| 31. | How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground | (ianvisits.co.uk) |
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Dotted around London, there are a number of private hotels that aren’t the sort of hotel you might expect – they’re needed to make mobile phones work on the London Underground. | |
| 8 points by beardyw 5 days ago | 0 comments |
| 32. | M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer) | (maniek86.xyz) |
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| 33. | Launching the Handmade Software Foundation | (handmade.network) |
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| 34. | Light Mode InFFFFFFlation | (willhbr.net) |
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Back in the day, light mode wasn’t called “light mode”. It was just the way that computers were, we didn’t really think about turning everything light or dark. Sure, some applications were often dark (photo editors, IDEs, terminals) but everything else was light, and that was fine. What we didn’t notice is that light mode has been slowly getting lighter, and I’ve got a graph to prove it. I did what any normal person would do, I downloaded the same... | |
| 4 points by Fudgel 13 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 35. | Counterfactual evaluation for recommendation systems | (eugeneyan.com) |
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Thinking about recsys as interventional vs. observational, and inverse propensity scoring. | |
| 5 points by kurinikku 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 36. | Why Twenty Years of DevOps Has Failed to Do It | (honeycomb.io) |
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Charity Majors writes about DevOps' twenty year battle to achieve one thing: a single feedback loop connecting devs with prod. | |
| 3 points by mooreds 16 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 37. | Why There's No Single Best Way to Store Information | (quantamagazine.org) |
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The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between resources such as time and memory. | |
| 6 points by 7777777phil 19 hours ago | 0 comments |
| 38. | IRISC: An ARMv7 assembly interpreter and computer architecture simulator | (polysoftit.co.uk) |
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| 39. | TLS stripping on-device under Windows XP | (kianbradley.com) |
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I managed to get modern SSL/TLS connections working under Windows XP, by running a lightweight Linux VM which strips the TLS headers and re-applies a self-signed certificate: | |
| 5 points by k-ian 8 hours ago | 1 comments |
| 40. | The Dilbert Afterlife | (astralcodexten.com) |
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Sixty-eight years of highly defective people | |
| 8 points by rendall 1 day ago | 5 comments |
| 41. | The thing that brought me joy | (stephenlewis.me) |
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The code is not the point, but what if it’s the reason? | |
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| 42. | The Resonant Computing Manifesto | (resonantcomputing.org) |
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Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing. | |
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| 43. | ClickHouse Acquires Langfuse | (langfuse.com) |
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Our goal continues to be building the best LLM engineering platform | |
| 4 points by tin7in 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 44. | Common misunderstandings about large software companies | (philipotoole.com) |
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I sometimes read commentary about large software companies and notice a recurring pattern. People correctly identify real characteristics of large organizations, criticize them, but show little appreciation for why those characteristics exist in the first place. This is not an abstract topic for me. I have worked at very large firms - Nortel and Google,… | |
| 7 points by otoolep 6 days ago | 0 comments |
| 45. | FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence | (bfl.ai) |
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Introducing FLUX.2 [klein], our fastest image models. Unified generation and editing in under a second, on hardware you already own. Apache 2.0 on 4B. | |
| 9 points by GaggiX 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 46. | The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello' | (bbc.com) |
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It's 200 years since the word "hello" was first used in print - though its roots date back to the 15th Century. How has the language of greetings evolved - and what does it tell us? | |
| 7 points by 1659447091 23 hours ago | 1 comments |
| 47. | Show HN: Streaming gigabyte medical images from S3 without downloading them | (github.com) |
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WSI Streamer is a tile server for Whole Slide Images (WSI) stored in S3-compatible object storage. It serves tiles on-demand using HTTP range requests, so you never have to download or mount multi-gigabyte slides on local disk. - PABannier/WSIStreamer | |
| 5 points by el_pa_b 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 48. | High-Level Is the Goal | (bvisness.me) |
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Why should anyone care about low-level programming? | |
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| 49. | LLM Structured Outputs Handbook | (nanonets.com) |
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A practical handbook for developers using LLMs to get structured outputs. | |
| 4 points by vitaelabitur 2 days ago | 0 comments |
| 50. | The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest ever crime | (theguardian.com) |
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How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly consequences | |
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| 51. | The relentless rule of my fitness tracker | (timharford.com) |
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| 52. | East Germany balloon escape | (en.wikipedia.org) |
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| 53. | The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature | (washingtonpost.com) |
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| 54. | 11% of vibe-coded apps are leaking Supabase keys | (supaexplorer.com) |
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We scanned 20,000+ indie launch URLs and found that 11% expose Supabase credentials in their frontend. Here's what we learned. | |
| 6 points by xyborg 14 hours ago | 1 comments |
| 55. | What are Tithe Maps (2021) | (mapreading.co.uk) |
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| 56. | Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate protocol deprecation | (cloud.google.com) |
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Mandiant aims to lower the barrier for security professionals to demonstrate the insecurity of Net-NTLMv1. | |
| 9 points by linolevan 1 day ago | 2 comments |
| 57. | Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC | (neodyme.io) |
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Desoldering a drone's flash chip and reconstructing the firmware from broken data. | |
| 5 points by tripdout 1 day ago | 0 comments |
| 58. | Astro Joining Cloudflare | (astro.build) |
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The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare! Astro remains open-source, MIT-licensed, and platform-agnostic. With Cloudflare's support, we're focusing 100% on building the best framework for content-driven websites. Astro 6 beta is available now. | |
| 6 points by todotask2 1 day ago | 1 comments |
| 59. | Daniel's first 20k curl commits | (daniel.haxx.se) |
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| 60. | Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion (2014) | (randomascii.wordpress.com) |
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Intel’s manuals for their x86/x64 processor clearly state that the fsin instruction (calculating the trigonometric sine) has a maximum error, in round-to-nearest mode, of one unit in the last place. This is not true. It’s not even close. The worst-case error for the fsin instruction for small inputs is actually about 1.37 quintillion units in… | |
| 6 points by antonly 15 hours ago | 0 comments |