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Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy
A checklist for configuring Mozilla Firefox for a more private browsing experience.
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Did 5G kill the IMSI catcher?
Understand the mechanics, risks, and the future of IMSI catching (a.k.a. stealing your cellular ID) in 2025. Read our primer on this niche form of hacking.
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Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge
An investigation into The Games; Winter Challenge
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Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s
Discover the wild world of Ghanaian and Nigerian hand-painted movie posters. Created by local artists in the 1980s and 1990s, these bold, surreal artworks turned Hollywood films into folk art masterpieces that are so bad they’re brilliant.
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Marble: A Multimodal World Model
Marble, our frontier multimodal world model, is available to everyone starting today
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Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5
Many Ruby applications allocate objects. What if we could make allocating objects six times faster? We can! Read on to learn more!
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U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis
A new Science study reveals the U.S. already mines the critical minerals it needs for energy and defense, but they are currently being discarded as mine waste.
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Claude Code is a slot machine
Claude Code keeps me waiting. Here I am pressing return like a crack-addicted rodent in a lab. “Yes, I want to make this edit.” I watch as it works, glassy-eyed and bored as the code scrolls by, and on the edge of my seat because my ideas are about to become reality.
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Two narratives about AI
I want to present you with two narratives about AI. Both of them are about using this technology to automate computer programming, but they point ... Read more
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AI scrapers request commented scripts
A new avenue for identifying greedy, badly-behaved bots
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Building a Personal AI Factory
Multiple parallel Claude-Code sessions power a self-improving AI factory where agents write, review, and refine code.
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How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?
Speaking of earning a living, would you expect them to pay for web hosting/ cloud providers?
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Artisanal handcrafted Git repositories
How to lovingly handcraft your own git repositories
2294
The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment
Your grandpa probably really did walk 5 miles to school in a foot of snow. A look at the changing numbers for how American students get to school.
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Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
New models and new thresholds
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Never write your own date parsing library
Never write your own date parsing library. Never. No exceptions. Never have I ever… So… I’ve written my own date parsing library. Why? Our story begins seven…
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How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack
In mid-May 2025, blocked the largest DDoS attack ever recorded: a staggering 7.3 terabits per second (Tbps).
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Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
Why I decided to ditch Cursor and switch to running Claude Code in an isolated environment + diy guide!
2299
No strcpy either
Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite frankly, most code bases are probably better off completely ……
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Funding Open Source like public infrastructure
To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution.
2301
RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization
At RISC-V Summit North America 2025, Andrea Gallo, CEO RISC-V International, and Phil Wennblom, Chair of the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC 1)., announced that RISC-V International has been approved as a PAS Submitter by the ISO/IEC JTC1.
2302
Learning Persian with Anki, ChatGPT and YouTube
I’ve been learning Persian (Farsi) for a while now, and I’m using a bunch of tools for it. The central one is certainly Anki, a spaced repetition app to train memory. I’m creating my own never-ending deck of cards, with different types of content, for different purposes. The most frequent type of cards is grammar…
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Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.
2304
What is a color space?
In which we answer every question you've ever had about digital color, and some you haven't.
2305
Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?
Reflecting on how our compensation model is going
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PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory
An exposé no one will read, about the widespread falsification of user posts in PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. This is a microcosm of the death of the human-written Internet.
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Everything is correlated (2014–23)
Anthology of sociology, statistical, or psychological papers discussing the observation that all real-world variables have non-zero correlations and the implications for statistical theory such as ‘null hypothesis testing’.
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Air Traffic Control
Air traffic control has been in the news lately, on account of my country's declining ability to do it. Well, that's a long-term trend, resulting from decades of under-investment, severe capture by our increasingly incompetent defense-industrial complex, no small degree of management incompetence in the FAA, and…
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I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode
This is what happens when you ban yourself from coding