired with human beings for results that draw upon the strengths of each, such as when a human chess master and a chess-playing computer program collaborate…
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New material gives copper superalloy-like strength
Breakthrough material could transform aerospace, defense and industrial applications.
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PureVPN IPv6 Leak
Two findings in PureVPN on Ubuntu 24.04. After a reconnect the system takes a default IPv6 route outside the tunnel, and the ip6tables OUTPUT policy is still ACCEPT, so traffic leaves in the clear while the client reports connected.
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When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun
How 16 Senators Accidentally Saved Democracy (Then Watched It Die)
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Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeology
How I spent two decades tracking down the creators of a 1987 USENET game and learned modern packaging tools in the process. The Discovery: A Digital Time Capsule from 1987 Picture this: October 26, 1987.
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Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
Vijaye Raji will step into a new role as CTO of Applications, reporting to CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, following the acquisition of Statsig.
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What It Takes to Defend a Cybersecurity Company from Today's Adversaries
This report highlights a rarely-discussed but crucially important attack surface: security vendors themselves.
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More than DNS: Learnings from the 14 hour AWS outage
A thorough review of a major cloud outage.
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Little Snitch feature nobody knows about
Little Snitch by Objective Development is the first app that I install on a new Mac. In fact I just bought a new Mac, an M4 MacBook Pro with nano-texture display, and I installed Little Snitch via thumb drive even before connecting the Mac to the internet. While setting up my new Mac, which came with macOS 15.2…
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Tools I love: mise(-en-place)
Once in a while you get introduced to a tool that instantly changes the way you work. For me, mise is one of those tools.
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It's School time: Adventures in hacking an old Kindle
Jailbreaking an old Kindle and turning it into a school dashboard using Cloudflare Workers, Puppeteer, and image processing.
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Decorator JITs: Python as a DSL
Spend enough time looking at Python programs and packages for machine learning, and you'll notice that the "JIT decorator" pattern is pretty popular. For example, this JAX snippet:
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Why Castrol Honda Superbike crashes on (most) modern systems
A friend cleaned up and gave me a copy of a game I've not heard about before: Castrol Honda Superbike World Champions , a motorbike racing game for PC, released 1998 by Interactive Entertainment Ltd. and Midas Interactive Entertainment.
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Mountains, Cliffs, and Caves: A Guide to Using Perlin Noise for Procedural Gen
Minecraft generates unique worlds with Perlin noise. Covers the algorithm, octaves, and Fractal Brownian Motion - with a terrain implementation walkthrough.
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A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS
I’ve used Mullvad as my VPN provider for a few years. Their service is good, they provide keys for 5 devices, rely on the Wireguard protocol, and offer alternative configurations as well. Despite that, my needs have changed and I wanted to be able to have granular control over DNS queries and the ability to connect my…
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NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards
The Best Paper Award Committee members were nominated by the Program Chairs and the Database and Benchmark track chairs, who selected leading researchers across machine learning topics. These nominations were approved by the General Chairs and Next Generation and Accessibility Chairs.
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Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple should double down and…
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TeleMessage Customers Include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan,Hundreds
💡Update May 26, 2025: I've published the source code for TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the dataset, some of my initial
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Congestion Pricing Is a Policy Miracle
Which is exactly why Trump wants to get rid of it
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Is air travel getting worse?
More delays, fewer accidents, and lower prices
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A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees
A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees.
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Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance
My experience with my father's long-term care insurance company has not been an easy one. But I've learned quite a few lessons.
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No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me
For the last two years I’ve had an O’Reilly subscription . Their offer is quite attractive with unlimited access to books not only by O’Reilly but also Manning and others. The catalog is just enourmous and covers pretty much every technical book around software engineering et al. that I might ever want to read. There…