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The $1.5B Bybit Hack
The $1.5B Bybit Hack demonstrates how the Era of Operational Security Failures has arrived, and most cryptocurrency companies are not prepared for its implications.
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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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Stop crawling my HTML – use the API
One of the (many) depressing things about the "AI" future in which we're living, is that it exposes just how many people are willing to outsource their critical thinking. Brute force is preferred to thinking about how to efficiently tackle a problem. For some reason, my websites are regularly targetted by "scrapers"…
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AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there
First slowly, and then all at once, dreams of LLMs bringing us to the cusp of AGI have fallen apart.
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# [derive(Clone)] Is Broken
Not just `#[derive(Clone)]`, but all of the standard trait derives are
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Evidence from the One Laptop per Child program in rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Sweetener saccharin shows surprise power against antibiotic resistance
Sweeteners can kill drug resistant bacteria
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A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers
I get it, you’re too good to vibe code. You’re a senior developer who has been doing this for 20 years and knows the system like the back of your hand. Or maybe you’re the star individual contributor who is the only person who can ever figure out how to solve the hard problems. Or maybe you’re the professor who…
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Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)
Jujutsu worktrees are very convenient! In git, worktrees are an old concept. The idea is that you can effectively work on your project in 2 different folders …
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No Instagram, no privacy
This means that I am oblivious to all of my friends’ fun broadcasted on Instagram. I don’t feel pressured either to update the abstract audience of everyone I ever connected with online, on where I am, what I am doing or who I am hanging out with.
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The Wrongs of Thomas More
A lengthy digression into the life of a saint
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Ecosia: The greenest AI is here
While the AI race is raging, we’ve been building an alternative. One that’s helpful, private, and optional — and designed for you, not for profit.
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GitHub no longer uses Toasts
How to ensure updates and messages are communicated in an inclusive way.
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Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations
Inflammation may not be a universal human experience, but a byproduct of industrialized lifestyles.
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Revisiting Moneyball
Data, sports, payrolls, and memes
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Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp
To assist with job interviews at the NRAO we recently wrote a small “contest” program. Without giving away the details, the crux of the problem is
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A vibrator helped me debug a motorcycle brake light system
A tale of debugging hardware with unconventional methods. How I perfected the firmware of BrakeBright (a motorcycle safety device) using a vibrator.
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A beginner's guide to deploying LLMs with AMD on Windows using PyTorch
Get started running LLMs with PyTorch on Windows using AMD consumer graphics hardware.
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Chrome Returns 206 when the Server Returns 403
Chrome Returns 206 when the Server Returns 403 Postmortem It is a feature not a bug! I got detailed explanation from chrome developers which is very helpful. You may find the complete response in the bug ticket. Also this blog post draws a lot of attention after I post it on Hackers News. You may find comments here…
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The Evolution of Caching Libraries in Go
For the last few years, I've been developing caching library, and today I'd like to talk about the evolution of caches in Go and where we stand today. Especially since Go 1.24 was officially supposed to focus on caching improvements, but I haven't heard much news about them - time to fix that .
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ESA Sentinel-1D delivers first high-resolution images
The first high-resolution images have been received from Copernicus Sentinel-1D and were shared publicly for the first time at the European Space Agency’s Ministerial Council, held today in Bremen, Germany. Glaciers in Antarctica, the tip of South America, as well as the city of Bremen, are visible in these stunning…
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Understanding Spec-Driven-Development: Kiro, Spec-Kit, and Tessl
Notes from my colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
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Leveraging Elixir's hot code loading capabilities to modularize a monolithic app
How hot code loading solves client-specific engineering problems in my startup Alzo
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Simulating a Planet on the GPU: Part 1 (2022)
A year-long journey through polygon meshes, cubemaps, and smoothed-particle hydrodynamics in pursuit of a modern SimEarth
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Synthesizing Music from JSON
tl;dr: pl_synth is a tiny music synthesizer for C & JS and an editor (“tracker”) to create instruments and arrangements.
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GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)
This post is about an important, but also scary, prompt injection discovery that leads to full system compromise of the developer’s machine in GitHub …
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What I learned gathering nootropic ratings (2022)
Where I analyse the nootropic ratings I gathered through my recommender system.
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The truth about soft plastic recycling points at supermarkets
🕵️ 40 bundles of soft plastic packaging waste were tracked through take-back schemes across England over 12 months.