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Yet another way to invoke functions in JavaScript without parentheses
i found yet another way to invoke arbitrary functions in javascript without using parentheses
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,955 posts.
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Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure
Amazon Threat Intelligence identified a PHP2Shell exploitation attempt dating to Oct. 17, 2026, in MadPot telemetry, four days before public disclosure of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. The exploit attempt originated from an IP address associated with a commercial anonymization network. While the vulnerability…
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CISA tries to contain data leak
Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are demanding answers from the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after KrebsOnSecurity reported this week that a CISA contractor intentionally published AWS GovCloud keys and a vast trove of other agency secrets on a public GitHub account. The inquiry comes…
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Python Workers are now generally available
Python Workers allow developers to run Python web frameworks and AI orchestration libraries natively in the Cloudflare Workers runtime. You can seamlessly integrate with Cloudflare's ecosystem including D1, R2, and Workers AI without writing any JavaScript glue code.
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The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI
For two centuries, the credential system gave intelligence a route to heritable capital. Artificial intelligence is closing that route. This essay builds the argument from first principles - with probability theory, interactive simulations, and a prediction specific enough to be falsifiable - and puts a number on the…
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A retrospective of my time on the internet
A thorough retrospective of my time on the internet.
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My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
Thanks HN folks for all the comments. To clarify a bit, the cables are pulled through PVC conduits under the flooring before being buried in cement. Currently the hypothesis for why the cable disintegrated so quickly is hydrolysis. Singapore is extremely humid after all. A second possibility is that I keep the…
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Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell
Scheme (and Lisp) lets you express complex systems and problem domains in simpler terms than any other language can. For all its brilliance, Haskell resists most of the attempts people make to just hack and write useful code quickly.
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Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights
Twenty-five years ago, I made my first donation to an open source project and purchased a CD with an operating system as downloading a few hundred megabytes over a 14.4kbps dial-up wasn't very fun.
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Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT
A few months after writing up the Cudy AX3000 units and moving the house over to OpenWRT, I ended up revisiting the one bit I had deliberately waved away ...
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Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research
The world’s tallest tropical trees have no trouble pumping water to their topmost branches, new research reveals. Conventional scientific theory suggests that as trees grow, it becomes harder to transport water from roots to leaves
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The pleasures of poor product design
A brilliant project cleverly sabotages everyday objects to reveal how much we take for granted about them — and about the design process.
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Beyond agentic coding
AI dev tooling can do better than chat interfaces
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Using Kagi Search with Low Vision
How I'm using Kagi Search with low vision to manage visual fatigue, plus my favorite Kagi accessibility features for low vision + CVI and Kagi low vision theme
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A faster way to calculate the day of the week
A range of fast modulus techniques that beat compiler output
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Snowflake AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware
A vulnerability in the Snowflake Cortex Code CLI allowed malware to be installed and executed via indirect prompt injection, bypassing human-in-the-loop command approval and escaping the sandbox.
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AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
AI has dramatically accelerated the path to a first working version. It has not shortened the distance between a first working version and something production-grade.
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Your website is not for you
A note from a developer who keeps watching good design die in boardrooms.
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Claude Tag
Claude Tag is a new way for teams to work with Claude.
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Code is clay now
Artisans, factories and the new material software is made of
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W Social, public institutions and the theater of European digital sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swedish entrepreneurs that has quietly gone closed-source.
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Stealing Is a Skill
I’m slowly developing my own list of advice: have a creative mindset, embrace radical transparency, and write down what makes you happy. I’d like to add one more to the list: stealing is a skill!
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LLM=True
Your AI coding agent is drowning in noise
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SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
When I ssh into a server for the first time, I’m confronted with a dialog which asks me to verify I’m actually talking to the machine I expect to be talking to. $ ssh -l jp 192.0.2.65 The authenti...
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Tony Hoare has died
Limousin, Saint-Yrieix-la-perche, Périgord, Université, société, Livres, citations, Nantes, Jumilhac
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Obscure audio codec is a perfect fit for the N64
Sorry for the clickbait title. I promise this post delivers: 44100 Hz stereo with near-Opus bitrates using about 4% of the N64’s CPU time.
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I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore
Disability, shame, and the hidden violence of a culture that equates productivity with value