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How I Took an API Side Project to 250M Daily Requests
My company IPinfo.io started as a response to a question on Stack Overflow.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,826 posts.
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How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google
Welcome to Nenad SEO. This will be the first among numerous reports, SEO case studies and articles that you’re going to read on our blog. * After receiving a manual penalty by Google for 2 small si…
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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers can exploit image scaling on Gemini CLI, Vertex AI Studio, Gemini’s web and API interfaces, Google Assistant, Genspark, and other production AI systems. We’ll also explain how to mitigate and defend against these attacks, and we’ll introduce Anamorpher, our open-source…
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Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
Posted by Anton Mikhailov, Senior Software Engineer, Daydream False color maps show up in many applications in computer vision and machine learni...
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Wikipedia and Internet Archive partner to fix 1M broken links on Wikipedia
More than one million formerly broken links in the English Wikipedia have been updated to archived versions from the Wayback Machine, thanks to a partnership between the Internet Archive, volunteer…
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How fast is N tokens per second really?
Every local-LLM benchmark reports throughput: "47 tok/s on an M3," "180 tok/s on a 4090," "500 tok/s on Groq." Unless you've actually watched tokens stream at those rates, the numbers are hard to internalize. This is the rendering.
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It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to
How many of you have listened, read or taken part in a discussion about programming languages that goes like the following: Person A: "Pro...
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Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?
Millions are exploring European alternatives for privacy-friendly tech. Which are the top categories, top tools, and the global demand driving this shift.
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I hate telephones
I hate telephones. Some rational reasons: lack of authentication, no spam filtering, forced synchronous communication. But also just a visceral fear.
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Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
Apple and Google have teamed up to deliver support for unwanted Bluetooth tracking alerts in iOS and Android.
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Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook
After my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it, Apple refused to unlock it. Only after emailing Tim Cook could I get it unlocked.
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Why I'm Betting On Julia
The problem with most programming languages is they’re designed by language geeks, who tend to worry about things that I don’t much care for. Safety, type systems, homoiconicity, and so forth. I’m sure these things are great, but when I’m messing around with a new project for fun, my two concerns are 1) making it work…
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Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet, built for natural conversation.
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Reflections of an “Old” Programmer
Framing our programming careers in terms of knowledge accumulation and decay can yield some interesting insights.
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W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Claude is a space to think
Claude will remain ad-free. We explain why advertising incentives are incompatible with a helpful AI assistant.
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Dear Dr. Stallman: An Open Letter
Dear Dr. Stallman, Thank you for coming to Penn and giving a talk on A Free Digital Society; it was an honor meeting you. You mentioned that what you expected of us was to help the Free Software Foundation however we could; I'd like to take you up on that and offer both yourself and the FSF the following advice: Stop…
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Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay
The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 was awarded to Navanethem Pillay "for her efforts to promote peace and international law"
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Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool
We've all heard people say that Qwen is near-Opus level, but I have receipts and am here to be transparent with you.
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Hey advertisers, track this
If it feels like the ads chasing you across the internet know you a little too well, it’s because they do (unless you’re an avid user of ad blockers, i
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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
In the mid-90s the coolest thing to buy for a PC, besides the incredibly expensive Intel Pentium , was a CD-ROM drive . With their capacity of 640 MiB (three times the storage of PC HDD at the time), CDs allowed enthusiasts to step into a world of multimedia, made of high-resolution 640x480 256 colors palette-indexed…
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Why I still blog after 15 years
Before you know it, your little babies have started school, you celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park, and that little blog you started have now been going for 15 years.
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3,200% CPU Utilization
A while back my machine was so messed up that I could barely ssh onto it. 3,200% CPU utilization - all 32 cores on the host were fully utilized! Compare that to my last bug where it only used 1 core, 100% Fortunately, it was using Java 17 runtime which...
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Founder Depression
If you ask a founder how her startup is going, the answer is almost always some version of “Great!” There is a huge amount of pressure as a founder to never show weakness and to be the...
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How to Run a Live Coding Stream on Twitch Using OBS
If you’re reading this post, you might be interested in trying your hand at live coding on stream, as a way of sharing your projects in a more relatable, immediate way than a polished blog post, teaching others about programming, or just as a way to have fun. I think that live coding and streams in general are an…
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