Posts from 2022

December 2022 124 posts

Why "OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems" is not in Amazon's Kindle store mwl.io · “TLDR: Amazon pays roughly 70% of retail price for books priced up to $9.99, and 35% for books $10 and over.”
Dec 31
JPMorgan to spend $1B on rental homes in the US to become a megalandlord businessinsider.com · “Haven Realty Capital and JPMorgan Chase’s asset management arm said they will invest up to $1 billion to develop build-to-rent single-family homes across the country, according to a November 15 announcement.”
Dec 31
I am not a supplier softwaremaxims.com · “And then why attempts at bringing FOSS under that definition are deeply misguided.”
Dec 31
Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone aljazeera.com · “At midnight on January 1, 2023, the Balkan nation of some four million people will bid farewell to its kuna currency and become the 20th member of the eurozone.”
Dec 31
Where does ChatGPT fall on the political compass? reason.com · “All four tests, the Pew Research Political Typology Quiz, the Political Compass Test, the World’s Smallest Political Quiz and the Political Spectrum Quiz classified ChatGPT’s answers to their questions as left-leaning.”
Dec 30
An M1 for curl daniel.haxx.se · “Apple has shipped and used curl in their products for twenty years but they never assist, help or otherwise contribute to the development.”
Dec 30
Games people play with cash flow commoncog.com · “For the next two decades, Amazon grew its revenue and made no profits, leading journalist Matthew Yglesias to write, in 2013: “Amazon, as best I can tell, is a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers.””
Dec 30
Distributor cancelled an order and we need to move 30k bags of coffee modest.coffee · “We have approximately 30,000 bags of coffee, 5,000 cases, that we are going to sell for half off and offer free shipping.”
Dec 30
Unintended consequences of blocking IP addresses blog.cloudflare.com · “In an attempt to block 14 websites that copyright holders argued were violating copyright, the court-ordered IP block rendered thousands of websites inaccessible to ordinary Internet users in Austria over a two-day period.”
Dec 29
What happens when babies are left to cry it out? bbc.com · “When the children were six years old, the researchers found no difference on any measure – negative or positive – between those who were sleep trained and those who weren’t, including in their sleep patterns, behaviour, attachment, or cortisol levels.”
Dec 29
Privacy is ok tbray.org · “Indeed, bad people can and (I’m sure) do use cryptography to evade surveillance.”
Dec 29
AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off fortressofdoors.com · “Up until now, all forms of spam, catfishing, social engineering, forum brigading, etc, have more or less been bottlenecked by the capabilities and energy of individual human beings.”
Dec 29
Existing smartphones will connect with new satellite constellations in 2023 spectrum.ieee.org · “In 2023, you or someone you know will be able to send a text message through space.”
Dec 28
Police, prosecutors used junk science to decide 911 callers were liars propublica.org · “So far, researchers who have tried to corroborate Harpster’s claims have failed.”
Dec 28
Barnes and Noble's surprising turnaround tedgioia.substack.com · “But the most amazing thing Daunt did at Waterstones was this: He refused to take any promotional money from publishers.”
Dec 28
Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job stevenbuccini.com · “Just because you’re getting a lot of offers to interview does not mean that you are a hot commodity.”
Dec 28
All About USB-C: Illegal Adapters hackaday.com · “However, the USB-C specification only accounts for a limited amount of kinds of cables, explicitly or implicitly excluding a range of cables that you might want to buy or make.”
Dec 27
Americans duped into losing $10B by illegal Indian call centres in 2022: report timesofindia.indiatimes.com · “Most of the victims of these frauds are elderly above the age of 60 years.”
Dec 27
CCC captures U.S. military biometrics database ccc.de · “GPS coordinates of past deployment locations, and a massive biometrics database with names, fingerprints, iris scans and photos of 2,632 people.”
Dec 27
Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours npr.org · “The number of canceled flights for Southwest Monday was more than 10 times higher than for Delta, which had the second-most cancellations by a U.S. airline.”
Dec 27
Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code likely to be buggy theregister.com · “Worse still, they found that AI help tends to delude developers about the quality of their output.”
Dec 26
Unbundling Tools for Thought borretti.me · “In practice 95% of the use cases can be naturally unbundled into disjoint apps, and the lack of centralization and cross-app hyperlinking has no real negative effects.”
Dec 26
Google removed my Yubikeys from a Google account 'just to be safe' lunnova.dev · “Removing physical U2F keys from an account without request seems to be the worst possible reaction to suspicious activity.”
Dec 26
Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom bath.ac.uk · “Profound boredom may sound like an overwhelmingly negative concept but, in fact, it can be intensely positive if people are given the chance for undistracted thinking and development.”
Dec 26
Taxpayers paying billions for the renovations and construction of NFL stadiums cnbc.com · “Since 2000, public funds diverted to helping build professional sports stadiums and arenas have cost taxpayers $4.3 billion.”
Dec 25
How much I've spent so far running my own Mastodon server on AWS micahwalter.com · “As of this writing, I’ve spent $52.74 on this project.”
Dec 25
Ruby 3.2.0 ruby-lang.org · “YJIT now supports both x86-64 and arm64/aarch64 CPUs on Linux, MacOS, BSD and other UNIX platforms.”
Dec 25
Reverse engineering yet another eBook format mijailovic.net · “On top of that, the book description said “Access Duration: 84 Months”, and that didn’t sound promising, either (7 years is generous, but anything less than forever is not generous enough in my book).”
Dec 25
How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail? serioustrouble.show · “Federal bail does not necessarily work the way you think it should.”
Dec 24
TikTok banned on government devices under spending bill passed by Congress cnbc.com · “Congress failed to pass many of the most aggressive bills targeting tech, including antitrust legislation opposed by the industry.”
Dec 24
Stanford hates fun johnhcochrane.blogspot.com · “She recounted how the slightly transgressive Stanford atmosphere in the 90s, which seeded the slightly transgressive get it done attitude of tech in the early 2000s, is being smothered by the Administration.”
Dec 24
California passes law banning Tesla from calling software FSD teslarati.com · “The bill was sponsored after the California Department of Motor Vehicles claimed that Tesla’s FSD was “false advertising.”
Dec 24
Can Doom Run It? An Adding Machine in Doom blog.otterstack.com · “I demonstrate that it is possible to run any bounded computation in Doom, minus constraints on level size.”
Dec 23
Haiku R1/beta4 haiku-os.org · “Over 400 bugs and enhancement tickets have been resolved for this release.”
Dec 23
How we slowed the subway down homesignalblog.wordpress.com · “The system of 2016-2018 was in crisis; on-time performance had plunged below 75 percent and ridership had begun to fall.”
Dec 23
Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation nullpt.rs · “Information such as user location, device type, and various hardware metrics are combined to create a unique "fingerprint" that can potentially be used to track a user’s activity on and off the app.”
Dec 23
Password Requirements: Myths and Madness franzoni.eu · “The hilarious part for this website is that the embedded strength checker properly recognizes a good password; but then an additional policy is bolted on, just in case users were too happy.”
Dec 22
Staring into the abyss as a core life skill benkuhn.net · “Staring into the abyss means thinking reasonably about things that are uncomfortable to contemplate, like arguments against your religious beliefs, or in favor of breaking up with your partner.”
Dec 22
UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol f-droid.org · “Most of them have open alternatives, but until now, the only option for push notifications was Google’s proprietary service, Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM).”
Dec 22
LastPass user vaults stolen in recent hack blog.lastpass.com · “The threat actor was also able to copy a backup of customer vault data from the encrypted storage container which is stored in a proprietary binary format that contains both unencrypted data, such as website URLs, as well as fully-encrypted sensitive fields such as website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data.”
Dec 22
Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately mprimi.github.io · “I created Portable Secret to securely exchange documents via email with my mother, who can’t be expected to learn PGP, age, or similar.”
Dec 21
ThreeUK is blocking Tutanota tutanota.com · “Even though we reached out to ThreeUK over one month ago, the issue is still not fixed.”
Dec 21
Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen bleepingcomputer.com · “Earlier this month, GitHub alerted Okta of suspicious access to Okta’s code repositories, states the notification.”
Dec 21
I still use Flash foon.uk · “The way forward was obvious; I’d have to make my own Flash player.”
Dec 21
Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable pcgamer.com · “Valve understands that, because in a recent chat with the Verge, Steam Deck designer Pierre-Loup Griffais mentioned that the company is paying over a hundred open-source devs to work on the various bits of software that keep the Steam Deck ticking.”
Dec 20
Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative blog.mozilla.org · “In early 2023, Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.”
Dec 20
Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer nbcnewyork.com · “Conlon says she posed no threat, but the guards still kicked her out with the explanation that they knew she was an attorney.”
Dec 20
January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all web.law.duke.edu · “But before this could happen, Congress hit a 20-year pause button and extended their copyright term to 95 years.”
Dec 20
How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook? technologyreview.com · “The images were not taken by a person, but by development versions of iRobot’s Roomba J7 series robot vacuum.”
Dec 19
Power company money flows to news sites that attack their critics npr.org · “Those accounts reflect a complex web of financial links, in which the six outlets collectively received, at minimum, $900,000 from Matrix, its clients, and associated entities between 2013 and 2020.”
Dec 19
Pollution cleanup method destroys toxic "forever chemicals" news.ucr.edu · “The patent-pending process infuses contaminated water with hydrogen, then blasts the water with high-energy, short-wavelength ultraviolet light.”
Dec 19
Did insurance fire brigades let uninsured buildings burn? tomscott.com · “In the early years of fire insurance, insurance company fire brigades seemingly made little distinction between insured and uninsured properties.”
Dec 19
Why doesn't Windows use 64-bit virtual address space below 0x00000000`7ffe0000? devblogs.microsoft.com · “The full user-mode address space on x86-64 is 128TB, and a randomly-generated 47-bit address is very unlikely to begin with 15 consecutive zero bits.”
Dec 18
Quite OK Image is now my favorite asset format nullprogram.com · “However, for the typical images where I would use PNG, QOI is around 3x larger, and some outliers are far worse.”
Dec 18
Let's Encrypt now supports ACME-CAA: closing the DV loophole devever.net · “In short, this means that only someone with your ACME account private key can obtain certificates (though note the caveats below).”
Dec 18
Apple 'created decoy labor group' to derail unionization theregister.com · “The Communications Workers of America (CWA) filed a complaint with the federal US National Labor Relations Board charging Apple with unfair labor practices.”
Dec 18
Get root on macOS 13.0.1 via the macOS Dirty Cow bug worthdoingbadly.com · “Thanks to Sealed System Volume, running this on any file on the /System volume only modifies the file temporarily: It’s reverted on reboot.”
Dec 17
Copilot Internals thakkarparth007.github.io · “After 30s of either acceptance/rejection of a suggestion, copilot “captures” a snapshot around the insertion point.”
Dec 17
Unredacter: Never use pixelation as a redaction technique github.com · “Shows you why you should never ever ever use pixelation as a redaction technique.”
Dec 17
The $8 Linux Computer thelittleengineerthatcould.blogspot.com · “It looks like a microcontroller, but behaves like a UNIX machine.”
Dec 17
IBM creates 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license theregister.com · “With Oracle Database SE2, customer license costs remain the same regardless of the number of cores in the socket.”
Dec 16
I almost failed to search a 37 GB text file in under 1 millisecond death.andgravity.com · “Instead, we’ll do it the hard way – we’ll check passwords offline.”
Dec 16
BundesMessenger, a secure messenger for Germany's public administration element.io · “BundesMessenger is a modified version of Element which we’re working with BWI to develop and maintain.”
Dec 16
A Linux Evening fabiensanglard.net · “Really bad occurrences result in disheartening hours googling in the hope that someone more qualified ran into the same issue.”
Dec 16
Doors of McMurdo brr.fyi · “There is a huge amount of snowdrift during the winter, and if the doors opened outward, they would be impossible to open without a lot of digging.”
Dec 15
Deepmind's AlphaCode conquers coding, performing as well as humans singularityhub.com · “It’s also unlikely the AI will take over programming completely, as its code is riddled with errors.”
Dec 15
Na-S Battery: Low-cost with four times the capacity of lithium sydney.edu.au · “Our sodium battery has the potential to dramatically reduce costs while providing four times as much storage capacity.”
Dec 15
NIST is announcing that SHA-1 should be phased out by Dec. 31, 2030 nist.gov · “Modules that still use SHA-1 after 2030 will not be permitted for purchase by the federal government,” Celi said.”
Dec 15
Wendy Carlos: The brilliant but lonely life of an electronic music pioneer english.elpais.com · “Columbia Records had low expectations for the album and only gave Carlos a $2,500 advance, opting instead to compensate her with a higher percentage of future royalties.”
Dec 14
Six charged in mass takedown of DDoS-for-hire sites krebsonsecurity.com · “The complaint against Miller alleges Royalstresser launched nearly 200,000 DDoS attacks between November 2021 and February 2022.”
Dec 14
Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web browsers to use WebKit macrumors.com · “Gurman said this potential change comes in response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act.”
Dec 14
Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports electrek.co · “It’s unfortunately the best data available because Tesla has gone out of its way to not release disengagement data that other companies developing self-driving systems are making available.”
Dec 14
No, Google did not hike the price of a .dev domain from $12 to $850 agwa.name · “According to his own screenshots, he paid 4,360 Turkish Lira for the initial registration on December 6, 2021, which was $317 at the time.”
Dec 13
Binance freezes withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investors pull $2B markets.businessinsider.com · “The world’s largest crypto exchange will freeze all withdrawals of USD Coin while it conducts a "token swap" to boost its holdings of the dollar-pegged token, CEO Changpeng Zhao said Tuesday.”
Dec 13
After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to being millionaires pcgamer.com · “We found a foolproof way of saving our money, which was to not sell anything for 20 years and then drop it all," Zach deadpanned.”
Dec 13
US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved energy.gov · “LLNL’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) conducted the first controlled fusion experiment in history to reach this milestone, also known as scientific energy breakeven, meaning it produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it.”
Dec 13
Medieval ship found in Norway's biggest lake sciencenorway.no · “Marine archaeologists believe the ship dates to sometime between 1300 – 1850.”
Dec 12
Splashdown! NASA's Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission nasa.gov · “The splashdown of the Orion spacecraft – which occurred 50 years to the day of the Apollo 17 Moon landing – is the crowning achievement of Artemis I.”
Dec 12
The silent struggles of workers with ADHD bbc.com · “But even for people who do have a label for their struggles, a diagnosis isn’t necessarily a fix; many workers with ADHD experience challenges that can inhibit success.”
Dec 12
Linux Desktop Environments System Usage itvision.altervista.org · “Whoever doubted XFCE as a lean desktop environment is I hope dissuaded and changed their mind.”
Dec 12
Be wary of imitating high-status people who can afford to countersignal robkhenderson.substack.com · “He replied, “I’ll tell you what I did when I was in your situation, not what I’m doing now.”
Dec 11
What if your entire worldview was just because of near-zero interest rates? novum.substack.com · “The near-zero interest rate regime functioned much like an opiate.”
Dec 11
I found a bug in SQLite philipotoole.com · “Ignoring the issue when I saw it first was a big mistake, and was not intellectually honest.”
Dec 11
Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer bbc.com · “The team at Great Ormond Street used a technology called base editing, which was invented only six years ago.”
Dec 11
End-to-end encrypted messages need more than libsignal mjg59.dreamwidth.org · “But there’s rather more to producing a secure and usable client than just sprinkling on some libsignal.”
Dec 10
What causes Alzheimer's? Scientists are rethinking the answer quantamagazine.org · “Scientists have long held onto the idea that sticky blobs of proteins sitting between brain cells are the cause of Alzheimer’s disease.”
Dec 10
Disputing a Parking Fine with ChatGPT notesbylex.com · “I mistyped the number plate by one letter.”
Dec 10
Just use Postgres for everything amazingcto.com · “Postgres can replace - up to millions of users - many backend technologies, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Mongo and Redis among them.”
Dec 10
Chrome, 10 years later neugierig.org · “And similarly I learned how free software can come from a place of giving and gratitude and end up as yet another weapon for corporations.”
Dec 9
All in with Nuitka nuitka.net · “After more than 10 years of working on the Python compiler Nuitka, and at the age of 50, I have finally decided to take the plunge.”
Dec 9
A 100MW solar farm in Texas will mount panels directly on the ground canarymedia.com · “Erthos claims it can build a solar power plant in half the time on one-third of the land, all while using 70 percent less cable and trenching.”
Dec 9
Stripe's real pricing: a primer github.com · “We asked this question to dozens of SaaS founders and none of them was able to provide a precise figure.”
Dec 9
FTC seeks to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard ftc.gov · “The Commission vote to issue the complaint was 3-1, with Commissioner Christine S. Wilson voting no.”
Dec 8
Everything SBF is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail newsletter.mollywhite.net · “But in reality, he is laundering his reputation.”
Dec 8
Goodbye to the C++ Implementation of Zig ziglang.org · “The new one was faster, used less memory, and was actively maintained and enhanced.”
Dec 8
I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you theeggandtherock.substack.com · “I never signed a contract giving Mojang the rights to the End Poem, and so Microsoft (who bought Minecraft from Mojang) also don’t own it.”
Dec 8
VSCode remote code execution advisory github.com · “An attacker could, through a link or website, take over the computer of a Visual Studio Code user and any computers they were connected to via the Visual Studio Code Remote Development feature.”
Dec 7
100 Gbps achieved from space to Earth news.mit.edu · “This data rate is more than 1,000 times higher than that of the radio-frequency links traditionally used for satellite communication and the highest ever achieved by a laser link from space to ground.”
Dec 7
Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux asahilinux.org · “While there’s always room for improvement, the driver is fast enough to run all of the above at 60 frames per second at 4K.”
Dec 7
Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups support.apple.com · “With Advanced Data Protection, the number of data categories that use end-to-end encryption rises to 25 and includes your iCloud Backup, Photos, Notes, and more.”
Dec 7
Show HN: Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++ github.com · “Having such a lightweight implementation of the model allows to easily integrate it in different platforms and applications.”
Dec 6
It's not Tourette's but a new type of mass sociogenic illness academic.oup.com · “Accordingly, we suggest the more specific term ‘mass social media-induced illness’.”
Dec 6
Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing theguardian.com · “The sources characterized that figure as a rough estimate because the company does not keep precise records on the number of animals tested and killed.”
Dec 6
I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language maximumeffort.substack.com · “Finally, when asked to write a Python program that translates sentences in the made-up language, it does, and the code works.”
Dec 6
Federal court requires Amazon to stop firing employees for protected activities nlrb.gov · “If Amazon violates the cease-and-desist order, it could be held in contempt by the court.”
Dec 5
AI Homework stratechery.com · “In other words, the role of the human in terms of AI is not to be the interrogator, but rather the editor.”
Dec 5
Activision's faulty anti-cheat software blog.mikeswanson.com · “Activision’s “appeal” process seems to result in the same automated response for everyone, including me: Conveniently, they can’t tell me what caused the ban, and their decision is final.”
Dec 5
Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting ploum.net · “The algorithms are already feeding themselves on their own data.”
Dec 5
Iran abolishes morality police hindustantimes.com · “The attorney general commented at a religious conference where he responded to a participant who asked "why the morality police were being shut down", the report said.”
Dec 4
Software horror show: SAP Concur blog.plover.com · “The actual authors of SAP Concur’s phone app did none of these things.”
Dec 4
ChatGPT passes the 2022 AP Computer Science A free response section gist.github.com · “I tried each question once and took the response given: no cherry-picking.”
Dec 4
Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower jamesgmartin.center · “Universities are in the midst of a full-blown administrative spending spree that shows no signs of abating.”
Dec 4
How the 8086 processor's microcode engine works righto.com · “In brief, the microcode in the 8086 consists of 512 micro-instructions, each 21 bits wide.”
Dec 3
New Zealand admits it has access to Facebook takedown portal to censor content reclaimthenet.org · “The OIA response didn’t detail how much content had been censored via this Facebook takedown portal.”
Dec 3
MSN fired its human journalists and replaced them with AI that publishes fake news about mermaids and Bigfoot futurism.com · “But MSN isn’t just popular; it’s the default source of news for many Windows users.”
Dec 3
Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT engraved.blog · “So, for some applications, this virtual machine is already faster than my laptop.”
Dec 3
Snap updates happen without user consent smaller.fish · “Snap’s update system kills the running application and applies updates, without user consent.”
Dec 2
DNS over Wikipedia github.com · “Wikipedia keeps track of official URLs for popular websites.”
Dec 2
Julius: An open source re-implementation of Caesar III github.com · “Julius recreates many bugs that you can find in original Caesar 3 game, to preserve 100% saves compatibility.”
Dec 2
Why is Booz Allen renting us back our own national parks? mattstoller.substack.com · “Booz Allen and 13 government agencies have been renting back to the public access to our own lands by forcing us to pay junk fees to use national parks.”
Dec 2
Extism: Make all software programmable with WebAssembly extism.org · “This makes it safe to execute untrusted, 3rd party plug-in code even while it’s directly embedded within the same OS process as your program.”
Dec 1
Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought nationalgeographic.com · “Neither the 2017 nor the 2022 meta-analyses examined what is causing the drop in sperm count, but other research suggests environmental and lifestyle factors may be to blame.”
Dec 1
TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia techmonitor.ai · “The new chip factory, or fab, will cost $12bn and is part of TSMC’s global expansion plan.”
Dec 1
Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon machinelearning.apple.com · “Finally, locally deploying this model enables developers to reduce or eliminate their server-related costs.”
Dec 1

November 2022 120 posts

Inkbase: Programmable Ink inkandswitch.com · “The programming model is the least solved part of Inkbase.”
Nov 30
At SpaceX, work was taken away from me in case I “might retire or die.” lioness.co · “I knew no one there who worked more hours than I did.”
Nov 30
The last three years of my work will be permanently abandoned ericlippert.com · “A team that reduces costs of other teams is not on anyone’s critical path.”
Nov 30
Lastpass Security Incident blog.lastpass.com · “Our customers’ passwords remain safely encrypted due to LastPass’s Zero Knowledge architecture.”
Nov 30
Tailwind is a leaky abstraction jakelazaroff.com · “You still need to know CSS.”
Nov 29
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem, one library at a time marvinh.dev · “JIT engines are crazy fast these days!”
Nov 29
Goodbye, data science ryxcommar.com · “Nobody knew or even cared what the difference was between good and bad data science work.”
Nov 29
Tales of the M1 GPU asahilinux.org · “Since this was going to be the first Linux Rust GPU kernel driver, I had a lot of work ahead!”
Nov 29
Everything I wish I knew when learning C tmewett.com · “Think of a header file as a specification of an API, that can be implemented across any number of source files.”
Nov 28
Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says smithsonianmag.com · “Upside Foods’ lab-grown meat is biologically identical to standard meat, but it doesn’t require killing animals.”
Nov 28
Curation and decentralization is better than millions of apps f-droid.org · “Nobody has millions of apps installed on their device.”
Nov 28
BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout spreads cnbc.com · “The company also listed an outstanding $275 million loan to FTX US, the American arm of Sam Bankman-Fried’s now-bankrupt empire.”
Nov 28
The Rune Programming Language github.com · “This is not an officially supported Google product.”
Nov 27
CRDT: Fractional Indexing madebyevan.com · “Objects can be reordered any number of times without leaving any additional information behind.”
Nov 27
Git Notes: git's coolest, most unloved feature tylercipriani.com · “Git notes could make it possible to distribute the history of an entire project.”
Nov 27
Photography for geeks lcamtuf.coredump.cx · “An intriguing interplay of light and shadows can make a discarded candy wrapper look profound.”
Nov 27
Anti-War Speech Sent Eugene V. Debs to Prison, 1918 fifthestate.org · “The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.”
Nov 26
A bug fix in the 8086 microprocessor, revealed in the die's silicon righto.com · “In modern CPUs, bugs can often be fixed through a microcode patch that updates the CPU during boot.”
Nov 26
I/O is no longer the bottleneck benhoyt.com · “Disk I/O may have been slow 10 or 20 years ago, but in 2022, reading a file sequentially from disk is very fast.”
Nov 26
The Need to Read paulgraham.com · “The reason it would matter is that writing is not just a way to convey ideas, but also a way to have them.”
Nov 26
Congressmembers Tried to Stop the SEC’s Inquiry into FTX prospect.org · “Emmer and Gottheimer led the Blockchain Eight in donations from FTX with each receiving $11,600.”
Nov 25
Issue dialing 911 on Google Pixel 6 cell phones actionnewsjax.com · “Macleod said Google gave her a refund, and now she uses a different brand.”
Nov 25
Factorio runs on Apple Silicon factorio.com · “As of version 1.1.71, Factorio runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs!”
Nov 25
Cloudflare servers don't own IPs anymore so how do they connect to the internet? blog.cloudflare.com · “We also dislike shared state, so we’re not fans of distributed NAT installations.”
Nov 25
Investigating a backdoored PyPI package targeting FastAPI applications securitylabs.datadoghq.com · “FastAPI is a highly popular Python web framework.”
Nov 24
Draft policy proposal would authorize SF Police to use deadly force with robots missionlocal.org · “Robot use-of-force has never before been approved, nor has it ever been prohibited, in San Francisco.”
Nov 24
Stable Diffusion 2.0 stability.ai · “The text-to-image models in this release can generate images with default resolutions of 512x512 pixels and 768x768 pixels.”
Nov 24
maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps garrit.xyz · “Congratulations, you now have permission to geo-track me across all of your services.”
Nov 24
An interactive guide to Flexbox joshwcomeau.com · “The default value for flex-grow is 0, which means that growing is opt-in.”
Nov 23
Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microreactor power-eng.com · “Commercial deployment is targeted for 2027.”
Nov 23
Tumblr to Add Support for ActivityPub techcrunch.com · “Mullenweg did not offer an ETA as to how "ASAP" this support would be added.”
Nov 23
Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information stackoverflow.blog · “Typing notes can be good, but it won’t make it easier to remember what was said later on.”
Nov 23
High-documentation, low-meeting work culture tremendous.com · “In a document, the content is all you have.”
Nov 22
CICERO: An AI agent that negotiates, persuades, and cooperates with people ai.facebook.com · “Unlike games like Chess and Go, Diplomacy is a game about people rather than pieces.”
Nov 22
Improving Firefox stability on Windows by retrying failed memory allocation hacks.mozilla.org · “You’re looking at a >70% reduction in crashes, far more than our rosiest predictions.”
Nov 22
Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE matthewtejo.substack.com · “Twitter has two data centers running that can handle the entire site being failed into it.”
Nov 22
Why CVE-2022-3602 was not detected by fuzz testing allsoftwaresucks.blogspot.com · “Short answer: the code is not reachable by the current corpus and harness.”
Nov 21
How Precision Time Protocol is being deployed at Meta engineering.fb.com · “Hardware timestamps are the secret sauce that makes PTP so precise.”
Nov 21
Apple sends DSID with iPhone analytics data, tests show gizmodo.com · “Knowing the DSID is like knowing your name.”
Nov 21
Is wine fake? asteriskmag.com · “But although wine experts really do know more than you and I, the world of wine is insane.”
Nov 21
Planes are still decades away from displacing most bird jobs guzey.com · “Birds use orders of magnitude less energy to lift the same amount of mass in the air, compared to planes.”
Nov 20
Greg Bear has died file770.com · “Five-time Nebula winner Greg Bear died November 19, a week after heart surgery from which he never awoke.”
Nov 20
While crypto bro scammed clients, reporters scammed readers fair.org · “His image was simply fun to write about.”
Nov 20
AWS and Blockchain tbray.org · “In practice, the technology is a database.”
Nov 20
Quake 1 port for Apple Watch github.com · “This game port supports both the shareware and registered versions of Quake.”
Nov 19
Tree views in CSS iamkate.com · “A tree view (collapsible list) can be created using only HTML and CSS, without the need for JavaScript.”
Nov 19
Consider working on genomics claymcleod.dev · “There is a significant gap between how software is currently developed in this space versus how it should be developed.”
Nov 19
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font blog.pkh.me · “And you know what’s special about 2040? It’s after 2038.”
Nov 19
Go Style google.github.io · “Adherence to the Style Guide is not intended to be absolute, and these documents will never be exhaustive.”
Nov 18
The 12-bit rainbow palette iamkate.com · “Yellow is given the highest luminance, as it only looks yellow when bright.”
Nov 18
Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU trevorklee.substack.com · “The ICU is a good place to not die, but a bad place to recover.”
Nov 18
Tailscale Funnel tailscale.com · “Shockingly, the whole world doesn’t use Tailscale.”
Nov 18
The Unison language – a new approach to Distributed programming unison-lang.org · “Other tools try to recover structure from text; Unison stores code in a database.”
Nov 17
Demystifying Fourier analysis dsego.github.io · “The idea is to multiply the signal with a pure sine wave.”
Nov 17
My ADHD founder toolbox hypatia.ca · “Highly recommend not yelling at yourself constantly.”
Nov 17
FTX used corporate funds to purchase employee homes, new filing shows cnbc.com · “"The Debtors do not have an accounting department," Ray wrote, stating he expected it would be "some time" before reliable financial statements could be prepared.”
Nov 17
Evernote to be acquired by Bending Spoons evernote.com · “For Evernote, this decision is the next strategic step forward on our journey to be an extension of your brain.”
Nov 16
Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself vox.com · “In doing so, he all but confirmed the view of critics who have argued that his overtures to Washington were much more about image than substance.”
Nov 16
Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile reason.com · “She was charged with endangering a child, a felony carrying a mandatory minimum of two years in prison.”
Nov 16
Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer danfitdegree.hashnode.dev · “But this is what we have to deal with as small devs in the year 2022.”
Nov 16
Why do we call it “boilerplate code?” buttondown.email · “So "boilerplate" became slang for vapid syndicated articles.”
Nov 15
Emergency SOS via satellite apple.com · “Emergency SOS via satellite enables users to message with emergency services while outside of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage.”
Nov 15
Digital books wear out faster than physical books blog.archive.org · “Mega-publishers are saying electronic books do not wear out, but this is not true at all.”
Nov 15
Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client engineering.fb.com · “The smartlog is one of the most important Sapling commands and the centerpiece of the entire user experience.”
Nov 15
“When we all have pocket telephones” openculture.com · “In the event, it would take nearly eight decades for the first cellphone to arrive on the market, and three more on top of that for them to become indispensable in the West.”
Nov 14
FTX collapse, Tether operations have links to online-poker cheating scandals poker.org · “Friedberg isn’t even the only former UB lawyer to have found a home with a major crypto firm.”
Nov 14
Myocarditis after Covid vaccination: Research on possible long-term risks begins nbcnews.com · “We don’t understand yet and there’s no good mechanism to explain it.”
Nov 14
Making a Go program faster with a one-character change hmarr.com · “The Go compiler uses a technique called escape analysis to figure out when some memory needs to live on the heap.”
Nov 14
Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG fathy.fr · “Skia also has an experimental SVG back-end, and that’s what we’re going to use to build html2svg!”
Nov 13
Mold linker may switch to a source-available license github.com · “mold started as my personal project, and I’ve been working on this full time for two years so far.”
Nov 13
From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server ctrl.blog · “Jellyfin is pretty much a drop-in replacement for Plex Media Server’s core functionality.”
Nov 13
Where has the passive radar code gone? forum.krakenrf.com · “This really sucks to say after putting so much effort into it, but for regulatory reasons that have just come to light we’ve had to remove the open source passive radar code that we previously provided.”
Nov 13
What if regular exercise is the best cognitive exercise? blog.vslira.net · “File this under highly speculative.”
Nov 12
In praise of Plan 9 drewdevault.com · “Plan 9 failed, in a sense, because Unix was simply too big and too entrenched by the time Plan 9 came around.”
Nov 12
Gzip exceptions, but only on hot or rainy days alexyorke.github.io · “Sometimes, debugging enters the real world.”
Nov 12
FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M coindesk.com · “More than $600 million was siphoned from FTX’s crypto wallets late Friday.”
Nov 12
AWS IAM Roles, a tale of unnecessary complexity infosec.rodeo · “Instead of refactoring the architecture, AWS did what AWS does best - it built a new service.”
Nov 11
NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages theregister.com · “Rust, while powerful, has a fairly steep learning curve, for example.”
Nov 11
Demystifying financial leverage bam.kalzumeus.com · “A 10:1 levered firm is wiped out if assets lose 1/11th (~9.09%) of their value.”
Nov 11
YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option piunikaweb.com · “The removal of the option to sort videos from oldest to newest has not been implemented for all YouTube accounts.”
Nov 11
US annual inflation declines to 7.7% in October vs. 7.9% expected bls.gov · “The energy index rose 17.6 percent over the past 12 months.”
Nov 10
Indian ISPs: We already give govt full access to web traffic entrackr.com · “The CMS, however, undercuts these requests by letting the government access data in real time without individual requests.”
Nov 10
FTC restores rigorous enforcement of law banning unfair methods of competition ftc.gov · “When Congress created the FTC, it clearly commanded us to crack down on unfair methods of competition.”
Nov 10
Accidental $70k Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass bugs.xdavidhu.me · “I was not expecting to cause this big of a code change in Android with this bug.”
Nov 10
Stretch iPhone to its limit: 2GiB Stable Diffusion model runs locally on device liuliu.me · “The main challenge is to run the app on the 6GiB RAM iPhone devices.”
Nov 9
The Age of PageRank Is Over blog.kagi.com · “Ads became a global "tax" on using the web, paid mostly by the most vulnerable, non-tech-savvy, users.”
Nov 9
Why is Rosetta 2 fast? dougallj.wordpress.com · “Rosetta 2 translates the entire text segment of the binary from x86 to ARM up-front.”
Nov 9
Meta lays off 11,000 people about.fb.com · “I got this wrong, and I take responsibility for that.”
Nov 9
NightWare helps disrupt nightmares for those with PTSD apple.com · “Currently, NightWare is prescribed to 400 patients in the US, 98 percent of whom are active-duty military or veterans.”
Nov 8
Former CIA master of disguise helps disfigured people come out of hiding globalnews.ca · ““I got my life back.””
Nov 8
A requiem for amateur chemistry lcamtuf.substack.com · “Alas, my childhood also marked the final years of amateur chemistry as a socially acceptable pursuit.”
Nov 8
Just don’t tbray.org · “The word “just” is a signal that you’re not taking their problem seriously.”
Nov 8
You Might Also Like basicappleguy.com · “Apple took a lot of heat last week after the rollout of iOS 16.1 introduced ads on every app product page.”
Nov 7
Signal Introduces Stories signal.org · “Stories also happen to be one of the most common feature requests we receive from all over the world.”
Nov 7
Microsoft is phoning home the content of PowerPoint slides rogermexico.bearblog.dev · “It makes sense: the tool is reading your text and suggesting designs/delivering stock photography.”
Nov 7
Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls ipde.com · “Spoiler alert: MAVEXAR seems to be driving the litigation in all three sets of cases.”
Nov 7
Almost monospaced: the perfect fonts for writing blakewatson.com · “A monospaced font is one where each character takes up the same amount of horizontal space, even punctuation and spaces.”
Nov 6
What to blog about simonwillison.net · “I recommend adding “write about it” to your definition of “done” for anything that you build or create.”
Nov 6
Update on Supply of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max apple.com · “The facility is currently operating at significantly reduced capacity.”
Nov 6
Bloated college administration is making education unaffordable quillette.com · “At Yale University, for instance, there are now as many administrative staff as undergraduates.”
Nov 6
It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon simonwillison.net · “Twitter’s priorities are no longer even remotely aligned with my own.”
Nov 5
MDN converted to Markdown openwebdocs.org · “For technical writers, HTML is hard to write and hard to review.”
Nov 5
Quantum winter is coming backreaction.blogspot.com · “Unfortunately, I have to inform you that Moore’s law isn’t a law of nature.”
Nov 5
TSMC approaching 1 nm with 2D materials breakthrough edn.com · “However, as TSMC researchers acknowledge, the 1-nm process node is not likely to be used for years to come.”
Nov 5
In defense of linked lists antirez.com · “Linked lists are useful: Redis can be wrong, but both Redis and the Linux kernel can’t.”
Nov 4
UK Government scans all web servers hosted in the UK for vulnerabilities ncsc.gov.uk · “We also limit how often we run scans to ensure we don’t risk disrupting the normal operation of systems.”
Nov 4
I fought the PayPal and I won jessesingal.substack.com · “Arbitration is nothing more than privatized dispute resolution.”
Nov 4
Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun techcrunch.com · “The email was impersonally signed “Twitter.””
Nov 4
Over 16k people still use a Pebble smartwatch rebble.io · “It really is amazing to see so many people out there still using Pebbles.”
Nov 3
Snap Store administrators removed signal-desktop from Ubuntu Snap forum.snapcraft.io · “This is due to a DMCA takedown request coming from people representing Signal.”
Nov 3
We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot githubcopilotlitigation.com · “As far as we know, this is the first class-action case in the US challenging the training and output of AI systems.”
Nov 3
Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce stripe.com · “Our business is fundamentally well-positioned to weather harsh circumstances.”
Nov 3
Phlare: open-source database for continuous profiling at scale grafana.com · “It’s easy to install with just one binary and no additional dependencies, just like Prometheus.”
Nov 2
Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software Development spectrum.ieee.org · “In fact, the hardest part comes later, during the maintenance phase.”
Nov 2
The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry efinancialcareers.com · “The real problem is that C++ is neither easy nor loved.”
Nov 2
The case for JPEG XL cloudinary.com · “These limitations are all reasonable for the web use case, but not for a general-purpose image format.”
Nov 2
Laws barring noncompete clauses spreading businessinsurance.com · “Observers say insurance brokers are among the types of business most likely to be affected by the laws.”
Nov 1
OpenSSL 3.0.7 fixes X.509 email address buffer overflows openssl.org · “Exposure to remote code execution is not expected on any platforms.”
Nov 1
Invasive Diffusion: How one unwilling illustrator found herself turned into an AI model waxy.org · “Missing in most of these conversations is any discussion of consent.”
Nov 1
NASA Finds More Than 50 Super-Emitters of Methane smithsonianmag.com · “EMIT also identified 12 plumes from oil and gas infrastructure in Turkmenistan, some longer than 20 miles.”
Nov 1

October 2022 123 posts

Random: NASCAR Driver Stuns To Qualify For Championship With GameCube Move nintendolife.com · “Oh, I played a lot of NASCAR 2005 on the GameCube with Chad growing up and you can get away with it, and I never knew if it would actually work.”
Oct 31
It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter web.stanford.edu · “Every significant element of TCP, from its stream orientation to its expectation of in-order packet delivery, is wrong for the datacenter.”
Oct 31
NY could be first state with a 'Right to Repair' law for electronic devices spectrumlocalnews.com · “The bill has not been sent to the governor for her signature or veto but Fahy said her and her office have been in contact with the governor’s staff on the issue.”
Oct 31
Remixing Shopify remix.run · “Under Shopify’s stewardship Remix receives long-term backing and support from an established leader in commerce.”
Oct 31
Iran's Secret Manual for Controlling Protesters' Mobile Phones theintercept.com · “The tools can slow their data connections to a crawl, break the encryption of phone calls, track the movements of individuals or large groups, and produce detailed metadata summaries of who spoke to whom, when, and where.”
Oct 30
Wiring my home with Fiber sschueller.github.io · “My ISP plans on proving 100gbits in about 2 years so I don’t need pull new fiber if I decide to upgrade.”
Oct 30
Nobody Wants Touch-Screen Glove Box Latches And It Needs To Stop Now theautopian.com · “I didn’t speak out when the Tesla first demonstrated this, and that’s on me.”
Oct 30
RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language theregister.com · “This language, through evolution and contributions by others, is today known as assembly language.”
Oct 29
How I make a living working on SerenityOS awesomekling.github.io · “Since May of 2021, SerenityOS has been my full-time job.”
Oct 29
Texas solar and wind resources saved consumers nearly $28 billion over 12 years: report utilitydive.com · “Solar and wind energy reduced wholesale energy costs in Texas by $7.4 billion in the first eight months of this year, creating average monthly savings of $925 million, according to a study IdeaSmiths released last week.”
Oct 29
SAFe Delusion safedelusion.com · “Yet those companies and practitioners without extensive Agile experience have a hard time evaluating what will bring them value and what not.”
Oct 29
Open Letter to Gitea - Restoring Trust in the Gitea Project gitea-open-letter.coding.social · “We believed you when you promised to pass along the ownership of the Gitea project to your elected successors.”
Oct 28
About the sqlite3 WASM/JS Subproject sqlite.org · “Folks have been building sqlite3 for the web since as far back as 2012 but this subproject is the first effort "officially" associated with the SQLite project, created with the goal of making WASM builds of the library first-class members of the family of supported SQLite deliverables.”
Oct 28
How to communicate effectively as a developer karlsutt.com · “Communicating effectively as an engineer means empathically increasing the resolution of your writing.”
Oct 28
The Iran Firewall - A preliminary report blog.thc.org · “IP addresses are rarely fully blocked.”
Oct 28
How we became the world's foremost expert on Google Play Store policy violations blog.pushbullet.com · “Your app did not receive a deliberate analysis by a human leading to the violation notification.”
Oct 27
Shell Script Best Practices sharats.me · “Use shellcheck. Heed its warnings.”
Oct 27
Why Signal won't compromise on encryption, with president Meredith Whittaker theverge.com · “We are not going to compromise on privacy, and that is our stance.”
Oct 27
Stop making an SSH client the hard way: Tailscale SSH Console tailscale.com · “With Tailscale SSH Console, your browser becomes a Tailscale client, and joins your tailnet in the same way as any other device that you run Tailscale on.”
Oct 27
SiriSpy - iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri rambo.codes · “This would happen without the app requesting microphone access permission and without the app leaving any trace that it was listening to the microphone.”
Oct 26
Most People (92%) Never Finish Online Job Applications shrm.org · “According to Appcast, one of the industry’s most respected recruitment data providers, the candidate drop-off rate for people who click ‘Apply’ but never complete an application is a whopping 92 percent.”
Oct 26
Our Conscious Experience of the World Is But a Memory, Says New Theory singularityhub.com · “A team from Boston laid out a new theory of consciousness that inextricably ties it to memory.”
Oct 26
Oracle contributing GraalVM Community Edition Java Code to OpenJDK graalvm.org · “Oracle does not currently intend to contribute the polyglot technologies supporting other languages such as Python, Ruby, R, and JavaScript.”
Oct 26
Stranger Strings: An exploitable flaw in SQLite blog.trailofbits.com · “CVE-2022-35737 was introduced in SQLite version 1.0.12 (released on October 17, 2000) and fixed in release 3.39.2 (released on July 21, 2022).”
Oct 25
What "Work" Looks Like blog.jim-nielsen.com · “The funny thing is, sitting alone thinking doesn’t "look" like work.”
Oct 25
From zero to 10 million lines of Kotlin engineering.fb.com · “We knew from the start that Kotlin’s build times would be longer than Java’s.”
Oct 25
Turbopack: High-performance bundler for React & TypeScript vercel.com · “On large applications, it shows updates 700x faster than Webpack.”
Oct 25
Fake Books lcamtuf.substack.com · “I do not have a proof, but I’m fairly confident I stumbled upon an early example of a monetized machine-generated book.”
Oct 24
What's wrong with medieval pigs in videogames? leidenmedievalistsblog.nl · “Most notably, however, the medieval pig was not naked and pink at all, but covered in long dark hairs.”
Oct 24
Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second newatlas.com · “In experiments, researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Chalmers University of Technology used the setup to transmit data at 1.84 Pbit/s, encoded in 223 wavelength channels, down a 7.9-km-long (4.9-mile) optical fiber that contained 37 separate cores.”
Oct 24
My next Mac might be the last morrick.me · “The problem is I just can’t stand the software anymore.”
Oct 24
The Social Recession: By the Numbers novum.substack.com · “The percentage of people who say they don’t have a single close friend has quadrupled in the past 30 years.”
Oct 23
Fujimoto's Five Books are now Public Domain origami.kosmulski.org · “This means that you can now copy, distribute, and use the contents of these books without any restrictions (certain limitations may still apply in some jurisdictions).”
Oct 23
Open Source Podcasting Client ma.tt · “You can see all the code behind the iOS app and the Android app, and modify it, make it your own, suggest a change, fix a bug, add a feature, fork it and make your own client, anything!”
Oct 23
How Gamification Affects Software Developers: Cautionary Evidence from a Natural Experiment on GitHub arxiv.org · “Long-running streaks of activity were abandoned and became less common.”
Oct 23
Some people who appear to be in a coma may actually be conscious scientificamerican.com · “As many as 15 to 20 percent of patients who appear to be in a coma or other unresponsive state show these inner signs of awareness when evaluated with advanced brain-imaging methods or sophisticated monitoring of electrical activity.”
Oct 22
Linux: What can you epoll? darkcoding.net · “I was not able to find a comprehensive list of epoll-compatible APIs on the Internet, so I made one.”
Oct 22
Celebrating 5 Years of Pop!_OS blog.system76.com · “This gives us time to direct our development resources towards rebuilding Pop!_OS in the Rust codebase, a programming language that’s faster to process, more secure, and more stable.”
Oct 22
A Moonshot for Coral Breeding Was Successful hakaimagazine.com · “In Florida alone, the population is reduced by over 95 percent.”
Oct 22
Starlink signals can be reverse-engineered to work like GPS, whether SpaceX likes it or not technologyreview.com · “We had to start from scratch, building basically a little radio telescope to eavesdrop on their signals.”
Oct 21
Blink-182 Tickets Are So Expensive Because Ticketmaster Is a Disastrous Monopoly and Now Everyone Pays Ticket Broker Prices vice.com · “Soon after that fiasco, Ticketmaster and Live Nation did merge and became a single company.”
Oct 21
Nearly half of San Franciscans have been victims of theft, new poll says sfstandard.com · “Nearly half of San Franciscans have been a victim of theft in the past five years and a quarter have been threatened or physically attacked, according to a new poll.”
Oct 21
The Israeli Books End of Life lifemichael.com · “The Israeli accessibility law is very vague.”
Oct 21
The HTTP crash course nobody asked for fasterthanli.me · “HTTP/1.1 is a delightfully simple protocol, if you ignore most of it.”
Oct 20
SHA-3 Buffer Overflow mouha.be · “The vulnerability impacts the eXtended Keccak Code Package (XKCP), which is the "official" SHA-3 implementation by its designers.”
Oct 20
Yet another scientific body has debunked bitemark analysis. The courts still won't care. radleybalko.substack.com · “The NIST report is now the fourth major scientific body to find no scientific validity to support these central tenets of bitemark analysis.”
Oct 20
How Google is forcing us to make our open source app worse voys.co.za · “With the removal of these features, not only did the app perform less well, but Google still continued to reject the app.”
Oct 20
EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers adguard.com · “If you’re using an ad blocker, there’s a 99.99% chance you are using EasyList or one of its derivatives.”
Oct 19
NASA's Webb Takes Star-Filled Portrait of Pillars of Creation nasa.gov · “These are the bright red orbs that typically have diffraction spikes and lie outside one of the dusty pillars.”
Oct 19
Inside the Proton, the 'Most Complicated Thing' Imaginable quantamagazine.org · “Researchers recently discovered that the proton sometimes includes a charm quark and charm antiquark, colossal particles that are each heavier than the proton itself.”
Oct 19
Focus Is Saying No To Good Ideas commoncog.com · “There’s a famous saying, often attributed to Steve Jobs, that goes "focus is saying no to good ideas."”
Oct 19
Sound ciechanow.ski · “Invisible and relentless, sound is seemingly just there, traveling through our surroundings to carry beautiful music or annoying noises.”
Oct 18
Dear JetBrains. Don't mess with your UI. neil.computer · “A user interface is like an API for your eyeballs.”
Oct 18
An accident at SpaceX semafor.com · “SpaceX was fined $18,475 by OSHA for two safety violations, one of which was rated the highest penalty level of "serious" and a maximum gravity of 10.”
Oct 18
75% of the Time We Spend With Our Kids in Our Lifetime Will Be Spent By Age 12 1000hoursoutside.com · “What all of this means is that it’s highly unlikely that any of us will get 18 endless summers with our kids.”
Oct 18
GitHub Copilot investigation githubcopilotinvestigation.com · “We’re investigating a potential lawsuit against GitHub Copilot for violating its legal duties to open-source authors and end users.”
Oct 17
AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability waxy.org · “But then Meta is using those academic non-commercial datasets to train a model, presumably for future commercial use in their products.”
Oct 17
Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants dw.com · “Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday ordered Germany’s three remaining nuclear plants to remain in operation until April to fend off a possible energy crunch.”
Oct 17
Seabed 2030: Almost 25% of World's Seafloor Now Mapped hydro-international.com · “The latest GEBCO Grid figure now stands at 23.4%, reflecting an increase of 10.1 million square kilometres of new bathymetric data compared with last year’s figure.”
Oct 17
Re: [GIT PULL] Devicetree updates for v6.1 lkml.iu.edu · “I absolutely detest the crazy industry politics and bad vendors that have made ECC memory so "special".”
Oct 16
Jessica Wade made more than 1k Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists today.com · “Several of her entries were deleted by other Wikimedians, as the most influential contributors and editors are called.”
Oct 16
Announcing KataOS and Sparrow opensource.googleblog.com · “At the moment, the code on Github does not include the required components to run these applications, but we hope to publish these features in the near future.”
Oct 16
Macintosh Newsweek advertisement aresluna.org · “Below you can see all 39 pages of the advertisement, as well as Newsweek’s front cover.”
Oct 16
A Real World React -> htmx Port htmx.org · “They reduced their total JS dependencies by 96% (255 to 9)”
Oct 15
Google Engineers Joked About How Incognito Mode Isn't Very Incognito futurism.com · “We are limited in how strongly we can market Incognito because it’s not truly private, thus requiring really fuzzy, hedging language that is almost more damaging.”
Oct 15
Everyone going to the World Cup must have this app - experts are now sounding the alarm nrk.no · “The Ehteraz app, which everyone over 18 coming to Qatar must download, also gets a number of other accesses such as an overview of your exact location, the ability to make direct calls via your phone and the ability to disable your screen lock.”
Oct 15
Pimping my Casio with Oddly Specific Objects' alternate motherboard and firmware blog.jgc.org · “The project keeps the original Casio LCD but replaces the entire motherboard with a modern microcontroller and open firmware.”
Oct 15
How Equifax used employment records it collects from 2.5 million companies to fire dozens of its own employees for working second jobs businessinsider.com · “Equifax used one of its own products, The Work Number, to help it suss out who was holding down multiple jobs simultaneously.”
Oct 14
Alaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabs cbsnews.com · “An estimated one billion crabs have mysteriously disappeared in two years, state officials said.”
Oct 14
Unlaunching The 12GB 4080 nvidia.com · “The RTX 4080 12GB is a fantastic graphics card, but it’s not named right.”
Oct 14
Vogtle Unit 3 starts nuclear fuel load georgiapower.com · “During fuel load, nuclear technicians and operators from Westinghouse and Southern Nuclear are scheduled to safely transfer 157 fuel assemblies one-by-one from the Unit 3 spent fuel pool to the Unit 3 reactor core in the coming days.”
Oct 14
TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging bbc.com · “Displaced families in Syrian camps are begging for donations on TikTok while the company takes up to 70% of the proceeds, a BBC investigation found.”
Oct 13
Toyota Suffered a Data Breach by Accidentally Exposing A Secret Key Publicly On GitHub blog.gitguardian.com · “Inside the repo there was a hardcoded access key for the data server that manages customer info.”
Oct 13
Teenager Solves Stubborn Riddle About Prime Number Look-Alikes quantamagazine.org · “Then, in November 2021, Granville opened up an email from Larsen, then 17 years old and in his senior year of high school.”
Oct 13
Nick Clegg, Other Meta Executives 'Inadvertently' Identified in OnlyFans Bribery Suit gizmodo.com · “In court, however, its lawyers are less focused on proving the allegations false than arguing that, even if true, Meta itself would be shielded from liability.”
Oct 13
Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) signal.org · “The most important reason for us to remove SMS support from Android is that plaintext SMS messages are inherently insecure.”
Oct 12
The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it unherd.com · “After a decade of professional fund-raising, it has now amassed $400 million of cash as of March.”
Oct 12
California Man Fined $1,000 for Drawing Lines on Maps vice.com · “Local officials encouraging people to create their own site drawings contradicts the board’s claim that anyone who depicts a site map needs a license.”
Oct 12
How BuiltWith generates $14 million a year while having zero employees 5to9.beehiiv.com · “He added a BuiltWith.com link to every record in their index to provide BuiltWith information regarding each business.”
Oct 12
redefining for loop variable semantics github.com · “Loop variables being per-loop instead of per-iteration is the only design decision I know of in Go that makes programs incorrect more often than it makes them correct.”
Oct 11
I wish my web server were in the corner of my room interconnected.org · “It is boundary-violating, to have a website in the corner of your bedroom.”
Oct 11
Wayland Support on Linux code.blender.org · “Even though Wayland has existed since ~2008 as a replacement for X11, it’s only recently that some Linux distributions have been enabling it by default.”
Oct 11
Authors' names have 'astonishing' influence on peer reviewers nature.com · “A Nobel prizewinner is six times more likely than someone less well known to get a thumbs-up for acceptance, finds study.”
Oct 11
Improving Firefox responsiveness on macOS hacks.mozilla.org · “So how do you use them? Well, it turns out they’re not documented.”
Oct 10
How Wine works 101 werat.dev · “Fun fact, Valve’s Steam Deck uses a Wine-based solution to run games (called Proton).”
Oct 10
Why an 'everything app' is bad news for liberal democracies and free markets nitinpai.in · “It is practically impossible for person in China to opt out of WeChat.”
Oct 10
The Google plasma globe affair of 2012 lcamtuf.coredump.cx · “The solution proved to be simple: we "borrowed" the USB vendor and product ID sent by an Apple-made keyboard taken from a coworker’s desk.”
Oct 10
Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75,000 in court nltimes.nl · “The demand to keep the camera activated was an unreasonable intrusion on the plaintiff’s privacy rights, the court ruled.”
Oct 9
Brave browser to start blocking annoying cookie consent banners bleepingcomputer.com · “In some cases, however, these banners can serve as trackers themselves, as they engage in a privacy-breaching data exchange before the user even has a chance to opt out.”
Oct 9
Stripe is Paypal circa 2010 learnjsthehardway.com · “After integrating both Stripe and Paypal I’ve come to the realization that they are nearly the same, including all the evil.”
Oct 9
Protests in Iran: State-run live TV hacked by protesters bbc.co.uk · “Rights groups say more than 150 people have been killed since the protests in the Islamic Republic began on 17 September.”
Oct 9
I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls sofuckingagile.com · “As a prospect you didn’t even need to put up much of a fight, you just had to exhale loudly at the right time and suddenly discounts are coming your way.”
Oct 8
William Shatner: My Trip to Space Filled Me With 'Overwhelming Sadness' variety.com · “My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.”
Oct 8
What can we learn from leaked Insyde's BIOS for Intel Alder Lake hardenedvault.net · “Security researchers can still get leaked content via Internet Archive or forked repositories.”
Oct 8
Valve's latest Steam Deck trailer briefly plugs a Nintendo Switch emulator gamedeveloper.com · “The Switch maker has been incredibly proactive in recent years when it comes to seeking out and destroying ROM sites and emulators that allow people to access its software illegally.”
Oct 8
Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers' Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark nber.org · “This paper provides evidence from the US and Denmark that managers with a business degree ("business managers") reduce their employees’ wages.”
Oct 7
mastodon.technology Shutdown ashfurrow.com · “It’s been five and a half years that I’ve ran this instance and I never saw it ending.”
Oct 7
AWS doesn't make sense for scientific computing noahlebovic.com · “That means it’s over 10x more expensive to use AWS on-demand instances than your own infrastructure, and still 5x more expensive to use AWS reserved instances.”
Oct 7
Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 github.com · “The entire codebase has been migrated from C to C++.”
Oct 7
SimulaVR Has Been Subpoenaed by Meta Platforms, Inc simulavr.com · “I seriously doubt we have much to add to this case.”
Oct 6
Celsius Execs Cashed out at Least $17 Million in Crypto Before Halting Withdrawals for Customers gizmodo.com · “Celsius owes roughly $4.7 billion to users but doesn’t have the money to pay them.”
Oct 6
Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta. simonbackx.com · “In fact, the form even states that they won’t be able to review reports.”
Oct 6
Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think mjg59.dreamwidth.org · “But having worked at more than one company that’s tried this approach, my experience is that very few people end up happy.”
Oct 6
Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning nature.com · “We also adapt the algorithm discovery procedure to finite fields, and improve over Strassen’s two-level algorithm for multiplying 4 × 4 matrices for the first time, to our knowledge, since its inception in 1969.”
Oct 5
FCC Plans to Remove Companies From Key Database for Non-Compliance With Anti-Robocall Rules docs.fcc.gov · “Removal from the database would require all intermediate providers and terminating voice service providers to cease carrying the companies’ traffic.”
Oct 5
I Don't Believe in Sprints robinrendle.com · “That’s what a backlog is; a list of useless tasks that makes people feel better.”
Oct 5
Internet Archive Seeks Donations of Materials to Build a Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications blog.archive.org · “The DLARC project is looking for partners and contributors with troves of ham radio, amateur radio, and early digital communications related books, magazines, documents, catalogs, manuals, videos, software, personal archives, and other historical records collections, no matter how big or small.”
Oct 5
How fateful? chan.co.za · “There were 33 recorded occasions where we may have crossed paths, mostly on campus.”
Oct 4
EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024 macrumors.com · “The directive received 602 votes in favor, 13 votes against, and eight abstentions.”
Oct 4
Matter is now official! staceyoniot.com · “Originally, Matter was supposed to handle enough elements of provisioning and functionality so users wouldn’t have to download an app.”
Oct 4
The Deception of "Buying" Digital Movies worldofmatthew.com · “You are not provided any ownership of the content you have bought.”
Oct 4
Did Apple's privacy feature help to drive its own ad business? adguard.com · “While Apple effectively tracks users on its own platform, the pre-installed apps are exempted from displaying a message asking permission to track users.”
Oct 3
Postgres WASM by Snaplet and Supabase supabase.com · “The first thing to point out is that our implementation isn’t pure WASM.”
Oct 3
You can't buy a Raspberry Pi right now jeffgeerling.com · “Sadly, the only reliable way to buy a Pi immediately is to pay scalping prices on eBay or buy bundles that include often-unneeded components to pad out the price of a normally-$35 Pi to $100 and beyond.”
Oct 3
The PS5 Has Been Jailbroken - Custom Packages Can Now Be Installed glitched.online · “He likely kept his process a secret to avoid Sony patching and fixing it almost instantly.”
Oct 3
Stadia died because no one trusts Google techcrunch.com · “The last first; it was only two months ago that Stadia’s Twitter account assured a concerned user that the service was not in fact shutting down.”
Oct 2
Mandated Diversity Statement Drives Jonathan Haidt To Quit Academic Society reason.com · “A recent American Association of University Professors survey found that DEI criteria are included in consideration for tenure at 21.5 percent of colleges and universities, and at 45.6 percent of large institutions of higher education.”
Oct 2
LSD-Like Molecules Counter Depression Without the Trip ucsf.edu · “The compounds had been selected from a computational library of 75 million candidates.”
Oct 2
An elegy for GNU and RMS catgirl.ai · “Standing in the road to be a roadblock against the forces of proprietary software does nothing when those forces can just drive around you.”
Oct 2
110 Overseas: 230,000 Chinese "persuaded to return" safeguarddefenders.com · “Police further admitted they did not actually have evidence that all those targeted had committed any crimes.”
Oct 1
Notes Against Note-Taking Systems sashachapin.substack.com · “Getting lost in your knowledge management system is a fantastic way to avoid creating things.”
Oct 1
TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don't Use App consumerreports.org · “TikTok gets medical information from WebMD, where a pixel reported that we’d searched for "erectile dysfunction."”
Oct 1
The 'Egg' laptop ikejima.org · “To reduce the size of laptop, the keyboard have 16mm key pitch.”
Oct 1

September 2022 120 posts

Browsers with built-in VPNs - the new normal? Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on adguard-vpn.com · “A VPN built into a browser is not a substitute for a full-fledged VPN service.”
Sep 30
House Democrats debut new bill to limit US police use of facial recognition techcrunch.com · “Some cities, states and police departments have limited their use of facial recognition in recent years.”
Sep 30
Co-Founding Considered Harmful florentcrivello.com · “I’ve come to view the idea that you absolutely need a co-founder as one of the most harmful memes in Silicon Valley.”
Sep 30
Lyra V2 - a better, faster, and more versatile speech codec opensource.googleblog.com · “Lyra V2 is based on an end-to-end neural audio codec called SoundStream.”
Sep 30
A message about Stadia and our long term streaming strategy blog.google · “The underlying technology platform that powers Stadia has been proven at scale and transcends gaming.”
Sep 29
Why Modern Software is Slow–Windows Voice Recorder randomascii.wordpress.com · “A twenty-second delay for recording a forty-second clip is a pretty bad efficiency ratio.”
Sep 29
Many indoor air quality sensor products are a scam halestrom.net · “In other words: they don’t work properly if used in a modern sealed and air-conditioned office.”
Sep 29
How to Build a Personal Webpage from Scratch rutar.org · “Static webpages are also simple enough that you can host them yourself on a low-power device!”
Sep 29
Ken Thompson Really Did Launch His "Trusting Trust" Trojan Attack in Real Life niconiconi.neocities.org · “In fact, it was actually what he really did in real life.”
Sep 28
Google Broke Image Search for Creative Commons and Hardly Anyone Noticed/Cares cogdogblog.com · “Google is broke, I spotted it, and no one really seems to care.”
Sep 28
Posits, a New Kind of Number, Improves the Math of AI spectrum.ieee.org · “Real numbers can’t be perfectly represented in hardware simply because there are infinitely many of them.”
Sep 28
It's here: please welcome Arduino IDE 2.0 blog.arduino.cc · “We’re pleased to announce that as of today Arduino IDE 2.0 has moved to stable and is available for download.”
Sep 28
Someone is pretending to be me. connortumbleson.com · “Someone went to the effort to extract tons of true information from my available sources and build a fake profile of me.”
Sep 27
Gas leak in the Baltic Sea forsvaret.dk · “The Danish Defense has no further comments at this time.”
Sep 27
Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe's $20B acquisition move techcrunch.com · “Because we are open source, it means you can hack in, self host, and tweak, and expand,” he said.
Sep 27
Introducing workerd: the Open Source Workers runtime blog.cloudflare.com · “workerd is not, on its own, a secure way to run possibly-malicious code.”
Sep 27
Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don't need updates vivqu.com · “But my app was already working correctly, making this update useless and performative.”
Sep 26
Turns are Better than Radians computerenhance.com · “Math doesn’t require radians.”
Sep 26
Nvidia In the Valley stratechery.com · “The days of no-work performance scaling are over.”
Sep 26
The first Zero Trust SIM blog.cloudflare.com · “So far as we’re aware, we were the only company to not be compromised.”
Sep 26
McMaster Carr - The Smartest Website You Haven't Heard of bedelstein.com · “McMaster has chosen function over form.”
Sep 25
Downturn career decisions. lethain.com · “Only spend money exercising options if you can financially weather the options becoming worthless.”
Sep 25
Citing New Evidence, Surviving Family Members Sue Feds, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin Over 1996 TWA Crash lawstreetmedia.com · “The plaintiffs are represented by Bailey & Glasser LLP.”
Sep 25
The MIPS ThinkPad, kind of oldvcr.blogspot.com · “No matter what IBM says, it’ll always be a ThinkPad to me.”
Sep 25
Aging programmer world.hey.com · “My desire to manage people is at all-time lows.”
Sep 24
Hertz Is Still Having Rental Car Customers Wrongfully Arrested, Lawsuit Claims thedrive.com · “Hertz reported that it files at least 3,365 theft reports against customers each year.”
Sep 24
Fitbit users will have to sign into Google from 2023 theregister.com · “Support of Fitbit accounts will continue until at least early 2025.”
Sep 24
iPhones and action discoverability alexanderell.is · “Good design for very complicated systems is hard, and these are just a few points where it fell short.”
Sep 24
Nightdrive incoherency.co.uk · “The entire scene is created purely by drawing circles on a HTML5 canvas.”
Sep 23
A mysterious voice is haunting American Airlines' in-flight announcements and nobody knows how waxy.org · “By nature, passenger announcement systems on planes are hardwired, closed systems, making them incredibly difficult to hack.”
Sep 23
At 4.4 Miles, Wyoming Team Sets New Rifle Shot World Record cowboystatedaily.com · “The shooter was 4.4 miles away, a distance so great, the Earth’s rotation came into play.”
Sep 23
The sum of all knowledge christianheilmann.com · “Books can’t be unavailable as you can have as many copies as you want.”
Sep 23
Avoiding homework with code (and getting caught) alistair.blog · “Mochip was a real passion project and I had a wild time building it.”
Sep 22
Facebook Proven to Negatively Impact Mental Health english.tau.ac.il · “The findings show a rise in the number of students reporting severe depression and anxiety (7% and 20% respectively).”
Sep 22
Lose Weight the Slow and Incredibly Difficult Way nautil.us · “If your goal was to avoid work, you could not have failed more badly.”
Sep 22
We Need New Motherboards Before GPUs Collapse Under Their Own Gravity erikmcclure.com · “A 4090 series card will demand a whopping 450 W, which dwarfs the Ryzen 9 5900X peak power consumption of only 140 W.”
Sep 22
Introducing LiteFS fly.io · “Full-stack developers are sleeping on SQLite, a database most devs think more suited to unit tests than production loads.”
Sep 21
Introducing the Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition frame.work · “Memory and storage are socketed, enabling you to load up whenever you’d like.”
Sep 21
New Webb Image Captures Clearest View of Neptune's Rings in Decades nasa.gov · “Webb also captured seven of Neptune’s 14 known moons.”
Sep 21
20×10% lars.ingebrigtsen.no · “That’s mathematics for you!”
Sep 21
YouTube's 'dislike' barely works, according to new study on recommendations engadget.com · “In fact, it may be even more difficult than you think to get YouTube to accurately understand your preferences.”
Sep 20
React I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down marmelab.com · “We’ve been together for almost 10 years.”
Sep 20
You don't want to be on Cloudflare's naughty list ctrl.blog · “It felt like we’d been transported back to an earlier era with unbearably slow internet.”
Sep 20
What I've Learned from Users paulgraham.com · “Speed defines startups. Focus enables speed. YC improves focus.”
Sep 20
Inside Apple's Secret iPhone 14 Redesign ifixit.com · “The back glass is simply secured with two screws and a single connector.”
Sep 19
Google removed our website from search because it uses youtube-dl kapwing.com · “We are willing to do whatever it takes to comply with the law - we just wish we knew what it was.”
Sep 19
How I'm a Productive Programmer With a Memory of a Fruit Fly hynek.me · “Having all API docs one key press away is profoundly empowering.”
Sep 19
There is no "software supply chain" iliana.fyi · “In actual supply chains, money is changing hands.”
Sep 19
An X11 Apologist Tries Wayland artemis.sh · “Wayland wants every frame to be perfect.”
Sep 18
Finding the "Second Bug" in glibc's Condition Variable probablydance.com · “Sometimes pthread_cond_signal() doesn’t do anything, which can easily hang your program.”
Sep 18
Measuring CPU core-to-core latency github.com · “We measure the latency it takes for a CPU to send a message to another CPU via its cache coherence protocol.”
Sep 18
Bitcoin Is Not a Store-of-Value. cryptostackers.substack.com · “BTC is an open system that leaks value, disguised as a closed system that preserves value.”
Sep 18
Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax github.com · “Cpp2 is not a successor or alternate language with its own divergent or incompatible ecosystem.”
Sep 17
FTC to Crack Down on Companies Taking Advantage of Gig Workers ftc.gov · “Technological advances and novel business models are no license to commit unfair, deceptive, or anticompetitive practices.”
Sep 17
Saul Kripke (1940-2022) dailynous.com · “Saul Kripke, one of the most influential analytic philosophers of the 20th Century, has died.”
Sep 17
Self-hostable maps stack, powered by OpenStreetMap github.com · “Headway is a maps stack in a box that makes it easy to take your location data into your own hands.”
Sep 17
US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years engadget.com · “CBP keeps any information it takes from people’s devices for 15 years.”
Sep 16
35 Million Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx blog.tjll.net · “Nginx will fail by refusing or dropping connections, Caddy will fail by slowing everything down.”
Sep 16
California sues Amazon for preventing third-party sellers offering cheaper prices elsewhere engadget.com · “If they defy Amazon, they risk losing buy buttons, prominent listings or even basic access to Amazon’s marketplace.”
Sep 16
please don't be spooky tiramisu.bearblog.dev · “It’s not reasonable to expect coworkers to be at their computer for every minute from 8AM to 5PM.”
Sep 16
A new collaboration with Adobe figma.com · “Adobe is deeply committed to keeping Figma operating autonomously.”
Sep 15
The Ethereum Merge Is Done, Opening a New Era for the Second-Biggest Blockchain coindesk.com · “Ethereum should now consume 99.9% or so less energy.”
Sep 15
The Spectacular Collapse of CryptoKitties, the First Big Blockchain Game spectrum.ieee.org · “This was the break fans of Ethereum were waiting for.”
Sep 15
What it Takes to Make a Game by Yourself dillonshook.com · “Start on a small project that’s realistic to finish and build up to your bigger dream game you want to make.”
Sep 15
Say Hello to Crazy Thin 'Deep Insert' ATM Skimmers krebsonsecurity.com · “The insert skimmer pictured above is approximately .68 millimeters tall.”
Sep 14
How we built Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet blog.cloudflare.com · “As Cloudflare has scaled we’ve outgrown NGINX.”
Sep 14
An F-16 pilot died when his ejection seat failed. Was it counterfeit? airforcetimes.com · “Plaintiffs hope to learn through the legal discovery process whether the components were proven fake.”
Sep 14
Here's Why Car Wheels Are So Flat These Days (And No, It's Not Just Aerodynamics And Styling) theautopian.com · “Well, in a word, "steering" is what happened.”
Sep 14
We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business eyeondesign.aiga.org · “Because I forgot to get out of the business.”
Sep 13
Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch factorio.com · “The gameplay is not simplified and there are no artificial limits.”
Sep 13
"Secrets" about the consumer audio business you may find interesting audiosciencereview.com · “Retail price is free to deviate upward from COGS in an unlimited fashion.”
Sep 13
A note from Jack blog.patreon.com · “I take full responsibility for choosing that original path forward”
Sep 13
Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project awesomekling.github.io · “It’s going to take a long time before Ladybird is ready for day-to-day browsing.”
Sep 12
The Follower driesdepoorter.be · “Software compares the Instagram with the recorded footage.”
Sep 12
Online Art Communities Begin Banning AI-Generated Images waxy.org · “AI art can be created orders of magnitude faster than traditional human-made art.”
Sep 12
Anti-royal protesters are being arrested in the U.K. as the 'Not My King' tag grows text.npr.org · “I doubt most of the people in the crowd even heard me.”
Sep 12
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font brailleinstitute.org · “Our award-winning font has made reading easier for millions upon millions of people and continues to change lives daily.”
Sep 11
Shortest URLs on the Internet jameswillia.ms · “there’s nothing stopping TLD registry operators serving A records at the apexes of their TLD zones.”
Sep 11
Build Your Career on Dirty Work staysaasy.com · “Once you’ve found an opportunity, put yourself in the firing line: go on-call, do support, do QA, do the tech debt.”
Sep 11
What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years? shkspr.mobi · “I’m concerned about the longevity of the domains I register.”
Sep 11
Visual Effects for the Indian blockbuster "RRR" blender.org · “Since then we delivered 700 shots for the RRR feature with our work being the prominence in the international trailer.”
Sep 10
On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services berthub.eu · “Under this new law, my specific role (technical risk analysis) would mostly be eliminated.”
Sep 10
How Zoho became a $1B company without a dime of external investment techcrunch.com · “Yet it has never taken so much as a penny of external investment.”
Sep 10
Meet the woman stockpiling cash to sue San Francisco over housing deadlock sfstandard.com · “It’s to try to deter the city from messing around,” she said.
Sep 10
The next chapter for Learning on YouTube blog.youtube · “Learning remains a top priority for YouTube.”
Sep 9
Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard return to office planned theregister.com · “Right now, we see a stabilization in the workforce.”
Sep 9
A Web UI for Stable Diffusion github.com · “A web interface for Stable Diffusion, implemented using Gradio library.”
Sep 9
Python Type Hints are Turing Complete arxiv.org · “We apply Grigore’s algorithm to Python type hints and deduce that they are Turing complete.”
Sep 9
Rolls-Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership airwaysmag.com · “The move comes as RR continues to deal with significant financial challenges.”
Sep 8
This is not your grandfather's Perl stackoverflow.blog · “The Perl development team thinks that backwards compatibility is very important.”
Sep 8
Accelerate Python code 100x by import taichi as ti docs.taichi-lang.org · “Taichi can run on both CPU and GPU, while Python runs on CPU.”
Sep 8
San Francisco Decriminalizes Psychedelics doubleblindmag.com · “San Francisco officials have been bullish on drug policy reform, including promoting harm reduction services.”
Sep 8
Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs experimentalhistory.substack.com · “A little self-discipline builds character, but too much self-discipline breaks it.”
Sep 7
Difftastic, the Fantastic Diff wilfred.me.uk · “I had no idea what I was getting into when I started working on this.”
Sep 7
How the SQLite Virtual Machine Works fly.io · “This set of domain-specific commands and the execution engine to run it is called a virtual machine.”
Sep 7
Zig, the small language zserge.com · “One can explore the complete syntax and basic language constructs in less than an hour.”
Sep 7
A trillion prices dolthub.com · “I naively thought that insurers would be publishing the prices they negotiated with the 6,000 hospitals in the US.”
Sep 6
Accelerating value for Bitwarden users - Bitwarden raises $100 million bitwarden.com · “PSG, the lead investor, has taken a minority position in the Company and will join the board of directors.”
Sep 6
Someone's Been Messing With My Subnormals! moyix.blogspot.com · “I have never met a scientist who can resist the lure of fast-but-dangerous math when doing numerical simulations.”
Sep 6
AG Ferguson: Judge rules Facebook parent Meta intentionally violated campaign finance laws atg.wa.gov · “The judge concluded that Meta repeatedly and intentionally violated the law and must pay penalties.”
Sep 6
Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size scilogs.spektrum.de · “This is something of a shock, if you ponder it, because rectangles do not normally behave like this.”
Sep 5
Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes incoherency.co.uk · “Don’t tell anyone, but I already have plans for a better version of Sockfish that will be much harder to detect!”
Sep 5
Don't ignore the janitor happychasing.substack.com · “He once told me he felt invisible at work.”
Sep 5
All poverty is energy poverty omnibudsman.substack.com · “The developed world uses a lot of energy.”
Sep 5
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won. cfenollosa.com · “I lost. We lost. One cannot reliably deploy independent email servers.”
Sep 4
I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and CloudFlare helped rasbora.dev · “There are no free speech or human rights considerations here, there is only the right choice and the wrong one.”
Sep 4
USB, Thunderbolt, Displayport & docks stderr.nl · “USB-C is a specification of a connector, intended to use for USB by default, but also for other protocols”
Sep 4
Biomanufactured materials are coming tsungxu.com · “Spiber has raised a whopping $640 million in equity and securitization financing.”
Sep 4
Blocking Kiwifarms blog.cloudflare.com · “We have never been their hosting provider.”
Sep 3
Peter Eckersley, may his memory be a blessing community.letsencrypt.org · “He later served on the initial board of directors of the Internet Security Research Group.”
Sep 3
The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero bam.kalzumeus.com · “Trust, though, is an immensely socially useful technology.”
Sep 3
Hot Chips 34 – Tesla's Dojo Microarchitecture chipsandcheese.com · “Tesla does not care about delivering precise exceptions.”
Sep 3
Here Is the Manual for the Mass Surveillance Tool Cops Use to Track Phones vice.com · “Queries that exceed 100,000 signals will result in the overage signals being dropped.”
Sep 2
Cannabis legalization decreases the stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms news.unm.edu · “The current study concludes that cannabis acts as a new competitor in drug markets.”
Sep 2
Arti 1.0.0 is released: Our Rust Tor implementation is ready for production use. blog.torproject.org · “We rely on users and volunteers to find problems in our software and suggest directions for its improvement.”
Sep 2
Important Notice Regarding Customer Information samsung.com · “In late July 2022, an unauthorized third party acquired information from some of Samsung’s U.S. systems.”
Sep 2
Run Stable Diffusion on your M1 Mac's GPU replicate.com · “Getting it working on an M1 Mac’s GPU is a little fiddly, so we’ve created this guide to show you how to do it.”
Sep 1
GA moves closer to unleaded future aopa.org · “Pilots in America will not be paying what they’re paying for avgas in Europe today.”
Sep 1
Kagi status update: First three months blog.kagi.com · “We sent exactly 0 marketing emails to our users since the launch of the public beta 3 months ago.”
Sep 1
Falsehoods programmers believe about email beesbuzz.biz · “Wow, I am getting overwhelmed with comments and suggestions.”
Sep 1

August 2022 125 posts

NVIDIA Corporation Form 8-K sec.gov · “The Company is engaged with the USG and is seeking exemptions for the Company’s internal development and support activities.”
Aug 31
DJI Mavic 3 flies over the top of Mount Everest at an altitude of 30,292 feet dronexl.co · “Please keep in mind that we don’t know whether this DJI Mavic 3 has been modified in any way.”
Aug 31
Final Thoughts on Ubiquiti krebsonsecurity.com · “I have decided to remove those articles from my website.”
Aug 31
Things not available when someone blocks all cookies blog.tomayac.com · “Jakub is the proof that users exist who block any and all cookies.”
Aug 31
Cloudflare's abuse policies & approach blog.cloudflare.com · “Our guiding principle is that organizations closest to content are best at determining when the content is abusive.”
Aug 31
4.2 Gigabytes, or: How to Draw Anything andys.page · “4.2 gigabytes of floating points that somehow encode so much of what we know.”
Aug 30
Be good-argument-driven, not data-driven twitchard.github.io · “A mature leader has no need to hide behind false objectivity, but insecure leaders use metrics as a crutch.”
Aug 30
AdGuard publishes the world's first ad blocker built on Manifest V3 adguard.com · “Manifest V3, Chrome’s new extension API, is no longer an illusory threat.”
Aug 30
Why is WebMD so awful? blog.tjcx.me · “So why hasn’t any of this innovation made online health information even slightly better?”
Aug 30
The Big [Censored] Theory pudding.cool · “77 of the first 100 episodes had at least one edit, amounting to 206 removed scenes.”
Aug 29
Stable Diffusion is a really big deal simonwillison.net · “It’s similar to models like Open AI’s DALL-E, but with one crucial difference: they released the whole thing.”
Aug 29
Welcome Home, Garry Tan ycombinator.com · “Today we announced that I am stepping down from my role as YC’s President and CEO at the end of this year.”
Aug 29
Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers community.blokada.org · “This could mean Google is cracking down on VPN-based ads and tracker filtering apps behind the scenes.”
Aug 29
Don’t think to write, write to think herbertlui.net · “Writing is not the artifact of thinking, it’s the actual thinking process.”
Aug 28
Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years notes.alinpanaitiu.com · “The problem comes from vendors who flash the same exact firmware with the same EDID to multiple monitors in the same batch.”
Aug 28
Time Till Open Source Alternative staltz.com · “Software itself really doesn’t have a future in making money.”
Aug 28
Why are D-sharp and E-flat considered to be two different notes ethanhein.com · “12-TET is convenient for instrument builders and piano tuners, but it makes harmony sound grey and mushy.”
Aug 28
#17: One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants peabee.substack.com · “All the restaurants registered under these two FSSAI licenses are very poorly rated and reviewed on both Swiggy and Zomato.”
Aug 27
Development version: GIMP 2.99.12 Released gimp.org · “We still can’t give you any date for GIMP 3.0, but we are getting there!”
Aug 27
We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know backreaction.blogspot.com · “The Big Bang is the simplest explanation we know, and that is probably wrong, and that’s it.”
Aug 27
A Programming Language Database github.com · “The "database" is just text files.”
Aug 27
Why Slack's free plan change is causing an exodus blog.zulip.com · “At first blush, this might look like a minor policy tweak.”
Aug 26
Collections: Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? acoup.blog · “The first key is understanding that the industrial revolution was more than simply an increase in economic production.”
Aug 26
Ghana Bans A Delta Boeing 767 (Yes, Just One) onemileatatime.com · “So the same Boeing 767 diverted to New York two days in a row on transatlantic flights due to mechanical issues.”
Aug 26
The Jupyter+git problem is now solved fast.ai · “Jupyter notebooks don’t work with git by default.”
Aug 26
Why your website should be under 14kB in size endtimes.dev · “TCP slow start is an algorithm used by servers to find out how many packets it can send at a time.”
Aug 25
Removal of Heroku Free Product Plans FAQ help.heroku.com · “There are no changes to our existing paid plans, except for the renaming of Hobby dynos and Hobby-Dev databases to Basic.”
Aug 25
Orcas Are Breaking Rudders Off Boats in Europe smithsonianmag.com · “The animals have started approaching sailboats, sometimes striking the rudders and even breaking them off.”
Aug 25
Protect Your Inbox: DuckDuckGo Email Protection Beta Now Open to All! spreadprivacy.com · “In our closed Email Protection beta, we found that approximately 85% of beta testers’ emails contained hidden email trackers.”
Aug 25
Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit blog.comma.ai · “I’m willing to lose $1M before I give him $10k.”
Aug 24
Inside the Pinecone pinecone.io · “Most impressively though, real time operational events dropped almost to zero overnight after the original release.”
Aug 24
Accepted chromium 104.0.5112.101-1 (source) into unstable mail-archive.com · “Change default search engine to DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons.”
Aug 24
EPB Launches America’s First Community-wide 25 Gig Internet Service epb.com · “EPB is an independent board of the City of Chattanooga which began serving customers in 1939.”
Aug 24
Visions robinsloan.com · “The artist names and track titles are nonsense; to me, they carry the clear flavor of AI text generation.”
Aug 23
Google refuses to reinstate man’s account after he took medical images of son’s groin theguardian.com · “Mark was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, but Google has said it will stand by its decision.”
Aug 23
Class action against Oracle's worldwide surveillance machine iccl.ie · “Oracle claims to have amassed detailed dossiers on 5 billion people, and generates $42.4 billion in annual revenue.”
Aug 23
The Future of NGINX: Getting Back to Our Open Source Roots nginx.com · “We can’t simply keep charging for the same things as in the past, because the world has changed.”
Aug 23
The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool on steroids adguard.com · “There is no doubt that other companies live by this creed, if they are not talking about it out loud.”
Aug 22
Apple expands Self Service Repair to Mac notebooks apple.com · “Customers will have access to the tool kit for one week and it will be shipped free of charge.”
Aug 22
Application submitted for US molten salt research reactor world-nuclear-news.org · “ACU plans for the MSRR to achieve criticality by December 2025.”
Aug 22
Workplace surveillance is coming for you pluralistic.net · “The bossware problem is a boss problem, in other words.”
Aug 22
Good conversations have lots of doorknobs experimentalhistory.substack.com · “Conversations, like improv scenes, start to sink if they sit still.”
Aug 21
uBlock Origin works best on Firefox github.com · “This feature requires the webRequest.filterResponseData() API, currently only available in Firefox.”
Aug 21
Why don't we do email verification in reverse? blog.yossarian.net · “Inbox delivery can be fickle, unreliable, or outright impossible.”
Aug 21
LibGen's Bloat Problem liberalgeneral.neocities.org · “Bear in mind that this is still before deduplication; we are merely filtering by file-size.”
Aug 21
Diablo 1 for web browsers! github.com · “To play the full game, you must use your own DIABDAT.MPQ that you can obtain with the original copy of the game from GoG.”
Aug 20
Visual Sum of Cubes x.st · “Doubling the pyramid didn’t work, so maybe we can cut it in half instead!”
Aug 20
Coping with Copilot sigarch.org · “So as CS educators, Copilot has us outgunned.”
Aug 20
Using :has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more webkit.org · “Any time there’s an opportunity to use CSS instead of JavaScript, I’ll take it.”
Aug 20
Resolving an unusual wifi issue blog.ando.fyi · “Qt5 has been crippling my wifi system-wide for past 7-8 months, just by running MediBang Paint Pro.”
Aug 19
App Store doesn't accept "too simple" apps notes.alinpanaitiu.com · “But I think they just don’t like the idea of the app, and no matter what I add to it, they won’t accept it.”
Aug 19
"Quantum-Safe" Crypto Hacked by 10-Year-Old PC spectrum.ieee.org · “SIKE is the second NIST PQC candidate to get broken this year.”
Aug 19
More content by people, for people in Search blog.google · “We know people don’t find content helpful if it seems like it was designed to attract clicks rather than inform readers.”
Aug 19
I love my GPD Micro PC blog.danieljanus.pl · “In contrast, the GPD just wants to be used, interacted with, tinkered with.”
Aug 18
TSMC to Begin 3nm Chip Production Next Month tomshardware.com · “This original N3 node has a narrow process window, which means a lower-than-expected yield for some designs.”
Aug 18
PayPal Phishing Scam Uses Invoices Sent Via PayPal krebsonsecurity.com · “Scammers are using invoices sent through PayPal.com to trick recipients into calling a number to dispute a pending charge.”
Aug 18
I have complicated feelings about TDD buttondown.email · “TDD isn’t as valuable as its strongest proponents believe.”
Aug 18
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds vibilagare.se · “The driver in the worst-performing car needs four times longer to perform simple tasks than in the best-performing car.”
Aug 17
Learn Postgres at the Playground crunchydata.com · “Yes, this is WASM and running fully in your web browser.”
Aug 17
Accounting For Developers, Part I: The Fundamentals moderntreasury.com · “Not matching would mean the system created or lost money out of nothing.”
Aug 17
Why I left PINE64 blog.brixit.nl · “PINE64 cares only about Manjaro, and Manjaro does not care about working with any other distributions.”
Aug 17
How to build bigger biceps: A little exercise each day boosts muscles more than one big weekly workout studyfinds.org · “The control group doing six contractions a week did not see any change in muscle strength or muscle thickness.”
Aug 16
Using the Same Arch Linux Installation for a Decade meribold.org · “The longest I went without a system upgrade is nine months, but typically I upgrade about once per month.”
Aug 16
VPNs on iOS are a scam michaelhorowitz.com · “Data leaves the iOS device outside of the VPN tunnel.”
Aug 16
American Airlines Announces Agreement to Purchase Boom Supersonic Overture Aircraft, Places Deposit on 20 Overtures boomsupersonic.com · “American has paid a non-refundable deposit on the initial 20 aircraft.”
Aug 16
How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency discord.com · “In retrospect, disk latency should have been an obvious concern early on in our database deployments.”
Aug 15
Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux blog.hiler.eu · “Glibc 2.36 was released and all the games using EAC EOS are no longer playable.”
Aug 15
Big Changes Ahead for Deno deno.com · “Our goal is to make Deno the fastest JavaScript runtime - full stop.”
Aug 15
Open Source DALL-E "Stable Diffusion" is now available via website mixed-news.com · “The Stable Diffusion model, which can run locally or in the cloud, will no longer have these restrictions.”
Aug 15
Milwaukee Tool Raises the Bar with New USA Factory toolguyd.com · “These tools are made in the USA from start to finish.”
Aug 14
Habitual use of GPS negatively impacts spatial memory during self-guided navigation ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · “These findings are significant in the context of society’s increasing reliance on GPS.”
Aug 14
Inside the Layoffs at Klarna blog.pragmaticengineer.com · “The mandatory meeting turned out to be very bad news.”
Aug 14
Three peer-reviewed papers highlight scientific results of National Ignition Facility record yield shot llnl.gov · “The other main changes were improved capsule quality and a smaller fuel fill tube.”
Aug 14
How I Hacked my Car programmingwithstyle.com · “Surely Hyundai Mobis didn’t use this key and this was only used for testing, right?”
Aug 13
It's raining PFAS: even in Antarctica and on the Tibetan plateau rainwater is unsafe to drink su.se · “Based on the latest U.S. guidelines for PFOA in drinking water, rainwater everywhere would be judged unsafe to drink.”
Aug 13
I Watched An 857-Hour Movie To Encounter Capitalism's Extremes readpassage.com · “Logistics tracks, in reverse chronological order, the journey of a pedometer from a shop in Sweden to a factory in China.”
Aug 13
Hostage standoff at Beirut bank ends with gunman's surrender aljazeera.com · “He did not receive any of the money, according to a lawyer who took part in the negotiations.”
Aug 13
Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash fiod.nl · “On Wednesday 10 August, the FIOD arrested a 29-year-old man in Amsterdam.”
Aug 12
Excel is Pretty Dang Cool buttondown.email · “Instead of writing the formula =A1*B1, you can do =Width*Height like you should have been able to 30 years ago.”
Aug 12
Man overcharged 20 rupees for India train ticket wins 22-year legal battle theguardian.com · “Equally surprising was that Indian Railways, the country’s largest employer, chose to continue fighting the case.”
Aug 12
Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go benhoyt.com · “Of course, GNU Grep is about three times as fast.”
Aug 12
This 17-Year-Old Designed a Motor That Could Potentially Transform the Electric Car Industry smithsonianmag.com · “Synchronous reluctance motors don’t use magnets.”
Aug 11
Is this the end of social networking? reb00ted.org · “Facebook is fundamentally an advertising machine.”
Aug 11
Redis Explained architecturenotes.co · “Redis is fast and all consistency guarantees, come second to speed.”
Aug 11
From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story mattkeeter.com · “The parser is overkill: it decodes the entire file based on the specification.”
Aug 11
iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser krausefx.com · “The iOS Instagram and Facebook app render all third party links and ads within their app using a custom in-app browser.”
Aug 10
How SQLite helps you do ACID fly.io · “The rollback journal is a simple trick to simulate atomicity and isolation and to provide durability to a database.”
Aug 10
Why aren't smart people happier? experimentalhistory.substack.com · “All that progress didn’t make us a bit happier.”
Aug 10
The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN and it's absolutely wild ladbible.com · “The sport pits eight expert modellers against each other.”
Aug 10
He Was Arrested for Promoting Jury Nullification. A Federal Court Says That Was Illegal. reason.com · “But Picard was not referencing a specific trial when he was arrested.”
Aug 9
How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core? frame.work · “A Cinebench run brings the CPU to maximum load for 10 minutes, making it a great measure of sustained performance.”
Aug 9
Write a Note to Your Spouse Every Day jdnoc.com · “Writing is thinking - so when I write a note to my wife I am thinking about her.”
Aug 9
Don't call it a comeback: Why Java is still champ github.com · “Java has been sitting among the top three languages since shortly after its launch in 1995.”
Aug 9
I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2 for $45: here's what I learned deephaven.io · “Curation and judging what looks good is still important.”
Aug 8
No more Insight Porn jakobgreenfeld.com · “Only once you actually try to do anything with the advice, do you notice it’s completely useless.”
Aug 8
That time I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case artemis.sh · “There was just one hotspot that dwarfed all the others, and that was the instruction decode and execution switch-block.”
Aug 8
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Notorious Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash home.treasury.gov · “The ultimate goal of sanctions is not to punish, but to bring about a positive change in behavior.”
Aug 8
#16: The case of fake IMDb credits peabee.substack.com · “When you sign up to this website, they give you one credit to publish your first press release for free.”
Aug 7
The Case of the Mysterious Holes on the Seafloor oceanexplorer.noaa.gov · “A look at the sediment upon recovery revealed no clues as to what formed the holes.”
Aug 7
Why Does gRPC Insist on Trailers? carlmastrangelo.com · “Organizational problems are harder than technological ones.”
Aug 7
Oncall Compensation for Software Engineers blog.pragmaticengineer.com · “Big Tech generally does not pay for being oncall.”
Aug 7
Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones dukope.com · “Beyond the minimal amount necessary to make the interface work, there are no content changes or additions for this port.”
Aug 6
The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range vividmaps.com · “It was similar to the present Himalayas at its highest elevation during the beginning of the Permian period.”
Aug 6
The First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Was Just Approved by US Regulators singularityhub.com · “SMRs could cost more than bigger nuclear plants, he adds, because they don’t have the same economy of scale.”
Aug 6
Ubisoft to pull online from older games, which also takes away your DLC pcgamer.com · “Space Junkies, the multiplayer VR shooter, cost $40 at release and remains available for sale on Steam, with no notice that it will be rendered unplayable in two months.”
Aug 6
NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography: Announcing my second lawsuit against the U.S. government blog.cr.yp.to · “NIST has produced zero records in response to this FOIA request.”
Aug 5
How we're improving search results when you use quotes blog.google · “Using quotes can definitely be a great tool for power users.”
Aug 5
DreamWorks Animation to Release MoonRay as Open Source awn.com · “DreamWorks intends to make MoonRay available under the Apache 2.0 license.”
Aug 5
My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement technicallychallenged.substack.com · “I can’t push anywhere on the keyboard anymore to activate it.”
Aug 5
Botspam Apocalypse memex.marginalia.nu · “If Marginalia Search didn’t use Cloudflare, it couldn’t serve traffic.”
Aug 4
Old jokes dynomight.net · “Maybe the joke was born old.”
Aug 4
Sending Spammers to Password Purgatory with Microsoft Power Automate and Cloudflare Workers KV troyhunt.com · “Clearly, I’ve taken a great deal of pleasure in messing with spammers and I hope you do too.”
Aug 4
Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google. reasonablypolymorphic.com · “SEO techniques are extremely potent, and their widespread adoption is what’s wrong with the modern web.”
Aug 4
What's the Strangest Thing You Ever Found in a Book? noctslackv2.wordpress.com · “It was a dentist’s appointment card for Mr. Lounsbury.”
Aug 3
Productivity Porn calebschoepp.com · “Social media has become my productivity porn.”
Aug 3
MIT invents $4 solar desalination device freethink.com · “Those wicks are difficult to clean, and over time, the salt accumulation means they have to be replaced.”
Aug 3
Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding environment techcrunch.com · “The S22 batch is significantly smaller than our most recent batches.”
Aug 3
Use One Big Server specbranch.com · “It’s not glamorous and it won’t help your resume, but one big server will serve you well.”
Aug 2
How I Used DALL·E 2 to Generate The Logo for OctoSQL jacobmartins.com · “Finally, I did a bunch of Google reverse image searches for it.”
Aug 2
Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching hillelwayne.com · “It looks like __subclasshook__ caches the results for a given type check.”
Aug 2
Why I Still Love PHP and Javascript After 20+ years the.scapegoat.dev · “A legacy codebase means that the product is performing well.”
Aug 2
What's TypeScript compiling? Use a treemap to find out. effectivetypescript.com · “The root issue here is that Google distributes all 300+ of its APIs as a single npm package.”
Aug 1
Linux 5.19 lwn.net · “So here we are, one week late, and 5.19 is tagged and pushed out.”
Aug 1
What's actually going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes? We surveyed 1000 engineers to find out. blog.interviewing.io · “Google is indeed not extending offers throughout the duration of the freeze.”
Aug 1
How I regained concentration and focus innoq.com · “I have resolved very firmly not to read any news at all for a while.”
Aug 1

July 2022 121 posts

Famous HNers and their sites jessimekirk.com · “But, most of the sites are personal blogs of some sort.”
Jul 31
RISC-V based single board computers are getting there bret.dk · “PyBench also completes 22.26% faster and the WavPack encoding test is 7.43% quicker on the MangoPi board.”
Jul 31
Google's in-house desktop Linux computerworld.com · “There are no big pushes to upgrade the fleet.”
Jul 31
Australian activist can't use encrypted apps, must let police access phone abc.net.au · “He is not allowed to use any encrypted messaging apps, like Signal or WhatsApp.”
Jul 31
Carbon's most exciting feature is its calling convention foonathan.net · “It’s also not really a limitation in many cases: how often do you actually need to take the address of something?”
Jul 30
Who is collecting data from your car? themarkup.org · “Wejo’s investors include GM, Microsoft, and defense and intelligence contractor Palantir.”
Jul 30
I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don't Have To weh.wtf · “In essence, this is a working system, with a blockchain slapped on the side for PR reasons.”
Jul 30
MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body news.mit.edu · “The current design requires connecting the stickers to instruments that translate the reflected sound waves into images.”
Jul 30
Rumor: Google Stadia May Be Getting Shut Down gamerant.com · “On its official Twitter page, Google Stadia has denied the rumors that it will be shutting down its services.”
Jul 29
Kitsault, Canada's $50M 1980s ghost town justinmcelroy.com · “Not only a ghost town, but a ghost town that was built for $50 million in 1981, only to be shut down a year later.”
Jul 29
Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world tjukanovt.github.io · “Data has been processed to show only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank.”
Jul 29
How to create a Python package in 2022 mathspp.com · “I will start by setting up the dependency management of my package, and I will use Poetry.”
Jul 28
Rust is actually portable ahgamut.github.io · “Once I figured out the right flags in the target cosmo.json, most of the bugs with std went away.”
Jul 28
FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans' safe deposit boxes reason.com · “Those details matter, and not just to the victims of the FBI’s raid.”
Jul 28
AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe deepmind.com · “Determining the 3D structure of a protein used to take many months or years, it now takes seconds.”
Jul 28
Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta engineering.fb.com · “Rust is the latest addition to Meta’s list of supported server-side languages.”
Jul 27
Upgrading from Debian Jessie to Bullseye after nearly 30 years diziet.dreamwidth.org · “Oh my god. INN uses many non-portable data formats, which just depend on your C types.”
Jul 27
Fake Dog for Home Security t0.vc · “It’s a pair of computer speakers plugged into a Raspberry Pi, which is an inexpensive single-board computer.”
Jul 27
SQLite Internals: Pages and B-trees fly.io · “Disks are usually the slowest part of a database so limiting page fetches can have a huge performance win.”
Jul 27
Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer blog.pragmaticengineer.com · “It took 4 years and half a dozen projects launched for Michael to find a product that took off”
Jul 26
Mullvad is now available on Amazon mullvad.net · “You can gift time and give it to a friend without knowing their account number.”
Jul 26
Twenty years of Valgrind nnethercote.github.io · “Memcheck has found countless bugs in countless programs, and is a standard part of the testing setup for many of them.”
Jul 26
Why is it so hard to give Google money? paulbutler.org · “I submitted an appeal on July 6th and waited.”
Jul 26
Mechanics invent an axle that can achieve steering angles of up to 80 degrees interestingengineering.com · “As impressive as the video is, there is no word whether this product is ready for market or not.”
Jul 25
Finishing what you start makes teams more productive and predictable lucasfcosta.com · “When you start a new task before finishing the previous, average cycle times will increase.”
Jul 25
It's time to leave the leap second in the past engineering.fb.com · “Back in 2012, Reddit experienced a massive outage because of a leap second; the site was inaccessible for 30 to 40 minutes.”
Jul 25
Two weeks in, the Webb Space Telescope is reshaping astronomy quantamagazine.org · “They missed out on being first by 13 seconds, "which was pretty funny," said Pascale.”
Jul 25
Samsung asks for planning permission for 11 fabs in Texas electronicsweekly.com · “Samsung already operates a fab in Austin and is building another and has started work on its first fab in Taylor.”
Jul 24
Why are McDonald's Self Service Kiosks so hackable? ghuntley.com · “Inside a kiosk is a standard x86 computer NUC with exposed USB ports.”
Jul 24
In Praise of Stacked PRs benjamincongdon.me · “Stacking PRs keeps the author unblocked.”
Jul 24
Take more screenshots alexwlchan.net · “Digital work is inherently ephemeral.”
Jul 24
The tar archive format, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time mort.coffee · “A couple of days ago, I had a 518GiB tar.gz file (1.1 TiB uncompressed) that I had to extract.”
Jul 23
Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k 9to5mac.com · “This bug resulted from an update to our code in June 2021.”
Jul 23
Embed is in C23 thephd.dev · “With this, putting data into C and C++ executables will be a dream.”
Jul 23
More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade growthbusiness.co.uk · “This funding will allow fusion companies to push toward their ‘Kitty Hawk moment’ in the coming years.”
Jul 23
UK intelligence recycles "think of the children" argument for borking encryption theregister.com · “This is an old, old argument – as old as encryption itself.”
Jul 22
Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient bigtechnology.substack.com · “Lemoine shared the news of his firing in a taping of Big Technology Podcast on Friday, just hours after Google dismissed him.”
Jul 22
Two containers with same number detected in Chittagong port container-news.com · “Both the 40-foot containers are bearing the same number: SLHU4500470.”
Jul 22
We're going to need a lot of solar panels caseyhandmer.wordpress.com · “Global solar production last year (2021) was about 190 GW.”
Jul 22
Swallowing the elephant into Blender aras-p.info · “All of the things mentioned above are quadratic complexity in terms of object count in the scene.”
Jul 21
What happens when you press a key in your terminal? jvns.ca · “In the 70s, computers were expensive.”
Jul 21
Why we ignore thousands of daily car crashes strongtowns.org · “I was reminded of this in an article about last week’s Amtrak derailment.”
Jul 21
I regret my website redesign mtlynch.io · “It took eight months, $46k, and a lot of headache.”
Jul 21
Cooling related failure (in Google London DC) status.cloud.google.com · “A small percentage of replicated Persistent Disk devices are now running in single redundant mode.”
Jul 20
VCs are scared when they should be greedy blog.aaronkharris.com · “Fundraising has never been a sure thing.”
Jul 20
Archive.org Seeks Summary Judgment in Lawsuit Filed by Publishing Companies blog.archive.org · “The publishers are not seeking protection from harm to their existing rights.”
Jul 20
TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting ctrl.blog · “It leaks who TeamViewer’s customers are to every website they visit.”
Jul 20
We found no evidence that Bionic Reading has a positive effect on reading speed blog.readwise.io · “After analyzing data from 2,074 testers, we found no evidence that Bionic Reading has any positive effect on reading speed.”
Jul 19
What happens when a reservoir goes dry practical.engineering · “Engineers and planners don’t actually know what the worst case scenario drought will be over the lifetime of a reservoir.”
Jul 19
Soft deletion probably isn't worth it brandur.org · “The biggest reason for this is that almost always, data deletion also has non-data side effects.”
Jul 19
Glassdoor not so anonymous webworm.co · “Glassdoor is legally required to release the contact details of the posters directly to Zuru, via Zuru’s attorneys.”
Jul 19
How did REST come to mean the opposite of REST? htmx.org · “REST must be the most broadly misused technical term in computer programming history.”
Jul 18
Iceland's forest and bush cover has increased sixfold since 1990 icelandreview.com · “As much as 40% of Iceland’s surface area was covered by forest before permanent settlers arrived in the ninth century.”
Jul 18
Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten entire tech ecosystems theregister.com · “Your granny’s radio had maybe 10 transistors; a smart speaker, billions.”
Jul 18
New documents reveal scale of US Government's cell phone location data tracking aclu.org · “The 6,168 pages of location records we reviewed contain approximately 336,000 location points obtained from people’s phones.”
Jul 18
Research Suggests That Software Piracy Lowers Poverty torrentfreak.com · “The paper doesn’t mention this reverse relationship but it wouldn’t be a surprise if it plays a role here.”
Jul 17
Picking up free lithium cells off the street and making them safe for use atomic14.com · “It’s terrible for the environment, but it’s a great source of free lithium cells for our projects.”
Jul 17
$9.99/month basicappleguy.com · “My current subscription tally came to $1,500 ($1,520 to be exact) per year, or $126/month!”
Jul 17
Android removes much of Fuchsia-related code as Starnix project progresses 9to5google.com · “In its place, we have a lone “TODO” message, suggesting that Google may be building up something new in its place.”
Jul 16
Why rails buckle in Britain networkrail.co.uk · “When the air temperature reaches 30 degrees, the temperature on the rail can actually be up to 20 degrees higher.”
Jul 16
Amazon instructs New York workers "don't sign" union cards engadget.com · “Amazon, the second-largest employer in the United States, has made plain its desire to keep its workforce from unionizing.”
Jul 16
Scratch is a big deal bryanbraun.com · “At the time of this post (July 2022) it ranks 21st, above Typescript, Rust, Julia, and other important languages.”
Jul 16
How Duke Nukem II's parallax scrolling worked lethalguitar.wordpress.com · “Thanks to this mechanism, we can copy 4 bytes for the cost of one byte.”
Jul 15
Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs raphlinus.github.io · “Accessibility is one of the great strengths of the Web technology stack.”
Jul 15
How I went about learning Rust eli.thegreenplace.net · “Overall, over these past months I’ve written about 14 KLOC of Rust in the process of learning and practicing the language.”
Jul 15
10% of the top million sites are dead ccampbell.io · “107,776 domains could not even be connected to.”
Jul 15
Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent theguardian.com · “In a statement, a spokesperson for Pawluk said the video was “designed to spread love and compassion”.”
Jul 14
30% of Google's Emotions Dataset Is Mislabeled surgehq.ai · “All raters are native English speakers from India.”
Jul 14
The DynamoDB Paper brooker.co.za · “The downside is that caching introduces bimodal behavior.”
Jul 14
DNS Esoterica: Why you can't dig Switzerland shkspr.mobi · “The blame - as with most modern ills - lies in the mid-1970s.”
Jul 14
Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes noahpinion.substack.com · “In April of 2021 the government banned the import and use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers.”
Jul 13
My business card runs Linux dmitry.gr · “With this, the kernel takes around 2 minutes to boot and run sh.”
Jul 13
Teams is killing my Mac every day techcommunity.microsoft.com · “I found an MS article mentioning how Teams uses memory because of this Chromium feature due to easier development.”
Jul 13
Six programming languages I'd like to see buttondown.email · “Graphs are really common data structures but there hasn’t yet been an "everything’s a graph" language.”
Jul 13
Tell HN: We are trying to get tail calls into the WebAssembly standard news.ycombinator.com · “This proposal has reached Phase3 of the standardization process years ago, but has since stalled.”
Jul 12
A/B testing gets misused to juice metrics in the short term zumsteg.net · “Every infuriating thing on the web was once a successful experiment.”
Jul 12
The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers tribunemag.co.uk · “Ontario’s recent gig work law closely mirrors what Uber has been pushing for.”
Jul 12
Publishing your work increases your luck github.com · “The simple act of publishing your work is one of the best ways to invite a little more luck into your life.”
Jul 12
Working in the software industry, circa 1989 dev.jimgrey.net · “It took more than three hours for all of the computers to finish booting.”
Jul 11
Experian, you have some explaining to do krebsonsecurity.com · “For now, Rishi has decided to pay Experian $25.99 a month to more closely monitor his account for suspicious activity.”
Jul 11
Your compliance obligations under the UK's Online Safety Bill webdevlaw.uk · “And don’t forget that this regulatory regime is expected to be extraterritorial.”
Jul 11
Deepest infrared image of universe nasa.gov · “Webb’s image is approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length, a tiny sliver of the vast universe.”
Jul 11
Love Song to Costco longreads.com · “My parents are born in 1962, the tail end of the Cultural Revolution and the Great Chinese Famine.”
Jul 10
Assassin's Creed Liberation delisted, unplayable even to owners starting Sept 1 mp1st.com · “While it’s fairly common for games to be delisted on digital storefronts, the title being unplayable completely is not.”
Jul 10
The Crime That Killed Shinzo Abe shingetsunewsagency.com · “He initially prepared to kill a church leader, but gave up after deciding it was too difficult.”
Jul 10
The world needs a non-profit search engine daoudclarke.net · “Search funded by advertising is a recipe for disaster because there will always be a conflict of interest.”
Jul 10
Using GPT-3 to explain how code works simonwillison.net · “And that’s not surprising, because GPT-3 doesn’t actually know anything about anything at all.”
Jul 9
Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car gist.github.com · “Car starts and runs without it, but every warning light on the dashboard comes on.”
Jul 9
Why do so many brands change their logos and look like everyone else? velvetshark.com · “There is a trend in logo design that started around 2017-2018.”
Jul 9
I should have loved biology jsomers.net · “The textbooks wrung out the questing.”
Jul 9
Notepad++ v8.4.3: Unhappy Users' Edition notepad-plus-plus.org · “All dissatisfied users of Notepad++ will get a refund, just print and fill out the following refund request form:”
Jul 8
Switzerland moves ahead with underground autonomous cargo delivery spectrum.ieee.org · “Like so many concepts of this kind, six years ago it seemed like it was highly unlikely to ever happen.”
Jul 8
Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default mjg59.dreamwidth.org · “There’s no security benefit to this.”
Jul 8
Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement sec.gov · “Twitter has provided only a pdf copy of Goldman Sachs’ final Board presentation.”
Jul 8
Problems at Roblox thebearcave.substack.com · “Items bought with Robux can be resold in Roblox’s marketplace and some trade for thousands of dollars.”
Jul 7
SOC2: The screenshots will continue until security improves fly.io · “The whole SOC2 audit is essentially a series of screenshots.”
Jul 7
I analyzed hospital price lists so you didn't have to dolthub.com · “Hospitals are willing to spend $1M just to avoid publishing these things.”
Jul 7
DRY is an over-rated programming principle gordonc.bearblog.dev · “We end up with a presumption of reusability when really we should have a presumption of repetition.”
Jul 7
Did the early medieval era ever take place? jonn.substack.com · “The Phantom Time Hypothesis is nonsense.”
Jul 6
Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler rubycentral.org · “Sonatype reports that supply chain attacks increased 650% YoY in 2021.”
Jul 6
A fake job offer took down Axie Infinity theblock.co · “Funds can be moved out if five of the nine validators approve it.”
Jul 6
Apple previews Lockdown Mode apple.com · “Wired connections with a computer or accessory are blocked when iPhone is locked.”
Jul 6
He dropped out to become a poet, now he's won a Fields Medal quantamagazine.org · “June Huh wasn’t interested in mathematics until a chance encounter during his sixth year of college.”
Jul 5
Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum theregister.com · “HackerDan offered to sell the lot for 10 Bitcoin – about $200,000.”
Jul 5
EU approves legislation to regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other tech firms macrumors.com · “So far, Apple has heavily resisted attempts by governments to enforce changes to its operating systems and services.”
Jul 5
Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles home.cern · “Only time and more studies of exotic hadrons will tell if these particles are one, the other or both.”
Jul 5
Police CyberAlarm Uses Alarming Cryptography scottarc.blog · “Police CyberAlarm uses the same encryption key for both AES-CBC encryption and for HMAC-SHA256.”
Jul 4
Tesla Autopilot Almost Steers Model 3 into Oncoming Train thedrive.com · “Prior to nearly crashing into the train, the Model 3 was stopped at a red light, with its left turn signal on.”
Jul 4
I can't believe that I can prove that it can sort blog.adacore.com · “Proof requires us to understand why it works.”
Jul 4
Mendon, Missouri seandietrich.com · “The Chief was traveling 87 mph, bound for Chicago.”
Jul 4
The End of CI matt-rickard.com · “However, I predict that in the future, nobody will do it.”
Jul 3
Is the Ride over for Uber? smartcompany.com.au · “In the March quarter, Eats sales embarrassingly grew globally by only 12%.”
Jul 3
It's quite hard to lose a Duolingo streak leejo.github.io · “I realised last month the app hasn’t been of much use to me, in terms of learning, for a while.”
Jul 3
Scunthorpe Sans, A font that censors bad language automatically vole.wtf · “Scunthorpe Sans is based on Aileron and released under a CC0/public domain license.”
Jul 2
How does rsync work? michael.stapelberg.ch · “Another way of phrasing the above is that data consistency is not something that rsync can in any way guarantee.”
Jul 2
Darktable 4.0 darktable.org · “Performance configuration is now applied at runtime and no longer requires darktable to be restarted when changed.”
Jul 2
Watching an acquirer ruin your company startupwin.kelsus.com · “Sphero told us they needed fully revamped iOS and Android apps six months later with no schedule wiggle room.”
Jul 2
Found: The 'holy grail of catalysis', turning methane into methanol phys.org · “Excess methane is commonly burned off, or flared, to reduce its environmental impact.”
Jul 1
Google allowed a sanctioned Russian ad company to harvest user data for months propublica.org · “Of particular concern, the analysis showed that Google shared data with RuTarget about users browsing websites based in Ukraine.”
Jul 1
No Refrigerant Left Behind recoolit.com · “We just destroyed our first 1400 CO2e tons of refrigerant and expect to scale our work 100x by the end of 2023.”
Jul 1
What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts? maxread.substack.com · “Prices start at around $8,000 but vary depending on the financial means of a victim’s family.”
Jul 1

June 2022 121 posts

Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing "Geo Tracking Data" to ICE theintercept.com · “An email released through the FOIA request shows that Coinbase didn’t require ICE to agree to an End User License Agreement, standard legalese that imposes limits on what a customer can do with software.”
Jun 30
Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! sfconservancy.org · “In the central irony, GitHub succeeded where SourceForge failed: they have convinced us to promote and even aid in the creation of a proprietary system that exploits FOSS.”
Jun 30
Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable, the market has its valuation all wrong, says Adam Schwab smartcompany.com.au · “Even with the near 60% share price calamity, Atlassian is trading on a multiple of more than 19 times sales.”
Jun 30
Driverless Robotaxi Fleet Paralyzed for Hours in San Francisco thelastdriverlicenseholder.com · “The cars blocked the intersection and the street and had to be manually driven to the depot by Cruise employees.”
Jun 30
Vim 9.0 vim.org · “An increase in execution speed of 10 to 100 times can be expected.”
Jun 30
The Nettle Magic Project: Scanner for decks of cards with bar codes on edges github.com · “This deck of cards has a bar code printed on the edge of each card.”
Jun 29
When Network is Faster than Cache simonhearne.com · “Well it turns out that in some cases, the network is faster than the cache.”
Jun 29
She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed. sixthtone.com · “Yifan had uncovered one of the largest hoaxes in Wikipedia’s history.”
Jun 29
EU Commission says it cannot find messages with Pfizer CEO euobserver.com · “The commission now says that it is unable to find such messages, but it previously argued that this type of “short-lived and ephemeral” communications do not fall under the scope of EU transparency rules on access to documents.”
Jun 29
Thunderbird 102 Released: A Serious Upgrade To Your Communication blog.thunderbird.net · “Thunderbird 102 is available to download right now for our global community of 20M+ Linux, macOS, and Windows users.”
Jun 28
The really important job interview questions engineers should ask (but don't) posthog.com · “Since we started PostHog, our team has interviewed 725 people.”
Jun 28
Fresh 1.0 deno.com · “By default, web pages built with Fresh send zero JavaScript to the client.”
Jun 28
Massive Trove of Gun Owners' Private Information Leaked by California Attorney General thereload.com · “The leaked information includes the person’s full name, race, home address, date of birth, and date their permit was issued.”
Jun 28
Relational Databases Explained architecturenotes.co · “Indexes achieve this with the additional costs of storage, memory, and keeping it up to date (slower writes), which allows us to skip the tedious task of checking every table row.”
Jun 27
Random Mosaic: Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice dys2p.com · “While the U.S. government has claimed for years that Chinese companies are building surveillance technology into devices exported to the U.S. (such as networking equipment), it was revealed in 2014 in the book “Global Surveillance” by Glenn Greenwald that the NSA’s “TAO” (Tailored Access Operations) unit has been intercepting and tampering with technical devices in transit since at least 2010.”
Jun 27
Why America Can't Build palladiummag.com · “Protecting just one undocumented drainage culvert on the project cost nearly $30 million.”
Jun 27
One of the most prominent crypto hedge funds just defaulted on a $670 million loan cnbc.com · “Voyager said it intends to pursue recovery from 3AC (Three Arrows Capital).”
Jun 27
Life Is Not Short dkb.show · “Everyone complains about how short life is, but that perspective is broken.”
Jun 26
Enclave: An Unpickable Lock ominoushum.com · “Just about every key lock in the world today has the same fundamental flaw.”
Jun 26
The SQLite Code of Ethics sqlite.org · “This document continues to be used for its original purpose - providing a reference to fill in the “code of conduct” box on supplier registration forms.”
Jun 26
DevOps is a failure leebriggs.co.uk · “We now have “DevOps Engineer” as a job title.”
Jun 26
My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span idratherbewriting.com · “I realized that I was looking at my phone every spare moment of the day.”
Jun 25
The Watch For Which James Bond Gave Up His Rolex: The SEIKO TV Watch sabukaru.online · “The SEIKO TV watch consists of a 1.2-inch liquid crystal display screen set in a standard digital watch.”
Jun 25
Whatever happened to the Bee Apocalypse? backreaction.blogspot.com · “It’s the wild bees that are in danger.”
Jun 25
XLite: Query Excel and Open Document spreadsheets as SQLite virtual tables github.com · “XLite is a SQLite extension written in Rust.”
Jun 25
Goodbye Zachtronics, Developers Of Very Cool Video Games kotaku.com · “After 11 years in business (and even longer outside of commercial releases), a time which has seen the studio develop a cult following almost unrivalled in indie gaming, it will be the last new game Zachtronics will ever release.”
Jun 24
SMS phishing is way too easy bejarano.io · “SMS has a field called sender ID, which is set by the sender, requires no identity verification, and can be any arbitrary short string.”
Jun 24
How we built a $1M ARR open source SaaS plausible.io · “We’re a completely independent, self-funded and bootstrapped team of four.”
Jun 24
Digital Trails: How Bungie Identified a Mass Sender of Fake DMCA Notices torrentfreak.com · “It also reveals how Bungie tracked down and identified the architect of the DMCA fraud scheme as one of its own customers.”
Jun 24
Google: Italian SA stops use of Google Analytics gpdp.it · “In determining that the processing was unlawful, the Italian SA reiterated that an IP address is a personal data and would not be anonymised even if it were truncated – given Google’s capabilities to enrich such data through additional information it holds.”
Jun 23
YaLM-100B: Pretrained language model with 100B parameters github.com · “It took 65 days to train the model on a cluster of 800 A100 graphics cards and 1.7 TB of online texts, books, and countless other sources in both English and Russian.”
Jun 23
Start all of your commands with a comma rhodesmill.org · “The solution was obviously to adjust my command names in such a way that they were still easy to type, but would never be chosen as system command names.”
Jun 23
Whatever happened to SHA-256 support in Git? lwn.net · “In other words, work on supporting the use of a hash algorithm other than SHA-1 in Git appears to have ground to a halt.”
Jun 23
The Grug Brained Developer grugbrain.dev · “given choice between complexity or one on one against t-rex, grug take t-rex: at least grug see t-rex”
Jun 22
Tailscale SSH tailscale.com · “Tailscale SSH allows you to establish SSH connections between devices in your Tailscale network, as authorized by your access controls, without managing SSH keys, and authenticates your SSH connection using WireGuard®.”
Jun 22
Why is Apache clinging to OpenOffice's corpse? arencambre.com · “Its last major release was version 4.1, from 2014!”
Jun 22
What will a Chromium-only Web look like? mnot.net · “Microsoft has already ditched their engine for Chromium; we’re all worried about Mozilla’s health and long-term (or even medium-term) viability, and Apple is only one competition judgement away from having to open up iOS to other engines.”
Jun 22
GitHub Copilot is generally available to all developers github.blog · “We’re making GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests code in your editor, generally available to all developers for $10 USD/month or $100 USD/year.”
Jun 21
One-liner for running queries against CSV files with SQLite til.simonwillison.net · “It’s a LOT slower than using sqlite3 directly though.”
Jun 21
Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022 blog.cloudflare.com · “This was our error and not the result of an attack or malicious activity.”
Jun 21
Deno raises $21M deno.com · “There are thousands of megabytes of dependencies, many of which are unnecessary, insecure, and out-of-date.”
Jun 21
Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier dynomight.net · “But we are never given a reason why H13 is good enough, but E12 isn’t.”
Jun 20
We are removing the option to create new subscriptions mullvad.net · “Subscriptions clearly offer a lot of convenience but as we’ve seen that convenience comes at a cost and we no longer think this is an acceptable trade-off.”
Jun 20
Writing one sentence per line sive.rs · “Delete any sentence not worthy of its own line.”
Jun 20
Facebook Says Apple is Too Powerful. They're Right. eff.org · “Unfortunately, reality has an anti-surveillance bias.”
Jun 20
Why webcams aren't good enough reincubate.com · “Any affordable webcam (even at the high end of affordability, $100+), uses inadequate and typically years-old hardware backed by mediocre software that literally makes you look bad.”
Jun 19
About Bunny Fonts fonts.bunny.net · “Simply swap “https://fonts.bunny.net/css" in place of “https://fonts.googleapis.com/css" on your website’s source code and let your users enjoy better privacy.”
Jun 19
The Brain Has a 'Low-Power Mode' That Blunts Our Senses quantamagazine.org · “Because the neurons in low-power mode processed visual signals less precisely, the food-restricted mice performed worse on a challenging visual task.”
Jun 19
Don't Use Kubernetes, Yet matt-rickard.com · “Early-stage startups shouldn’t run on Kubernetes yet.”
Jun 19
Awesome Cold Showers github.com · “It’s great when people get excited about things, but sometimes they get a little too excited.”
Jun 18
Incorrect I/O throttling when using block device files mjacobson.net · “Ordinarily, I/O operations on one disk device don’t throttle those on another device.”
Jun 18
How Parents' Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children scientificamerican.com · “Now it looked like trauma could leave a trace in offspring even before they are born.”
Jun 18
V Language Review (2022) mawfig.github.io · “So yeah, we’re able to create a null pointer (V reference) with no compiler errors or warnings.”
Jun 18
Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire vox.com · “Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people to hire in its US warehouses by 2024, according to leaked Amazon internal research from mid-2021 that Recode reviewed.”
Jun 17
The World's Most Satisfying Checkbox andy.works · “Let me strip off the sugarcoating and share a little secret about habit tracker apps: they’re little more than a glorified checkbox.”
Jun 17
Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down scientificamerican.com · “Over the past three years NASA has shut down heaters and other nonessential components, eking out the spacecrafts’ remaining energy stores to extend their unprecedented journeys to about 2030.”
Jun 17
Pop-ups are dead, long live pop-ups: or, the bait-and-switch hidden in today's cookie announcement webdevlaw.uk · “As we’ve known for a good while now, and as the announcement states, the Data Reform Bill will shift the responsibility for consent popups from service providers to browsers.”
Jun 17
Despite best efforts .NET is still not an open platform isdotnetopen.com · “Over time, the .NET platform is becoming closed, to ensure it is only useful if you are a customer.”
Jun 16
The computers are fast, but you don't know it shvbsle.in · “So from 20 minutes, we have come down to 12 seconds!”
Jun 16
4 macOS Screenshot Tricks To Impress Your Co-Workers sal.dev · “I took a screenshot of a Google image search for “cat” and the PNG was 5.7MB while the JPEG was 1.4MB.”
Jun 16
Cool desktops don't change tylercipriani.com · “So, Vi will be around in 2068, whereas Visual Studio Code will be defunct before the end of this decade.”
Jun 16
Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially out of support, what you need to know blogs.windows.com · “After 25+ years of helping people use and experience the web, Internet Explorer (IE) is officially retired and out of support as of today, June 15, 2022.”
Jun 15
Rarely Seen Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien Portray a Lush 'Lord of the Rings' Landscape smithsonianmag.com · “Many of the original illustrations in the Hobbit were created by Tolkien himself.”
Jun 15
Palm OS developer releases source to classic games, 20+ years after release retrorgb.com · “Aaron Ardiri, a Palm OS developer, has released source codes for various games, GameBoy emulator and various tools originally developed for Palm OS over 20 years ago on his Github page, with total of 12 repositories.”
Jun 15
CLAP: The New Audio Plug-In Standard u-he.com · “CLAP is open source, released under the MIT license: No fees, memberships or proprietary license agreements are required before developing or distributing a CLAP capable host or plug-in, and the license never expires.”
Jun 15
Hertzbleed Attack hertzbleed.com · “Hertzbleed is a real, and practical, threat to the security of cryptographic software.”
Jun 14
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users worldwide blog.mozilla.org · “Total Cookie Protection works by creating a separate “cookie jar” for each website you visit.”
Jun 14
Coinbase Lays Off Around 1,100 Employees coindesk.com · “Coinbase estimated it would incur $40 million to $45 million in total restructuring expenses.”
Jun 14
IBM ordered to hand over ex-CEO emails plotting cuts in older workers theregister.com · “The emails contained within Exhibit 10 evidence an interest at the then CEO-level to change the profile of IBM employees so that it reflected a younger workforce.”
Jun 14
The Floppotron 3.0 silent.org.pl · “Every mechanical device with electric motor or any other moving parts makes noise as a side effect.”
Jun 13
Revealed: Our Plans For Thunderbird On Android blog.thunderbird.net · “Ultimately, K-9 Mail will transform into Thunderbird on Android.”
Jun 13
The prank cursor that resulted in an employee being fired before they even started devblogs.microsoft.com · “The person who made the unauthorized change rejoined the company a few weeks later, as originally planned.”
Jun 13
Nonsense on Stilts garymarcus.substack.com · “Neither LaMDA nor any of its cousins (GPT-3) are remotely intelligent.”
Jun 13
New UUID Formats ietf.org · “Non-time-ordered UUID versions such as UUIDv4 have poor database index locality.”
Jun 12
How to Write Better with The Why, What, How Framework eugeneyan.com · “Here’s a story from the early days of Amazon Web Services: Before writing any code, engineers spent 18 months contemplating and writing documents on how best to serve the customer.”
Jun 12
System Preferences Reimagined on macOS basicappleguy.com · “It’s actually quite remarkable that a program in the modern era can survive for so long in such a preserved state.”
Jun 12
A Guide to the Pre-Ghibli Work of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata vulture.com · “But despite Miyazaki and Takahata’s outsize influence on the history of animation, many cartoon lovers still haven’t seen some of their most significant works, either for want of access or simply because they’ve never heard of them.”
Jun 12
DNS Toys dns.toys · “dns.toys is a DNS server that takes creative liberties with the DNS protocol to offer handy utilities and services that are easily accessible via the command line.”
Jun 11
AirPlay and Touch Bar = Network Disaster mnpn.github.io · “However, around New Years 2022 I ran some various network speed tests for unrelated reasons and noticed that I was consistently getting a speed of ~340/30, instead of the ~650/50 I was expecting.”
Jun 11
Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” features? news.ycombinator.com · “Or is there at least one where Smart mode can be turned off verifiably AND it doesn’t keep enticing you to turn it on by withholding ease of use or some convenience feature until you just give up?”
Jun 11
How Big Tech Runs Tech Projects and the Curious Absence of Scrum blog.pragmaticengineer.com · “Unlike Skype, Whatsapp never bothered with a framework like Scrum.”
Jun 11
Announcing "Code" 2nd Edition charlespetzold.com · “However, the 1st edition was originally published in 1999 and it was definitely showing its age.”
Jun 10
MIT researchers uncover 'unpatchable' flaw in Apple M1 chips techcrunch.com · “The attack shows that pointer authentication can be defeated without leaving a trace, and as it utilizes a hardware mechanism, no software patch can fix it.”
Jun 10
New CRISPR-based map ties every human gene to its function news.mit.edu · “The data from this project, published online June 9 in Cell, ties each gene to its job in the cell, and is the culmination of years of collaboration on the single-cell sequencing method Perturb-seq.”
Jun 10
You need to know what right-half-plane zeros are jbconsulting.substack.com · “The danger of the right-half-plane zero is that it lures you into reacting to it, but that is precisely the wrong thing to do.”
Jun 10
Stop Interviewing With Leet Code fev.al · “For 99.9% of the jobs in today’s market, LeetCode is generally irrelevant to the interview.”
Jun 9
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% nee.lv · “With ~63k entries that’s (n^2+n)/2 = (63000^2+63000)/2 = 1984531500 checks if my math is right.”
Jun 9
The collapse of complex software nolanlawson.com · “Nobody can subtract from the system; everyone just adds.”
Jun 9
Why Software Engineers like Woodworking zainrizvi.io · “Woodworking felt strangely familiar.”
Jun 9
Sunsetting Atom github.blog · “Atom has not had significant feature development for the past several years, though we’ve conducted maintenance and security updates during this period to ensure we’re being good stewards of the project and product.”
Jun 8
Find a good available .com domain sive.rs · “Run that, and you’ll have a list of 93,000 dictionary words that are available with the .com extension.”
Jun 8
Researchers Achieve 'Absurdly Fast' Algorithm for Network Flow quantamagazine.org · “Maximum flow has been studied since the 1950s, when it was formulated to study the Soviet railway system.”
Jun 8
Nintendo's Big Piracy Case Is A Very Sad Story kotaku.com · “That equates to about $3,800 a month, all of which was disposal income that would not have been available to him but for his involvement in the conspiracy.”
Jun 8
I've locked myself out of my digital life shkspr.mobi · “I am in cyclic dependency hell.”
Jun 7
EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices engadget.com · “The biggest odd one out is Apple’s Lightning iPhone port that’s used by around 20 percent of devices sold in Europe.”
Jun 7
Germany paying $5.5bn for Intel fab electronicsweekly.com · “Intel says it expects 30% subsidies when it builds a fab, and CEO Pat Gelsinger says it costs 30-40% more to build a fab in Europe than in Asia.”
Jun 7
Beacon is switching to a four-day work week. Here's why. beaconcrm.org · “However, at Beacon, we passionately believe that the best way to build software is to have smart humans in a room together.”
Jun 7
Apple unveils M2 with breakthrough performance and capabilities apple.com · “Compared with the latest 10-core PC laptop chip, the CPU in M2 provides nearly twice the performance at the same power level.”
Jun 6
Plain text. With lines. akkartik.name · “I end up with some bloated format that only one or two apps can open.”
Jun 6
Graduate Student's Side Project Proves Prime Number Conjecture quantamagazine.org · “Since each prime number can only be divided by 1 and itself, the set of all prime numbers is one example of a primitive set.”
Jun 6
SR-71 Pilot explains how he Survived to his Blackbird Disintegration at a Speed of Mach 3.2 theaviationgeekclub.com · “Among professional aviators, there’s a well-worn saying: Flying is simply hours of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror.”
Jun 6
It Costs $110,000 to Fully Gear-Up in Diablo Immortal gamerant.com · “Specifically, Legendary Gems aren’t even a guaranteed drop for paying players, as they are only randomly awarded upon purchasing Legendary Crests (i.e. loot boxes) - which may be the reason why Diablo Immortal didn’t launch worldwide.”
Jun 5
I only care about the helpful notifications, not the promotional ones alexanderell.is · “They’ve got you to enable notifications, since they can be helpful, but now they’ve co-opted that notification consent to send you marketing notifications.”
Jun 5
LSD microdosing does not appear to improve mood or cognitive ability, according to new placebo-controlled study psypost.org · “A new randomized controlled study of LSD microdosing has failed to find evidence that the psychedelic practice results in improvements to mood or cognition.”
Jun 5
It's Time to Bring Back the AIM Away Message wired.com · “These are squishy orange cones that we all plow through, like 15-year-olds in driver’s ed.”
Jun 5
Dear Spotify. Can we just get a table of songs? neil.computer · “If there is a piece of information about a podcast that is the least useful, that would be the cover art.”
Jun 4
What rr does rr-project.org · “The replayed execution’s address spaces, register contents, syscall data etc are exactly the same in every run.”
Jun 4
Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort opensource.googleblog.com · “Today we’re sharing open source code that can sort arrays of numbers about ten times as fast as the C++ std::sort, and outperforms state of the art architecture-specific algorithms, while being portable across all modern CPU architectures.”
Jun 4
Coinbase is rescinding already-accepted job offers, by email sfgate.com · “Affected new hires were informed Thursday, Brock said, via email.”
Jun 4
VSCodium: Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code vscodium.com · “Microsoft’s vscode source code is open source (MIT-licensed), but the product available for download (Visual Studio Code) is licensed under this not-FLOSS license and contains telemetry/tracking.”
Jun 3
Elon Musk feels 'super bad' about economy, needs to cut 10% of Tesla jobs cnbc.com · “So far, demand for Tesla cars and other electric vehicles has remained strong and many of the traditional indicators of a downturn - including increasing dealer inventories and incentives in the United States - have not materialized.”
Jun 3
Zero-Day Exploitation of Atlassian Confluence volexity.com · “Volexity was subsequently able to recreate that exploit and identify a zero-day vulnerability impacting fully up-to-date versions of Confluence Server.”
Jun 3
Dangerous Gift tbray.org · “How long till my front door gets broken down?”
Jun 3
Installing a payphone in my house bert.org · “My payphone number had been blacklisted, but the great thing about living in a metropolitan area in the U.S. in the 90s is that there was always another payphone.”
Jun 2
How fast are Linux pipes anyway? mazzo.li · “We will begin with a simple program with a throughput of around 3.5GiB/s, and improve its performance twentyfold.”
Jun 2
Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming hirrolot.github.io · “Still, from time to time I find myself disputing with borrow checker and type system for no practical reason.”
Jun 2
Mozilla releases local machine translation tools as part of Project Bergamot blog.mozilla.org · “Our solution to that was to develop a high-level API around the machine translation engine, port it to WebAssembly, and optimize the operations for matrix multiplication to run efficiently on CPUs.”
Jun 2
Tim Hortons app violated privacy laws in collection of 'vast amounts' of sensitive location data priv.gc.ca · “The investigation uncovered that Tim Hortons continued to collect vast amounts of location data for a year after shelving plans to use it for targeted advertising, even though it had no legitimate need to do so.”
Jun 1
Facebook parent Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down cnbc.com · “The move is not because of the company’s regulatory overhang or its current advertising slowdown, she said.”
Jun 1
How to Make the Universe Think for Us quantamagazine.org · “That the device often succeeds beggars belief, even to its designers.”
Jun 1
Gmail accepts forged YouTube emails john-millikin.com · “I was greatly surprised to see that the forged email had passed Gmail’s DKIM/DMARC checks.”
Jun 1

May 2022 124 posts

SomaFM somafm.com · “Over 30 unique channels of listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting to the world.”
May 31
What the f*ck Python! github.com · “But sometimes, the outcomes of a Python snippet may not seem obvious at first sight.”
May 31
After millennia of agricultural expansion, the world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’ ourworldindata.org · “After millennia, we have passed the peak, and in recent years global agricultural land use has declined.”
May 31
Hacking Ham Radio: WinAPRS – Part 5 coalfire.com · “Windows XP is easier to exploit in this instance due to a lack of ASLR.”
May 31
Dragonfly: A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached github.com · “Fully compatible with Redis and Memcached APIs, Dragonfly requires no code changes to adopt.”
May 30
Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM for 98% Cost Saving github.com · “With the simple EEPROM chip, standard 0.1 inch contact spacing, one-byte counter, and no error checking, it sure seems Daan Tech didn’t really try very hard!”
May 30
A Guide To Asking Robots To Design Stained Glass Windows astralcodexten.substack.com · “I need an artist who works for free and isn’t allowed to say no.”
May 30
Programming in the Apocalypse matduggan.com · “Based on this I felt like some of the big winners in 2050 will be Rust, Clojure and Go.”
May 30
Electronic Catan LCD Tiles coliniuliano.ca · “Linking up a bunch of tiles creates a position-aware partial mesh network.”
May 29
How a Single Raspberry Pi made my Home Network Faster brianchristner.io · “Statistically, our household is averaging 15% of queries blocked and a spike over a lousy weather weekend of 30% blocked.”
May 29
Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server (2022 Edition) mtlynch.io · “The server itself cost $531, and I bought four disks for $732, bringing the total cost to $1,263.”
May 29
Big Tech talks up privacy while trying to kill privacy laws theregister.com · “The report examined 31 states when state legislatures were considering privacy legislation and identified 445 lobbyists and lobbying firms working on behalf of Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, along with industry groups like TechNet and the State Privacy and Security Coalition.”
May 29
8 compelling reasons to quit Chrome and switch to Firefox pcworld.com · “It’s a rare browser not based on Chromium, the project that powers Chrome, unlike other rivals like Edge or Opera.”
May 28
Terraform should have remained stateless bejarano.io · “Point being, are we adding state because 1% of the resources couldn’t be mapped otherwise?”
May 28
marginalia.nu goes open source memex.marginalia.nu · “The needs of the marginalia project, and the needs of an open source project have effectively aligned.”
May 28
This is how they do it! flamingo-tech.nl · “How they created the password was a secret until now!”
May 28
Knots 3D: Learn how to tie useful knots knots3d.com · “Our comprehensive library features over 200 animated knots with step-by-step tutorials that transform complex rope work into clear, easy-to-follow instructions that work for complete beginners and serve as a quick reference for experts.”
May 27
GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor and provides financial assistance to patients in need cloudsek.com · “Activity 1: Donate new clothes to the homeless, record the action, and post it on social media.”
May 27
Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective lea.verou.me · “And I don’t feel I did a good job communicating the frustration he went through in the one hour or so until he gave up.”
May 27
S.F. population fell 6.3%, most in nation, to lowest level since 2010 sfchronicle.com · “The city lost 54,813 people, or 6.3% of its population, from July 2020 to July 2021.”
May 27
SQLite3 Fiddle sqlite.org · “This app runs on your device. After loading, it does not interact with the remote server at all.”
May 26
Ancient Earth: What did Earth look like X million years ago? dinosaurpictures.org · “Use the ← and → keys or drag the timeline to travel through time”
May 26
yes, i was forced to be a child star. it was never my dream or my idea. wilwheaton.net · “The big lie that she didn’t force me to become a child actor when I was seven, that it was all my idea.”
May 26
The billable hour is a trap into which more and more of us are falling timharford.com · “If you bill £1,000 an hour, as some senior lawyers do, then any particular six-minute increment of time is available to be turned into £100.”
May 26
Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits kenkantzer.com · “All the really bad security vulnerabilities were obvious.”
May 25
Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor falstad.com · “This is a simulation of the 1972 Atari game Pong at a circuit level.”
May 25
Google has been DDoSing SourceHut for over a year drewdevault.com · “For a start, I never really appreciated the fact that Go secretly calls home to Google to fetch modules through a proxy (you can set GOPROXY=direct to fix this).”
May 25
SwiftUI in 2022 mjtsai.com · “SwiftUI is an unreliable mess that needs to be treated with oven mitts, and I won’t be increasing my reliance on it anytime soon.”
May 25
YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos == infinite disk space github.com · “YouTubeDrive is a silly proof-of-concept, and I do not endorse its high-volume use.”
May 24
Bugs Are Evolving to Eat Plastic, Study Finds e360.yale.edu · “The research scanned more than 200 million genes found in DNA samples taken from the environment and found 30,000 different enzymes that could degrade 10 different types of plastic.”
May 24
Healthchecks.io Hosting Setup, 2022 Edition blog.healthchecks.io · “The monthly Hetzner bill is €484.”
May 24
A Kernel Hacker Meets Fuchsia OS a13xp0p0v.github.io · “Despite KASLR, the kernel pointers were the same on every Fuchsia boot!”
May 24
Imagen: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models gweb-research-imagen.appspot.com · “At this time we have decided not to release code or a public demo.”
May 23
Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness shuvomoy.github.io · “She said, you work very hard on a problem for a long time, and then you get this rush, this wonderful satisfaction when you’ve solved it.”
May 23
Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power allianceforscience.cornell.edu · “Finland’s is the first Green Party to adopt such a position.”
May 23
Useless Use of "dd" vidarholen.net · “It’s purely a superstitious charm trying to ensure safe passage of the data.”
May 23
How This Ends avc.com · “That recession could easily last until the end of 2023.”
May 22
The mindless tyranny of 'what if it changes?' as a software design principle chriskiehl.com · “Shy away from numbers or concrete analysis during design. Good engineers estimate. Great engineers speculate.”
May 22
Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? outsideonline.com · “Over the 20 years of the study, sun avoiders were twice as likely to die as sun worshippers.”
May 22
Faster CRC32 on the Apple M1 dougallj.wordpress.com · “However, I discovered a simple update to a widely used technique that makes it possible to run twice as fast as existing solutions on the Apple M1.”
May 22
Apple shipped me a 79-pound iPhone repair kit to fix a 1.1-ounce battery theverge.com · “I expected Apple would send me a small box of screwdrivers, spudgers, and pliers; I own a mini iPhone, after all.”
May 21
The balance has shifted away from SPAs nolanlawson.com · “SPAs are no longer the cool kids they once were 10 years ago.”
May 21
Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around wifi restrictions alexanderell.is · “If the wifi is letting WhatsApp messages through, what if we used WhatsApp as a vehicle for the information we really care about?”
May 21
Firefox appears to be flagged as suspicious by Cloudflare lwthiker.com · “This basically means you must have JS enabled to access the site and you will incur a 2-3 seconds delay before the content is served.”
May 21
This "amateur" programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti howardchen.substack.com · “Furthermore, the accuracy of tumor identification has reached 90%.”
May 20
Is an unknown, extraordinarily ancient civilisation buried under eastern Turkey? spectator.co.uk · “Put it another way: it is estimated to be 11-13,000 years old.”
May 20
Michigan Couple Says Town Seized Their Building and Offered To Return It if They Bought Two Cars for Police reason.com · “The Kozbials, immigrants from Poland, say they had a state license to grow medical marijuana, but the city seized the building anyway and held on to it for 17 months without charging them with a crime.”
May 20
Speeding up sort performance in Postgres 15 citusdata.com · “Rounding up to the next power of 2 causes an average of 25% of memory to get wasted.”
May 20
Introducing the new and upgraded Framework Laptop community.frame.work · “This is perhaps the first time ever that generational upgrades are available in a high-performance thin and light laptop, letting you pick the improvements you want without needing to buy a full new machine.”
May 19
Vangelis, Oscar-Winning Composer, Dies at 79 pitchfork.com · “A cause of death was not revealed.”
May 19
OutHorse Your Email visiticeland.com · “Disconnect from work and let the horses of Iceland reply to your emails while you are on vacation.”
May 19
Rust: A Critical Retrospective bunniestudios.com · “Before this, Rust had no native ability to deal with arrays bigger than 32 elements!”
May 19
I Spent 2 years Launching Tiny Projects tinyprojects.dev · “I ended up selling for $5,300, which blew my tiny mind.”
May 18
Why billing systems are a nightmare for engineers getlago.com · “Taxes depend on what you are selling, your home country and your customer’s home country.”
May 18
Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore rubenerd.com · “Therefore, we can see Git ignores .gitignore because its in .gitignore, which means it didn’t ignore .gitignore for instructions.”
May 18
Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste news.utexas.edu · “It makes up 12% of all global waste.”
May 18
I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone! smallandroidphone.com · “It’s increasingly clear that a small premium phone is not on any OEM roadmap.”
May 17
Taking a Break from Social Media Makes You Happier and Less Anxious calnewport.com · “The researchers gathered 154 volunteers with a mean age of 29.6 years old.”
May 17
Using a "Proper" Camera as a Webcam tratt.net · “Unfortunately, most webcams are terrible cameras that take terrible pictures.”
May 17
The impact of digital media on children’s intelligence while controlling for genetic differences in cognition and socioeconomic background nature.com · “After two years, gaming positively impacted intelligence (standardized β = + 0.17), but socializing had no effect.”
May 17
Why I no longer recommend Julia yuri.is · “In my experience, Julia and its packages have the highest rate of serious correctness bugs of any programming system I’ve used, and I started programming with Visual Basic 6 in the mid-2000s.”
May 16
Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots blog.searchmysite.net · “That makes it especially tragic to report that nearly all the traffic to the site is now from SEO spam bots, presumably searching for all that elusive SEO spam-free content.”
May 16
Web3 is just expensive P2P netfuture.ch · “Doing the operations on an actual blockchain is very expensive.”
May 16
Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives nature.com · “Results of Exp.1 showed that household cats paid attention to the monitor for longer in the incongruent condition, suggesting an expectancy violation effect; however, café cats did not.”
May 16
Fly.io: the Reclaimer of Heroku's Magic christine.website · “This allows them to get your app running in multiple regions for a lot less than it would cost to run it on Heroku.”
May 15
The problem with bitcoin miners paulbutler.org · “Last year, one MARA executive earned over $220 million in cash and stock-based compensation, in a year when the company’s total revenue was $150 million.”
May 15
The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option blog.tmm.cx · “It appears that HP is actually shipping a Linux and then running DOS in a VM.”
May 15
Intel's new Chimera: Alder Lake agner.org · “Intel have actually sacrificed their flagship 512-bit instructions in order to run multiple threads in low-power cores.”
May 15
Exclusive: Over 800 WhiteHat Jr Employees Resign As Edtech Giant Asks To Report To Office inc42.com · “Over 800 full-time employees put down their papers and exited coding startup WhiteHat Jr in the last 60 days as the startup, which was acquired by edtech giant BYJU’S, asked all its employees to work from office within a month’s time.”
May 14
Linux Insides 0xax.gitbooks.io · “A book-in-progress about the linux kernel and its insides.”
May 14
Pirate Site Blocking is Making its Way Into Free Trade Agreements torrentfreak.com · “The new free trade agreement between Australia and the UK includes a site blocking paragraph.”
May 14
Former employee blows whistle on baby formula production plant tied to outbreak foodsafetynews.com · “The FDA did not interview the whistleblower until late December 2021.”
May 14
The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug rosenzweig.io · “As soon as a partial render is required, however, failing to provide this program means the GPU dereferences a null pointer and faults.”
May 13
23,000 Devices Shipped! Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero blog.flipperzero.one · “At the time of writing this post, we have already shipped 23,109 devices.”
May 13
The Other Kind of Staff Software Engineer earthly.dev · “Everyone wants to present themselves as a profit center.”
May 13
A clean start for the web macwright.com · “The web’s evolution over the last decade has mirrored the American economy.”
May 13
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal fires two top executives, freezes hiring theverge.com · “Effective this week, we are pausing most hiring and backfills, except for business critical roles.”
May 12
Astronomers Reveal First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of Our Galaxy public.nrao.edu · “This result provides overwhelming evidence that the object is indeed a black hole and yields valuable clues about the workings of such giants, which are thought to reside at the center of most galaxies.”
May 12
The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever kitze.io · “I could’ve done that with every single version that I made, at any point from 2018 until now.”
May 12
I Stopped To Watch Kids Playing at Recess. Security Was Called. reason.com · “As I have said since I founded Free-Range Kids in 2008, and since starting Let Grow in 2017, our society is set on overestimating danger and underestimating kids.”
May 12
NVIDIA Releases Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules developer.nvidia.com · “Pre-Turing customers will continue to run the closed source modules.”
May 11
Passenger with "no idea how to fly" a plane lands Cessna at Florida airport after pilot suffers possible medical emergency cbsnews.com · “Dramatic audio between the passenger and air traffic controllers revealed the tense moments before the single-engine Cessna 208 landed at Palm Beach International Airport.”
May 11
Coinbase admits users may lose crypto if exchange goes bankrupt fortune.com · “Coinbase users would become “general unsecured creditors,” meaning they have no right to claim any specific property from the exchange in proceedings.”
May 11
Announcing D1: our first SQL database blog.cloudflare.com · “D1 is built on SQLite.”
May 11
We Need A Middle Class For Startups neilthanedar.com · “It’s near impossible to return money raised and get your equity back.”
May 10
The music lives on apple.com · “iPod touch will be available while supplies last.”
May 10
Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance plan on May 11 patrick-breyer.de · “According to a poll 72% of citizens oppose the indiscriminate scanning of their private communications.”
May 10
Why do USB-C hubs still have USB 2.0 ports? dancharblog.wordpress.com · “Essentially this is getting a USB 2.0 port for free.”
May 10
I'm All-In on Server-Side SQLite fly.io · “The most important thing you should understand about Litestream is that it’s just SQLite.”
May 9
UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg for Second Time in 48 Hours, LUNA Market Cap Falls Below UST's coindesk.com · “TerraUSD (UST) has lost its dollar peg for the second time in three days, falling to as low as $0.65 on Monday, according to the most recent price estimates from CoinMarketCap.”
May 9
I Saw a Cool Truck Today theap.substack.com · “53-foot semi-trailers are prohibited on the vast majority of the streets of New York City.”
May 9
Announcement: I’m Going to Miss You, But I Am Taking a Sabbatical kottke.org · “There’s no real roadmap for this, no blueprint for independent creators taking sabbaticals to recharge.”
May 9
How mindfulness can make you a darker person bbc.com · “By quelling our feelings of guilt, it seems, the common meditation technique discourages us from making amends for our mistakes.”
May 8
Donald Knuth Was Framed buttondown.email · “He wasn’t competing with McIlroy, and didn’t know how McIlroy was going to critique it.”
May 8
No Fixed Address Bank Account hsbc.co.uk · “HSBC UK’s No Fixed Address Account is a specialist service available in selected branches to help people without a fixed home address open a bank account.”
May 8
Monsanto’s Ghostwriting to Influence Science and Media disinformationchronicle.substack.com · “Monsanto ghostwrote research and essays to promote the safety of the pesticide glyphosate.”
May 8
Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work macrumors.com · “Apple employees began returning to Apple Park last month, with the three-day in-office work policy being enacted on May 23.”
May 7
Shaving is too expensive johnwhiles.com · “The double edged razor has become a product that you can only buy on the internet, and which you will only buy if you know that it exists.”
May 7
Xilem: An architecture for UI in Rust raphlinus.github.io · “UI code written in this architecture will look very intuitive to those familiar with state of the art toolkits such as SwiftUI, Flutter, and React, while at the same time being idiomatic Rust.”
May 7
Unix command line conventions over time blog.liw.fi · “Initially, GNU used the plus (+) to indicate a long option, but quickly changed to a double dash (–).”
May 7
Why do you waste so much time on the internet? zan.bearblog.dev · “I will follow that thing for 2-3 days then back to that unproductive and mindless pithole.”
May 6
When negotiating a price, never bid with a round number hbswk.hbs.edu · “Rather, bid with a more precise number, like $9,800 or $1.03 million or $14.80 per share.”
May 6
Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says cbsnews.com · “By Moody’s reckoning, Boise’s homes are 73% overvalued, making it the most overpriced city in the nation.”
May 6
How many radioactive bananas would you need to power a house? what-if.xkcd.com · “A banana contains about 100 calories of food energy, and if you incinerate whole bananas as fuel, it would only take about 10 bunches per day to keep your house running.”
May 6
7GUIs eugenkiss.github.io · “The task set should be as small as possible yet reflect as many typical (or fundamental or representative) challenges in GUI programming as possible.”
May 5
Please stop disabling zoom matuzo.at · “According to the HTTP Archive Web Alamac, 24% of desktop homepages and 29% of mobile homepages attempt to disable scaling by setting either maximum-scale to a value less than or equal to 1, or user-scalable set to 0 or none.”
May 5
Apple, Google and Microsoft Commit to Expanded Support for FIDO Standard to Accelerate Availability of Passwordless Sign-Ins fidoalliance.org · “Allow users to automatically access their FIDO sign-in credentials (referred to by some as a “passkey”) on many of their devices, even new ones, without having to re-enroll every account.”
May 5
Holy ship! Shopify to acquire Deliverr for $2.1B: building the future of global logistics for independent brands news.shopify.com · “Founded in 2017, Deliverr’s hassle-free logistics network now delivers more than a million orders per month for thousands of merchants across the U.S.”
May 5
Mechanical Watch ciechanow.ski · “Unlike their quartz and smart siblings, mechanical watches can run without using any batteries or other electronic components.”
May 4
Tailscale raises $100M… to fix the Internet tailscale.com · “We don’t want people to worry that we’re going to cancel their free plan, because the free plan is where all our referrals come from.”
May 4
Microsoft 3D Movie Maker Source Code github.com · “This code was restored from the Microsoft corporate archives and cleared for release.”
May 4
The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures warp.dev · “And so we would deprioritize product polish for projects that looked better to a promotion committee.”
May 4
Using QGIS to apply a 1777 style to today's OpenStreetMap data manuelclaeysbouuaert.be · “What would it look like if count de Ferraris would have made his map today?”
May 3
The strange business of hole-in-one insurance thehustle.co · “A standard tournament with 100 golfers playing a 165-yard hole with a $10k prize sets an event back ~$235.”
May 3
When I made another Monkey Island grumpygamer.com · “It’s ironic that the people who don’t want me to make the game I want to make are some of the hard core Monkey Island fans.”
May 3
CDC Tracked Millions of Phones to See If Americans Followed COVID Lockdown Orders vice.com · “SafeGraph, the company the CDC paid $420,000 for access to one year of data, includes Peter Thiel and the former head of Saudi intelligence among its investors.”
May 3
I won free load testing fasterthanli.me · “My site wouldn’t have gone down if I was still using that setup.”
May 2
The Game: A continually-run D&D campaign, since 1982 thegamednd.com · “Sessions (usually 4-5 hours in length) are held whenever players travel into town, averaging several sessions a week.”
May 2
[email protected] brendangregg.com · “This became especially clear after I recently worked with another hardware vendor, who were initially friendly and supportive but after evaluations of their technology went poorly became bullying and misleading.”
May 2
Pop culture has become an oligopoly experimentalhistory.substack.com · “Until the year 2000, about 25% of top-grossing movies were prequels, sequels, spinoffs, remakes, reboots, or cinematic universe expansions.”
May 2
How to professionally say howtoprofessionallysay.akashrajpurohit.com · “I’m unable to add value to this meeting but I would be happy to review the minutes.”
May 1
I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government beanlog.vercel.app · “Slowly it dawned on me that not only did I just loan $19,975 to the government for 2 months with zero interest, but I’d locked myself out of the golden window for buying I-bonds.”
May 1
We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it pudding.cool · “This filtering decision was the difference between results that lead to intriguing headlines, and those that produce no trend and no paper.”
May 1
My experience getting a tech job with no degree or relevant work experience lowlyswe.substack.com · “A mere 4~ years and 4 jobs later I now make 175,000 dollars as a senior software engineer.”
May 1

April 2022 120 posts

Internet Archive joins opposition to the “SMART Copyright Act” blog.archive.org · “If the SMART Copyright Act were to pass, the Copyright Office would select a “technical measure” every three years that online service providers would be required to implement.”
Apr 30
Noto emoji, a new black and white emoji font with less color developers.googleblog.com · “Now, our phones have fancy retina screens and somewhere along the way an important part of what made emoji so handy was left by the wayside: their simplicity.”
Apr 30
Nature has enormous emotional and cognitive benefits on people npr.org · “Researchers say there’s growing evidence that nature has a powerful effect on us, improving both our physical and psychological health.”
Apr 30
I've used all the notebooks tylercipriani.com · “The act of writing helped them solidify complicated ideas.”
Apr 30
Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere news.airbnb.com · “During the second half of 2021, 20% of our nights booked were for stays of longer than a month, and half were for stays of longer than a week.”
Apr 29
Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang fasterthanli.me · “It’s the Billion Dollar Mistake all over again.”
Apr 29
You can now ask Google to remove your phone number, email or address from search krebsonsecurity.com · “Its homepage includes a copy of my credit report, Social Security card, phone bill, and a fake but otherwise official looking government ID card.”
Apr 29
Limb lengthening surgery is becoming more popular buzzfeednews.com · “Before the $75,000 procedure he had in January, he was about 5'7”."
Apr 29
103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known kk.org · “Don’t ever work for someone you don’t want to become.”
Apr 28
Gnome patent troll stripped of patent rights blog.opensource.org · “That prompted over 4,000 Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community members to rally in defense of the GNOME Foundation, raising over $150,000 to defend against the bogus claim.”
Apr 28
New links found between musical training and cognitive ability neurosciencenews.com · “A direct causal link between musical training and general cognitive faculties, however, seems unlikely.”
Apr 28
Lets talk about blockchains cmdli.dev · “Most applications simply do not require global consensus in order to operate.”
Apr 28
Apple’s Self Service Repair now available apple.com · “Apple will offer tool rental kits for $49, so that customers who do not want to purchase tools for a single repair still have access to these professional repair tools.”
Apr 27
Public Money, Public Code publiccode.eu · “If it is public money, it should be public code as well.”
Apr 27
I put my whole life into a single database krausefx.com · “Since the start of this project, I collected a total of more than 380,000 data points.”
Apr 27
SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way ctrl.blog · “Lately, I’ve concluded that every implementation with difficult-to-configure policies is just unmanageable.”
Apr 27
Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker devblogs.microsoft.com · “The Microsoft employees chipped in to buy a cheap coffee maker and put it in their shared offices.”
Apr 26
Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure quantamagazine.org · “When the mathematicians Jeff Kahn and Gil Kalai first posed their “expectation threshold” conjecture in 2006, they didn’t believe it themselves.”
Apr 26
3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work openculture.com · “Over the 280-day period covered by this 3,200-year-old ostracon, common excuses for absence include “brewing beer” and “his wife was bleeding.””
Apr 26
Zq: An easier and faster alternative to jq brimdata.io · “In short, zq is based on stateful dataflow while jq is based on stateless dataflow.”
Apr 26
Principles of Engineering Management acjay.com · “Managing comes first.”
Apr 25
Why LSP? matklad.github.io · “To sum the above succinctly, the problem with decent IDE support was not of N * M, but rather of an inadequate equilibrium of a two-sided market.”
Apr 25
I sold 640 copies of my book in one year nts.strzibny.name · “You signed up for two jobs if you decided to write a book.”
Apr 25
The Hare programming language harelang.org · “Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust.”
Apr 25
No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing robkhenderson.substack.com · “Today, one in six American men between the ages of 25 and 54 are unemployed or out of the workforce altogether: about 10 million men.”
Apr 24
French fighter jet joy ride goes très, très wrong (2020) caranddriver.com · “The 64-year-old was not correctly instructed, to say the least, in passenger etiquette, and to make a long story short, he self-ejected midflight.”
Apr 24
Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts blog.mozilla.org · “Also note that the company says after that period, it may keep copies of your data in “backup storage” to recover in some instances such as software error and legal issues.”
Apr 24
Google gives Europe a ‘reject all’ button for tracking cookies theverge.com · “Previously, Google allowed users to accept all tracking cookies with a single click, but forced people to click through various menus to reject them all.”
Apr 24
My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home michael.stapelberg.ch · “No matter if you’re using 1 Gbit/s or 25 Gbit/s, you pay the same monthly fee.”
Apr 23
I stopped working on black hole information loss backreaction.blogspot.com · “But because you can’t solve this problem with mathematics alone, and experiments are not possible, not now and probably not in the next 10000 years.”
Apr 23
Google, Meta, others will have to explain algorithms under new EU legislation theverge.com · “Companies face fines of up to 6 percent of their annual turnover for noncompliance.”
Apr 23
Chris Lattner on garbage collection vs. Automatic Reference Counting (2017) atp.fm · “Here’s the way I look at it, and as you said, the ship has somewhat sailed: I am totally convinced that ARC is the right way to go upfront.”
Apr 23
Magic-trace – High-resolution traces of what a process is doing github.com · “You use it like perf: point it to a process and off it goes.”
Apr 22
Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-dominated occupations journals.plos.org · “Male applicants were about half as likely as female applicants to receive a positive employer response in female-dominated occupations.”
Apr 22
Repulsive Curves cs.cmu.edu · “Curves play a fundamental role across computer graphics, physical simulation, and mathematical visualization, yet most tools for curve design do nothing to prevent crossings or self-intersections.”
Apr 22
US Navy wirelessly beams 1.6 kW of power a kilometer using microwaves newatlas.com · “In what it describes as the most significant demonstration of its kind in half a century, the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) beamed 1.6 kW of power over a kilometer (3,280 ft) using a microwave beam at the US Army Research Field in Maryland.”
Apr 22
Apple Discontinues macOS Server support.apple.com · “As of April 21, 2022, Apple has discontinued macOS Server.”
Apr 21
The smallest 256x256 single-color PNG file, and where you've seen it (2015) mjt.me.uk · “But when you can send a tile in just 103 bytes, sending the tile is as simple as sending the redirect.”
Apr 21
I can't let go of “The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation” andersource.dev · “Again, my main point is that there’s nothing inherently flawed with the analysis and plots presented in the original paper.”
Apr 21
Go will use pdqsort in next release github.com · “In common patterns, pdqsort is often faster (i.e. 10x faster in sorted slices).”
Apr 21
Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond danlark.org · “If you have a mismatched type in a comparator, C++ will not warn you even with -Weverything.”
Apr 20
A 4-year-old can run errands alone and not just on reality TV npr.org · “In the first episode, a toddler takes a 20-minute walk to a grocery store and picks up three items for his mom: flowers, curry and fishcakes.”
Apr 20
California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3 solarpowerworldonline.com · “The peak, which occurred briefly at 3:39 p.m., broke the previous record of 96.4% set on March 27, 2022.”
Apr 20
The unreasonable fight for municipal broadband tylercipriani.com · “And, even better, the city insists I’ll pay $49.95 forever.”
Apr 20
Framework Laptop Mainboard github.com · “All of this is a starting point for a broader set of open source Mainboard documentation to enable creation of fully compatible third-party Mainboards in the future.”
Apr 19
De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy brave.com · “AMP pages are served from Google’s servers, though designed to look like they’re coming from the original publisher’s site.”
Apr 19
How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database retool.com · “To be frank, it wasn’t a completely straight path from point A to point B.”
Apr 19
The absurd complexity of server-side rendering gist.github.com · “Our pages went uncrawled by Bing, time to first meaningful paint grew faster than npm, and it became clear: something must be done.”
Apr 19
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms techcrunch.com · “Good news for archivists, academics, researchers and journalists: Scraping publicly accessible data is legal, according to a U.S. appeals court ruling.”
Apr 18
TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing slate.com · “For the vast majority of Americans, the IRS already knows what we owe in taxes.”
Apr 18
UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus citizenlab.ca · “The suspected infection at the UK Prime Minister’s Office was associated with a Pegasus operator we link to the UAE.”
Apr 18
Mental speed is high until age sixty nature.com · “Slowing of mental speed was observed only after approximately age 60.”
Apr 18
The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten quuxplusone.github.io · “Your programming challenge: Add a mult command to memcached.”
Apr 17
Unreal vs. Unity Opinion gist.github.com · “This was the case with Unity for a long time, but in the last few years the quality of that back half of development has rapidly declined, to the point where people are absolutely sick of their own projects by the time they’re finished… or more accurately, abandoned, because long-term maintenance of Unity games is appallingly hard.”
Apr 17
Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM semianalysis.substack.com · “There are credible reports of lies and deceit within the Samsung Foundry operations.”
Apr 17
The games Nintendo didn't want you to play: Tengen nicole.express · “Unable to reverse engineer the chip, Tengen convinced the United States Copyright Office to hand over the source code of the lockout chip, claiming it was necessary for a lawsuit.”
Apr 17
100 People with rare cancers who attended same NJ high school demand answers foxnews.com · “By April 11, he had heard from more than 100 former Colonia High School attendees who had been diagnosed with rare tumors and cancers.”
Apr 16
Netflix End of Series 1 brendangregg.com · “Netflix has been the best job of my career so far, and I’ll miss my colleagues and the culture.”
Apr 16
Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones insidenova.com · “Police never described Durvin as a suspect in the search warrant application they submitted seeking permission to track him and court records show he has not been charged with any crimes in Virginia since police took out the warrant.”
Apr 16
I was wrong – CRDTs are the future (2020) josephg.com · “At its heart, OT is a glorified for() loop with some helper functions to update character offsets.”
Apr 16
When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code freakingrectangle.wordpress.com · “So instead of writing code, consider instead having the candidate read existing code and talk about what it does and how it works.”
Apr 15
DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results torrentfreak.com · “Privacy-centered search engine DuckDuckGo has completely removed the search results for many popular pirates sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and Fmovies.”
Apr 15
Moreutils: A collection of Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago joeyh.name · “moreutils is a collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.”
Apr 15
Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy news.mit.edu · “Another study failed to show improvements in hearing compared to the placebo group, but the company attributes that result to flaws in the design of the trial.”
Apr 15
We lost 54k GitHub stars httpie.io · “Due to an unfortunate sequence of events, I accidentally made the project’s repository private for a moment.”
Apr 14
5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021) colorado.edu · “IMST can be done in five minutes in your own home while you watch TV.”
Apr 14
Ethereum Has Issues blog.dshr.org · “It turns out that front-running is the tip of an iceberg of fundamental problems that Ethereum and similar systems suffer.”
Apr 14
Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com · “In summary, about 80% of Germany’s energy comes from fossil fuels, and about 50% of that comes from Russia.”
Apr 14
Inside the longest Atlassian outage newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · “It took until Day 9 for executives at the company to acknowledge the outage.”
Apr 13
U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow ionathan.ch · “I had no idea what it meant or was used for, thus assigned it a “descriptive name” when collating the symbols for the STIX project.”
Apr 13
A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine news.mit.edu · “On average, steam turbines reliably convert about 35 percent of a heat source into electricity, with about 60 percent representing the highest efficiency of any heat engine to date.”
Apr 13
Git security vulnerability announced github.blog · “This vulnerability affects users working on multi-user machines where a malicious actor could create a .git directory in a shared location above a victim’s current working directory.”
Apr 13
New(ish) command line tools jvns.ca · “I got a bunch of replies with tools I hadn’t heard of, so I thought I’d make a list here.”
Apr 12
Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March – highest since 1981 cnbc.com · “Due to the surge in inflation, worker wages, despite rising 5.6% from a year ago, weren’t keeping pace with the cost of living.”
Apr 12
WireGuard multihop available in the Mullvad app mullvad.net · “All the traffic is encrypted twice directly on your device.”
Apr 12
A tiny Docker image to serve static websites lipanski.com · “This got me to a whooping 186KB image and you can read more about it in the previous version of this post.”
Apr 12
Node.js packages don't deserve trust josephg.com · “The fundamental problem with npm is that any package you install has full access to do whatever it wants on your computer.”
Apr 11
I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it climateer.substack.com · “In the end, I’ve come around to the view that most offset programs do not get us closer to a net zero world, and therefore are a dangerous distraction.”
Apr 11
Impressions from a first-time Mac user loganmarchione.com · “Closing the lid feels like closing the door of a German car.”
Apr 11
FBI Didn't Knock Down a Suspect's Door Because 'It Was an Affluent Neighborhood' reason.com · “When it became clear that a forced entry was necessary, an FBI agent testified, “the decision was made, since it was an affluent neighborhood,” to do it inconspicuously.”
Apr 11
Heresy paulgraham.com · “There are an ever-increasing number of opinions you can be fired for.”
Apr 10
An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email empty.coffee · “Most websites we sign up for don’t need our “real” email anyway.”
Apr 10
The Joy of Small Projects schroer.ca · “Companies pay millions of dollars to build complex apps and to convince you that you need to build the same complexity into your own projects.”
Apr 10
How Intelligent Are Cats? (2004) messybeast.com · “Cats sat down and washed.”
Apr 10
MIT graduate students vote to unionize thetech.com · “75% of 3,823 eligible graduate students voted, with 1,785 students (66%) voting in favor of unionization and 912 students (34%) voting against, according to results announced by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).”
Apr 9
An Account of the Shanghai Lockdown jaapgrolleman.com · “The city is sending rations, but we got one small package of vegetables once during nine days.”
Apr 9
I need to find an apartment mattrighetti.com · “Long story short: I’ve taken a new position in Luxembourg and I have to find an apartment, in a different country, in a reasonably short time.”
Apr 9
Google says AI generated content is against guidelines searchenginejournal.com · “Mueller says content written by AI falls under the category of auto-generated content, which could lead to a manual penalty.”
Apr 9
Why I'll never use Affirm again gist.github.com · “After waiting on hold for nearly an hour, I was finally connected with a supervisor who found my open cases and consolidated them into a new case they created during the call.”
Apr 8
Mozilla Thunderbird Beta now supports Matrix chat matrix.org · “The latest Thunderbird beta finally has Matrix support enabled by default.”
Apr 8
NotepadNext: A cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++ github.com · “There are numerous bugs and half working implementations.”
Apr 8
The United States Digital Corps digitalcorps.gsa.gov · “What started as an idea and grassroots effort evolved into the U.S. Digital Corps.”
Apr 8
The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996 lunduke.substack.com · “Originally released in 1993, the Onyx from SiliconGraphics was an absolute powerhouse.”
Apr 7
What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · “In this article, they published the damning claim that the startup only generated $600K in revenue in 2021, all while burning about $10M/month in cash, and being close to running out of money.”
Apr 7
I stopped advertising and nothing happened theantistartup.com · “Over 85% of our organic search traffic comes from users typing in our brand name - Total Car Check.”
Apr 7
The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020) ctrl.blog · “It serves no purpose other than to pad the files to make them 0,5 MB larger.”
Apr 7
The existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity quantamagazine.org · “If they do not, cryptographers have shown, then secure cryptography is impossible.”
Apr 6
What’s new in Emacs 28.1? masteringemacs.org · “Notable features include the formal inclusion of native compilation, a technique that will greatly speed up your Emacs experience.”
Apr 6
In defense of simple architectures danluu.com · “Our architecture is so simple I’m not even going to bother with an architectural diagram.”
Apr 6
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin promised them free crypto for an eyeball scan buzzfeednews.com · “The men were offering all comers a T-shirt and a voucher for $20 worth of Worldcoin, which one of the men boasted would appreciate 500%.”
Apr 6
One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine nrk.no · “As a result TikTok turned off the ability to upload new content in Russia.”
Apr 5
The next Google dkb.io · “DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google.”
Apr 5
Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf jinyuz.dev · “Everything was fine until I kinda felt my config.fish file got bloated and somehow nvm was kinda slowing down my shell startup.”
Apr 5
The Influence of Neuromancer on Cyberpunk sabukaru.online · “Whilst familiar in our contemporary, terms such as ‘cyberspace’, ‘jacking-in’, ‘ICE’ and ‘the matrix’ were first introduced by Neuromancer, greatly influencing the dictionary that much of Cyberpunk borrows from and builds upon.”
Apr 5
USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021) overengineer.dev · “Searching on Aliexpress, I found several USB-C hubs with the same case, same specs, and probably the same components… for 10 euros a piece.”
Apr 4
What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists (2016) aeon.co · “My clients know so little about current research in physics, they aren’t even aware they’re in a foreign country.”
Apr 4
Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as "union", "pay raise", "slave labor" theintercept.com · “In addition to the automated system, managers will have the authority to flag or suppress any Shout-Outs that they find inappropriate, the documents show.”
Apr 4
Are you a baby? A litmus test haleynahman.substack.com · “Trying to weasel out of all that with an app is, well, basically the entire value prop of Silicon Valley, but more importantly antithetical to growth.”
Apr 4
Vizio TVs are now showing banner ads over live TV flatpanelshd.com · “Vizio will first identify what is on your screen and then place interactive banner ads over live TV programs.”
Apr 3
Horrible edge cases when dealing with music dustri.org · “He also changed his stage name to the symbol in 1993, and was thus usually referred to as “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince”.”
Apr 3
A project with a single 11,000-line code file austinhenley.com · “Something I found hilarious is that a variable might be used on lines 200-210 and then again on line 8544.”
Apr 3
What are you doing, WordPress.com? rootprivileges.net · “But at some point late last week, WordPress replaced all of the paid plans with a single ‘Pro’ plan and reduced the storage on the free plan 6x, from 3 GB to 500 MB.”
Apr 3
Those HTML attributes you never use smashingmagazine.com · “Use of rel=preload here informs the browser that we want the indicated resources to load in priority, so they’re not blocked by things like scripts and stylesheets.”
Apr 2
The human genome is, at long last, complete rockefeller.edu · “But even after 20 years of upgrades, eight percent of our genome still remained unsequenced and unstudied.”
Apr 2
YouTube cancelled my Nextcloud installation how-to mccormick.cx · “Your interface does not allow me any way to speak to a human being about this.”
Apr 2
Albini pitching Nirvana: "I would like to be paid like a plumber" (1992) news.lettersofnote.com · “I would like to be paid like a plumber: I do the job and you pay me what it’s worth.”
Apr 2
A few things to know before stealing my 914 hagerty.com · “The last guy who stole my 914 used this very spot and it was rather convenient for all concerned parties.”
Apr 1
A database for 2022 tailscale.com · “The migration from etcd to one-big-table in SQLite was easy.”
Apr 1
The GOV.UK Design System is now live gds.blog.gov.uk · “In fact, pages on GOV.UK built with the Design System download about twice as fast as those that haven’t, as they use about half as much code.”
Apr 1
RFC 9225: Software Defects Considered Harmful rfc-editor.org · “Endeavoring to reduce the number of degradations in the future, implementers MUST NOT introduce bugs when writing software.”
Apr 1

March 2022 124 posts

The smallest and worst HDMI display mitxela.com · “That’s right, in an HDMI cable, nestled amongst the high-speed differential pairs, there’s an exceedingly slow i2c bus.”
Mar 31
I'm a Scam Prevention Expert, and I Got Scammed lupinia.net · “He was knowledgeable, polite, and professional.”
Mar 31
Mastodon 3.5 blog.joinmastodon.org · “Discoverability makes or breaks a platform, as there is nothing more important to retain a new user than to let them find something interesting to stay for, as soon as possible.”
Mar 31
Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool esa.int · “Leave it by your window each night with your satnav positioning turned on and your phone will record small variations in satellite signals, gathering data for machine learning analysis of meteorology and space weather patterns.”
Mar 31
Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out lepiter.io · “And it says that Comprehension took on average ~58%.”
Mar 30
The Uselessness of Phenylephrine science.org · “It is found (according to the paper linked above) in 261 different OTC products, and it is a useless bait-and-switch on the consumer in every one of them.”
Mar 30
Taking our next step in the City by the Bay blog.waymo.com · “Since sharing that we were ready to take the next step and begin testing fully autonomous operations in the city, we’ve begun fully autonomous rides with our San Francisco employees.”
Mar 30
Generics can make your Go code slower planetscale.com · “It’s about systems engineers who are not excited about generics per se, but about monomorphization and its performance implications.”
Mar 30
FTC Sues Intuit for Its Deceptive TurboTax "free" Filing Campaign ftc.gov · “In spite of this advertising, many consumers who took the time to gather their documents, entrust their personal information to Intuit, and begin the filing process found that they could not file their taxes for free.”
Mar 29
Difftastic: a structural diff that understands syntax github.com · “Difftastic is a structural diff tool that compares files based on their syntax.”
Mar 29
Community Alert: Ronin Validators Compromised roninblockchain.substack.com · “The attacker managed to get control over Sky Mavis’s four Ronin Validators and a third-party validator run by Axie DAO.”
Mar 29
Hackers Gaining Power of Subpoena Via Fake "Emergency Data Requests" krebsonsecurity.com · “It is now clear that some hackers have figured out there is no quick and easy way for a company that receives one of these EDRs to know whether it is legitimate.”
Mar 29
We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles mitadmissions.org · “Our research shows standardized tests help us better assess the academic preparedness of all applicants, and also help us identify socioeconomically disadvantaged students who lack access to advanced coursework or other enrichment opportunities that would otherwise demonstrate their readiness for MIT.”
Mar 28
Maybe you should do less 'work' johnwhiles.com · “If you haven’t been fired, and no one has taken you aside to ask about your performance, then probably you’re meeting expectations.”
Mar 28
Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time since Fukushima japantimes.co.jp · “Some 53% of people said nuclear reactors should restart if safety can be ensured, while 38% said they should remain shut, according to the poll conducted by the Nikkei.”
Mar 28
I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea blog.tjcx.me · “And so in the year of our lord 2017 I had a Brilliant Startup Idea: use a structured database of clinical trials to provide simple, practical answers to common medical questions.”
Mar 28
Computer Networks From Scratch networksfromscratch.com · “First we’ll build an example system that will allow two people to send messages back and forth using plastic tubing and marbles instead of wires and electrical signals.”
Mar 27
Firefox UI UX history github.com · “It’s also one of the ways to prevent divisions in the community, given that there have been forks every time the UI changes big.”
Mar 27
Obtaining My Personal Data From Amazon Was a Nightmare theintercept.com · “The first thing I learned is that Amazon is in no hurry to give you your data, nor does it really encourage you to ask for it in the first place.”
Mar 27
Countering threats from North Korea blog.google · “We observed the campaigns targeting U.S. based organizations spanning news media, IT, cryptocurrency and fintech industries.”
Mar 27
Mourning loss as a remote team sofuckingagile.com · “Pete’s wife had used the technical support chat to get a message to me.”
Mar 26
`COPY --chmod` reduced the size of my container image by 35% blog.vamc19.dev · “Well, I have been doing it wrong all these years.”
Mar 26
wireproxy: A userspace WireGuard client that exposes itself as a proxy github.com · “wireproxy is a completely userspace application that connects to a wireguard peer, and exposes a socks5/http proxy or tunnels on the machine.”
Mar 26
Running GUI apps within Docker containers trickster.dev · “For example, if we run Firefox within Docker we can have an explicit separation of browser state between containers.”
Mar 26
I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues aschmelyun.com · “After seeing a receipt printer spitting out orders while grabbing some take-out the other day, I wondered if I could use one to print out a ticket each time an issue was added to one of my repos.”
Mar 25
Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes, whistleblower alleges theverge.com · “In 2016, Yasser Elabd noticed a $40,000 payment to a client in Africa that didn’t smell right.”
Mar 25
NeRF Research Turns 2D Photos Into 3D Scenes blogs.nvidia.com · “The result, dubbed Instant NeRF, is the fastest NeRF technique to date, achieving more than 1,000x speedups in some cases.”
Mar 25
PoC for vulnerability in Honda's Remote Keyless System (CVE-2022-27254) github.com · “This allows for an attacker to eavesdrop on the request and conduct a replay attack.”
Mar 25
The end of the nice GTK button blog.brixit.nl · “I personally feel like Adwaita has been the pinnacle of Linux design and that the Gnome design guidelines are absolutely great.”
Mar 24
Introducing MDN Plus: Make MDN your own hacks.mozilla.org · “For today’s premium subscription service, MDN Plus, we are releasing three new features that begin to address this need: Notifications, Collections and MDN Offline.”
Mar 24
An email urging lower wages for new employees due to higher gas prices sparks walkout at Lawrence Applebee's www2.ljworld.com · “The advantage this has for us is that it will increase application flow and has the potential to lower our average wage.”
Mar 24
If you're not using SSH certificates you're doing SSH wrong smallstep.com · “None of these issues are actually inherent to SSH.”
Mar 24
But life had other plans danlebrero.com · “Given that my wife didn’t recall talking with any angel lately, the simple explanation was that she was already pregnant when she went through the surgery.”
Mar 23
Why You Should Start Self Hosting rohanrd.xyz · “There are some stories where the user never figured out what they had done wrong to deserve suspension of account.”
Mar 23
A one in a million bug in Switch kernel gist.githubusercontent.com · “Nintendo would not introduce this out-of-the-blue, there is some weird hardware phenomenon going on.”
Mar 23
How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses blog.jonlu.ca · “The Nintendo Switch adopts a worrisome-strategy of preventing firmware downgrades by permanently modifying your device every time it updates.”
Mar 23
Mercedes Drive Pilot Beats Tesla Autopilot By Taking Legal Responsibility roadandtrack.com · “Once you engage Drive Pilot, you are no longer legally liable for the car’s operation until it disengages.”
Mar 22
Kwiggle: Folding bicycle small enough to fit in hand luggage kwigglebike.com · “The Kwiggle is the only folding bike in the world that fits in hand luggage (55x40x25 cm) and can be stowed away just like any other piece of luggage.”
Mar 22
Enemies: State-of-the-art digital humans in Unity unity.com · “Enemies expands on the work done for The Heretic, which featured Unity’s first realistic digital human.”
Mar 22
Updated Okta Statement on LAPSUS$ okta.com · “The report highlighted that there was a five-day window of time between January 16-21, 2022, where an attacker had access to a support engineer’s laptop.”
Mar 22
Please put units in names ruudvanasseldonk.com · “The Python program sleeps for five minutes, the Java program sleeps for 0.3 seconds, and the Haskell program sleeps for 0.3 milliseconds.”
Mar 21
Why Don't You Use ... brendangregg.com · “They are usually well aware of various technologies but have reasons not to use them which they usually won’t share.”
Mar 21
Librem 5: first impressions incoherency.co.uk · “In February 2018 I placed an order for a Librem 5.”
Mar 21
Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM q3k.org · “Unsurprisingly, very few people have heard of it, and even their Googling skills don’t come in handy.”
Mar 21
Windows Needs a Change in Priorities den.dev · “There are inconsistencies across the OS that are just wild and stand out like a sore thumb (but now with rounded corners.)”
Mar 20
Decrypting your own HTTPS traffic with Wireshark trickster.dev · “Software that implements TLS typically (altough not always) will write keys and other TLS secrets to this file.”
Mar 20
Meld meldmerge.org · “It might even help you to figure out what’s going on in that merge you keep avoiding.”
Mar 20
Vimeo: "We are a B2B solution, not the indie version of YouTube." ymcinema.com · “Filmmakers claim that Vimeo demands them to pay thousands of dollars or their videos will be deleted.”
Mar 20
Why America can't build quickly anymore fullstackeconomics.com · “By contrast, the 2017 Second Avenue subway opening, with just three stations, took seventeen years.”
Mar 19
Arizona House approves ban on close-up videotaping of police officers fox10phoenix.com · “The original proposal from Rep. John Kavanagh made it illegal to record within 15 feet of an officer interacting with someone unless the officer gave permission.”
Mar 19
OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems marc.info · “It has taken a while, but I’m pleased to announce that OpenBSD/arm64 works well enough on Apple M1 systems for some wider testing.”
Mar 19
The Boschian Horror of 'Elden Ring' artreview.com · “Bosch’s work, more than 500 years after his death, still retains an incredible power, but also a wonderful and much-debated sense of obscurity; was he a grotesque humorist or penitent painter of horrors?”
Mar 19
The first Asahi Linux Alpha Release is here! asahilinux.org · “Keep in mind that this is still a very early, alpha release.”
Mar 18
Christopher Alexander, 1936-2022 cnu.org · “Alexander was the author or principal author of many books, including A Pattern Language, one of the best-selling architectural books of all time.”
Mar 18
How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list dynomight.net · “A normal essay promises a payoff only when you finish it.”
Mar 18
Crypto is an Unproductive Bubble alexkolchinski.com · “The hallmark of a bubble is people buying an asset primarily in the hopes of future appreciation driven by other buyers, rather than because of any notion of its long-term value.”
Mar 18
Zotero 6: Your research workflow, transformed zotero.org · “Zotero 6 introduces an array of new features to transform how you do research, including a completely new way of working with PDFs and notes.”
Mar 17
H.264 is Magic sidbala.com · “It is the result of 30+ years of work with one single goal: To reduce the bandwidth required for transmission of full-motion video.”
Mar 17
Angus Wallace: In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware en.wikipedia.org · “They sterilised their equipment in cognac, and began surgery by making an incision in the patient’s chest, but with no surgical clamps available, Wong had to hold the incision open with a knife and fork while Wallace inserted the catheter.”
Mar 17
Court affirms it's false advertising to claim software is Open Source when it's not opensource.org · “The parties didn’t dispute that the use of the Commons Clause makes a license non-free.”
Mar 17
How our free plan stays free tailscale.com · “Rather, increased word-of-mouth from free plans sells the more valuable corporate plans.”
Mar 16
Why we stopped making Einsteins erikhoel.substack.com · “I think the most depressing fact about humanity is that during the 2000s most of the world was handed essentially free access to the entirety of knowledge and that didn’t trigger a golden age.”
Mar 16
US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018 theguardian.com · “The Fed raised rates by a quarter percentage point from near zero, in what is expected to be the first in a series of raises in the coming months.”
Mar 16
C Isn't A Programming Language Anymore gankra.github.io · “C is the lingua franca of programming.”
Mar 16
CSS-Tricks is joining DigitalOcean! css-tricks.com · “DigitalOcean is committed to continuing to produce high-quality content on front-end development and tending to the trove of content that exists here already.”
Mar 15
Go 1.18 is released! go.dev · “With Go 1.18, Go is the first major language with fuzzing fully integrated into its standard toolchain.”
Mar 15
Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu dies of self-immolation protest tchrd.org · “A Tibetan inside Tibet confirmed that as soon as Norbu set himself on fire, Chinese security officers sprang into action and took him away.”
Mar 15
CIA black site detainee served as training prop to teach interrogators torture techniques theguardian.com · “The details of the torture of Ammar al-Baluchi are in a 2008 report by the CIA’s inspector general, newly declassified as part of a court filing by his lawyers aimed at getting him an independent medical examination.”
Mar 15
Why is it so hard to buy things that work well? danluu.com · “More generally, in many markets, consumers are uninformed and it’s fairly difficult to figure out which products are even half decent, let alone good.”
Mar 14
Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth device into own ear to cheat in final exam independent.co.uk · “It was the student’s final attempt on Monday to clear the exam after repeatedly failing it since getting admission into the college 11 years ago.”
Mar 14
On Being Indispensable sofuckingagile.com · “It took far too long for it to click in my brain that I was stuck.”
Mar 14
Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 11 File Explorer bleepingcomputer.com · “Microsoft has begun testing promotions for some of its other products in the File Explorer app on devices running its latest Windows 11 Insider build.”
Mar 14
Not dodgy at all and long overdue - user replaceable batteries eevblog.com · “Industry is not too happy about this.”
Mar 13
Veloren veloren.net · “Veloren is an action-adventure role-playing game set in a vast fantasy world.”
Mar 13
My essential Firefox fixes (and add-ons) in 2022 rubenerd.com · “Mozilla recently removed the Search box by default, and added redundant padding to the toolbar to mimic Safari.”
Mar 13
Tokamak Energy moves closer to commercial fusion tokamakenergy.co.uk · “This is by far the highest temperature ever achieved in a spherical tokamak and by any privately funded tokamak.”
Mar 13
Teaching is a slow process of becoming everything you hate dynomight.net · “The problem is that student performance is continuous.”
Mar 12
Inspecting Web Views in macOS blog.jim-nielsen.com · “It’s kind of like opening the developer tools in an Electron app, except these are native macOS apps with web views parading as system UI.”
Mar 12
A non-standard book list for software developers mihaiolteanu.me · “If I pay close attention to the discussions taking place around me, and observe the thought patterns of the speakers, I can tell which of them definitely haven’t read or paid attention to Euclid.”
Mar 12
Python Design Patterns python-patterns.guide · “This site is letting me collect my ideas about Python and Design Patterns all in one place.”
Mar 12
EARN-IT threatens encryption and therefore user freedom fsf.org · “Once a backdoor is made, we don’t get to specify how it’s used, or by whom.”
Mar 11
Why does Google get internationalization wrong? smaller.fish · “This header is sent to websites to tell them what language to serve the site in.”
Mar 11
How To Do Less alexturek.com · “You probably need to do fewer things right now.”
Mar 11
Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed theverge.com · “To my great disappointment, however, I’ve found that after testing the feature, now I can’t make the chronological feed the default.”
Mar 11
A short conversation with a bank newsletter.danhon.com · “you: you… you deleted the statement from 2016”
Mar 10
Apple AirTags draining battery of devices close by annoying.technology · “If you have AirTags in the vicinity of your iPad it drains its battery for no reason.”
Mar 10
Appeal to Ruby community from Kharkiv Rubyist zverok.space · “I am no hero.”
Mar 10
Just Say No to CBDCs theupheaval.substack.com · “But you can’t, since these FedCoins are coded as usable for consumer purchases only, and will expire and vanish in seven days.”
Mar 10
Some tiny personal programs I've written jvns.ca · “These are more about just doing something fun with no specific learning goal.”
Mar 9
The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote sive.rs · “There was no mention of confidentiality at the meeting and no agreement to sign.”
Mar 9
Bugs in Hello World blog.sunfishcode.online · “All the versions linked above have a bug.”
Mar 9
Blender 3.1 blender.org · “Cycles now has a Metal GPU backend, contributed by Apple.”
Mar 9
Apple unveils M1 Ultra, the world's most powerful chip for a personal computer apple.com · “The new SoC consists of 114 billion transistors, the most ever in a personal computer chip.”
Mar 8
I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer! seema.page · “Even though I had no symptoms, I decided to go meet an oncologist who did a biopsy, followed by a PET scan which confirmed that the lump was cancerous and was localized to the breasts.”
Mar 8
Lead Exposure in Last Century Shrank IQ Scores of Half of Americans today.duke.edu · “A new study calculates that exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood stole a collective 824 million IQ points from more than 170 million Americans alive today, about half the population of the United States.”
Mar 8
WebGPU: All of the cores, none of the canvas surma.dev · “I won’t use WebGPU to generate graphics.”
Mar 8
The Campaign to Shut Down Crucial Documentary Tool youtube-dl Continues, And So Does the Fight to Save It eff.org · “Uberspace doesn’t even host youtube-dl – it simply hosts the youtube-dl homepage, which links to GitHub.”
Mar 7
The Dirty Pipe Vulnerability dirtypipe.cm4all.com · “It all started a year ago with a support ticket about corrupt files.”
Mar 7
An update on the threat landscape blog.google · “All known attacker-controlled Blogspot domains have been taken down.”
Mar 7
So You Want to Study Mathematics susanrigetti.com · “I think it is the purest and most beautiful of all the intellectual disciplines.”
Mar 7
My lizard brain is no match for infinite scroll alexanderell.is · “I think my main problem with it is that it makes me a passive recipient in my interactions with this device, instead of an active participant.”
Mar 6
Windows Defender is enough, if you harden it 0ut3r.space · “You don’t need to buy expensive antivirus software.”
Mar 6
Mathematically Correct Breakfast: How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves georgehart.com · “It is not hard to cut a bagel into two equal halves which are linked like two links of a chain.”
Mar 6
Adding a "duress" password with PAM Duress lwn.net · “You could even spawn a process to remove the pam_duress module so the threat actor won’t be able to see if the duress module was available.”
Mar 6
Introducing Native Matrix VoIP with Element Call! element.io · “What’s more, Element Call is built entirely on Matrix: it doesn’t need any additional servers to get going.”
Mar 5
Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA varun.ch · “This proof of concept looks somewhat like a reCAPTCHA challenge, and styles visited links to look like black squares.”
Mar 5
I'm not convinced by the new lab leak debunking slowboring.com · “I haven’t written about lab leak theory since because the boring truth is that we don’t know where Covid-19 came from, we probably aren’t going to find out, and very little of consequence actually hinges on the answer.”
Mar 5
A regular expression to check for prime numbers noulakaz.net · “If there is no match, then the number is prime.”
Mar 5
It's always been you, Canvas2D developer.chrome.com · “There are Canvas2Ds in cars, on fridges, and in space (really).”
Mar 4
Apple CEO Tim Cook tells employees the return to offices will begin on April 11th theverge.com · “For others, it may also be an unsettling change.”
Mar 4
Never Change Your Password tidbits.com · “Passwords do not age. They do not sour, spoil, or go stale.”
Mar 4
BBC resurrects WWII-era shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion theverge.com · “The BBC World Service ended its use of the technology in Europe in 2008 after 76 years.”
Mar 4
My Stripe Tax Story gist.github.com · “I deployed it on November 6, 2021, the same day that Stripe stopped billing a significant number of my customers, left all their invoices in a Draft state, and didn’t tell me about it.”
Mar 3
ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet icann.org · “Essentially, ICANN has been built to ensure that the Internet works, not for its coordination role to be used to stop it from working.”
Mar 3
How I See Numbers csun.io · “When doing any sort of mental arithmetic or visualization of quantities, I picture numbers as shapes.”
Mar 3
Nintendo Is Removing Switch Emulation Videos On Steam Deck exputer.com · “YouTube user The Phawx posted a video showcasing how well the Steam Deck can emulate the Nintendo Switch, and it was soon taken down on copyright grounds.”
Mar 3
SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file github.com · “SingleFile is a Web Extension (and a CLI tool) compatible with Chrome, Firefox (Desktop and Mobile), Microsoft Edge, Safari, Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, Yandex browser, and Opera.”
Mar 2
Epic Games Acquires Bandcamp as 'Fortnite' Maker Expands Into Music variety.com · “According to Bandcamp, under its revenue model artists receive net an average of 82% of every sale.”
Mar 2
SPAs were a mistake gomakethings.com · “Browsers give you a ton of stuff for free, built right in, out-of-the-box.”
Mar 2
How Does Perspective Work in Pictures? aaronhertzmann.com · “There is no such thing as correct perspective; all choices of perspective have advantages and disadvantages.”
Mar 2
Write plain text files sive.rs · “When you store your writing in one company’s unique format, then you need that program to access it.”
Mar 1
Trapped in Silicon Valley's Hidden Caste System wired.com · “Yet those successes have, almost exclusively, come from historically privileged castes.”
Mar 1
Solid.js feels like what I always wanted React to be typeofnan.dev · “The problem with React hooks is that React isn’t truly reactive.”
Mar 1
5 things you don't need Javascript for lexoral.com · “Every day, I see people use Javascript to do things that are supported by default in good old HTML & CSS.”
Mar 1

February 2022 113 posts

Namecheap: Russia Service Termination news.ycombinator.com · “If you hold any top-level domains with us, we ask that you transfer them to another provider by March 6, 2022.”
Feb 28
“O, so sorry. I need more time. my country defending Russian invasion” github.com · “Right now my country defending russian invasion, so I’m a little busy now.”
Feb 28
I'm common as muck and spent £150 in a Michelin star restaurant to see if it was worth it birminghammail.co.uk · “It was worth £150, easy.”
Feb 28
Someone should probably start a bright home lighting company lincolnquirk.com · “[Coelux][3] makes a high-end artificial skylight which certainly looks awesome, but it costs upwards of $30k and also takes a lot of headroom in the ceiling.”
Feb 28
No user accounts, by design f-droid.org · “F-Droid has never had a method to identify or track users in the Android client app, and getting information from f-droid.org has also never required any kind of identity information.”
Feb 28
New JSON query operators in SQLite 3.38.0 tirkarthi.github.io · “JSON is on by default.”
Feb 27
Why not hire part-time developers? aklos.substack.com · “Working part-time could let developers give their best to a project without the burden of emotional blackmail in the form of “9 to 5”.”
Feb 27
Win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI (and the consequences) sporks.space · “In the Windows world, backwards compatibility is the default, but in the Linux world, it’s less so.”
Feb 27
Year 2038 problem is still alive and well cookieplmonster.github.io · “In practice… the bug is still around and can remain unnoticed for a long time.”
Feb 27
'50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments, says Gabe Newell pcgamer.com · “50% of those transactions were fraudulent, which is a mind-boggling number.”
Feb 26
Make Linux look exactly like Windows 95 lunduke.substack.com · “This is made possible through a project called Chicago95, that aims to bring a consistent, Win 95 look to XFCE desktops.”
Feb 26
NO_COLOR: disabling ANSI color output by default no-color.org · “Accepting the futility of trying to reverse this trend, an informal standard was proposed in 2017: Command-line software which adds ANSI color to its output by default should check for a NO_COLOR environment variable that, when present and not an empty string (regardless of its value), prevents the addition of ANSI color.”
Feb 26
GitHub Advisory Database now open to community contributions github.blog · “Today, we are excited to announce that the GitHub Advisory Database is now open to community contributions!”
Feb 26
Writing an OS in Rust os.phil-opp.com · “This blog series creates a small operating system in the Rust programming language.”
Feb 25
Is Grammarly a Keylogger? What Can You Do About It? kolide.com · “Yet, by explicit definition, any tool that logs a user’s keystrokes and sends them to a third party is technically a keylogger.”
Feb 25
Miscellanea: Understanding the War in Ukraine acoup.blog · “This can be a confusing question in this context because Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Foreign Ministry have given multiple conflicting and in some cases mutually contradictory answers for why they are proceeding as they are.”
Feb 25
On the removal of Come Back Alive blog.patreon.com · “This morning, Patreon suspended a Ukrainian organization’s page from our site called “Come Back Alive” because it violated our policies.”
Feb 25
Moving the kernel to modern C lwn.net · “Despite its generally fast-moving nature, the kernel project relies on a number of old tools.”
Feb 24
America’s most widely consumed cooking oil causes genetic changes in the brain universityofcalifornia.edu · “In all likelihood, it is not healthy for humans.”
Feb 24
You can't capture the nuance of my form fields drewdevault.com · “You cannot capture all of this nuance in a home-grown form control, or even anything close to it, but many JavaScript programmers do it anyway.”
Feb 24
AMD is now worth more than rival Intel finance.yahoo.com · “AMD’s market cap currently stands at $188 billion after shares rose nearly 2% in Tuesday’s session.”
Feb 24
The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8 devblogs.microsoft.com · “That way, if you saw cats, you knew that you were in that last failure case: The shell is running but forgot to put something on the screen.”
Feb 23
Behind Pornhub’s decade-old moderation problems theverge.com · “In the early days of the company, I was tasked with content moderation.”
Feb 23
What is PeerTube? joinpeertube.org · “With PeerTube, no more opaque algorithms or obscure moderation policies!”
Feb 23
Subaru, Kia shut off some car features rather than adhere to 'right to repair' law ksdk.com · “About 75% of Massachusetts voters sided with the auto repair industry in 2020 by passing a ballot initiative that’s supposed to allow car owners and their preferred auto shops to more easily peek into a car’s trove of online data.”
Feb 23
Five Things You Notice When You Quit the News raptitude.com · “Read three books on a topic and you know more about it than 99% of the world.”
Feb 22
Howard Anglin: In our cashless society, we need to take digital jail seriously thehub.ca · “The government doesn’t need to break down your door anymore to effectively remove you from society.”
Feb 22
Why I will never buy another Samsung device lehtimaeki.medium.com · “During the technical inspection of your device, the technician was able to determine that in addition to the display, the frame is also broken and that this damage is due to a mechanical impact, such as a fall, bending or excessive pressure.”
Feb 22
Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness sloanreview.mit.edu · “Of the nearly 1 million soldiers in our sample, only 12% received an award of any type during the five years that we ran the study.”
Feb 22
I have no capslock and I must scream memex.marginalia.nu · “Computers now instantly boot up when plugged into the wall, and run until the plug is pulled.”
Feb 21
Chris Lattner left Swift core team forums.swift.org · “To answer your question, the root cause of my decision to leave the core team is a toxic environment in the meetings themselves.”
Feb 21
Coinbase CEO tries to weave a compelling story about how their own team came up with a Super Bowl ad web3isgoinggreat.com · “I guess if there is a lesson here it is that if you’re going to take credit for someone else’s idea to try to make your team sound good, maybe you shouldn’t also use it as an opportunity to dunk on the people who actually came up with the idea.”
Feb 21
Sven Guckes passed away groups.google.com · “I would like to dedicate the upcoming Vim 9.0 release to Sven in his memory.”
Feb 21
Things that used to be hard and are now easy jvns.ca · “Not all of them are equally “easy”, but I found reading the list really fun and it gave me some ideas for things to learn.”
Feb 20
Game Boy Fiver [Wordle clone]: How to compress 12972 five-letter words to 17871 bytes alexanderpruss.blogspot.com · “It turns out that the result is 17763 bytes, plus 108 bytes of overhead, for a total of 17871 bytes, or 28% of the original list, with very, very simple decompression.”
Feb 20
Reasons why Babies Cry in the First Three Months, How to Tell The Cries Apart, and What to Do probablydance.com · “I decided to write up the list that I wish I had before they were born.”
Feb 20
Diary: Real Me and Fake Me lrb.co.uk · “But when I looked online I discovered that I did and I was really quite popular.”
Feb 20
Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work news.ycombinator.com · “I’ve never posted anything like this, but this is the only place I have any hope of a human response after youtube deleted 700 videos created for internal training for our company.”
Feb 19
Jujutsu – A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful github.com · “Jujutsu uses a real commit to represent the working copy.”
Feb 19
How Relationship Satisfaction Changes Across Your Lifetime greatergood.berkeley.edu · “The researchers found that relationship satisfaction tends to decrease from age 20 to age 40.”
Feb 19
Why we shouldn’t push a positive mindset on those in poverty psyche.co · “There’s one problem: mindsets are not free-floating.”
Feb 19
This scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories, and why science.org · “As the athletes’ ran more and more over weeks or months, their metabolic engines cut back elsewhere to make room for the extra exercise costs, Pontzer says.”
Feb 18
The United States of Amazon: The Day Amazon Sent the FBI to Take My Family’s Bank Accounts medium.com · “According to court filings, the government has collaborated with Amazon attorneys to seize millions in assets from at least 53 companies, investors, law firms, and individuals.”
Feb 18
Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets github.com · “Grist is a modern relational spreadsheet.”
Feb 18
Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account theverge.com · “Microsoft says it’s planning to update Windows 11 Pro so it will require an internet connection and a Microsoft Account during the initial setup phase.”
Feb 18
The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes maori.geek.nz · “Managing T1D is walking on a knifes edge between DKA and Hypoglycemia by balancing blood glucose levels with insulin.”
Feb 17
Building for the 99% Developers future.a16z.com · “There’s a huge gap between what “developer-influencers” are talking about, and the daily reality of most developers.”
Feb 17
Accelerating fusion science through learned plasma control deepmind.com · “In a paper published today in Nature, we describe how we can successfully control nuclear fusion plasma by building and running controllers on the Variable Configuration Tokamak (TCV) in Lausanne, Switzerland.”
Feb 17
Who is squatting IPv4 addresses? blog.benjojo.co.uk · “For the case of this post, I will define IP address squatting as “using IP addresses that are not RFC1918 defined and not your unicast space issued by a RIR”.”
Feb 17
A new wave of Linux applications tuxphones.com · “Phosh with its newborn libadwaita, KDE’s Kirigami and Maui Shell show that – like it or not – the era of convergent Linux applications has just started.”
Feb 16
1Password for SSH & Git developer.1password.com · “1Password stores all your SSH keys behind secure end-to-end encryption, allowing you to access your keys when you need them without your SSH keys ever leaving 1Password.”
Feb 16
Don’t point out something wrong immediately blog.the-pans.com · “However, when we are dealing with people, the knee-jerk reflex of pointing out something is wrong might lead to negative feelings from the other side; and hurt relationships.”
Feb 16
New York Is Now Using Cameras With Microphones to Ticket Loud Cars roadandtrack.com · “Your vehicle was recorded by a camera that takes a pictures of the vehicle and the license plate.”
Feb 16
Google Search Is Dying dkb.io · “You would have already noticed that the first few non-ad results are SEO optimized sites filled with affiliate links and ads.”
Feb 15
Lorinda Cherry ncwit.org · “An early strength of the Unix system was the way it allowed different programs to cooperate on a task, and Cherry, who described herself as “thinking in Unix,” often found ways to apply an insight or feature from one application to a seemingly unrelated context.”
Feb 15
Akamai to Acquire Linode akamai.com · “As a result of structuring the transaction as an asset purchase, Akamai expects to achieve cash income tax savings over the next 15 years that have an estimated net present value of approximately $120 million.”
Feb 15
Building an iPod for 2022 ellie.wtf · “This generation of iPod was the last to feature the “wolfson DAC”, which is very well known for being of fantastic quality.”
Feb 15
Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid github.blog · “Now you can quickly create and edit diagrams in markdown using words with Mermaid support in your Markdown files.”
Feb 14
A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people jakobgreenfeld.com · “Derek Sivers has a cool system.”
Feb 14
Dell deletes Latitude CPU Throttling issue after link is posted here news.ycombinator.com · “After a link to the Dell forum post was ported to HN, the post mysteriously was deleted in the same day.”
Feb 14
Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions cnx-software.com · “What that means is that it is now possible to run virtually any operating system including Windows 11, Linux distributions such as Ubuntu or Arch Linux Arm on the Google Tensor-powered phone, and do so at near-native speed.”
Feb 14
What does it mean to listen on a port? paulbutler.org · “When you bind to a port, it puts a pointer to your socket in that table.”
Feb 13
White Hat Hacker Awarded $2 Million for Fixing ETH-Creation Bug cryptoadventure.com · “Following the bug’s swift resolution, Optimism swiftly rewarded whistleblower Jay Freeman, an amount of $2 million.”
Feb 13
Prosecutor won't charge reporter who uncovered database flaw kshb.com · “But the state instead issued a news release calling the reporter a “hacker.””
Feb 13
Why we at $FAMOUS_COMPANY Switched to $HYPED_TECHNOLOGY saagarjha.com · “We evaluated a number of promising alternatives that we selected and ranked based on the how many bullet points they had on their websites, how often they’d appear on the front page of Hacker News, and a spreadsheet of important language characteristics (performance, efficiency, community, ease-of-use) that we had people in the office fill out.”
Feb 13
Server-Sent Events: the alternative to WebSockets you should be using germano.dev · “However, Server Sent Events (SSE) are a simpler alternative that is often superior.”
Feb 12
Nearly a third of TV ads play to empty rooms news.cornell.edu · “Advertising pricing relies on measuring how many TVs are tuned in to a specific channel, and not whether people are actually watching the TVs.”
Feb 12
FPGA Interchange format to enable interoperable FPGA tooling opensource.googleblog.com · “With that in mind, Google and Antmicro started the FPGA Interchange format project, providing a unified framework to lower the entry barriers for developers to swiftly move from one tool to another.”
Feb 12
EE380 Talk blog.dshr.org · “As has been true for the last seven years, no more than five mining pools control the majority of the Bitcoin mining power and last November two pools controlled the majority of Ethereum mining.”
Feb 12
Key Senators Have Voted For The Anti-Encryption EARN IT Act eff.org · “But the kind of abusive images they’re concerned about are already highly illegal under federal law.”
Feb 11
The Factorio Mindset thediff.co · “It seemed downright pathological that Shopify lets employees expense it.”
Feb 11
Why won’t anyone teach me math? dailyprincetonian.com · “This begs the question: what interest does a department have in making it impossible to study?”
Feb 11
YSFlight – A free flight simulator where anything is possible ysflight.org · “Try this amazing free flight simulation today and you too will find that though this simulator may not have the world’s greatest graphics, it is like nothing else the world has ever seen - and it’s all FREE.”
Feb 11
EdgeDB 1.0 edgedb.com · “This model completely eliminates the object-relational impedance mismatch while retaining the solid basis of and performance of the classic relational model.”
Feb 10
Top 10 web hacking techniques of 2021 portswigger.net · “In both the nominations and the final top ten, we saw heavy focus on HTTP Request Smuggling, and attacks on parser inconsistency in general.”
Feb 10
uBlock Origin 1.41 github.com · “The reason is that I did not provide an exact link to the origin of the hsluv-0.1.0.min.js library used by uBO to implement dark theme (uBO’s About page does credit the author of the library).”
Feb 10
Computer Scientists Prove Why Bigger Neural Networks Do Better quantamagazine.org · “In their new proof, the pair show that overparameterization is necessary for a network to be robust.”
Feb 10
Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy bbc.co.uk · “It’s not a massive energy output - only enough to boil about 60 kettles’ worth of water.”
Feb 9
Stuck in KUOW purgatory: Seattle Mazda drivers can't change the radio dial kuow.org · “Mazda USA did not respond to a request for comment, but service managers at various dealerships said a replacement part could be available in a few weeks.”
Feb 9
Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone when not in a meeting? community.zoom.com · “This bug was addressed in the Zoom client for macOS version 5.9.3 and we recommend you update to version 5.9.3 to apply the fix.”
Feb 9
Our User-Mode WireGuard Year fly.io · “This post is not that.”
Feb 9
Heuristics That Almost Always Work astralcodexten.substack.com · “He could be losslessly replaced by a rock with the words “THERE ARE NO ROBBERS” on it.”
Feb 8
Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone apple.com · “Once Tap to Pay on iPhone becomes available, merchants will be able to unlock contactless payment acceptance through a supporting iOS app on an iPhone XS or later device.”
Feb 8
Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor news.ycombinator.com · “I tried to contact them by e-mail and they didn’t bother to respond, as is par for the course these days.”
Feb 8
Introducing Garage, our self-hosted distributed object storage solution garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr · “Garage is a distributed storage solution, that automatically replicates your data on several servers.”
Feb 8
Thank You, Valve kinduff.com · “They forked Wine and started to add an insane amount of patches to make games work on Linux, no matter if they didn’t have a Linux build.”
Feb 7
You can change your number signal.org · “Blocked contacts or people you haven’t spoken with on Signal will not be notified of a number change.”
Feb 7
On finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow devblogs.microsoft.com · “The trick here is to pre-divide the values before adding.”
Feb 7
IRS To Ditch Biometric Requirement for Online Access krebsonsecurity.com · “ID.me says it has approximately 64 million users, with 145,000 new users signing up each day.”
Feb 7
Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost? news.ycombinator.com · “I have held jobs in small and big companies for mostly for 1-2 years each, traveled and lived in different countries, had 2 failed startups, and have about $500k in savings.”
Feb 6
Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager files.gallery · “Files is a single-file PHP app that can be dropped into any folder on your server, instantly creating a gallery of files and folders.”
Feb 6
My Seatbelt Rule for Judgment dannyguo.com · “Nine-year-old me was not in fact smarter than Toyota engineers.”
Feb 6
Travel Is No Cure for the Mind moretothat.com · “That feeling of restlessness underlying all the unresolved issues you have at home will follow you wherever you go.”
Feb 6
The EARN IT Act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever cyberlaw.stanford.edu · “The only real change is the replacement of that bill’s already-tepid language attempting to protect encryption, with language from the September 2020 House version of the bill.”
Feb 5
Unlearning Perfectionism arunkprasad.com · “This is a pitiful wager and a poor strategy.”
Feb 5
High-order Virtual Machine (HVM): Massively parallel, optimal functional runtime github.com · “HVM is still to be considered a prototype.”
Feb 5
SPAM blacklisting is out of control blog.roastidio.us · “25 CHF per month is five times the amount I paid to my hosting company for the VPS!”
Feb 5
Amazon Pip Horror Story linkedin.com · “Since it is performance review season at Amazon, he quickly sent me into a dev plan (PIP) and blackmailed to my future manager and their supervisor.”
Feb 4
Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs reviewbunny.app · “At the last company I worked at, I could count at least 6 different ways of writing and organizing UI code.”
Feb 4
Apple will charge 27% commission for app purchases made using alternative payment systems in the Netherlands 9to5mac.com · “Each month, developers will have to send a report to Apple that lists their sales.”
Feb 4
Satellites have detected massive gas leaks npr.org · “Over the course of two years, during 2019 and 2020, the researchers counted more than 1,800 large bursts of methane, often releasing several tons of methane per hour.”
Feb 4
Building a modern home in the woods johnnyrodgers.is · “The budget we set out to achieve at the end of the design phase was obliterated by the factors above, rising by 2/3 over the course of construction.”
Feb 3
The Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Wii theverge.com · “That brings the system’s lifetime total to 103.54 million units shipped, meaning it took just under five years to overtake the Wii’s 101.63 million.”
Feb 3
Is it safe to use __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED? github.com · “We strongly recommend against touching it in your library if you don’t want that library to break later.”
Feb 3
Silenced AirTags with disabled speakers are popping up for sale online gizmodo.com · “There are no software updates that Apple can release that will make a physically modified AirTag start to make noise again, and the other included safety features are still dependent on victims not only having an up-to-date smartphone but also being technically savvy enough to download and use the necessary apps to find rogue AirTags nearby.”
Feb 3
GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful iccl.ie · “All data collected through the TCF must now be deleted by the more than 1,000 companies that pay IAB Europe to use the TCF.”
Feb 2
Settings are not a design failure linear.app · “But not all settings are created equal.”
Feb 2
North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet wired.com · “P4x says he has largely automated his attacks on the North Korean systems, periodically running scripts that enumerate which systems remain online and then launching exploits to take them down.”
Feb 2
DarkPattern.games: Find Healthy Mobile Games darkpattern.games · “A monetary dark pattern is one which tricks you into spending more money than you want to spend on a game.”
Feb 2
Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter alexchesser.medium.com · “I’m telling you that the absolute very best time to talk to a recruiter happens when you’re not looking for a job.”
Feb 1
Okuda Hiroko: The Casio Employee Behind the “Sleng Teng” Riddim that Revolutionized Reggae nippon.com · “Okuda learned for the first time that the “rock” bassline she had written for the Casiotone keyboard had become a sensation around the world.”
Feb 1
Framework Raises $18M Series A frame.work · “Products that can be upgraded, customized, and repaired to last longer are better for consumers and less harmful to the environment, while also being the core of our business model.”
Feb 1
Nearly 1,000 mysterious strands revealed in Milky Way’s center news.northwestern.edu · “Now, the new image has exposed 10 times more filaments than previously discovered, enabling Yusef-Zadeh and his team to conduct statistical studies across a broad population of filaments for the first time.”
Feb 1

January 2022 126 posts

Moderna's HIV Vaccine Has Officially Begun Human Trials them.us · “The vaccine builds on technology developed by Moderna during their COVID-19 vaccine production, with the goal of using mRNA to boost HIV immunogens and prevent the virus from disabling B cells, which are essential to fighting disease.”
Jan 31
Adblocking People and Non-adblocking People Experience a Totally Different Web imlefthanded.com · “But either way, the 73% are experiencing a very different internet.”
Jan 31
Red Light Green Light jamessevedge.com · “The reason that that experience has stuck with me all these years is that it’s such a great illustration of the fact that where you sit determines what you see.”
Jan 31
Please make a dumb car techcrunch.com · “Cars now are like budget smartphones with wheels: loaded with bloatware, unintuitive and slow to operate.”
Jan 31
Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online royalsociety.org · “The report says there is little evidence that calls for major platforms to remove offending content will limit scientific misinformation’s harms and warns such measures could even drive it to harder-to-address corners of the internet and exacerbate feelings of distrust in authorities.”
Jan 30
A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar jenson.org · “So, yes it’s just 2 taps vs 1, but that can’t be that bad right?”
Jan 30
Don't forget Microsoft luttig.substack.com · “If it plays its cards right, Microsoft can become the first $10T company.”
Jan 30
In Defence of the Boring Web bastian.rieck.me · “I am not using a load balancer, a database, or a cache server.”
Jan 30
Black, the uncompromising Python code formatter, is stable pypi.org · “At long last, Black is no longer a beta product!”
Jan 29
People don't work as much as you think drmaciver.substack.com · “If you do not realise this, and assume that everyone who says they are working eight hours per day actually is, you are probably going to wreck your mental health trying to keep up with them.”
Jan 29
Phone is still the best way to order pizza dan.bulwinkle.net · “Signing up for yet-another-food-service-app is a turn off.”
Jan 29
Smedley Butler on Interventionism man.fas.org · “I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers.”
Jan 29
mac-capture: Improve window capture support on macOS 12.3 github.com · “ScreenCaptureKit allows for the cursor, applications, or windows to be excluded from a display capture.”
Jan 28
If Looks Could Kill vintagecomputerstories.blogspot.com · “He turned and gave me a look that was a perfect example of a look that could kill.”
Jan 28
Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration pietrorea.com · “Linux admin is a chore, but in return you get the whole computer.”
Jan 28
There's No Such Thing as Clean Code steveonstuff.com · “When someone says a solution is ‘clean’, they’re often touting it as the superior option without being able to rationalise why.”
Jan 28
I read the federal government's Zero-Trust Memo so you don't have to bastionzero.com · “It tells us to stop rotating passwords, and stop putting in those annoying special characters as requirements in password policies.”
Jan 27
Searching for Susy Thunder theverge.com · “Leafing through her records, she took note of the PR agencies and management companies that represented her favorite bands, which were usually listed on the sleeve.”
Jan 27
Writing an open source GPU driver - without the hardware collabora.com · “In 2021, there were no Valhall devices running mainline Linux.”
Jan 27
Two reasons Kubernetes is so complex buttondown.email · “While this can be a useful perspective, I think it’s much more productive to think of Kubernetes as a general-purpose cluster operating system kernel.”
Jan 27
AirPods don't "Just Work" philip.design · “I get that Apple is trying to be clever and anticipate your moves, which I genuinely appreciate, but when it gets in the way it’s annoying.”
Jan 26
A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15 bbenchoff.github.io · “I think I’ve cracked this problem, and I’ve come up with a computer that runs Linux and costs about $15 USD.”
Jan 26
AG Ferguson investigation shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide atg.wa.gov · “The “Sold by Amazon” program allowed the online retailer to agree on price with third-party sellers, rather than compete with them.”
Jan 26
Google Rewrites 61% of Page Title Tags [SEO Study] zyppy.com · “In our analysis, we found that Google rewrote 61.6% of the titles.”
Jan 26
Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone vice.com · “Despite being just three years old, no Pixel 3 will ever receive another official security update.”
Jan 25
Zheng Bang ZB3245TSS Pick & Place Review rmcybernetics.com · “When asking the supplier if we could update it to W10, we were told that it would stop the machine from working.”
Jan 25
Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad, trust us polygon.com · “But there’s something different about Switch cartridges: They taste awful.”
Jan 25
The Great Resignation? More like The Great Renegotiation npr.org · “In a recent poll by The New York Times and Momentum, only about 17% of Americans said their pay was keeping up with surging prices.”
Jan 25
How I Got Pwned by My Cloud Costs troyhunt.com · “It really hurt, and it shouldn’t have happened.”
Jan 24
PRQL github.com · “Like SQL, it’s readable, explicit and declarative.”
Jan 24
The Curse of NixOS blog.wesleyac.com · “The vast majority of people using NixOS do not understand the language, and simply copy/paste example configurations, which mostly works until you need to do something complicated, at which point you’re completely high and dry.”
Jan 24
Why we're migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD it-notes.dragas.net · “I have found, on average, BSD systems to be more stable than their Linux equivalents.”
Jan 24
Charm charm.sh · “The Charm ecosystem is built on open source technologies and we maintain a commitment to open sourcing our own work in turn.”
Jan 23
Once billed as a revolution in medicine, IBM's Watson Health is sold off in parts statnews.com · “The sale came after IBM spent billions of dollars acquiring health information companies to build a new enterprise aimed at using AI to supply insights to hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and researchers.”
Jan 23
This 22-Year-Old Builds Chips in His Parents' Garage wired.com · “With a collection of salvaged and homemade equipment, Zeloof produced a chip with 1,200 transistors.”
Jan 23
Huginn github.com · “Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server.”
Jan 23
On Leaving Facebook frantic.im · “Things I care a lot about, like quality, craft and focus, weren’t as important as scale, metrics and PSC.”
Jan 22
Over 90 WordPress themes, plugins backdoored in supply chain attack bleepingcomputer.com · “The only way to detect this threat is to use a core file integrity monitoring solution, as the malware deletes the “initial.php” file dropper to cover its tracks.”
Jan 22
How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper spectrum.ieee.org · “We knew the filters were sapping brightness.”
Jan 22
Why skyscrapers are so short worksinprogress.co · “The height of skyscrapers is limited by physical, economic and regulatory barriers, but we should want to overcome them and build taller.”
Jan 22
Shell's Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It's Capturing vice.com · “In an email, Shell said the facility was introduced to display the merits of carbon capture technology, but didn’t directly respond to the allegation that its hydrogen component emitted 7.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gases.”
Jan 22
MAKRO github.com · “The model is developed by the MAKRO model group at DREAM (Danish Research Institute for Economic Analysis and Modelling) for use by the Danish Ministry of Finance and others.”
Jan 21
Free Postgres Databases fly.io · “The hard part about free Postgres is storage, so this post is also about free storage.”
Jan 21
homelab github.com · “This project is still in the experimental stage, and I don’t use anything critical on it.”
Jan 21
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Master, Dies at 95 tricycle.org · “He had returned to Vietnam in late 2018, expressing a wish to spend his remaining days at his root temple.”
Jan 21
Roblox Return to Service blog.roblox.com · “In addition, our particular load conditions triggered a pathological performance issue in BoltDB.”
Jan 20
JSON support curl.se · “I personally am not sending JSON too often myself so I’m pretty sure I’m not suitable to design this feature entirely on my own.”
Jan 20
No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation world-heart-federation.org · “The evidence is clear: any level of alcohol consumption can lead to loss of healthy life.”
Jan 20
Everything Must Be Paid for Twice raptitude.com · “Paying only the first price is about the same as throwing money in the garbage.”
Jan 20
Bringing human-centric security to everyone blog.1password.com · “Admittedly, it seems peculiar for a consistently-profitable company to accept outside funding.”
Jan 19
Google requiring all 'G Suite legacy free edition' users to start paying for Workspace this year 9to5google.com · “In an email to administrators this morning, Google said it “will now transition all remaining users to an upgraded Google Workspace paid subscription based on your usage.””
Jan 19
The internet changed my life pointersgonewild.com · “The cost was 28 dollars a month, which, out of the $800-900 welfare cheque she was getting, was a lot of money.”
Jan 19
Examining the covidtests.gov architecture adhoc.team · “The www. domain name is a CNAME record that ultimately resolves to Akamai.”
Jan 19
GPS ciechanow.ski · “It’s fascinating how much complexity and ingenuity is hidden behind the simple act of observing one’s location in a mapping app on a smartphone.”
Jan 18
Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone, across every device news.microsoft.com · “Microsoft will acquire Activision Blizzard for $95.00 per share, in an all-cash transaction valued at $68.7 billion, inclusive of Activision Blizzard’s net cash.”
Jan 18
Do Svidaniya, Igor, and Thank You for NGINX nginx.com · “Igor started working as a systems administrator but continued to write code on the side.”
Jan 18
Locked Out of 'God Mode,' Runners Are Hacking Their Treadmills wired.com · “Despite having a huge display strapped to it, NordicTrack’s hardware pushes people to subscribe to exercise software operated by iFit, its parent company, and doesn’t let you watch videos from other apps or external sources.”
Jan 18
Israel police uses NSO's Pegasus to spy on citizens calcalistech.com · “All of these surveillances, as well as those to be detailed later in this article, were conducted against Israeli citizens, without a court order, while taking advantage of a legal loophole.”
Jan 18
The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet blog.haschek.at · “I heard of people getting paid to put things like this in places they shouldn’t and for this reason I was very interested in finding out what it actually does.”
Jan 17
Effortless personal productivity (or how I learned to love my monkey mind) jakobgreenfeld.com · “This is stupid and a recipe for burnout.”
Jan 17
Basic income would not reduce people's willingness to work universiteitleiden.nl · “The basic income did not cause a reduction in the participants’ willingness to work and efforts, say the psychologists.”
Jan 17
Graphviz: Open-source graph visualization software graphviz.org · “Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks.”
Jan 17
Statistical Rethinking (2022 Edition) github.com · “The unfortunate truth about data is that nothing much can be done with it, until we say what caused it.”
Jan 16
Tarrare en.wikipedia.org · “Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry.”
Jan 16
Why Galesburg has no money inlandnobody.substack.com · “This section of road is approximately 584 feet long and is going to cost around $350,000 to reconstruct.”
Jan 16
Revealed: UK Gov't Plans Publicity Blitz to Undermine Privacy of Your Chats rollingstone.com · “The same slide notes that the campaign “must not start a privacy vs safety debate.””
Jan 16
It's not still the early days blog.mollywhite.net · “So this raises the question: How long can it possibly be “early days”?”
Jan 15
How to setup a practically free CDN gist.github.com · “What I wasn’t expecting was for them to be cheaper.”
Jan 15
Rich github.com · “The Rich API makes it easy to add color and style to terminal output.”
Jan 15
Google and Facebook's top execs allegedly approved dividing ad market among themselves theregister.com · “Specifically, Google made AMP unable to execute JavaScript in the header, which frustrated publishers’ use of header bidding.”
Jan 15
PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds engadget.com · “Lena Evans, one of the plaintiffs who’d been a PayPal user for 22 years, said the website seized $26,984 from her account six months after it got frozen without ever telling her why.”
Jan 14
Why can't I play Ultra HD Blu-ray movies on my new Intel CPU (11th generation or above) platform that does not support Intel SGX feature? cyberlink.com:443 · “So much so, that it has been determined that it is no longer feasible for CyberLink to support the Ultra HD Blu-ray playback on newer CPUs and the latest Windows platforms.”
Jan 14
Simple.css simplecss.org · “For example, the minified CSS for the Bootstrap framework is 144KB in total.”
Jan 14
Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators. What does this mean for next-gen nuclear? canarymedia.com · “The advanced nuclear reactor industry, such as it is, suffered a setback last week when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission denied Oklo Power’s application to build and operate the company’s Aurora compact fast reactor at a site in Idaho.”
Jan 14
More than 1 million fewer students are in college. Here's how that impacts the economy npr.org · “That represents the largest two-year decrease in more than 50 years, Shapiro says.”
Jan 13
Engine Cooling - Why Rocket Engines Don't Melt everydayastronaut.com · “Engines need to reach this temperature in order to function correctly, but how can they survive this?”
Jan 13
Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation sloanreview.mit.edu · “A toxic corporate culture, for example, is 10.4 times more powerful than compensation in predicting a company’s attrition rate compared with its industry.”
Jan 13
5.5 mm in 1.25 nanoseconds randomascii.wordpress.com · “Light can travel roughly 30 cm in one nanosecond so you may be wondering why this signal is traveling so slow.”
Jan 13
Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How do AIs Create? waifulabs.com · “When one AI dominates the other, both stop learning.”
Jan 12
Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) mullvad.net · “Running the system in RAM does not prevent the possibility of logging.”
Jan 12
Writing a Game Boy Emulator in OCaml linoscope.github.io · “For the past few months, I have been working on a project called CAMLBOY, a Game Boy emulator written in OCaml that runs in the browser.”
Jan 12
Announcing Parcel CSS: A new CSS parser, compiler, and minifier written in Rust! parceljs.org · “It is over 100x faster than CSSNano for minification, and over 3x faster than ESBuild.”
Jan 12
Make Beautiful Gradients in CSS joshwcomeau.com · “It’s a bit weird to me that the midpoint between blue and yellow is gray.”
Jan 11
I Think I Know Why You Can't Hire Engineers Right Now cushychicken.github.io · “Many engineers could pick up a five figure raise by switching companies right now.”
Jan 11
Is the madness ever going to end? unixsheikh.com · “Electron and React Native Desktop are supposed to be a revolutionary new way of making desktop applications.”
Jan 11
Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022 surgehq.ai · “So Google does outperform Bing (the difference is statistically significant), although it’s interesting to see the places where Google returns worse results.”
Jan 11
New year, new CEO signal.org · “I was writing all the Android code, was writing all of the server code, was the only person on call for the service, was facilitating all product development, and was managing everyone.”
Jan 10
T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in the US 9to5mac.com · “Customers who chose plans and features with content filtering (e.g. parent controls) do not have access to the iCloud Private Relay to allow these services to work as designed.”
Jan 10
Comprehensive Mask Testing armbrustusa.com · “There are hundreds of different brands making a lot of claims, that’s why we’re testing the filtration capabilities of every mask in our laboratory to see how they measure up.”
Jan 10
Deep Learning Interviews: Hundreds of fully solved job interview questions from a wide range of key topics in AI github.com · “For most of you, the interview process is the most significant hurdle between you and a dream job.”
Jan 10
Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps bleepingcomputer.com · “The colors library receives over 20 million weekly downloads on npm alone and has almost 19,000 projects relying on it.”
Jan 9
19-Year-Old Student Hides Spy Camera In His Clothing To Take Secret Street Photos In The 1890s boredpanda.com · “In total, Størmer took a total of about 500 of these black and white photos.”
Jan 9
Donald Knuth - The Patron Saint of Yak Shaves yakshav.es · “TeX was invented to typeset a book.”
Jan 9
Simplicity of IRC susam.net · “In the early days of IRC, it was quite common for someone with basic programming skills to write a simple IRC bot within a matter of hours.”
Jan 9
NASA's Webb Telescope Reaches Major Milestone as Mirror Unfolds nasa.gov · “The two wings of Webb’s primary mirror had been folded to fit inside the nose cone of an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket prior to launch.”
Jan 8
Bevy 0.6 bevyengine.org · “For those who don’t know, Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust.”
Jan 8
The happiest number I've heard in ages billmckibben.substack.com · “Here’s what people don’t always get about fossil fuel: it’s utterly wasteful.”
Jan 8
My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years unixsheikh.com · “This was a classical problem with Microsoft Windows back then.”
Jan 8
My first impressions of web3 moxie.org · “People do not want to run their own servers.”
Jan 7
Computers as I used to love them tonsky.me · “Syncthing is everything I used to love about computers.”
Jan 7
How a routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions serpapi.com · “In less than 1h, we’ve created 474 new subscriptions for a total of $73,271.36.”
Jan 7
The Pentagon and CIA Have Shaped Thousands of Hollywood Movies into Super Effective Propaganda worldbeyondwar.org · “In the original script for the first Iron Man movie, the hero went up against the evil weapons dealers.”
Jan 7
A Big Win For Workers: New York City Will Make It Mandatory For Companies To Disclose Salaries On Job Advertisements forbes.com · “Up until now, the overwhelming majority of companies conveniently left out the salary from their job advertisements.”
Jan 6
This Keyboard Lets People Type So Fast It's Banned From Typing Competitions vice.com · “Most people type around 40 words per minute (WPM) with skilled typists hitting upwards of 100 WPM.”
Jan 6
Why Facebook keeps collecting people's data and building their profiles even when their accounts are deactivated digiday.com · “And the company has no data retention policy limiting the length of time it keeps deactivated accounts and the photos and other data associated with them frozen in virtual cryogenic stasis.”
Jan 6
Quit Your Job palladiummag.com · “So quit your job and become the wild and ambitious elites you wish to see in the world.”
Jan 6
How we handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400 blog.polyhaven.com · “Serving 80TB of bandwidth from S3 is estimated to cost around $4,000 per month alone, which is coincidentally about the same amount that is being donated to us on Patreon currently.”
Jan 5
I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months. benadam.me · “Unfortunately, most of my time is spent doing “program” style work which leaves about 10% of my time for technical work.”
Jan 5
Darling: macOS translation layer for Linux darlinghq.org · “We only directly use those parts of Darwin that are released as fully free software.”
Jan 5
How to design a house to last for 1000 years (part III) constructionphysics.substack.com · “Typical single family home foundations consist of reinforced concrete, but reinforced concrete is a poor choice for a long lifespan building due to its susceptibility to corrosion.”
Jan 5
The UX on this Small Child Is Terrible mcsweeneys.net · “The user experience is terrible.”
Jan 4
Burn My Windows github.com · “This extension is not only more useless than the cube, but it is also much more hacky.”
Jan 4
My Many Girlfriends thedailywtf.com · “Every variable and every method name was given a female first name.”
Jan 4
The joy of building a ray tracer, for fun, in Rust. blog.singleton.io · “Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey described Rust as a “perfect” programming language last week.”
Jan 4
"Fast Kernel Headers" Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux kernel's "Dependency Hell" lwn.net · “When I started this project, late 2020, I expected there to be maybe 50-100 patches.”
Jan 3
Dura github.com · “Computers crash and Ctrl-Z only works on files independently.”
Jan 3
Hacking a VW Golf Power Steering ECU - Part 1 blog.willemmelching.nl · “Unfortunately, steering commands are not accepted after 6 minutes of continuous operation or below 50 km/h.”
Jan 3
You don't need that CORS request nickolinger.com · “Routing https://api.foobarbaz.app to https://foobarbaz.app/api and moving over the JavaScript clients using the api. subdomain will cut your network traffic in half.”
Jan 3
Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux blog.jhm.dev · “PapersPlease uses SDL on Linux, which checks every few seconds if a joystick has been connected.”
Jan 2
Your attention didn't collapse. It was stolen theguardian.com · “Our ability to pay attention was cracking and breaking.”
Jan 2
Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64 thecentersquare.com · “OneAmerica is a $100 billion insurance company that has had its headquarters in Indianapolis since 1877.”
Jan 2
web3 is Centralized blog.wesleyac.com · “The funny thing is, web3, as it exists today and appears to be building towards, is actually more centralized than the web it seeks to replace.”
Jan 2
Emirates' (Probably) Terrifying Boeing 777 Flight To Washington onemileatatime.com · “Aviation is incredibly safe, and for every disaster there are many catastrophes that are narrowly avoided.”
Jan 1
Don't waste the good days seths.blog · “The calendar belongs to everyone else.”
Jan 1
Why I'm Using HTTP Basic Auth in 2022 joeldare.com · “Some online resources mention that HTTP Basic Authentication is deprecated, but that’s a misunderstanding.”
Jan 1
2021 letter danwang.co · “Beijing is therefore a desert steppe city with Stalinist characteristics.”
Jan 1