2041
Person of Interest
A few days ago, I started watching Person of Interest, and I haven’t been able to stop. Aside from the fact that the show feels even more relevant today than...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,952 posts.
2042
Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran
Fortran : High-performance parallel programming language
2043
Pebble Production: February Update
Mega update on Pebble Time 2, Pebble Round 2 and Index 01 Things are busy in Pebbleland! We’re getting close to shipping 3 new hardware products and all the ...
2044
Use protocols, not services
The Internet is almost anonymous and privacy-preserving by design. I mean, unless some administrator actively tries to track you, there is no built-in...
2045
Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best
USA and their friends in the surveillance alliance Fourteen Eyes have demonstrated that they have the capacity, the desire and the experience to monitor who they want, when they want, anywhere in the world.
2046
The Zulip Foundation
Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the company to a newly created, independent, nonprofit Zulip Foundation. …
2047
Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
In 51,129 comments from six knife subreddits, the 5% most brand-heavy accounts wrote 11.3% of the brand mentions in buying threads, against 7.9% expected by chance. For one brand it is 31% against 8%. The full Reddit histories of those accounts are 4.5 years old and spread over 66 subreddits, the same as a comparison…
2048
The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat
The Tech Market is Fundamentally Fucked Up - AI is Just a Scapegoat
2049
Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
Libreboot – Libreboot 26.10 “Ominous Olive” released! With full UEFI support.
2050
New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays
A regression in external display support on Apple Silicon M4/M5 generation chips prevents full HiDPI modes on 4K monitors, limiting users to either blurry non-HiDPI or reduced workspace HiDPI.
2051
I Stored a Website in a Favicon
Words from me as developer, student and human.
2052
We have a year to fix security everywhere
consumer-grade hardware can run an LLM that hacks the planet. we can stop it, but we don't have much time.
2053
Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
A sad look at the state of modern programming books.
2054
ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
We need to have a hard look at the surveillance industry. It is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties, and it continues to be used by aspiring autocrats to threaten our very democracy. As long as it exists, the surveillance industry, and the data it generates, will be an…
2055
I Stopped “Creating Content”
Why did we all start talking about content, traffic, distribution, and conversions?
2056
A simple web we own
Today, the Web and Internet are owned and controlled by large for-profit corporations and a few governments 1 . Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product. It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification 2 .
2057
GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
Developers and engineering teams worldwide use GitHub Copilot for high-quality, agent-powered code reviews on every pull request. We understand that any change is significant to our customers, especially when it…
2058
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…
2059
I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling
A brief explanation of my pessimism about efforts to radically improve education.
2060
What even is an OS now?
Computers now work the way I thought they did when I was 8. What does computing look like when most applications have an audience of 1-2 people? I'm leaving Fly.io to build a phone for that world.
2061
America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks
Saving regret has less to do with procrastination than we thought, and more to do with whether your country absorbs economic shocks or lets them hit your savings
2062
Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place
6. Snow is heavier than you think. You might think physical strength is useful for lots of things, like overall health or familiar household tasks or picking up dudes (literally or metaphorically.)…
2063
The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it.
2064
An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
It's been a few months since my post on leaving Gmail which sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Here's an update on how things have been going after my move to Fastmail.
2065
I Love the Computer
An exploration of how I became a massive geek.
2066
Microgpt explained interactively
Walk through Karpathy's 200-line GPT from scratch. Tokenize names into integers, watch softmax convert scores to probabilities, step through backpropagation on a computation graph, explore attention heatmaps, and see a tiny model learn to generate plausible names.
2067
Instagram's URL Blackhole
While exploring the file system on a jailbroken iPhone 6s, I stumbled upon an interesting folder:
2068
ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit
arXiv is pleased to announce that three leading philanthropic organizations have provided multimillion-dollar support for arXiv. These new multiyear…
2069
No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams
Sharing a reluctant, "node & postgres" approach to engineering management for early-stage startups
2070
ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?
If you read OpenAI’s recent announcement about ChatGPT Health, you might wonder why an AI company under immense financial pressure is venturing into the health business. The answer is buried...