20191
Compiling Rust to Web Assembly
So you are intrigued what WebAssembly is and want to try it? Since December 22 it’s possible to compile Rust to WASM. If you don’t know…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,910 posts.
20192
Write any javascript code with just these characters: ()[]{}+
Hi! I've taken this blog offline, but you can still read this post in the archive.org version .
20193
Some Unusual Trees
One of my favorite pastimes is exploring old bookstores.
20194
My Emacs eye candy
I get the occasional question about my Emacs theme, font, and other eye candy. I'm always tickled and happy to share. It's been a while since I've mad...
20195
The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune
Auto-Tune — one of modern history’s most reviled inventions — was an act of mathematical genius.
20196
This Month in Ladybird – August 2026
Video on Twitch and YouTube, CSS scroll snap, JavaScript debugging, session restore, and a serious push on engine performance with a new style engine.
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When LIMIT 9 works but LIMIT 10 hangs
I got a Slack message from colleagues at a major partner. They’d updated their dev environment to support WebSockets, so that Neon’s serverless driver could be used there, but then they’d run into a weird issue. The nub of it was this: This hangs: This works Reproducibly, the query without an ORDER BY ran fine […]
20199
YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music
YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music Posted by timothy on Sunday February 26, @04:43PM from the estate-of-john-cage-winces-with-envy dept. New submitter eeplox writes “I make natu…
20200
All in with Nuitka
After more than 10 years of working on the Python compiler Nuitka, and at the age of 50, I have finally decided to take the plunge. My projects “Nuitka” and “Nuitka commercial” are now my day job , and I quit my work in the Air Traffic Community, after working on ARTAS (a software to create an Air Situation Picture…
20201
What Test Engineers Do at Google: Building Test Infrastructure
Author: Jochen Wuttke In a recent post, we broadly talked about What Test Engineers do at Google . In this post, I talk about one aspect o...
20202
Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
20203
MQTT turns 25
October 2024 marks the 25th anniversary of MQTT, a crucial protocol for connecting devices in diverse environments. With origins in lightweight networks, MQTT has flourished, empowering countless a…
20204
Cyanogen services shutting down
Deploy an autonomous tugger on one repetitive route for one monthly price. Watch it haul cart after cart, while the trips stack up and the ROI climbs.
20205
SMTP Smuggling – Spoofing Emails Worldwide
Introducing a novel technique for e-mail spoofing
20206
Learning Parser Combinators with Rust
This article teaches the fundamentals of parser combinators to people who are already Rust programmers. It assumes no other knowledge, and will explain everything that isn't directly related to Rust, as well as a few of the more unexpected aspects of using Rust for this purpose. It will not teach you Rust if you don't…
20207
1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images (2016)
Comparing astrological drawings from our Digital Collections to NASA images—how similar do you think they are?
20208
Io uring
Introduced in 2019 (kernel 5.1) by Jens Axboe, io_uring (henceforth uring) is a system for providing the kernel with a schedule of system calls, and receiving the results as they're generated. Whereas epoll and kqueue support multiplexing, where you're told when you can usefully perform a system call using some set of…
20209
Differentiable Neural Computers
In a recent study in Nature, we introduce a form of memory-augmented neural network called a differentiable neural computer, and show that it can learn to use its memory to answer questions about complex, structured data, including artificially generated stories, family trees, and even a map of the London Underground…
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I Resurrected “Ugly Sonic” with Stable Diffusion Textual Inversion
The true dystopia of AI is that it can make Ugly Sonic look cool.
20212
The complete guide to protecting your APIs with OAuth2
OAuth2 is one of the most popular specifications for API authentication today, though wrapping your head around it can be a challenge.
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Diff Algorithms
How I overcame copying and modifying my own diff library from project to project by diving too deep into diff algorithms and coming out at the other end with new diff library in my hand.
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Websockets 101
Quick introduction into the final specification of websockets (:rfc:6455).
20218
Do all first links on Wikipedia lead to philosophy?
wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at Philosophy.
20219
One model to learn them all
One model to learn them all Kaiser et al., arXiv 2017 You almost certainly have an abstract conception of a banana in your head. Suppose you ask me if I’d like anything to eat. I can say the word ‘…
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