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New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes
You might have heard recently that Safari Technology Preview 234 landed the final plan for supporting masonry-style layouts in CSS.
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Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate
An essential part of being able to say "I told you so" is in fact having told you so. Well, here we are. For those living under a rock (lucky
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The likely cheapest home-made Michelson interferometer
Lately, I’ve been really into 3D printing along with asking myself what we can do with this technology now that it’s become, well, a technology. (At least, in the “this is a thing that can now be used, is robust, and is generally accessible to many people” sense of technology.) The first thing to print on a 3D printer…
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Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment
Discover how Bootc and OSTree are revolutionizing Linux system deployment, offering modern, efficient, and immutable management.
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The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial
Learn about the HTML-in-Canvas origin trial in Chrome, and how it can help bring the DOM to your Canvas-driven applications.
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How many branches can your CPU predict?
Modern processors have the ability to execute many instructions per cycle, on a single core. To be able to execute many instructions per cycle in practice, processors predict branches. I have made the point over the years that modern CPUs have an incredible ability to predict branches. It makes benchmarking difficult…
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Reading English from 1000 AD
The past was not as foreign as we think.
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A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more
Update: This post received some attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.
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24 Hour Fitness won't let you unsubscribe from marketing spam, so I fixed it
I found a one-line JavaScript bug in the 24 Hour Fitness unsubscribe page and built a working alternative. The official page has since been fixed.
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Learn Vim motions with an ice-cream van
A free browser game that teaches real Vim motions. The van is your cursor, the town is your text. Serve every customer under par.
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The circus freaks of open source
The masterwork of Terry A. Davis is his eclectic operating system, TempleOS, which he worked on until his tragic death in 2018. In terms of technical excellence, TempleOS rates well in some respects and poorly in others. For example, it earns the achievement, coveted in OS dev circles, of being self-hosted. 1 TempleOS…
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Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5
So where has the last six months gone ? I was planning on getting images done for Fedora 44 Beta but I was unwell and busy and ran out of time. So what better time to get them out than Pi Day! .
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Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug
For many years, I sometimes discovered that commands I was sure I had run were no longer present in my Z shell history file (~/.zsh_history). In this article, I will show you how I tracked down the bug. Spoiler: ultimately, patching Zsh to make it crash loudly and analyzing the crash’s core dump was the winning…
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Making Ferrite Core Inductors at Home
I have recently been working on tuning circuits, which typically consist of an inductor and a capacitor (i.e. an LC circuit). For those not familiar with inductors, they are passive components that store energy in a magnetic field. They oppose changes in current, meaning that they pass direct current (DC) and block…
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Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?
Editors’ note: AI has been actively pushing the frontier of applied formal methods for computing systems. In this article, the Specula team wrote about their experience of evaluating LLMs on modeling system code, the basic capability for agentic model checking, using TLA+, a specification language f
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Rooting, firmware analysis and persistent credentials of TP-Link TL-841N
round 2: rooting & analysing firmware of the TP-Link TL-WR841N
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Agentic Monitoring
Agents are structurally well suited to monitoring production systems.
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Reverse engineering circuitry in a Spacelab computer from 1980
Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle, providing lab space for astronauts and exper...
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Lil' Fun Langs
a pungent monad odor that attracts mathochists
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Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info
In the world of matching decompilation, projects use a tool which consumes an input binary and lifts objects for comparison and linkage.
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Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages
Animate compact tetrahedral cages and reuse static mini-BLASes to ray-trace hundreds of millions of triangles in real time, dramatically cutting per-frame update and memory costs for dense foliage, grass, and crowds.
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How Do I Profile eBPF Code?
If we are running any eBPF workload or writing eBPF code, we want to measure its performance impact, and in this post we will demonstrate an example of how to do it. In this example, our goal is to measure the performance of file open operations, one of the most critical functions in the OS. Our code used file open…
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Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity
Summary: Air conditioning is not a luxury but a life-saving technology that has dramatically reduced heat-related deaths. Yet as heat waves kill tens of thousands of Europeans each year, many governments across the continent continue to discourage AC through permits, noise ordinances, and sometimes outright bans…
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Why Is Greenland Part of the Kingdom of Denmark? A Short History
From the Vikings to Trump: Greenland’s historic development negates recent White House territorial demands.
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Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
Nowadays, there is an epidemic of web applications purporting to offer “end-to-end” encryption. Examples might range from a file upload service, which allows you to upload and share files of arbitrary size and promises “end-to-end encryption”; or a web-based password safe service which claims that it can't see your…
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ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content
Mindgard reveals how ChatGPT's image generation safety filters can be bypassed with minor prompt adjustments, producing graphic violent and sexual content without users directly asking for it. Here's what was found, and why it matters.
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Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?
Let's hope this trend reverses
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C constructs that still don't work in C++
A 2026 sequel to C Constructs That Don't Work in C++: what still breaks, what C++20 changed, and what C23 changed.
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Why do we have so many meetings?
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.