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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,867 posts.
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Is everything an MLM
Last week, I linked to a NYT article about the spread of CorePower Yoga: how its business model is contingent upon enrolling thousands in expensive “teacher training” courses, even though there’s already a surfeit of teachers out there.
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Ethereum Has Issues
I first wrote about the problem of bots front-running transactions a year and a half ago in The Order Flow , citing Dan Robinson and Georgio...
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JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Preview Program
Since the initial announcement of Fleet, we have had an overwhelming amount of interest from all of you, with over 137,000 people signing up for the private preview. Our reason for starting with a clo
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Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
From chatbots to agents
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Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla and the Unfortunate Implications
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2020352 points302 commentscited by 5History & Retro Computing details
We’re going to be a bit silly this week (in part because the ending of this compressed semester has left me with little time) and talk about the recently released historical action-RPG comput…
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Rust and Go
I’ve been spending a bit of my time playing around with new languages — in particular, Rust has captured my imagination. The bulk of the…
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Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres
There are books & many articles online, like this one arguing for using Postgres for everything. I thought I’d take a look at one use case - using Postgres instead of Redis for caching. I work with APIs quite a bit, so I’d build a super simple HTTP server that responds with data from that cache. I’d start from Redis…
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AI coding at home without going broke
There are three ways to do AI coding at home without spending like a company, and which one fits depends mostly on how much you trust the next year of hardwa...
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DuckDuckGo email protection beta now open
DuckDuckGo Email Protection is a free email forwarding service that removes multiple kinds of trackers and lets you create unique private email addresses.
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To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical …
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A final proposal for Rust await syntax
This is an announcement regarding the resolution of the syntax for the await operator in Rust. This is one of the last major unresolved questions blocking the stabilization of the async/await feature, a feature which will enable many more people to write non-blocking network services in Rust. This post contains…
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The first stable release of a memory safe sudo implementation
Prossimo is pleased to announce the first stable release of sudo-rs, our Rust rewrite of the critical sudo utility. The sudo utility is one of the most common ways for engineers to cross the privilege boundary between user and administrative accounts in the ubiquitous Linux operating system. As such, its security is…
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Facebook's PR feels broken
Facebook’s communications operation has begun to feel like its completely broken down over the past few days.
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Everything I Know About SSDs
March 2019: Introduction: I started writing this rather long page for my own benefit, when I acquired a upgrade from my old 2006 Win 8 250 gb HDD PC to a Dell Optiflex 3010 with a 128 gb SSD. I never used more than 30 or 40 gb of the system drive, and I'm not a gamer or an avid film or music collector either. Not on a…
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X86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary
Assembly programming can be intimidating for people who have never looked into it any deeper than a glance, but giving that it underpins how the computers we use work it can be helpful having context in regards to what is actually being run by the CPU.
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Examining the covidtests.gov architecture
A day early, the Biden Administration has quietly launched the new website that allows households to order four COVID-19 rapid antigen tests.
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Boeing Engineers Lost Control of the Company
David analyzes the root causes of the Boeing 737 Max crash. Read here.
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V8: A Year with Spectre
The V8 team details their analysis and mitigation strategy for Spectre, one of the top computer security issues of 2018.
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Assange Hearing Day 16
On Wednesday the trap sprang shut, as Judge Baraitser insisted the witnesses must finish next week, and that no time would be permitted for preparation of closing arguments, which must be heard the immediate following Monday. This brought the closest the defence have come to a protest, with the defence pointing out…
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Understanding ChatGPT Work
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here’s what I’ve figured out …
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Nobody's just reading your code
Most programmers agree that we don't read enough code. The interviews in Peter Seibel's book, “Coders at work” highlight a comical contradiction: almost all the programmers interviewed by Seibel recommend that others read code for fun, but none of them routinely do so themselves. Seibel even asked Hal Abelson (of SICP…
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Bosch develops rapid test for Covid-19
The PCR diagnostic platform Vivalytic enables COVID-19 rapid tests — a blessing for Clemens Weller and his mother, who suffers from dementia. Learn more!
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FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks
Since 2007, artist Walead Beshty has been cleverly using FedEx’s shipping infrastructure to create a series of artworks. He constructs glass objects that fit ex