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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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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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Open Hardware Ethernet Switch project, part 1
One of my longest-running projects has been an open hardware Ethernet switch. This has been one of the key driving forces behind many of my other projects, such as ngscopeclient and the high speed probes. It was also the project that got me into high speed digital design.
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Please don't force dark mode
A discussion on why forcing dark mode on users can lead to poor user experience, the impact of high contrast ratios on readability, and the need for better guidelines in dark mode design.
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Typed languages are better suited for vibecoding
My >10 year old programming habits have changed since Claude Code launched. Python is less likely to be my go-to language for new projects anymore. I am managing projects in languages I am not fluent in—TypeScript, Rust…
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Data on AI-related Show HN posts
The idea for this article didn't exist in my brain before this morning. But there I was, scrolling the New page and even more tired of all the AI-related Show HN posts than usual. I was confident that their numbers were multiplying and wanted proof. Exactly how much more AI crap is on my lawn compared to last year?
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HDR‑Infused Emoji
Supercharging Slack’s Reaction Icons
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Altoids by the Fistful
"In evolution, a maladaptation is a trait that is (or has become) more harmful than helpful, in contrast with an adaptation, which is more helpful than harmful." I went to Wikipedia to look that up, not a large language model.
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Reverse-engineering and analysis of SanDisk High Endurance microSDXC card (2020)
As seen on Hackaday! TL;DR – The SanDisk High Endurance cards use SanDisk/Toshiba 3D TLC Flash. It took way, way more work than it should have to figure this out (thanks for nothing, SanDisk!…
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Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 2: The Bad Update Exploit
Finding and exploiting bugs in the Xbox 360 hypervisor to create the "Bad Update" exploit.
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DeskHog, an open-source developer toy
It's a developer toy that brings developers joy. Open-source. 3D-printed. Palm-sized.
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Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run – Now Open Source
Atuin Desktop looks like a doc, but runs like your terminal. Script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and prometheus charts - all in one place.
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By the Power of Grayscale
A brief introduction into computer vision and image processing using Grayskull library.
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Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study
University of Surrey research finds solar is now the lowest cost electricity source in sunniest regions. Discover what this means for the global energy future.
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Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos
tj-actions/changed-files
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macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support
A CLI tool is not an app, and none of you are reading the docs as carefully as you think you are
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Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App
I noticed about a 10x speed up across a number of projects, we'll avoid using a venv and run things as a non-root user too.
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Repasting a MacBook
My favorite memory of my M1 Pro MacBook Pro was the whole sensation of “holy crap, you never hear the fans in this thing”, which was very novel in 2021. Four years later, this MacBook Pro is still a delight. It’s the longest I’ve ever owned a laptop, and while I’d love to pick up the new M4 goodness, this dang thing…
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Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale
Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gómez-Serrano, Adam Zsolt Wagner, and I have uploaded to the arXiv our paper “Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale”. This is a longer report on…
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How we replaced Elasticsearch and MongoDB with Rust and RocksDB
Radar offers geocoding, place search, and fraud detection APIs, powered by HorizonDB, a Rust-based engine delivering 20k QPS and sub-millisecond latency.
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Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors
Tata Motors gave away the keys to their infrastructure and customer data on their public websites.
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One year of keeping a tada list
Sometimes called a to-done list.
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The power of interning: making a time series database smaller
This week-end project started by browsing the open-data repository of Paris’ public transport network, which contains various APIs to query real-time departures, current disruptions, etc.The data reuse section caught my eye, as it features external projects that use this open data.In particular, the RATP status…
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Springs and bounces in native CSS
The “linear()” timing function is a game-changer; it allows us to model physics-based motion right in vanilla CSS! That said, there are some limitations and quirks to be aware of. I’ve been experimenting with this API for a while now, and in this post, I’ll share all of the tips and tricks I’ve learned for using it…
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Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun's poles
Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image the Sun’s poles from outside the ecliptic plane. Solar Orbiter’s unique viewing angle will change our understanding of the Sun’s magnetic field, the solar cycle and the workings of space…
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I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy
Sharing my thoughts and current projects.