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Don't buy AR glasses
Popup hell awaits you
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,964 posts.
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Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?
The theft last week of an estimated $100 million in crypto using a hardware backdoor planted in Ledger wallets points to a sophisticated and systematic attack aimed at subverting crypto wallets sold by legitimate resellers in Asia and Europe
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What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
A given level of LLM intelligence costs about a thirtieth of what it did a year ago, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Using Artificial Analysis's…
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Self-host your mail server
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek
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$30M Raised to Redo the CPU
As of today, Tendrils has completed a $30M round led by Benchmark to rebuild general-purpose computing.
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I Remain a Skeptic
I still do not use LLMs for anything I actually care about. There are a lot of reasons I could give: environmental, social, political. I could talk about ecosystem lock-in, learned dependence, self-soverignty, philosophical concerns, the intentional dismantling of labour bargaining power, and more. But before all of…
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Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation
DrupalCon Rotterdam 2026 DriesNote presentation.
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Monzo Stand-In
Our customers reasonably expect to be able to spend on their card, make bank transfers and pay their bills 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Their lives don’t have downtime for maintenance so nor should we. We dedicate a lot of our engineering effort to minimise the risk of downtime during technical migrations and…
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What was a Token Ring network?
Token Ring and ARCNET once competed with Ethernet as networking standards
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Don't Subscribe So Casually
Or, why your AI subscription is worth analyzing
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Online Friends Are Real Friends
A few days ago I booked my flights to not only attend a professional event, but also visit and stay with one of my best friends next month. This will be the ...
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dBase: 1979-2026
Litigation, neglect killed dBase. The dBase newsgroup servers went off-line since November 2025. Court-smart dBase vendors and AI accelerated the fall.
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Automating myself out of development
On how I progressively removed myself using Claude Code out of the development cycle - or did I?..
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Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service
It started off a few months ago, when my iPad suddenly couldn’t play videos any more that it had recorded. It would show the first frame, but hitting the play button wouldn’t do anythin…
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Stop using natural language interfaces
Natural language is a wonderful interface, but just because we suddenly can doesn't mean we always should.
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I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI
An AI assistant that builds reactive UIs mid-conversation — forms, streaming data, callbacks — using markdown code fences and a mount() UI primitive.
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Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
A collection of Maroš Grego's works.
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A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging
Paper packaging offers a number of advantages over its plastic counterparts: It has a high recycling rate, lower CO₂ emissions, and lower disposal costs. However, it cannot yet be sealed without adhesives or layers of plastic—a disadvantage for manufacturing and recycling processes. In the PAPURE project, four…
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A whole boss fight in 256 bytes
Endbot is a complete audio-visual demo that fits in exactly 256 bytes . It runs under DOS (via DosBox-X) and renders in real-time: a robot sprite with progressive bullet damage, a growing explosion, a scrolling checkerboard landscape, and a MIDI soundtrack - all from a single tiny .com file.
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Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust
As part of my work at Anthropic, I open sourced two Rust crates that fill a gap in the RPC ecosystem: buffa, a pure-Rust Protocol Buffers…
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A few CPU hardware bugs
Catherine (Whitequark)’s recent observations on poorly-engineered firmware reminded me of a few mistakes I’ve seen in vendors’ CPUs; some unimportant and others surprisingly bad. Since I’ve never seen these widely discussed, here’s some discussion and links to supporting evidence to make them more widely known, since…
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RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)
The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has published RFC8890, The Internet is for End Users, arguing that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) should ground its decisions in what’s good for people who use the Internet, and that it should take positive steps to achieve that.
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Dark Alley Mathematics
Base changing and other calculations
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Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly
How to use a file index to mount a tar.gz archive directly into the Emscripten virtual filesystem without extracting it
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Marimo now runs in PyCharm
Bring reactive notebooks into your Python projects, without leaving your IDE
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Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it
I mean, technically I didn't do it.
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One year of Roto, a compiled scripting language for Rust
By Terts Diepraam Almost exactly one year ago, we announced Roto, a JIT-compiled embedded scripting language for Rust applications. A lot has happened since then that we'd like to tell you about! 💡Along with this post, we published Roto v0.11.0! You can check out the changelog
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