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Steelmanning: Discover the truth by helping your opponent
Tackle the steelmanning challenge, a three-step method to win arguments by helping your opponent. Its only downside: Nobody will ever take it.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,918 posts.
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My Deus Ex lipsyncing fix mod
Back in 2021 I made a mod for Deus Ex 1 that fixes the lipsyncing and blinking, which, I betcha didn’t know, was broken since ship. Everything I wrote about it is on Twitter, and it oughta be somewhere else, so here’s a post about it. The mod itself can be downloaded here .
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230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question
Over the past several weeks, Signal traffic has gone through the roof. New users are signing up at unprecedented rates, and we’ve expanded our server capacity faster than we ever anticipated. It means a lot to us that so many people are relying on Signal during this difficult time. When users che...
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Structured logging with slog
The Go 1.21 standard library includes a new structured logging package, log/slog.
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Apple iPhone charger teardown: quality in an tiny expensive package
This article is now available in Vietnamese Bộ sạc iPhone của Apple . Disassembling Apple's diminutive inch-cube iPhone charger reveals ...
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How to resolve a conflict when both sides are right
A powerful approach to nonviolent communication at your company
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Docker 1.12: Now with Built-In Orchestration
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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Real-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases
Real-SWE benchmarks frontier AI models on private production codebases licensed from real companies. Eighteen models across twenty-five tasks.
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Docker 0-Day Stopped Cold by SELinux
The latest on the world’s leading enterprise Linux® platform
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tolower() with AVX-512
A couple of years ago I wrote about tolower() in bulk at speed using SWAR tricks . A couple of days ago I was interested by Olivier Giniaux’s article about unsafe read beyond of death , an optimization for handling small strings with SIMD instructions, for a fast hash function written in Rust.
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This Is Why The American Dream Is Out Of Reach
"The conversation I'm going to have with my parents now that I've turned down this job is more of a concern to me than turning down the job," he said.
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How do our brains adapt to control an extra body part?
Members of the public have little trouble in learning very quickly how to use a third thumb – a controllable, prosthetic extra thumb – to pick up and manipulate objects.
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India’s Downward Spiral
How India is losing its footing on free expression. The world’s biggest democracy is a formidable power in the IT sector. With software exports comprising approximately ten percent of India’s total GDP and a technology sector that employs more than 2.5 million people, India is poised to become a...
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Bunny AI
Bunny.net introduces Bunny AI, a multi-model image engine creating images via simple URLs. Powered by OpenAI and StabilityAI, Bunny AI generates dynamic profile avatars and more. Try it free in our experimental release and help us shape the future of internet performance!
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Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel
Albert Einstein used to say that he went to his office at the Institute for Advanced Study “just to have the privilege of walking home with Kurt Gödel.” The two would meet at Einstein’s home each day between 10 and 11 and undertake the half-hour walk to the institute. At 1 or 2 in the afternoon they’d walk back…
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Making EC2 boot time faster
It's possible to cut EC2 boot time from 40 seconds to 5 seconds by combining several optimizations like root volume streaming, instance warm pools, and instance resizing.
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Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself
This is the story of BaseFEX - a crypto exchange that unintentionally bankrupted itself through wash trading.
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Stop using Material Design text fields
Why you shouldn't use or imitate the text fields from Google's Material Design UI library.
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Why We're Moving on from Nix
Meet Railpack — the next iteration of the Railway builder, developed from the ground up on lessons from building over 14 million apps with Nixpacks.
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You Can't Buy Integration
The usual build-versus-buy rules for applications don't apply to integration
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ArVid: Russians squeezed 4 hard drives into one VHS tape in the 90s
It’s a hellish time: prices for basic consumer goods are tripl e what they were last year. Your employer just paid your salary in eggs instead of money. There are daily shootouts between rival gangs. 🎵 Your love life’s DOA… 🎵
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Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt
I found this tiny fanless Thunderbolt 25G Ethernet adapter. With a little tinkering, it actually works.
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Reverse geocoding is hard
My wife and I run OpenBenches - a crowd-sourced database of nearly 40,000 memorial benches. Every bench is geo-tagged with a latitude and longitude. But how do you go from a string of digits to something human readable? How do I turn -33.755780,150.603769 into "42 Wallaby Way, Sydney, Australia"? Luckily, that's a…
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X-Plane 12 Flight Model Update – Supersonic Transition, Delta Wings and Mass
Oh my GOSH this is getting good. One of my favorite planes the F-4 Phantom. And one of our alpha testers recently casually mentioned that he was an Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantom flight instructor. I’ve been exchanging emails with him about every 30 minutes or so, on average, for 12-hour-long days, for the past […]
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