Next-Gen Dev Tools & CLI Gems

Kevin Beaumont: "Anthropic Visual Studio Claude Code extension on …" - Cyberplace

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Do At-Proto Users Know This Is Public? • melanie kat

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“the personal homepage of melanie kat”

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the personal homepage of melanie kat

How hard is it to check for whitespace?

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“A journey through Unicode's whitespace characters and perfect hashing.”

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A journey through Unicode's whitespace characters and perfect hashing.

The federated code forge · The Tangled Blog

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Xoranth's musings

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My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii | Virtually Fun

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TinyHand: a tiny hand for your Mac

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“A toy hand on a stick that points at things on your screen. Click to tap, hold and drag to draw. Free and open source.”

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A toy hand on a stick that points at things on your screen. Click to tap, hold and drag to draw. Free and open source.

UPC Label Generator — Free Barcode & Avery 5160 Sheet Maker

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“Generate GS1-compliant UPC-A, Amazon FNSKU, EAN-13, and 2D DataMatrix labels online. Download free single PNG/SVG stickers, 30-up Avery 5160 PDFs, or Word templates.”

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Generate GS1-compliant UPC-A, Amazon FNSKU, EAN-13, and 2D DataMatrix labels online. Download free single PNG/SVG stickers, 30-up Avery 5160 PDFs, or Word templates.

Million Piece Puzzle

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“Article URL: https://puzzle.io27.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315544 Points: 2 # Comments: 1”

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Article URL: https://puzzle.io27.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315544 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

Magical Share on the web: send files with light

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“Send a file from your browser to your phone with moving codes and the camera. Nothing is uploaded, no account, end-to-end encrypted.”

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Send a file from your browser to your phone with moving codes and the camera. Nothing is uploaded, no account, end-to-end encrypted.

Civil Service

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“The Civil Service does the practical and administrative work of government. More than half of all civil servants provide services direct to the public.”

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The Civil Service does the practical and administrative work of government. More than half of all civil servants provide services direct to the public.

Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4

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persistent.info: Infinite Mac: BeOS

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How curl was accidentally Turing-complete for nine months

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The Secret of Fast Programming: Stop Thinking » Code Simplicity

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“When I talk to developers about code complexity, they often say that they want to write simple code, but deadline pressure or underlying issues mean that they just don’t have the time or knowledge necessary to both compl”

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When I talk to developers about code complexity, they often say that they want to write simple code, but deadline pressure or underlying issues mean that they just don’t have the time or knowledge necessary to both complete the task and refine it to simplicity

If you love a website, back it up

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“This story starts with a little tragedy. See, I’ve got these old webpages I love to go back and look on every now and then. There’s websites that h...”

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This story starts with a little tragedy. See, I’ve got these old webpages I love to go back and look on every now and then. There’s websites that h...

Tactical-Retreat

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Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think

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“I am talking about the I/O operations as used in computing here. A typical example of how this kind of thing is exposed are the POSIX syscalls read(2) and write(2), which have the following C funct…”

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I am talking about the I/O operations as used in computing here. A typical example of how this kind of thing is exposed are the POSIX syscalls read(2) and write(2), which have the following C funct…

Ring Buffers Project Summary - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS

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The Redox official website

Prospero: a new coding harness for a more civilized age

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Voyager 1: What Is a Light-Day - NASA Science

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“The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on — one light-day away from Earth — is about distance, not time. And it's very, very far.”

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The milestone Voyager 1 is closing in on — one light-day away from Earth — is about distance, not time. And it's very, very far.

Explorations by fabian: Zombie Crisis

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Jointter — words hidden in dots and lines

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“Two 7-letter words are hidden in today”

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Two 7-letter words are hidden in today

Enlightenment 0.28 Released With Many Improvements

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“Enlightenment 0.27 released at the beginning of 2025 and since then there's been no major feature update, falling off their roughly 12 month release cadence”

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Enlightenment 0.27 released at the beginning of 2025 and since then there's been no major feature update, falling off their roughly 12 month release cadence

Northflank - Status

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Northflank Status

Linux's October 2026 TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 — Atlas

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“CVE-2026-98432 is a CVSS 9.8 remote use-after-free in Linux's IPv4 TCP handshake, fixed upstream Oct 15. Ubuntu and RHEL haven't shipped a fixed kernel yet.”

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CVE-2026-98432 is a CVSS 9.8 remote use-after-free in Linux's IPv4 TCP handshake, fixed upstream Oct 15. Ubuntu and RHEL haven't shipped a fixed kernel yet.

Pilot-wave hydrodynamics - John W. M. Bush

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Altoids Project

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“My 12-year-old son and I spent about two months on, what we call, the Altoids project. Here is the final product (video):”

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My 12-year-old son and I spent about two months on, what we call, the Altoids project. Here is the final product (video):

It's the memory latency, stupid · Pivot blog

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“When your database CPU is at 100%, what is it actually doing? Memory stalls, CPU caches, and how radix partitioning makes GROUP BY faster.”

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When your database CPU is at 100%, what is it actually doing? Memory stalls, CPU caches, and how radix partitioning makes GROUP BY faster.

Contra — NES Native Port (WebAssembly)

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Why Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half! - Everything Electric

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“Robert speaks to Professor Jan Rosenow, Oxford University, to reveal why electricity currently only tells 20% of the global energy story.”

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Robert speaks to Professor Jan Rosenow, Oxford University, to reveal why electricity currently only tells 20% of the global energy story.

The Duty of a Scholar

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Oz : Search for [Engines] found the following free plans

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Hacker Books — books mentioned in Hacker News comments

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“A bookshelf of the books Hacker News readers mention most, 2007–2026.”

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A bookshelf of the books Hacker News readers mention most, 2007–2026.

Seoul Biosys Begins Production of Rare Earth-Free White Micro LEDs | Aju Press

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“Seoul Biosys has commenced the production of micro LEDs that generate white light without the use of rare earth elements. Unlike traditional white LEDs that rely on rare earth-based phosphors to create color, the new tec”

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Seoul Biosys has commenced the production of micro LEDs that generate white light without the use of rare earth elements. Unlike traditional white LEDs that rely on rare earth-based phosphors to create color, the new technology allows for the implementation of

Police Chief physically unplugs Flock cameras after the company ignores contract cancellation — city takes matters into its own hands amid privacy controversies

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Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages

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“David asked a great question on my solar battery system post: why buy a small battery just for emergencies when electric cars have a large battery you can also use for other things? [1] This would be great, and seems lik”

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David asked a great question on my solar battery system post: why buy a small battery just for emergencies when electric cars have a large battery you can also use for other things? [1] This would be great, and seems like the obvious way for it to work: when t

Novellas with groff

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One-minute frequency disturbances from unintended synchronization in cyber–physical power systems - Nature Energy

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“Power grids on five continents show frequency oscillations with a period of exactly 1 min. The authors trace this to clock-synchronized software in devices such as uninterruptible power supplies that creates coherent, re”

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Power grids on five continents show frequency oscillations with a period of exactly 1 min. The authors trace this to clock-synchronized software in devices such as uninterruptible power supplies that creates coherent, repeating demand peaks.

Copper

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Radiaverse – Global Radiation Map

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“A global radiation map measured by its community: tracks, areas, and live statistics from RadiaCode detectors around the world.”

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A global radiation map measured by its community: tracks, areas, and live statistics from RadiaCode detectors around the world.

Outcrop — Read the rocks around you

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“A geology app that shows the geologic map wherever you are, and draws it onto the land in front of you in augmented reality. Works offline.”

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A geology app that shows the geologic map wherever you are, and draws it onto the land in front of you in augmented reality. Works offline.

Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release

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Are we human?

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13. BSD Unix, Part 3 - The Beginning of BSD Unix

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“From Pascal and ex tapes to a VAX system: Bill Joy handles BSD distribution and debugging, then joins Ozalp Babaoglu to bring virtual memory to Unix.”

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From Pascal and ex tapes to a VAX system: Bill Joy handles BSD distribution and debugging, then joins Ozalp Babaoglu to bring virtual memory to Unix.

Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved

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Keeping Up Appearances | Los Angeles Review of Books

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“The women taking over the funeral industry.”

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The women taking over the funeral industry.

The Cost of Blogging

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“It’s easy enough to find a blogging platform that doesn’t cost anything to use, Bear itself has a decent enough free tier, but how many of us do end up spend...”

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It’s easy enough to find a blogging platform that doesn’t cost anything to use, Bear itself has a decent enough free tier, but how many of us do end up spend...

My favourite laptop

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WTF Ubuntu?

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Linux System Call Tables by Architecture · syscall.sh

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“The Linux syscall table for 27 architectures: every system call number, argument and register, with a table per architecture, from Linux 3.3 to 7.3.”

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The Linux syscall table for 27 architectures: every system call number, argument and register, with a table per architecture, from Linux 3.3 to 7.3.

Hacker Times

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“A newspaper from Hacker News, refreshed every hour. Independent headlines, original sources.”

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A newspaper from Hacker News, refreshed every hour. Independent headlines, original sources.

ERICI — European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative

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“A verified reference stack for RISC-V Industrial Computers: firmware, boot loader, hypervisor, real-time OS and Linux, on real RVA23 hardware. Non-commercial.”

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A verified reference stack for RISC-V Industrial Computers: firmware, boot loader, hypervisor, real-time OS and Linux, on real RVA23 hardware. Non-commercial.

Resisting Cognitive Surrender

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The Intel stock collapse is getting worse — and the $3.5Tchip rout is spreading

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Intel

SLAC researchers find proof of altermagnetism, a new magnetic phase

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“The team is the first to directly observe a unique property in an altermagnetic candidate material, key evidence of a new phase of magnetism.”

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The team is the first to directly observe a unique property in an altermagnetic candidate material, key evidence of a new phase of magnetism.

hjkl — learn Vim by doing

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“Little edits. Lasting skills. Learn Vim in your browser with short, hands-on editing challenges. Practice motions, text objects, search, marks, counts, and repeats in a real Vim editor — free, no sign-up.”

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Little edits. Lasting skills. Learn Vim in your browser with short, hands-on editing challenges. Practice motions, text objects, search, marks, counts, and repeats in a real Vim editor — free, no sign-up.

Tracker. The biggest update yet. • Polyend

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Rustable — This isn’t a screenshot.

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“A native database client. Written in Rust. Obviously. macOS, Windows and Linux.”

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A native database client. Written in Rust. Obviously. macOS, Windows and Linux.

The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading · honnibal.dev

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“The experiments that read raw weights and the ones that fix Qwen use completely different techniques.”

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The experiments that read raw weights and the ones that fix Qwen use completely different techniques.

Could a modern chess engine on a Pentium have defeated Kasparov in 1996?

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“A fun experiment where I back-port all the improvements we”

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A fun experiment where I back-port all the improvements we

Antimony

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Handles are the better pointers

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“28-Nov-2018: I’ve added a small update at the end on how to prevent‘handle collisions’ with a per-slot generation counter”

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28-Nov-2018: I’ve added a small update at the end on how to prevent‘handle collisions’ with a per-slot generation counter

Katamari Met

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Exploring the Legacy of Image Club Graphics | Letters From Somnolescent

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Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack

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Codevember 2006 / 01 / Fold

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Study reveals distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in younger patients | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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“Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers, along with Mass General Brigham researchers from the Gene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, and the Broad Institute, have uncovered biological clues to why colorectal”

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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers, along with Mass General Brigham researchers from the Gene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, and the Broad Institute, have uncovered biological clues to why colorectal cancer can behave more aggressively in

Stringman from Neufangled Robotics

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HackerTV

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“The videos Hacker News keeps recommending, broadcast 24/7 on channels. Same schedule for everyone.”

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The videos Hacker News keeps recommending, broadcast 24/7 on channels. Same schedule for everyone.

Japan’s Jimi ‘Mundane’ Halloween Costumes of 2026

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“Happy Jimi Halloween to everyone who celebrates. It’s that wonderful time of year when our favorite Japanese festival, Jimi Halloween, is on full display. Mundane Halloween, as we coined it back in 2018, is when people d”

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Happy Jimi Halloween to everyone who celebrates. It’s that wonderful time of year when our favorite Japanese festival, Jimi Halloween, is on full display. Mundane Halloween, as we coined it back in 2018, is when people dress up in costumes so mundane they have

Introducing Adaptive Dark Mode

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“We’re excited to announce Adaptive Dark Mode in Safari 27.3 beta.”

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We’re excited to announce Adaptive Dark Mode in Safari 27.3 beta.

Uncracked City

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The cases nobody has cracked.

Arrows to Arrows, Categories to Queries :: Reasonably Polymorphic

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Runs scored in World Baseball Classic

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Curiosity Traps

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“On reverse honeypots, rewarding close attention, and finding your people”

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On reverse honeypots, rewarding close attention, and finding your people

Introduction to Programming in ATS

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Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrastructure Permanent - 99% Invisible

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“When two cyclists were tragically killed in hit-and-run collisions this past summer, a group of anonymous urban activists known as the San Francisco Transformation Agency erected a set of protected bike lanes using traff”

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When two cyclists were tragically killed in hit-and-run collisions this past summer, a group of anonymous urban activists known as the San Francisco Transformation Agency erected a set of protected bike lanes using traffic cones. Usually such guerrilla interve

An end to buggy web apps

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“An update on our mission It is possible now to reliably and automatically detect and fix every bug which users are encountering on the web. This clearly…”

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An update on our mission It is possible now to reliably and automatically detect and fix every bug which users are encountering on the web. This clearly…

Verification Is Not Knowledge

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Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

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“GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues.”

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GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues.

MCP OAuth: let users trust their own redirect URIs safely

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“Why MCP servers either refuse custom clients or open a phishing hole, and how per-user trusted redirect URIs, decided at sign-in, give you both.”

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Why MCP servers either refuse custom clients or open a phishing hole, and how per-user trusted redirect URIs, decided at sign-in, give you both.

Adding window functions to a spreadsheet | Grist

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“Running totals are easy to do in Excel and Google Sheets, but if you make more than basic edits things can get messy. There's a better way.”

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Running totals are easy to do in Excel and Google Sheets, but if you make more than basic edits things can get messy. There's a better way.

I Challenge Thee

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Evergreen — Provably Safe Systems Code

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“Evergreen is a systems language that makes invariants part of your code. Try its real compiler in your browser with WebAssembly.”

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Evergreen is a systems language that makes invariants part of your code. Try its real compiler in your browser with WebAssembly.

Changelog

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“kitty is a feature-rich, cross-platform, fast, GPU based terminal. To update kitty, follow the instructions. Recent major new features: Docked windows [0.50]: kitty windows can now be docked to an ...”

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kitty is a feature-rich, cross-platform, fast, GPU based terminal. To update kitty, follow the instructions. Recent major new features: Docked windows [0.50]: kitty windows can now be docked to an ...

The Internals of PostgreSQL

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Walker Playground

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Insects Don’t Swarm at LED Lights | Outside My Window

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A new Go API for JSON - The Go Programming Language

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“Go 1.27 introduces new encoding/json/v2 and encoding/json/jsontext packages.”

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Go 1.27 introduces new encoding/json/v2 and encoding/json/jsontext packages.

Hacking the Xbox 360 Hypervisor Part 3: Bad Update Improvements

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“Improving the Xbox 360 Bad Update exploit to trigger nearly instantaneously with near 100% success rate.”

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Improving the Xbox 360 Bad Update exploit to trigger nearly instantaneously with near 100% success rate.

Wing Commander Together

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“An 11 year journey to play DOS Wing Commander together”

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An 11 year journey to play DOS Wing Commander together

So my ISP was hijacking my DNS

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“My ISP was tampering with my DNS queries and handing back bogus IP addresses. Here are the misconceptions about DoH, DoT and DNSSEC that followed, and the setup I actually run.”

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My ISP was tampering with my DNS queries and handing back bogus IP addresses. Here are the misconceptions about DoH, DoT and DNSSEC that followed, and the setup I actually run.

11 nanoseconds per word: Ridiculously Over-Optimizing Anagrams | Wiredream - Dave Andersen's blog

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Dave Andersen's (new) blog

Adam Phillips · Is curiosity good for us?

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“The superego – and its precursor, conscience – refers to the part of us that has no curiosity about ourselves. It’...”

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The superego – and its precursor, conscience – refers to the part of us that has no curiosity about ourselves. It’...

*sshole · sshhole.com

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“openssh on musl linux has been letting people into password-less accounts since 2016.”

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openssh on musl linux has been letting people into password-less accounts since 2016.

Security advisory: openssh-server password authentication bypass | Alpine Linux

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Alpine Linux

The LISP curse, now coming to your ecosystem! - Tim Zöller

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“The LISP curse is often quoted as the reason why so few libraries and reusable components exist for LISP dialects. According to the concept, LISP is so power...”

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The LISP curse is often quoted as the reason why so few libraries and reusable components exist for LISP dialects. According to the concept, LISP is so power...

You should absolutely download your favourite youtube videos

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“Signal boosting Laura's post that you should absolutely download and archive the stuff that matters to you.”

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Signal boosting Laura's post that you should absolutely download and archive the stuff that matters to you.

OpenSSH: Release Notes

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OpenSSH release notes

I wish tech companies knew more about me | exotext

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“I wish tech companies knew more about me | exotext”

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I wish tech companies knew more about me | exotext

My gym forced a social media down my throat. I reverse-engineered its app.

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“Extracting my gym’s QR check-in from its Flutter app, with a rooted phone and a lot of ripgrep.”

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Extracting my gym’s QR check-in from its Flutter app, with a rooted phone and a lot of ripgrep.

PhobosLab

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We can do better than line-buffered output

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pwn.college

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Learn to Hack!

Firenook: A faster drop-in for the Firebase emulators

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“Firenook runs the Firebase emulators with your firebase.json, SDKs and ports: 40× faster writes, 10× less memory, no Java, and data that survives restarts.”

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Firenook runs the Firebase emulators with your firebase.json, SDKs and ports: 40× faster writes, 10× less memory, no Java, and data that survives restarts.

Goodbye from Salon - Salon.com

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“It has been an extraordinary privilege.”

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It has been an extraordinary privilege.

Roll #8 - Kodak Gold 200

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“SP007511-2 SP007511-5 SP007511-6 SP007511-7 SP007511-11 SP007511-12 SP007511-22 SP007511-24 First roll of film in my AE-1. Went to the park to take...”

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SP007511-2 SP007511-5 SP007511-6 SP007511-7 SP007511-11 SP007511-12 SP007511-22 SP007511-24 First roll of film in my AE-1. Went to the park to take...

Things can be good !!!!

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“Things can be good!!! Damn!!! Wow!!!! I "partied" decently hard last night. I then immediately had an appointment today which put me face to face with the...”

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Things can be good!!! Damn!!! Wow!!!! I "partied" decently hard last night. I then immediately had an appointment today which put me face to face with the...

» Deus Ex The Digital Antiquarian

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Scriptable GeoDNS: leaving AWS for Bunny

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Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall

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“A unique accumulation of workers (‘colony’) of the wood ant Formica polyctena Först., trapped within an old bunker for storing nuclear weapons, is described. The source of the ‘colony’ is a large colony nesting outdoors,”

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A unique accumulation of workers (‘colony’) of the wood ant Formica polyctena Först., trapped within an old bunker for storing nuclear weapons, is described. The source of the ‘colony’ is a large colony nesting outdoors, on top of the bunker. Individuals that

MTG-I2 first images

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“MTG-I2 will help forecasters follow the development of severe weather much more closely.”

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MTG-I2 will help forecasters follow the development of severe weather much more closely.

Kugelblitz · Metaebene Applications

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On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning

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Libghostty 1.0

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Notes on San Marino

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“I spent three days in San Marino, a landlocked microstate completely surrounded by Italy. The people of San Marino are called the “Sammarinese.””

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I spent three days in San Marino, a landlocked microstate completely surrounded by Italy. The people of San Marino are called the “Sammarinese.”

Did prediction markets predict the midterms?

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Can GROUP BY still be optimized after all these years? · Pivot blog

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“An optimization that made Pivot significantly faster on GROUP BY queries with a Top-K operator above them, and a walkthrough of how analytical databases run GROUP BY in the first place.”

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An optimization that made Pivot significantly faster on GROUP BY queries with a Top-K operator above them, and a walkthrough of how analytical databases run GROUP BY in the first place.

lighting the skies

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I Toured Unitree's Factory. I'm More Bullish on the West Than Ever.

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“Everyone thinks China's robot factories are automated. They aren't. The robots are Chinese; the robots that make robots will be Western.”

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Everyone thinks China's robot factories are automated. They aren't. The robots are Chinese; the robots that make robots will be Western.

Project Sync: The journey to sample-perfect audio/video sync with WebCodecs | Mediabunny

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“I talk about what happens if you lose AV sync, why an oversight in WebCodecs”

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I talk about what happens if you lose AV sync, why an oversight in WebCodecs

devvm

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“One VM for every project: an isolated sandbox with your project”

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One VM for every project: an isolated sandbox with your project

The Little Engineer That Could: The $8 linux computer (part 1.)

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Underground 2 Revived

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“Play Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004) in Chrome and Firefox with WebGPU graphics, Web Audio, up to 120 fps widescreen, controller support, free roam and Online races with friends. Fan project, not affiliated with Ele”

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Play Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004) in Chrome and Firefox with WebGPU graphics, Web Audio, up to 120 fps widescreen, controller support, free roam and Online races with friends. Fan project, not affiliated with Electronic Arts.

Running a law firm on Free software (2026 edition)

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Legal deposit and web archiving - British Library

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“The British Library and other legal deposit libraries are entitled to copy UK-published material from the internet for archiving under legal deposit.”

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The British Library and other legal deposit libraries are entitled to copy UK-published material from the internet for archiving under legal deposit.

ToothPaste · brisk4t

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“AES-256 Cross Platform Device Control.”

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AES-256 Cross Platform Device Control.

Struggling to spell ‘male chauvinist pig’? Apple’s grey list means your iPhone won’t help you

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“There are more than 100,000 words and phrases that the tech giant has restricted its predictive text from completing, research shows”

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There are more than 100,000 words and phrases that the tech giant has restricted its predictive text from completing, research shows

Wanna See Some Feral Kittens?

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“When we moved here 7 months ago, we didn’t see any other cats around. However, around July/August time, we started seeing a little black cat and a larger gin...”

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When we moved here 7 months ago, we didn’t see any other cats around. However, around July/August time, we started seeing a little black cat and a larger gin...

Players Should Not Try to be Good

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Come as you are.

Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi

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What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab | Bosscher

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“What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab”

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What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab

Making any integer with four 2s - Eli Bendersky's website

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Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why: no “Starting” screen and 70% less RAM, even with two accounts signed in

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“Discord’s Rust client opens before the Electron app finishes loading, skips the Starting screen and uses 290MB of RAM with two accounts.”

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Discord’s Rust client opens before the Electron app finishes loading, skips the Starting screen and uses 290MB of RAM with two accounts.

Commodore PET: The World's First Personal Computer

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“Discover the history and features of the Commodore PET, the groundbreaking personal computer that changed technology forever.”

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Discover the history and features of the Commodore PET, the groundbreaking personal computer that changed technology forever.

Five Memorable Books About Programming

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The Unwilding of Patagonia’s Pollinators  | bioGraphic

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“In a region synonymous with wilderness, native bumblebees are being replaced by industrial worker bees—and ecosystems are paying the price.”

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In a region synonymous with wilderness, native bumblebees are being replaced by industrial worker bees—and ecosystems are paying the price.

Progress Report: Linux 7.3 - Asahi Linux

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Retro Song Bird

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“Relive the sounds of your classic games”

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Relive the sounds of your classic games

Every processor die anyone has photographed and given away

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“356 processor dies from 1972 to 2024, photographed through microscopes and released for anyone to use.”

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356 processor dies from 1972 to 2024, photographed through microscopes and released for anyone to use.

The Reconstruction of Torn Documents

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“The Reconstruction of Torn Documents”

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The Reconstruction of Torn Documents

Writing as a thinking tool

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four hundred bucks of e-waste

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“two school nights, a pile of bootloops and one homemade rom later, my mother”

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two school nights, a pile of bootloops and one homemade rom later, my mother

Vegetable Gardening for Engineers

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JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers

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“JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers”

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JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers

clj.rs

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Petered

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“We’re looking in the wrong place for the imposters among us.”

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We’re looking in the wrong place for the imposters among us.

How to prove equations using diagrams, part 1 – Evan’s Blog

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Person of Interest

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“A few days ago, I started watching Person of Interest, and I haven’t been able to stop. Aside from the fact that the show feels even more relevant today than...”

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A few days ago, I started watching Person of Interest, and I haven’t been able to stop. Aside from the fact that the show feels even more relevant today than...

RIP, Harvest

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unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world

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“I've always had a soft spot for this particular car brand. Our family has owned a few of them over the years, and they've served us incredibly well. In 2023, I bought a new four wheel drive/SUV from them, and it was the”

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I've always had a soft spot for this particular car brand. Our family has owned a few of them over the years, and they've served us incredibly well. In 2023, I bought a new four wheel drive/SUV from them, and it was the first time I had

mamememo: The Qlobe

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Branching Beyond Leonardo

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“The Evolution of Tree Architecture Theory”

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The Evolution of Tree Architecture Theory

pigshell - unix the web

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pigshell - unix the web

Isn't It Time for AVIF Everywhere?

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Fun things to do with your VM/370 CE machine

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Fun things to do with big computers

Active Benchmarking

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You should try Gleam

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“Why a Rust developer might feel at home in Gleam, and where the BEAM is a different world.”

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Why a Rust developer might feel at home in Gleam, and where the BEAM is a different world.

Pointer Provenance in Rust vs C++

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“Exploring pointer provenance, inspecting LLVM IR, and comparing C++ and Rust”

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Exploring pointer provenance, inspecting LLVM IR, and comparing C++ and Rust

Burying the Evidence - Longreads

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“The future doesn’t care about your time capsule, but don’t let that stop you.”

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The future doesn’t care about your time capsule, but don’t let that stop you.

USPS® ZIP Code Boundaries | PostalPro

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e-means: 10x faster k-means at equal loss

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“Modern optimization and scaling laws for k-means clustering”

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Modern optimization and scaling laws for k-means clustering

Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude

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“Our house has a box room, full of boxes that we still haven’t unpacked from our last move. A couple of weeks ago something in that room started intermittently beeping. …”

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Our house has a box room, full of boxes that we still haven’t unpacked from our last move. A couple of weeks ago something in that room started intermittently beeping. …

Horible public key tricks:

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Ultorg: The User Interface for Relational Databases

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“Ultorg is an efficient, spreadsheet-like user interface for relational databases. Query and edit data across tables and relationships, without SQL.”

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Ultorg is an efficient, spreadsheet-like user interface for relational databases. Query and edit data across tables and relationships, without SQL.

Infineon marks innovation milestone with world’s first | Infineon Technologies

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“Infineon marks innovation milestone with world’s first 300-millimeter power silicon carbide (SiC) wafer”

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Infineon marks innovation milestone with world’s first 300-millimeter power silicon carbide (SiC) wafer

(Jam 1/3) A primer on GPUs and kernel optimization

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“The basics of GPUs, profilers, distributed computation, and kernel optimization”

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The basics of GPUs, profilers, distributed computation, and kernel optimization

Never gonna print you up!

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“I spent a week breaking my own Prusa MK4S on signed upstream firmware and ended up with Remote Code Execution, which is how I learned that vulnerability research is not a tedious process anymore.”

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I spent a week breaking my own Prusa MK4S on signed upstream firmware and ended up with Remote Code Execution, which is how I learned that vulnerability research is not a tedious process anymore.

Something watched you this week.

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“Enter any place on Earth. See every satellite that passed over it this week, and the actual pictures they took.”

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Enter any place on Earth. See every satellite that passed over it this week, and the actual pictures they took.

Parking App Fees by City: What Pay-by-Phone Apps Charge

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“The per-session fee parking apps charge drivers in 312 U.S. places: ParkMobile, PayByPhone, Passport, Flowbird and city apps, from official help and city pages.”

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The per-session fee parking apps charge drivers in 312 U.S. places: ParkMobile, PayByPhone, Passport, Flowbird and city apps, from official help and city pages.

Neil Fraser: News: .name Grandfathered

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Smart home devices should work without the internet — Do Code That Matters

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“Rule one is that nothing in my house needs a vendor”

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Rule one is that nothing in my house needs a vendor

AlphaProof Code

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5.3 — Blender

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“Gaussian splats, DLSS denoising, light dispersion, EEVEE fisheye, Outliner sorting, ripple video editing, and so much more.”

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Gaussian splats, DLSS denoising, light dispersion, EEVEE fisheye, Outliner sorting, ripple video editing, and so much more.

The hardest tarball?

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“Here is a curiosity: an archive that can be constructed using a single GNU tar invocation, that is extracted in 8 distinct ways depending on what tool you use.”

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Here is a curiosity: an archive that can be constructed using a single GNU tar invocation, that is extracted in 8 distinct ways depending on what tool you use.

AMD’s Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast - by George Cozma

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I deleted all my SSH keys

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NetBSD 11 desktop on a Raspberry Pi 4

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Taking another shot at the cheap IP camera, part 2

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Eric Park

Queens Public Library Network Outage Updates - Queens Public Library

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The Death Knell of Digital Search

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“Companies such as Google used to be our portals to the rest of the web. Can the internet as we know it survive when A.I. answers all of our questions?”

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Companies such as Google used to be our portals to the rest of the web. Can the internet as we know it survive when A.I. answers all of our questions?

Protecting SSH Keys with macOS Secure Enclave (Native Approach)

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“How to keep SSH keys in the macOS Secure Enclave, with Touch ID on every use and no third-party apps.”

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How to keep SSH keys in the macOS Secure Enclave, with Touch ID on every use and no third-party apps.

A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack - Tom Moertel’s Blog

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Six Math Essentials

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Starlink

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“Starlink delivers fast, reliable internet at home and on the go. Seamlessly stream, video call, game and more with high-speed connectivity even in the most rural and remote places.”

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Starlink delivers fast, reliable internet at home and on the go. Seamlessly stream, video call, game and more with high-speed connectivity even in the most rural and remote places.

things-2026

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Why I Wrote the BEAM Book

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“The story behind writing The BEAM Book-ten years, three publishers, and an open‑source sprint.”

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The story behind writing The BEAM Book-ten years, three publishers, and an open‑source sprint.

Hacking the meta ray-ban smartglasses

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“Back in July I wanted to check out the pwn2own targets for 2026. Since the rules hadn’t been released yet, I decided I would check last year’s targets in the hope that it would be simil…”

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Back in July I wanted to check out the pwn2own targets for 2026. Since the rules hadn’t been released yet, I decided I would check last year’s targets in the hope that it would be simil…

How a false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street’s only NYC datacenter

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“A war story from Jane Street’s systems team: a false smoke alarm, a datacenter with no cooling, and a sprint to pull every power cord before the sprinklers went off”

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A war story from Jane Street’s systems team: a false smoke alarm, a datacenter with no cooling, and a sprint to pull every power cord before the sprinklers went off

Pharo World

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“The Pharo world, the Smalltalk environment, running in your browser on WebAssembly.”

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The Pharo world, the Smalltalk environment, running in your browser on WebAssembly.

Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card

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“How I used voltage fault injection to unlock hardware features on a CMP 170HX.”

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How I used voltage fault injection to unlock hardware features on a CMP 170HX.

100x Developers

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“Think about it. 10x of something is a lot. 10x a salary of $70.000/year (~avg salary in USA) is 700k€/year. Imagine the lifestyle change. Lifting 10x my maximum PR on dead-lift goes from 160kg to 1.6T. A means of transpo”

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Think about it. 10x of something is a lot. 10x a salary of $70.000/year (~avg salary in USA) is 700k€/year. Imagine the lifestyle change. Lifting 10x my maximum PR on dead-lift goes from 160kg to 1.6T. A means of transportation 10x faster is arriving in 9 minu

"The Computer Graphics Book Of Knowledge"

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We need more goat sacrifices - by Adam Mastroianni

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Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server: Everything You Need To Know | Wiz Blog

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“Detect and mitigate CVE-2026-119618, a critical RCE vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server. According to Wiz data, 64% of cloud environments have resources vulnerable to CVE-2026-119618. Immediate patching is advised.”

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Detect and mitigate CVE-2026-119618, a critical RCE vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server. According to Wiz data, 64% of cloud environments have resources vulnerable to CVE-2026-119618. Immediate patching is advised.

Lock your GitHub Actions

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Development Update - Q4 2026 | Darling Development Blog

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Did Life Begin in an RNA World? | Quanta Magazine

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“Some believe the earliest life emerged from self-copying molecules that could mutate and even evolve. But that may not have been enough.”

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Some believe the earliest life emerged from self-copying molecules that could mutate and even evolve. But that may not have been enough.

Technology

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This is the page for technology

Utah Teapot

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James Stanley - How to make a CNC plasma cutter with high-frequency start

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Sierra On-Line: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of a Gaming Legend

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“Sierra, originally On-Line Systems, evolved into a leading computer game developer, making significant contributions to the industry with iconic titles. Bellwether of graphic adventures.”

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Sierra, originally On-Line Systems, evolved into a leading computer game developer, making significant contributions to the industry with iconic titles. Bellwether of graphic adventures.

Anthropic’s Initial Public Offering

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“Anthropic has filed to become a public company. Read the Founders’ letter and other relevant information.”

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Anthropic has filed to become a public company. Read the Founders’ letter and other relevant information.

Why Writing Correct Software Is Hard

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“We try to understand the relationship between programs and correctness, and in particular, why writing correct programs must be hard. We will review results from computability theory and complexity theory, and see that p”

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We try to understand the relationship between programs and correctness, and in particular, why writing correct programs must be hard. We will review results from computability theory and complexity theory, and see that programs and complete understanding – whi

Running web sites makes me not want to - Lowkey Party

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“It is so just depressing these days.”

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It is so just depressing these days.

Nintendo Takes Down Switch Emulators and Mod Chip Firmware in Massive GitHub DMCA Sweep

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“Nintendo has sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware.”

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Nintendo has sent four DMCA takedown notices to GitHub targeting two Nintendo Switch emulators, Yuzu and Citron Neo, along with mod chip firmware.

Fitting Four 32 GB Resizable BARs Behind a PCIe Switch on Linux

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“Linux 7.0 sized a PCIe switch's bridge window too small for four 32 GB GPU BARs (can't assign; no space). A kernel module that pads the BARs fixes it.”

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Linux 7.0 sized a PCIe switch's bridge window too small for four 32 GB GPU BARs (can't assign; no space). A kernel module that pads the BARs fixes it.

Immersion Cooled Marine Batteries Promise More Power In Less Space

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“Fully immersed cells could eliminate thermal runaway”

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Fully immersed cells could eliminate thermal runaway

Researchers discover rare star system that emits radio signals every eight minutes | News at Curtin

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“Scientists at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have linked mysterious radio pulses to an unusual ...”

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Scientists at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have linked mysterious radio pulses to an unusual ...

Pulling the Lever in a Subway Problem

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“Eleven years ago I was on the Red Line (not the section that”

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Eleven years ago I was on the Red Line (not the section that

Making a €40 USB-C hub work as a Nintendo Switch 2 dock

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“I like to travel with my Nintendo Switch 2. Every time I pack it up, I run into the same problem: the official dock is bulky and feels fragile. Therefore I never travel with it. It bothers me, because the dock uses USB-C”

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I like to travel with my Nintendo Switch 2. Every time I pack it up, I run into the same problem: the official dock is bulky and feels fragile. Therefore I never travel with it. It bothers me, because the dock uses USB-C DisplayPort Alt mode, and I already hav

IceWM

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Window Manager

Folklore.org: Switcher

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Gemini 4 Hydrogen and Orchestrator | Google Antigravity Blog

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Today, we

Microsoft service health status

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Laurence Tratt: Adapting CPython for yk

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RE: Being present should not be complicated

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“I read this post a little while ago and it's been rattling around in my head since. 🔗 Being present should not be complicated The short version: the au...”

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I read this post a little while ago and it's been rattling around in my head since. 🔗 Being present should not be complicated The short version: the au...

iPhone Duo Apps: Every App That Supports Duo | Duo Today

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“Optimized layout. The app redraws its layout for both of Duo’s screens instead of stretching a phone layout across the bigger one: wider lists, more columns, controls where your thumbs are. For example: Komi Reader - TXT”

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iPhone Duo apps, tracked as they ship. Duo Today lists every App Store app that adds iPhone Duo support, newest first, with the evidence for each one: today 823 apps support Duo, +100 this week. Entries marked Released come from the app’s App Store release notes; entries marked Reported come from the press, and name the outlet. Tap any of these Duo supported apps above to see its screenshots and evidence. Optimized layout. The app redraws its layout for both of Duo’s screens instead of stretching a phone layout acr

Fireship: 100 Seconds of Code & Emerging Web Architectures

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“High-signal, rapid developer video breakdowns covering modern languages, architectures, and emerging developer tooling.”

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High-signal, rapid developer video breakdowns covering modern languages, frameworks, cloud primitives, and emerging dev tools in 100 seconds.

DevDocs: Fast, Offline-Capable Unified API Documentation Browser

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“Fast, offline-capable, and unified API documentation browser combining 100+ developer documentation sets into a clean, searchable interface.”

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Combines 100+ developer documentation sets into a fast, clean, and organized web interface with instant search and offline access.

MDN Web Docs: The Open Web Technology Reference

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“The definitive open-source reference for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web APIs maintained by Mozilla and the open web community.”

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The definitive open-source reference documentation for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Web APIs maintained by Mozilla and web creators.