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I ditched Docker for Podman
Podman offers better security, uses fewer resources, and integrates seamlessly with Linux and Kubernetes, making it a superior Docker alternative
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,790 posts.
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The Website Obesity Crisis
This is the text version of a talk I gave on October 29, 2015, at the Web Directions conference in Sydney. [ 53 minute video ].
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Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware
Apple today filed a lawsuit against NSO Group to hold it accountable for abusive surveillance and the targeting of a small number of Apple users.
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First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student
Vesuvius Challenge \$700,000 Grand Prize “now definitely achievable”
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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
If you’ve ever been a Homejoy customer this should piss you off. “Fly Maids” has all your data and they seem pretty awful.
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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.
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Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
Microsoft is investing $1 billion in OpenAI to support us building artificial general intelligence (AGI) with widely distributed economic benefits. We’re partnering to develop a hardware and software platform within Microsoft Azure which will scale to AGI. We’ll jointly develop new Azure AI supercomputing…
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How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home
After trying for 3 years, I found a way to grow transparent, high quality sodium chloride crystals at home. Here's my procedure.
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Data centers in space makes no sense
SpaceX acquired xAI on Monday, forming a $1.25 trillion behemoth with the goal of sending data centers into space. They’re not alone either: Google and a host of startups like Lonestar, Axiom, and...
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Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
May 2026 update This post was written at a time of significant turmoil in my life, when multiple correlated events happened in quick succession. What I wrote in the post below is true, but a lot was left unsaid, as some things were still being investigated. At the time when I wrote the post, despite resigning from my…
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I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
Friendster was the first social network. It has a long history, but the website friendster.com went dead in 2015 and the company officially…
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I am building a cloud
Today is fundraising announcement day . As is the nature of writing for a larger audience, it is a formal, safe announcement. As it should be. Writing must necessarily become impersonal at scale. But I would like to write something personal about why I am doing this. What is the goal of building exe.dev ? I am already…
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Did you lose your AirPods?
Reuniting AirPods with a few clever tricks
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Googler... ex-Googler
My role at Google was eliminated.
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Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...
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Taking over a Dead IoT Company
5 years after NYCTrainSign collapsed, I investigate why the company failed and end up writing an exploit to take over their fleet.
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GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
Among models given nothing but a prompt, the best open-weight option beat Claude Opus 4.8.
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Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5 is our new flagship model, with state-of-the-art coding and agentic performance at lower pricing.
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Ad blocking is under attack
Well, this is huge, so I'd like to draw your attention to what's happening right now. This is a very alarming case, and it concerns every ad blocker user.
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Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
When designing software systems, do the simplest thing that could possibly work. It’s surprising how far you can take this piece of advice. I genuinely think…
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Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch
I'm Brad Frost, an independent creator, web designer & developer, teacher, speaker, writer, musician, and artist based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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GPT in 500 Lines of SQL
A complete GPT2 implementation as a single SQL query in PostgreSQL.
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Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission . Over the past week, a stunning example has highlighted this core property once again.
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Bits of advice I wish I had known
UPDATE Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. The bits were extremely popular, and they were widely shared by others. I was encouraged to write … Continue reading →
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Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator
htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypertext htmx is small (~14k min.gz’d), dependency-free, extendable, IE11 compatible & has reduced code base sizes by 67% when…
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