Featured post what's this? ✨ invlpg – Premature Optimization is Fun Sometimes A colleague of mine was recently discussing a connectivity monitoring system he is working on with me. It’s nothing fancy, just sending ICMP Echo Requests to a couple of different servers, and monitoring latency and dropped packet averages over 1-minute, ...
Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow Google Chrome is looking to finish off the various bypasses that help uBlock Origin and other such MV2 extensions to keep functioning. Edge and Opera could soon follow too.
Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor in Berlin‑Marienfelde Revolutionary Mercedes-Benz drive system developed in Berlin-Marienfelde High-tech manufacturing: 35 processes that are new worldwide and more than 30 patent applications Production across around...
How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight My client was a utility company, and they had a big problem...
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators don't apply to AI overviews. In this case, Google's AI ...
Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12 - GitHub Changelog Our next npm major version, v12, introduces security-related default changes to npm install. All these changes are available behind warnings in npm today on 11.16.0 or newer, so you can…
container/docs/container-machine.md at main · apple/container A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. - apple/container
dan—webnotes | Project starter | Lessons from a reusable web component Notes from reusing a handmade web component across projects: skip the build step, publish instead of pasting, own a short namespace, theme through CSS variables, and let modern CSS adapt to context.
Sami Lehtinen - Fastsync: How I Doubled rsync's Speed Writing fastsync: Why is copying files still so slow, and how I doubled rsync’s speed I wrote a tool called fastsync when I finally got too frustrated with rsync’s poor local copying performance. This post goes through the making of the tool, the root cau...
Relocatable Derivations The earlier post on guix-transfer highlighted how we can use the tool to transfer derivations from /gnu/store to /nix/store.
Don't Fuck With My .bashrc Everyone, to the terminal! Drop that webUI, you’re so 2024, use the terminal brah! I’m a geek! I hack stuff, I use the terminal!
Appreciating Exif | Brent Fitzgerald The '90s-era digital camera metadata format, still useful in 2026.
Replace your CI with a merge queue - exe.dev blog Agent development means after-the-fact CI no longer works.
I Built a Liquidity Sniper Bot for BNB Chain, and It Proved a Losing Game I built a complete, real-time DeFi sniper bot in Go, took it live with real money on BSC, and let the data answer one honest question: can a retail bot win at sniping new token launches? It can't, and the why is more interesting than a profit chart.
It used to be hard There's this weird emotion I've been experiencing lately, that I can only seem to describe as a desire to climb on a roof and yell: "It used to be hard!".
I read my own commits like a stranger | Egor Fedorov 83% of ChatGPT users could not quote their own essay. The same started happening with my code - notes on cognitive debt from AI coding.
If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know — Jonathon Ready Anthropic's Claude Fable policy turns coding assistants into non-neutral infrastructure for product companies.
Our first customers were the exception — Apurva Mehta How a $1M+ run-rate masked a dead-end market, and why we walked away from our Kafka Streams product.
Every GPS satellite is a numbers station Research by Steven Murdoch of UCL suggests that GPS Subframe 4, Page 17 may have served as an OTAD-related encrypted broadcast channel for nearly two decades.
On Atoms and Knowledge A note to my daughter about physics, and mostly about how to learn: find the small truths that let you rebuild everything else.
I miss the climb Steve Jobs once described the computer as a bicycle for the mind. I have always loved that metaphor because it captures what computers used to feel like t...
Now what? Here’s an impressive Show HN project: a comprehensive, reverse-engineered, LLM-written technical documentation of how a calculator’s operating system works. What a resource!
Skynet: Towards Synthetic Neurobiology The original idea was a joke. I was looking at LLM loops and thinking about how they map onto Elixir’s actor model — GenServers that receive messages, process them, maybe spawn new processes. The jump from “LLM reasoning step” to “GenServer handling a mes...
Sovereign The keyword in politics these days is ‘sovereign’. What few will admit is that it is effectively the adoption of the American strategy: Make America Great Again. In other words, reindustrialization of key sectors of the economy. The UK used to be a comput...
The Push to Solo Work TL;DR: Some people seem to miss that collaborative tools lose their value when used by one person.
CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs In the last three months I’ve had people forward me four separate examples of a CEO losing his or her mind over AI. What’s been striking to me is the similarity in each case: It would b…
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 Today we’re launching Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.