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Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
How I massively over-engineered a trivial problem again because I just can't help myself
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,961 posts.
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Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance
We’ve always found strace useful but somewhat hard to work with. Its output is often inscrutable, it’s hard to follow subprocesses or threads, and if you wan...
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IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry
IBM's CHIPS Act Investment of $2 billion establishes Anderon, America's first pure-play quantum chip foundry as part of investments in nine companies.
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I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot
How I stumbled across a fake booter site run by international police, and how they panicked when I started digging
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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2
We are accelerating elements of our upcoming v5 release with interim updates to keep pace with the frontier. Index v4.2 has more complex and realistic tasks, and more private test sets to prevent gaming
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Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems with spin locks
Embark on a journey about why you should sometimes trust your OS more than yourself.
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Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors
Initial results from scanning through Excel files belonging to 600 published scientific papers.
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CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940
Hello! Yes, it's all a disaster again! Let's get this party started: 0:00 /0:12 1× No comments today, so imagine this: * We wrote something that we find very funny, * Nobody else gets it, * But everyone humors us Just like a typical watchTowr Labs blog introduction. As
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Understanding the Go Runtime: The Scheduler
In the previous article we explored how Go’s memory allocator manages heap memory — grabbing large arenas from the OS, dividing them into spans and size classes, and using a three-level hierarchy (mcache, mcentral, mheap) to make most allocations lock-free. A key detail was that each P (processor) gets its own memory…
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Lego building instructions through time
Building instructions. The silent helper that without a single word guides you, step by step, to transform your pile of bricks to fantastic creations. The tool that shows you building techniques and gives you a solid foundation for further exploring the wonders of the LEGO ® brick. Let’s take a look at some of the…
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The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory
This is a walkthrough of how Fedora turns source code and packages into the artifacts you download and install. It follows the a package from a packager’s git push to a composed release: ISOs, cloud images, container images, and OSTree deployments.
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gRPC: From service definition to wire format
A comprehensive deep dive into the gRPC protocol, from service definitions and streaming models to the low-level HTTP/2 framing and wire format.
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Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories
When developing software to run in a Unix environment, you will often be able to use the same system features and benefit from good developer tools, regardless of the particular platform you're working on, as most processors will provide a rich instruction set and virtual memory, among other things.
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A new faster algorithm to compute 64-bit signed floor division
The missing chapter of Hacker's Delight
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Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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What came after the 486?
Changing from part numbers had benefits for Intel, but it took time
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Frame – Linux X server in Assembly
Philosophy - Sciences - Geekery - Art - Life - Coaching - Fun < Simplify Everything
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Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts
Analysis of more than 40 million alarm-related events shows most alarms offer little operational value, disrupt rest and push crews toward risky workarounds.
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First tunnel element of the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel immersed
Once completed the tunnel located in the Fehmarn Belt will hold the record as the longest immersed tunnel in the world.
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Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment
As warmer temperatures return, Union Pacific is applying an innovative concept to manage heat-related track conditions – part of a broader strategy that helped the railroad deliver its best-ever full-year derailment incident rate in 2025, improving 19% year over year.
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Making 768 servers look like 1
How to make 768 distinct Postgres servers look like 1 to your applications.
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The real prices of frontier models
Real token cost of frontier models on the same TypeScript input - Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5, GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash. Tokenizer counts, effective cost.
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Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough
The four-pane System Browser has shaped Smalltalk development for forty years. It’s still brilliant at providing context. But the real problem may not be the browser itself—it may be the lack of composition between the tools that surround it.
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Superlite: A Faster Alternatie to Superpowers
Why I built superlite, an autonomous build workflow for Claude Code that doesn't ask permission every four minutes: how it works, how to use it, and the benchmarks.
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Emacs, how it all started for me
A presentation of why, and how, I started using Emacs
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Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice
A mouse study finds changes to DNA packaging form a molecular memory of trauma, making the brain vulnerable to future stress.