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I am retiring from tech to live offline
AI took the last of the wind out of my Open Source sails. I wish you all the best!
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,795 posts.
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Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Kimi K3 matches Fable 5 on SWE tasks (92.4% vs 92.6%) at up to 50x lower cost on Fireworks. See where each model wins and how routing beats both.
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Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
Updated Aug. 28, 2024. Take back your privacy Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection by default to more Firefox users worldwide, making Firefox the
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Facial recognition: It’s time for action
In July, we shared our views about the need for government regulation and responsible industry measures to address advancing facial recognition technology. As we discussed, this technology brings important and even exciting societal benefits but also the potential for abuse. We noted the need for broader study and…
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Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server
I regularly search for vulnerabilities on big services that allow it and have a Bug Bounty program. Here is my first paper which covers a vulnerability I discovered on one of Facebook’s servers.
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Show HN: Long Range E-Bike
Electric cars are fantastic compared to ICE vehicles, but E-Bikes are even better. Much lower environmental impact and far more suited to medium range travel such as commuting. Here in NL they sell in huge numbers, far faster than electric cars. But they also have their limitations: a regular e-bike tops out at 25…
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I'm not a Woman in Tech
My name is Maria. I happily identify as female. I work as an Agile Coach for a tech company in Cambridge, UK. I am not a woman in tech. I grew up in Pjedsted, a village in Denmark, with my mum and …
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Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
In the release notes for macOS 26.3 RC, Apple stated that the window-resizing issue I demonstrated in my recent blog post had been resolved.
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Remote Code Execution on Most Dell Computers
What computer do you use? Who made it? Have you ever thought about what came with your computer? When we think of Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in mass, we might think of vulnerabilities in the operating system, but another attack vector to consider is "What third-party software came with
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Curves and Surfaces
Interactive article explaining how curves and surfaces are modeled.
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New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
We’ve been talking about Windows 10 for over a year now and today we started our next chapter, with new devices designed for Windows 10. Today I stood on stage in NYC along with members of my team and had the honor of unveiling a new era of Windows 10 devices from Microsoft. We introduced
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Just let me select text
Text is a universal medium. And yet we try to prevent users of our UIs from using it. Let’s not.
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How to be a -10x Engineer
To become a -10x engineer, simply waste 400 engineering hours per week. Combine the following strategies:
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Goodbye Joe
Today, we've learned of Joe's passing away. I wasn't a super close friend of Joe, but I have known him and talked with him at various conferences over the last ten years or so. He's unsurprisingly been a huge influence in my career, and so I thought I should write this little post about him and his impact.
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Stable Diffusion is a big deal
If you haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on with Stable Diffusion, you really should be. Stable Diffusion is a new “text-to-image diffusion model” that was released to the …
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Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI
At Build 2018, I outlined our approach to helping you be more productive when developing apps, including the introduction of .NET Core 3.0. We also started decoupling many parts of the Windows development platform, so you can adopt technologies incrementally. Today at Microsoft Connect(); 2018 Conference we shared the…
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It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian
In the summer of 2022, KrebsOnSecurity documented the plight of several readers who had their accounts at big-three consumer credit reporting bureau Experian hijacked after identity thieves simply re-registered the accounts using a different email address. Sixteen months later, Experian clearly has not addressed this…
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Trackers
A couple of weeks ago I went to the local shopping centre looking for a thermometer. After entering one store upon leaving without buying anything a tracker was assigned to me. I didn’t think much of it at first, but he followed me dutifully around the shopping centre, took careful note of how I walked. Whenever I…
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Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right
by Hugo Barra (former Head of Oculus at Meta) Friends and colleagues have been asking me to share my perspective on the Apple Vision Pro as a product. Inspired by my dear friend Matt Mullenweg̵…
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Software development topics I've changed my mind on
Software development topics I've changed my mind on over the course of a decade
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I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers
OR: an apology to my English teachers