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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,828 posts.
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Dilution
There has probably been more capital looking to invest in private technology companies in the past five years than any five-year period before. An obvious consequence of this increased supply is that company valuations (i.e. prices) have gone up, and so has the amount of capital raised by most companies. A non-obvious…
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Full Autopilot in GTA Using TensorFlow
student, nomad in machine learning
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Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria. That’s what shadow libraries do - collect and share as many
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EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance
firstunitarianvnsa-final.pdf
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The Basement
Somewhere in Portland, there’s a very old building, and that very old building has a very, very old basement. An incredible basement, a video-game-level basement, a set-decorator’s drea…
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Why I'm in the Army Reserve – an explainer for my friends in tech
Outside my day job doing compiler research at Shopify, I lead the Cheshire Yeomanry , a squadron of British Army Reserve light cavalry . I spend about a hundred days a year of my spare-time in evenings, weekends, and holidays, training my Squadron.
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Our self imposed scarcity of nice places
Why is it that when a place is [pick one: walkable, bikeable, beautiful, lovable, inviting, human-scale], it so often gets coded as being “gentrified” or “upscale”?
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The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
As had been rumored for a while, Oracle effectively killed Solaris on Friday . When I first saw this, I had assumed that this was merely a deep cut, but in talking to Solaris engineers still at Oracle, it is clearly much more than that. It is a cut so deep as to be fatal: the core Solaris engineering organization lost…
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Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
First of all, this blogpost is kinda long. Let me prove to you reading it will actually have some payoff:
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Groups never admit failure
Groups never admit failure. A group would rather keep living in the mythology of “we were repressed” than ever admit failure. Individuals are the only ones who admit failure. Even individuals don’t like to admit failure, but eventually, they can be forced to. A group will never admit they were wrong. More
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CCPA Scam – Human subject research study conducted by Princeton University
Get ready for the CCPA compliance scams from Princeton.
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Problems at Roblox
Problems at Roblox (RBLX)
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by…
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Event Sourcing is Hard
Despite it being sold as the one true path, event sourcing comes with some pain points when you try to put its ideas into production.
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Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
This blog post is a follow-up to Dawn of a new era in Search, published last year. A lot has changed: the legal case has advanced, AI has become the central battleground, and the need for...
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TP-Link firmware sends six DNS requests and one NTP query every 5 seconds
A design flaw in TP-Link Wi-Fi repeater firmware causes it to waste an excessive amount of bandwidth on NTP timekeeping. DDoS’ed public NTP servers in the process.
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I Was Arrested for Learning a Foreign Language. Today, I Have Some Closure
Five years ago, the Philadelphia police thought that carrying Arabic-language flashcards was enough to warrant the arrest of an innocent traveler. A settlement reached today in a lawsuit I brought against the police department makes it clear that it is not.
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Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information
See why you should never use pixelation for redacting text and why it is a surefire way to get your data leaked. Learn from security researcher Dan Petro.
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One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
I became a big fan of Minecraft when I first started playing it in early-2011. I have stopped in recent years since I find it dangerously addictive, though I sometimes keep up with the new changes. Today I want to look back at a development mistake that was made in Beta 1.8, one that took a decade to recover from.
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Almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake – study
New EPFL research has found that almost half of local Twitter trending topics in Turkey are fake, a scale of manipulation previously unheard of. It also proves for the first time that many trends are created solely by bots due to a vulnerability in Twitter’s Trends algorithm.
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Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive
A deep dive into Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU kernel architecture, tracing its evolution from Mach and BSD roots to powering macOS, iOS, and Apple Silicon. This post explores the hybrid kernel’s design, its adaptation to new hardware and security paradigms, and why XNU remains a uniquely resilient and scalable foundation…
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The Reddit Front Page Is Not a Meritocracy
I was pleasantly surprised when somebody shared my traveling salesman animation to reddit and the post made it all the way to reddit’s default front page (i.e. the top 25). The gif racked up over 1.3 …
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Codestral Mamba
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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JIT WireGuard
Our fancy WireGuard setup was accumulating stale peers. Here's what we did about it.
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