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Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days
Thinking through how the conventional OSS security embargoes no longer buy us time, and what open source maintainers might do instead to respond
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,943 posts.
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JPEG Compression
JPEG is a clever image compression algorithm that exploits a human perceptual bias and the structure of natural images. It makes a change of basis before encoding so that the rewritten image representation concentrates the signal that humans are most perceptive to, and thus, the remaining details can be discarded…
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Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
In this post, we explore how a simple website summary request hijacks Claude Code Opus 5 in Auto Mode and achieves code execution with 60-80% attack success …
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A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning (2015)
What is machine learning? See how it works with our animated data visualization.
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I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
How Varkos was built: a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with you, follows complex instructions and evolves through shared experiences.
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Claude Code VS Code extension with backdoor released on Cursor marketplace
Yesterday, Anthropic were compromised and used to stage a global supply chain attack.
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It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute. Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—Apple's not supposed to be both the cheapest option and the best value... but it seems like that's…
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2025 Letter
Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair
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Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
I'm creating a simple developer utility to make managing Claude Code profiles (e.g. running it with DeepSeek, or some OpenRouter models) a little bit easier.
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RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
Dmitry.GR: I am often asked to explain my distaste for RISC-V. Here it is.
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Hacking Moltbook
Learn how a misconfigured Supabase database at Moltbook exposed 1.5M API keys, private messages, and user emails, enabling full AI agent takeover.
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IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields
I want to speak to your manager.
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A new Go API for JSON
Go 1.27 introduces new encoding/json/v2 and encoding/json/jsontext packages.
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Fairphone is now officially available in the United States
The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) is here. With more power under the hood, a brand-new color, and more software features, it's everything you love about Fairphone. Plus more.
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How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works
A visual explanation of how threshold secret sharing lets any k of n shares recover a secret.
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Damn fine tiny cafe
I love them miniatures. It started off with Rolife series, where the first hit had come from a [[https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/mini-libra...
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$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
We gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol the same song, a budget, web search, and local ffmpeg, then let each autonomously direct a music video.
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Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
Trump admin sees China behind opposition to AI data centers
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Love systemd timers
A cron job for every man, woman, and child.
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Don't become an engineering manager
Should you become an engineering manager?
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There are no "rogue" AI agents
Identifying them as such only lets companies like OpenAI off the hook.
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Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
What does this vagueness by-design mean for how we choose to self monitor our biological markers?
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A Faster Alternative to Jq
An introduction to the jsongrep tool, a technical explanation of its DFA-based search engine, and performance results against popular JSON query tools.
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Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?
Lzon.ca. A personal blog, by a programmer and IT expert.2026395 points245 commentsTech Industry & Business details
A personal blog, by a programmer and IT expert. Essays, Articles, Guides, and Recipes. As well as Code, Quotes, and Links.
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Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries
If signed, Seattle will become the first city in the nation to prohibit the pricing tactic Seattle, Washington – The Seattle City Council today passed…
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Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug
AI agents are getting very good at finding vulnerabilities in large-scale software systems.
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CERN levels up with new superconducting karts
The race is on to test new vehicles in the underground Large Hadron Collider tunnel, ahead of major works starting this summer