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It's hard to build an oscillator
Especially if you want it to work.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,939 posts.
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Linux Kernel Exploitation: Attack of the Vsock
What started off as casual scrolling through the KernelCTF submissions quickly spiraled into a weeks-long deep dive into a deceptively simple patch - and my first root shell from a Linux kernel exploit!
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The lifecycle of a code AI completion
Demystifying code AI: Learn how Cody analyzes context, retrieves references, prompts models, and refines completions behind the scenes.
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Making my own bed sensor
I recently created some “bed sensors” for my smart home that detect if one of us, or both of us, is in bed. I use a couple of pressure mats that detect when weight is applied to them, and stuck then under our mattress at around hip level and these tell my Home Assistant home automation platform if
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Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine
Atuin Threads: one searchable, synced history for every agent session, on every machine Start a task in Claude Code, then resume it in Codex
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Lessons from Spotify
Spotify has a marginal cost problem, but while the cause is unique to Spotify, the challenges are more applicable than it seems.
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The value of not getting to the point (2015)
I read somewhere recently, I forget where, that the purpose of people getting together for a conversation over a beer or coffee or lunch or dinner is that it the food and drink spare us from the burden of needing to have something to say throughout the whole conversation.
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The model is the product
Old data, new models
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CVE-2021-3011: Key recovery on Google Titan Key
Download the Writeup Illustration made by Romain Flamand Abstract The Google Titan Security Key is a FIDO U2F hardware device proposed by Google (available since July 2018) as a two-factor authentication token to sign in to applications (e.g. your Google account). Our work describes a side-channel attack that targets…
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Hands-on WebAssembly
Learn the basics of WebAssembly through code examples and try different ways to compile C and Rust programs for the browser with the help of Docker image from Evil Martians.
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Malignant melanoma deploys elegant molecular mechanism to evade immune responses
Research from Dr. Ben Izar suggests new strategies for attacking malignant melanoma and possibly other types of cancer.
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My first impressions of Gleam
What I’ve learned in my first few hours using Gleam for a small project.
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Let's talk about animation quality
Computer Science, Machine Learning, Programming, Art, Mathematics, Philosophy, and Short Fiction
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How many lines of code is Candy Japan?
Guess how many lines of code you end up with when writing a subscription box site from scratch.
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Battery breakthrough: Double performance lithium battery that doesn’t catch fire
ANN ARBOR—A rechargeable battery technology developed at the University of Michigan could double the output of today’s lithium ion cells—drastically extending electric vehicle ranges and time between cell phone charges—without taking up any added space. By using a ceramic, solid-state electrolyte
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Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect
I have come to the conclusion that Software Engineering is primarily a learning endeavour, the working code is rather a side effect. This quote is actually not mine but I am paraphrasing Alberto Brandolini who is making this very point in Event Storming (he was actually talking about Software Development, but I do not…
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Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir
A case study of how Elixir is being used at X-Plane.
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A deep dive into Single Pair Ethernet
Building an underwater sensor node with SPE and PoDL
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Donut math - How donut.c works
There has been a sudden resurgence of interest in my "donut" code from 2006 , and I've had a couple requests to explain this one. It's been five years now, so it's not exactly fresh in my memory, so I will reconstruct it from scratch, in great detail, and hopefully get approximately the same result.
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Supabase Logs: open-source logging server
We're releasing Supabase Logs for both self-hosted users and CLI development.
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Morris Chang and the Origins of TSMC
Book review of the autobiography of Morris Chang.