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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,903 posts.
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How Pitfall builds its world (2021)
Games for the Atari 2600 were quite constrained. When Warren Robinett first pitched the idea that would become Adventure , a game where you would explore a world with many rooms and pick up items to help you along the way, he was denied because it wasn't thought feasible. And it made sense to do so. This was the late…
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Build a burner phone with Twilio and Kotlin
In this article we will look at how to build a fully featured "burner phone" using Kotlin and Twilio that we will then deploy to Heroku.
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Google, D-Wave, and the case of the factor-10^8 speedup
Update (Dec. 16): If you’re still following this, please check out an important comment by Alex Selby, the discoverer of Selby’s algorithm, which I discussed in the post. Selby querie…
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Understanding Parquet, Iceberg and Data Lakehouses
In the past few years, I've heard a lot about Avro, Parquet, ORC, Arrow and Feather, but I also keep hearing about Iceberg and Delta Lake. As a "database person", I’ve been struggling to understand all of these different things, and how they relate to Data Lakes and
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Mob Programming – The Good, the Bad and the Great
After a particularly rough couple of months last year, our team (of six) decided it was time for a radical move. At the point we were so downtrodden that our small hope that it would at least provide something new was enough of a motivation for us to decide on a two month experiment: we would try mob programming.
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Ableton Live Redesign
My redesign of the Ableton Live. The entire process and elaborate case study of UX and UI design including guerilla UX research, interviews, sketches, drafts, wireframes, iterations, interface ideas and everything in-between. UI design galore.
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Securing a Postgres Database
A comprehensive overview of the best practices for securing access to PostgreSQL databases.
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I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab
Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every one. But what are they good for? You can use Remote Desktop, Screen Sharing, or VNC to remote control a computer from anywhere on a LAN. And if you don't have a private VPN, you could use RealVNC, Raspberry Pi Connect, or…
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AirPods fast connect security vulnerability
tldr: There's a security vulnerability (CVE-2024-27867) in the firmware of Apple AirPods. Anyone who knows the Bluetooth MAC address (which is somewhat public) can connect to your AirPods and listen to the microphone or play music. Even while the AirPods are connected to your phone (although music would stop playing…
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A Data-Driven Guide to Becoming a Consistent Billionaire
Did You Really Think All Billionaires Were the Same? Recently, I became a bit obsessed with the one percent of the one percent – Billionaires. I was intrigued when I stumbled on articles telling us…
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TIL–Python has a built-in persistent key-value store (2018)
Simplex Sigillum Veri
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Why “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Is Not in Amazon’s Kindle Store
You can get OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems for Kindle direct from me at Tilted Windmill Press or at Gumroad . You can get a Kindle-friendly ebook from any number of other retailers, but while they’re all supposed to be DRM-free I can’t advise on prying the file out of another vendor’s ecosystem. The one place you cannot…
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On-device browser translations with Firefox Translations
Firefox can now do offline and privacy-preserving translation of eight languages with more on the way. Powered by open-source and machine-learning.
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A cache invalidation bug in Linux memory management
Posted by Jann Horn, Google Project ZeroThis blogpost describes a way to exploit a Linux kernel b...
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Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for documentation
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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FlyWeb – An API for web pages to host local web servers
For the past several months, a small team at Mozilla has been working on an experimental new Web API and an accompanying browser feature called FlyWeb.
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A beginner's guide to Big O notation (2009)
Thoughts on software engineering from Rob Bell
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Chat with Andreas Kling about Ladybird and developing a browser engine
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
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Tiny Wins
The big benefits of little changes.
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The Beer Can (2023)
Connecting old and new.
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