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I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs
I've always wondered if anyone actually used the social sharing buttons embedded on news sites and (some) WordPress blogs.
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The Hierarchy of Money
Money. The villagers are tired of bartering. The dairy farmer wants to buy corn, even when he does not have milk to trade, and the corn farmer wants to buy meat, even when the butcher does not want corn. So they decide that special gray stones that they can collect from a nearby riverbed will represent an abstract…
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Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280B-A14B hybrid-attention MoE pretrained on 33.5T tokens. An open, efficient pretraining base.
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Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more
How I used AI to investigate millions of historical records and surfaced a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions.
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I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck
Archiving 104K files into tar.gz reduced I/O time by 43x and total processing time by 2.3x. The bottleneck was not disk speed, it was syscall overhead.
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PHP session.upload_progress heap UAF (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
FINAL STATUS (2026-10-21): the CVE-2026-109618 / CVE-2026-109619 memory-corruption class shipped patches 2026-10-21. On the patch, that class is closed: the cached-pointer chain dies at the addref and the serialize-state path is a memory-safety bug, not code execution. Two session-handling flaws survive on…
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Chess in SQL
What if I told you SQL could play chess? No JavaScript, no frameworks - just pure SQL rendering a full chess board in your browser.
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Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project
OSM US is incredibly excited to announce the latest Charter Project: OldInsuranceMaps.net (OIM)!If you’re a map nerd you’ll remember ever seeing a Sanborn Insurance Map in person. They often come in absolute...
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Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/HTTP/httptrace
net/http/httptrace has been in the standard library since Go 1.7 and most Go developers I talk to have never used it. It exposes hooks for the points in an outgoing HTTP request that you usually cannot see from outside the transport: DNS resolution, connection acquisition, TLS handshake, the moment bytes go on the…
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Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
So, my latest post went viral. And with virality, you get a ton of comments that you must reply to. I don't want to reply in HN/Reddit/Whatever to prev...
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I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
Sometimes keyboards come with a 'Fn' key that allows some of their context-sensitive keys to do particular general-purpose functions. Sometimes these are implemented in careful, considerate and configurable ways... and other times they just make me want to throw the keyboard out of the window.
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TLS certificates for internal services done right
No self-signing headaches, no TLS erros.
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Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era
[This is a guest post by Karthik C. S., Amit Sahai, and Jie Xue. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] This is a good time for mathemat…
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To grieve, or not to grieve?
Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the field is currently undergoing a rapid transformation, unlike anything that we have ever seen befo…
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Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking
I’ve been surprised by - and enjoy - one aspect of using large language models more than any other. They often put into words things I have long understood, but could not write down clearly. When that happens, it feels less like learning something new and more like recognition. A kind of “ok, yeah" moment.…
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Job loss and cortisone mania
On the morning of 18th August, I got invited at short notice into a 1:1 meeting by my manager, which was unusual . I think I knew what was coming, and I was right: The company is restructuring, and I’m being let go (among a lot of other people). I had time until lunch to say my goodbyes to my colleagues as I would be…
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Commodore Releases Flip Phone
A flip phone with the apps you need: WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram. Music, podcasts, maps, rideshare, a camera for the moments worth keeping.
3619
Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch
Lotus Notes had encryption, rich text, and read receipts before email did. Why it still failed, and the dangers of starting software from scratch.
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The Gemini app is now on Mac
Google is bringing the Gemini app to macOS as a native desktop experience.
3621
Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk
what's a few systemd services in initramfs between friends?
3622
Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
Selling snake oil to the United States Congress is an ancient American craft, and the frontier artificial intelligence industry is currently attempting the most audacious hustle in modern corporate history.
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Your File System Is Already A Graph Database
Karpathy recently posted about using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases — collecting raw sources into a directory, having an LLM “compile” them into a wiki of interlinked markdown …
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Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop
Made in Notion, the connected workspace where AI agents and teams organize docs, projects and knowledge together.
3625
Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet
As it turns out, the Brother NC-8700w Command Console is more interesting than it first appears.
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Max Payne – two decades later – Graphics Critique (2021)
It has been two decades since the video game Max Payne was release on July 23, 2001. The game itself was some incredible homage to The Ma...
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Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?
The following is part of a series of posts about 2026 summer intern projects – for more, see “What the interns have wrought, special jumbo 2026 edition”
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Bun v1.3.9
Fixes 23 issues (addressing 13 👍). Run multiple scripts in --parallel or --sequential. bun:test mock & spyOn get Symbol.dispose support. ESM bytecode compilation. Faster Bun.markdown. Faster RegExp, String.prototype.trim, String.prototype.startsWith.
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Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU
Back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Sandia National Laboratory (in Albuquerque NM USA) began building the capacity to design, fab, and test IC’s at scale (packaging was handled by Fairchild and Allied Signal). Why would a National Laboratory need the capacity to do this? To provide components that were not…