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surprisetalk
4 days ago
We see something that works, and then we understand it
“We see something that works, and then we understand it.” (Thomas Dullien) It is a deeper insight than it seems. Young people spend years in school learning the reverse: understanding happen...
15 HOURS AGO
GGALLAS
CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers
13 HOURS AGO
VMG12
Surfel-based global illumination on the web
3 DAYS AGO
ATGCTG
OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
2 DAYS AGO
ANONYMOUSIAM
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
6 HOURS AGO
CHARLESW
Superintelligent Retrieval Agent: The Next Frontier of Information Retrieval
4 DAYS AGO
TOMTE
What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting
2 DAYS AGO
SPECKX
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
imtomt
5 hours ago
Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
MacOS Web Server written entirely in ARM64 assembly - imtomt/ymawky
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AuthorizedCust
3 hours ago
Scouting's Real Crisis Is Not Marketing. It Is Decades of Neglect.
When the Boy Scouts of America, recently rebranded as Scouting America, gathers in Dallas May 11-15 for its National Annual Meeting, its leaders will confront a crisis that messaging cannot ...
kohlschuetter
3 days ago
The Serial TTL connector we deserve
Goodbye dangling Dupont pins, hello Julet E-Bike connector. I have them now everywhere, from my router to my servers....
rbanffy
a day ago
LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate
Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the exp...
marcingas
14 hours ago
Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms
Almost Clojure written in Go. Contribute to nooga/let-go development by creating an account on GitHub....
_alternator_
a day ago
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro,...
thatxliner
10 hours ago
Show HN: Rust but Lisp
Rust but LISP. Contribute to ThatXliner/rust-but-lisp development by creating an account on GitHub....
speckx
4 days ago
I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up
Starting a long-form history of Visual Basic on EvilGeniusLabs.ca. Chapter 1 covers the BASIC dynasty Microsoft had been running since 1975, the California developer Microsoft bought to put ...
https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/visual-basic-history-chapter-1-launch
rsecora
4 days ago
The first microcomputer: The transfluxor-powered Arma Micro Computer from 1962
What would you say is the first microcomputer? 1 The Apple I from 1976? The Altair 8800 from 1974? Perhaps the lesser-known Micral N (1973......
ingve
3 days ago
Mythical Man Month
a bliki entry for Mythical Man Month...
Cider9986
10 hours ago
France moves to break encrypted messaging
France's parliament just endorsed the one idea every cryptographer on earth has already debunked and they're calling it a compromise....
anionyt
5 hours ago
MCP for sandboxed, reproducible envs for agentic-first coding workflows
An MCP to allow Copilot and Claude Code to work directly with and inside of a devcontainer - aniongithub/devcontainer-mcp...
rawgabbit
4 days ago
America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
The Georgia carpet industry’s long use of PFAS, known as forever chemicals, polluted drinking water and the environment across swaths of the South....
msephton
17 hours ago
PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes
A productivity suite that willfully rejects common notions on how such software should behave, on an operating system most haven't heard of, running on a processor 30 years ahead of its time...