Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler

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Google and Apple are expanding hardware-based attestation to lock out non-approved devices and OSes, presented as a security feature but actually anti-competitive.

Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES

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A security incident occurred due to a compromised dependency in the JavaScript ecosystem, affecting approximately 4.2 million machines. The incident was resolved after a cryptocurrency worm inadvertently patched the malware.

Traces Of Humanity

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Author returns after 7 years with new blog focusing on personal struggles between rationality and humanism. They aim to share their experiences and thoughts on balancing individualism and community, freedom and love.

Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes

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The lakebase architecture separates compute and storage, allowing for a 5x improvement in Postgres write throughput and 2x reduction in read tail latencies by eliminating the Full Page Write bottleneck. By pushing down image generation to the storage layer, the system reduces WAL traffic by 94%, improves read performance, and scales linearly with compute resources.

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left

The author was a long-time AWS fan but became disillusioned with its complexity, vendor lock-in, and predatory business practices. They left AWS but recently returned for research purposes, only to have their account suspended due to a security breach alert.

Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem

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Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider

A script uses cloud-init to inject a temporary SSH host key, allowing the first connection to a new VM while protecting against attacks. This technique prevents attackers from rerouting traffic or obtaining long-term SSH host keys, making it a secure provider-independent solution.

What's a mathematician to do? (2010)

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Mathematicians widely agree that original creation is not the only significant part of a mathematician's work, and that digesting and reworking cumulative insights to present them in a useful way for others is also crucial. Many mathematicians believe that even ordinary individuals can make original contributions to mathematics, and that the diversity of perspectives and collaborative work ...

The Locals Don't Know

The idea of "doing what the locals do" is often romanticized but may not be accurate, as locals' daily lives can be mundane and uninteresting. Tourists, on the other hand, have the freedom to create their own experiences and enjoy the city in their own way.
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Louis Rossmann pledged $10,000 to cover initial legal fees for developer Pawel Jarczak threatened by Bambu Lab. Rossmann is rallying the Right to Repair community to crowd-fund Jarczak's defense against Bambu Lab's cease and desist letter.

Idempotency is easy until the second request is different

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Idempotency is about preventing duplicate side effects in APIs, not just preventing duplicate writes. It requires a clear opinion on how to handle retries, including recovery ownership, response replay, and downstream deduplication.

Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

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A Linux user who grew up with Windows XP discovered that Space Cadet Pinball can be played on Linux. The game was bundled with Windows XP and has been made playable on various platforms through a project on Github.

Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how

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Spain's wholesale electricity price is now among the lowest in Europe due to increased wind and solar power generation, which has pushed gas out of the market. Despite this, Spanish households pay above the EU average due to high taxes and levies on electricity.

The One Dollar Counterfeiter

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Emerich Juettner, a frail old immigrant, successfully printed nearly 10 years of crude one-dollar bills, evading authorities until 1948. He was sentenced to a year in prison and paroled after 4 months due to his lack of greed, and his story became a folk hero.

Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes

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The input describes various indexes of indie web and small web sites, categorized by submission, feed-centric, or technical constraints. These indexes help users discover new sites, follow the small web, or connect with the broader indie web community.

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

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ymawky is a web server written in ARM64 assembly for MacOS, supporting static file serving, PUT requests, and error pages. It requires Xcode Command Line Tools and runs on apple silicon (arm64) only.

Think Linear Algebra (2023)

Think Linear Algebra is a code-first book that teaches linear algebra through real-world problems and Python code. It's designed for readers who want to apply linear algebra concepts to solve practical problems in fields like machine learning and computer graphics.

Shunting-Yard Animation

This is an app which will either load succesfully, and you'll wonder whether you saw this text at all, or fail ignominiously, showing you only this text. On balance of probabilities: I'm sorry I couldn't be bothered to make this work for you.

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring

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GitHub is sinking

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GitHub has become unreliable and bloated since Microsoft acquired it, with users experiencing downtime and frustration. Alternative Git forges like Codeberg, Tangled, and Gitea offer a more reliable and open-source experience.

Task Paralysis and AI

You're considering ADHD diagnosis due to task struggles and novelty needs, but haven't been officially diagnosed. You use AI tools like Claude to overcome task paralysis, but worry about addiction and the impact on artists.

Decoding raw digital photos in Linux (1997)

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Back to Dechifro's Home Page en Esperanto em Português auf Deutsch на русском па-беларуску Welcome! If you are wondering how to connect your digital camera and download images to a Linux PC, go to the gPhoto homepage. My software is for processing those images after downloading them. If you're downloading JPEG files, you don't need my software at all. The image has already been ...

Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)

You don't have permission to access "http://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/premium/en-s100x-jc1-u/" on this server.

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code

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ARS is a comprehensive suite of Claude Code skills for academic research, handling grunt work so researchers can focus on defining questions, choosing methods, and interpreting data. It includes a 10-stage pipeline with integrity verification, Socratic coaching, and collaboration evaluation.

The River Otter's Remarkable Comeback

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River otters have returned to the Great Lakes after decades of absence due to pollution and habitat loss. Their recovery is a sign of the lakes' healing and a testament to conservation efforts.

I’ve banned query strings

The user doesn't want tracking stuff in URLs and has banned unauthorized query strings on their site. They're testing Caddy's handling of query strings at /no-query-strings.

We see something that works, and then we understand it

The linear theory of innovation is flawed as it assumes understanding precedes progress, whereas in reality, progress often comes from trial and error. This is evident in research and development where incomplete understanding is common and breakthroughs often result from observing and trying new things.

Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

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Google Chrome's AI model is automatically downloading a 4GB file, taking up storage space. To free up space, toggle off On-Device AI in Chrome settings and the file will not re-download.

Gemini API File Search is now multimodal

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Gemini API's File Search tool now supports retrieval-augmented generation with multimodal data and custom metadata. It processes images and text together, improving search accuracy and transparency with page citations.

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro

A mathematician used ChatGPT 5.5 Pro to improve the upper bound on a problem in additive number theory from exponential to polynomial in time, with the AI producing a result that was almost certainly correct according to a human expert. The mathematician suggests that the era of human mathematicians solving problems independently may be coming to an end, and that the future of mathematics ...