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C++26 Disapproved
On October 23, 2026, the unthinkable happened. It was supposed to be a mere formality: C++26 was up for a vote by the ISO National Bodi...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,845 posts.
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A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)
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Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement
Click fraud protection in one tool: DataCops flags bot clicks, blocks repeat bots at your Cloudflare edge, keeps them out of the conversions 8 ad platforms learn from, and exports Google refund evidence.
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Chrome will stop displaying ads that are repeatedly flagged as disruptive
Starting on February 15, Chrome will stop showing all ads on sites that repeatedly display disruptive ads after they’ve been flagged.
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You don’t need to work on hard problems (2020)
A lot of smart college students end up with the idea that “solving hard technical problems” is the best thing they can do with their life—probably because that’s the only thing they’ve ever been rewarded for so far.
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“But he does good work.”
Right now, my inbox holds media requests from Buzzfeed, Daily Dot, Guardian, Associated Press, and newly, La Repubblica, Italy’s largest…
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Firefox exploit found in the wild
Yesterday morning, August 5, a Firefox user informed us that an advertisement on a news site in Russia was serving a Firefox exploit that searched for sensitive files and uploaded ...
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I do not want AI to "polish" me
I was sending an email when a little magic wand popped up that said “Polish” and I thought that was weird because why would I want to translate my email into Polish? I tried to click on…
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ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails
I switched to ProtonMail a few years back after getting fed up with Google. It’s been mostly acceptable, but a few months ago the Android client started mangling emails – if I hit “send” too soon, it would send out only part of what I’d typed; I had to wait 10 seconds or so after I finished typing before hitting send…
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How to revert HP printer’s ban on 3rd-party ink cartridges
Hewlett & Packard, the founders, had great lessons to teach us (managers in high-tech) about culture. To the extend of quoting them in my awesome...
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Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
Dropping Cloudflare and migrating to bunny.net, starting out with my blog.
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25 years of coding, and I'm just beginning
I've come to a conclusion that I have nothing to show for my 25 years of coding. I am ready to begin and I have a plan.
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How I learned to code in my 30s
Immerse, get mentorship, and don’t look back.
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The Era of the Trident Engine
About the rise and fall of Microsoft's take on the web.
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My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
The first time I tried to use an LLM to speed up coding was in mid-2025. I was not impressed. I was working on libadbmdns back then, an mDNS implementation in Rust. The code produced would not even compile.
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Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta
📢Update: My message has been heard and our domain has been unblocked. We never received an explanation - HN might have done it. Thank you everyone for sharing. In my spare time, I maintain an open-source SAAS tool for non-profits that allows you to build an online shop, sell
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The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android
Discover why Nextcloud file uploads for Android app are not working properly, and how Google’s app store rules are hurting Nextcloud users.
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Before You Grow
Startups are defined by growth [http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html], but growth isn’t step one in building a great company. If you focus on trying to grow before you make a product people love, you are unlikely to succeed. We’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating–many founders hurt their companies by…
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More Casio Watch Mods
Hey everyone, it's been a while. Hope you're all doing well. Today I want to show you some more watch related stuff I've been working on.
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Examples of Great URL Design (2023)
Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010) : URLs are universal. They work in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, cURL…
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Deno Joins TC39
Deno has joined the JavaScript standards committee to improve the language for everyone.
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Cycles X
Celebrating 10 years of the Cycles render engine, and sharing what is next.
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FSE meets the FBI
I have for you a bizarre tale of scrapers, feds, data poisoning, Torswats, and everyone's favorite fedi instance. It veers technical, because I suspect it will be of interest to other people running servers with UGC (i.e., every fedi instance), and also because the mechanics of how I figured out what I figured out…
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Intent to end OCSP service
Today we are announcing our intent to end Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) support in favor of Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) as soon as possible. OCSP and CRLs are both mechanisms by which CAs can communicate certificate revocation information, but CRLs have significant advantages over OCSP. Let’s…