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Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation
Mandiant aims to lower the barrier for security professionals to demonstrate the insecurity of Net-NTLMv1.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,961 posts.
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The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
[This is a guest post by the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] We would …
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Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google
a post from alan w. smith
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AI, Tools and Transformation
It’s very tempting to imagine that AI turns everyone into a tool-builder - now everyone can just ask the model to make the software they need, and apps as we know them are dead. I think that misunderstands how most people think and where software actually comes from, and more importantly, it isn’t
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Science Is Open Software
TL;DR I claim that modern science is synonymous with open source software. This post explains why, why it matters, and what you can (and should) do next. Why do you care about (open source) software? - Everyone I spend a lot of my time working on software. I have been asked why software matters more times than I can…
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Why the most valuable things you know are things you cannot say
The Dimensionality Problem
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Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers
A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.
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Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
Leonardo de Moura — Creator of Lean and Z3
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Breaking the WAL
I did this from a lawn chair on the Sunshine Coast.
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Terry Pratchett's Study
This is not a replica of Terry Pratchett’s study. To do that, I would have needed pictures from every angle and exact measurements, so this is just a small part of a study, where Terry Pratchett might have felt at home, in scale 1:12. If you read “The Borrowers" as…
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I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit
I imported the entire Linux kernel git history into pgit's PostgreSQL-backed storage. 1,428,882 commits, 24.4 million file versions, 20 years of development. Here's what the kernel looks like when you can just ask.
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The Soul of a Pedicab Driver
The Soul of a Pedicab Driver, by Carl Etnier.
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Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe
Improving on a timeless recipe
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Open-source AI and open models reading list
How to get up to speed on open models and their implications.
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Symbolica 2.0: Programmable Symbols for Python and Rust
Technical articles and release notes about Symbolica, symbolic computation, numerical methods, and high-performance computer algebra.
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A Forth-inspired language for writing websites
I don't remember where the idea came from, but I decided that it would be cool if I could write websites using a stack-based language. Something like this: : h1 ( s -- ) "<h1>" emit . "</h1>" em…
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Playing with Vision Embeddings
Poking at the geometry of an image model's feature space.
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The USB Situation
I write this from the latest MacBook Pro. I've been running this as my primary machine for almost a month. When I'm not grinding out the latest soon-to-be-relea
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The compiler was supposed to end programming too
In 1954, IBM said FORTRAN would virtually eliminate coding and debugging. What the numbers say about AI and software work in 2026, and my guess at a developer's Tuesday in 2031.
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No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner
I’ve mentioned before my interest in the history and development of nuclear weapons . Currently, I’m reading The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War…
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Less human AI agents, please
Nial – Knowledge work and artificial intelligence.
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Claude Is Not a Compiler
Or: the difference between vibe-coding and vibe-engineering.
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Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less
The DRUGS Act (‘Domain Reform for Unlawful Drug Sellers Act, H.R. 6352 & S.3399) is legislation that would rob you and millions of Americans of daily medications that keep them healthy and alive. Worse yet, the legislation is backed by Big Pharma front groups.
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Don't Roll Your Own
This is going to be a rant about modern web design practices. But before I get to that, let me begin with a familiar principle from the world of cryptography. Among software developers, and especially among those who work on security-sensitive systems, there is a well-known maxim: Don't roll your own crypto. This does…
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Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)
In response to a question on Twitter 1 , Richard Hipp wrote about why SQLite uses a bytecode VM for executing SQL statements.
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CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root
The Qualys Threat Research Unit has identified a Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop version 24.04 and later. This flaw (CVE-2026-3888)…
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SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard (2014)
Paul Khuong's personal blog. Some Lisp, some optimisation, mathematical or computer.
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Stop generating, start thinking
Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.
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Launching the Claude Partner Network
We’re launching the Claude Partner Network, a program for partner organizations helping enterprises adopt Claude.