Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,273 posts.
Anthropic released a new feature for their Claude.ai consumer-facing chat bot interface today which they’re calling “the analysis tool”. It’s their answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Code Interpreter mode: Claude can …
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
A primer on GPU architecture and computing
Write-up of a bunch of laser-cut projects designed with Cuttle.
As developers, we use databases all the time. But how do they work? In this series, we'll try to answer that question by building our own SQLite-compatible…
Understanding the safety impact of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) is crucial for their widespread adoption, yet robust real-world evaluation remains a critical area of development. By leveraging insurance industry third-party auto liability claims, we analyze the Waymo ADS performance across 25.3 million fully…
Testing against a real database uncovers hidden pitfalls that can appear as the application matures
His arrival, our survival, and many transformations.
Last Updated: January 24, 2026One of the most enlightening moments in my career was when I discovered a…
A bug, most probably in the early part of kernel boot in guest macOS, prevents M4 Macs virtualising macOS prior to 13.4.
After several years of keeping it going in semi-retired, keep-the-lights-on (KTLO) mode, I've decided to officially fully retire this blog. The ribbonfarm.com…
A journey into Kindle A.I. slop hell with Leah Beckmann
It basically falls under the de minimis rule.
Update (October 2024): In response to numerous requests from external developers, we have open-sourced a version of our Enzyme to React Testing Library (RTL) conversion tool. You can now find it on npm, along with detailed instructions on how to integrate and use it in your projects. In the world of frontend…
Check the discussion on Hacker News about this post for a lively discourse and more tips! If you’ve used an *nix system, at some point you’ve stumbled upon Midnight Commander, a file manager based on the venerable Norton Commander. You’re probably familiar with the basic operations (F5 for copying, F6 for moving, F8…
A Circle K, a family crime ring, and $400,000 worth of missing Playdates.
Access Call of Duty: Warzone Caldera OpenUSD Data Set
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
Spaced repetition is complicated in hierarchical bodies of knowledge, like mathematics, because repetitions on advanced topics should trickle down to update the repetition schedules of simpler topics that are implicitly practiced (while being discounted appropriately since these repetitions are often too early to…
Trillium, Google’s sixth-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is now GA, delivering enhanced performance and cost-effectiveness for AI workloads.
Summer of Math Exposition 3 - How does a computer/calculator compute logarithms?
The Nuberodesign Blog
Apple's effort to improve the UX of math.
We can use the `createWebArchiveData` method on `WKWebView` to write a Swift script that creates Safari webarchive files.
In the past (in fact two years ago, proof I have been doing this for a while now!) I wrote about the "inconvenient truth" that structural aspects of the Internet make truly decentralized systems infeasible, due to the lack of a means to perform broadcast discovery. As a result, most distributed systems rely on a set…
Sampling is one of the most powerful tools you can wield to extract meaning from large datasets. It lets you reduce a massive pile of data into a small yet representative dataset that’s fast and easy to use.
Teardown and analysis of electronics. Integrated circuit design analysis.
In this series of tutorials, we will delve into creating simple 2D games in Common Lisp. The result of the first part will be a development environment setup and a basic simulation displaying a 2D sce...
A wrap-up of several years of development and the alpha release of Liikennematto.
A scene from the Amiga game Defender of the Crown, released in 1986. For years, no other home computer came close to screens like these.
