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Securing Firefox with WebAssembly
Protecting the security and privacy of individuals is a central tenet of Mozilla’s mission. While we continue to make extensive use of both sandboxing and Rust in Firefox to address ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,937 posts.
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Rebecca Heineman – from homelessness to porting Doom (2022)
Today Rebecca Burger Becky Heineman shares the tale of porting Doom to the 3DO console under extreme conditions. There is an engine to tweak, deadlines to hit, hardware acceleration to get working, and dramatic rock anthems to record. We also learn about how game piracy led her to game development and what it was like…
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Store SQLite in Cloudflare Durable Objects
This is my journey of creating a proof-of-concept of persisting an SQLite database in a Cloudflare Durable Object. It is not meant as a tutorial, but rather as something I myself can get back to it, to revisit what and why I did certain things.
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GitHub's new Git storage architecture
GitHub's new Git storage architecture is built so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at once. Here's how it works.
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xAI dev leaks API key for private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs
An employee at Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk’s companies, including SpaceX , Tesla and…
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Twitter's missing manual
I mentioned recently, buried in a post about UI changes, that Twitter’s latest earnings report included this bombshell: We are going to fix the broken windows and confusing parts, like the .@name syntax and @reply rules, that we know inhibit usag
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Walkability a key factor determining upward mobility of a city's residents
Bipartisan Alliance, a Society for the Study of the US Constitution, and of Human Nature, where Republicans and Democrats meet.
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“A state of flow can be achieved by deep work”
The following article summarizes my lessons learned from the books Deep Work and Flow. It can be the way to achieve a fulfilled life. Cal Newport and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi have written outstanding books in their ...
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What do new Sudoku techniques teach us about real-world problem solving?
What do revolutionary new Sudoku techniques teach us about real-world problem solving?
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Neural Networks Are Impressively Good at Compression
I’m trying to get into neural networks. There have been a couple big breakthroughs in the field in recent years and suddenly my side project of messing around with programming languages seeme…
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Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had
SQLite has evolved far beyond a simple embedded database. Explore modern features like JSON, FTS5, window functions, strict tables, and more.
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I'm a phony. Are you?
pho·ny also pho·ney (fō'nē) adj. pho·ni·er, pho·ni·est 1. a. Not genuine or ...
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Metal Gear Solid V – Graphics Study
The Metal Gear series achieved world-wide recognition when Metal Gear Solid became a best-seller on the original PlayStation almost two …
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Furiosa's Cat Feeder (2016)
Furiosa’s Cat Feeder
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Doing Windows, Part 5: A Second Try
The beginning of serious work on the operating system that would come to be known as OS/2 left Microsoft’s team of Windows developers on decidedly uncertain ground. As OS/2 ramped up, Windows ramped down in proportion, until by the middle of 1986 Tandy Trower had just a few programmers remaining on his team. What had…
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I did Advent of Code on a Playstation
How far can I get in Advent of Code if I do all the problems in Dreams?
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The Craft of Text Editing (1999)
Copyright 1999 by Craig A. Finseth. Contact the author with questions about distribution rights.
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Millitext – A subpixel text encoding font
Pixels of LCD monitors are usually composed of three stripes of the colors red, green, and blue. Tech enthusiast Matt Sarnoff used this property to his advantage when inventing [a subpixel text encoding font](http://www.msarnoff.org/millitext/). Its glyphs are comprised of colored strips only one pixel wide. But when…
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PyPy 1.6 Released - Full Python 2.7.1 Implementation
We're pleased to announce the 1.6 release of PyPy. This release brings a lot of bugfixes and performance improvements over 1.5, and improve...
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Animated Cursors
Tattoy is a text-based terminal compositor
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The First PS4 Kernel Exploit: Adieu
Now we will step back a bit and explain how we managed to jump from the browser process into the kernel such that ps4-kexec et al. are usable.
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Scott and Scurvy: How the cure for scurvy was lost
Writing about the first winter the men spent on the ice, Cherry-Garrard casually mentions an astonishing lecture on scurvy by one of the expedition’s doctors:
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Obvious to you. Amazing to others.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Introduction to Formal Verification with Lean Part 1
A tutorial Formal Verification using Lean for cryptographic engineers. Implement and prove correctness of the One-Time pad following a cryptography book.
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Lisp: Icing or Cake?
The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached building games with Lisp. I think these…
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