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Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States
Fired at 17 for leaking secrets. Served a cybercrime ring. Named by the Social Security whistleblower. Now the government’s model employee.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,972 posts.
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Klondike Solitaire game for curses in 5k of C
How I developed a Klondike Solitaire game for curses in C language as an entry for the IOCCC.
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Eating Fruit Skins
This summer, I learned that one can eat a whole apple. Every part of the apple is edible 1 . Before learning this, I would just eat the flesh and throw away the core. The core seemed hard and jagged and inedible. Turns out, you can eat the whole thing. I suppose I’ve always known that deer eat the whole apple. Why…
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AI has torched the market for junior programmers
Junior programmers are getting destroyed by AI — down 19%, while devs over 40 thrive. Meanwhile, millions of non-developers are shipping real software without the job title. The credential market collapsed; the activity exploded. The problem: nobody's building the next generation of senior engineers.
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Apple Watch Ultra 4
Apple today introduced Apple Watch Ultra 4, the ultimate sports and adventure watch, now with new health, fitness, and audio intelligence capabilities.
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I hate packaging my software for Linux
Nineteen distribution channels later: what it actually costs to give a terminal editor away for free on Linux, and why the next step is a static musl binary that updates itself.
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Plug-in solar is coming. Plug-in batteries should follow
Plug-in batteries could help millions more households access the bill-saving benefits of home energy storage. With plug-in solar now on the way, Regen argues that the government should make plug-in batteries next.
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21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains
TLDR; get a list of 21,864 domains from the former Yugoslavia’s “.yu” top level domain: download the .CSV
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AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
$12,431 in fake invoices, 2,797 spam emails, $0 revenue.
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My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app
Extracting my gym’s QR check-in from its Flutter app, with a rooted phone and a lot of ripgrep.
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Building my own network stack
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The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes
The S&P 500 fell 4.4% on 5 Nov 2026, its worst day since April 2025, and is 6% below its 6 Oct record. Charted day by day against 1987, 2008, Covid and other falls since 1950.
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Time for AVIF everywhere?
Storage devices such as hard disk drives (HDDs), solid-state drives (SSDs), and NVMe drives are reaching increasingly ridiculous prices an...
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What I've learned about the trombone
Including a little dive into the physics behind it
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Video Games as Art
Video games are art, but a strange art: their essence is transformation of the player, not description to the player. This makes meaningful criticism nearly impossible—you can point at the moon, but it’s not the moon, and once someone sees it, they no longer need the pointing.
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UK intelligence censored report on global warming and homeland security
Series: I read it so you don't have to
5897
What “The Best” Looks Like
A startup CTO's guide to what "the best" really means—how to spot non-obvious high performers and the traits that make early-stage teams win.
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RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine
Ludeon Studios is an independent game developer. We love deep PC games and story generators.
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The Cost of Indirection in Rust
Why 'indirection has a cost' is usually the wrong reason to inline and what actually costs you.
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My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs
In which I revisit one of my favorite bugs, the invalid surrogate pair.
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Laguna XS.2 and M.1
We've released the first two models in the Laguna family, Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2, alongside the runtime we use to train and operate agents, available through two product experiences in research preview.
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Pull request limits are cutting down the noise
Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap.
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Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian
Goodbye, old friend. We’ve been traveling together since 2010, and you’ve faithfully served all my virtual machine needs well, first with VirtualBox and then later with libvirt and KVM . But, as they 1 say, all good things must pass.
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CSS: The bomb inside your inbox
Gareth Heyes - gareth.heyes@portswigger.net - @garethheyes It's quite common for webmail clients to render untrusted CSS in a trusted UI. They attempt to make this safe using CSS sanitization. In this
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The Clock
(If you fancy a puzzle, go look at The Clock first, try to figure out how it works, then come back here for the explanation.) Inspired b...
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MAGA Is Winning Its War Against U.S. Science
When a political movement believes that ignorance is strength
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A quick look at Mythos run on Firefox: too much hype?
A closer look at Mozilla's Firefox 150 "271 vulnerabilities" fixes and what they do, and do not, tell us about the alarming claims we can read online and AI-assisted vulnerability research.
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You gotta think outside the hypercube
A closer look at the tesseract and the ways we can render it on the screen.
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Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode
Actually building floating point from scratch!