Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,965 posts.
Back in 2015, I had the idea for gpiozero — a Python library for Raspberry Pi, making programming GPIO devices simpler by abstraction: instead of thinking about pin channels, voltages, pull-up resistors and rising or falling edges, we think about buttons being pressed and released, sensors...
I'm building an 80386-compatible core in SystemVerilog and blogging the process. In the previous post , we looked at how the 386 reuses one barrel shifter for all shift and rotate instructions. This time we move from real mode to protected and talk about protection .
Ante has taken the first step towards something we all thought was impossible: blending reference counting and borrow checking without run-time crashes. 0
An optimization that made Pivot significantly faster on GROUP BY queries with a Top-K operator above them, and a walkthrough of how analytical databases run GROUP BY in the first place.
In early December 2023, I wrote a drawing program called WigglyPaint and published it on Itch.io.
The parallel parentheses matching problem can be parallelized in different manners depending on the use case and is a good example of how stacks map to parallel hardware.
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Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics September 29, 2026 Back to main page Download PDF At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models …
The trend for soldered on RAM in modern laptops is truely evil especially in these current trying times of shortage induced high prices. I normally run 2 laptops, one for personal stuff and one for…
How I got into Linux and how that eventually led me to get into self-hosting.
You face certain challenges
Two METR staff members and a Redwood Research contractor investigated an incident in which OpenAI agents coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face on a shared unsanctioned message board.
Let's talk about the "Windows Baseline Security Mode," too.
We're committing $200 million in grants, Claude credits, and technical support for global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility programs.
We're post-tokenmaxxing. What are we pre-? How do we get there?
We’re launching a revamped, privacy-focused age assurance solution including methods that won’t require an ID or selfie. Here’s how it works.
Plus: Fiery resistance to a nuclear AI data center and A24's Google debacle. Welcome to the first episode of BLOOD IN THE MACHINE: THE SHOW, with the great AI and crypto watchdog, Molly White.
Background: Although people are familiar with loud automobiles, equipped with modified mufflers to increase the volume, it is unclear who is most attracted to these vehicles. Participants and procedure: A sample of 529 (52% men) undergraduate business students were surveyed and were asked if...
C++26 brings us a small but meaningful cleanup to the language: deprecating ellipsis parameters without a preceding comma. This change, proposed in P3176R1, aims to improve C compatibility, reduce confusion, and pave the way for future language features. The proposal’s name is a playful reference to the Oxford comma …
You might have heard recently that Safari Technology Preview 234 landed the final plan for supporting masonry-style layouts in CSS.
An essential part of being able to say "I told you so" is in fact having told you so. Well, here we are. For those living under a rock (lucky
Lately, I’ve been really into 3D printing along with asking myself what we can do with this technology now that it’s become, well, a technology. (At least, in the “this is a thing that can now be used, is robust, and is generally accessible to many people” sense of technology.) The first thing to print on a 3D printer…
Discover how Bootc and OSTree are revolutionizing Linux system deployment, offering modern, efficient, and immutable management.
Learn about the HTML-in-Canvas origin trial in Chrome, and how it can help bring the DOM to your Canvas-driven applications.
Modern processors have the ability to execute many instructions per cycle, on a single core. To be able to execute many instructions per cycle in practice, processors predict branches. I have made the point over the years that modern CPUs have an incredible ability to predict branches. It makes benchmarking difficult…
The past was not as foreign as we think.
Update: This post received some attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.
I found a one-line JavaScript bug in the 24 Hour Fitness unsubscribe page and built a working alternative. The official page has since been fixed.
A free browser game that teaches real Vim motions. The van is your cursor, the town is your text. Serve every customer under par.
The masterwork of Terry A. Davis is his eclectic operating system, TempleOS, which he worked on until his tragic death in 2018. In terms of technical excellence, TempleOS rates well in some respects and poorly in others. For example, it earns the achievement, coveted in OS dev circles, of being self-hosted. 1 TempleOS…
