A fairly common security bug report is of the form: “I can put JavaScript inside a PDF file and it runs!” For example, open this PDF file with Chrome, and you can see the alert(1) messa…

I'm a big fan of self-hosting. As an indie hacker who has launched several micro-SaaS products and as a CTO of a small company, I now prefer self-hosting all the tools I might need. With the rise of high-quality self-hosted offerings from talented teams using…

(CNN) – A US Navy and Coast Guard operation on Tuesday rescued three mariners stranded on a tiny Pacific Ocean islet for more than a week after the trio spelled out “HELP” using palm fronds laid on a white-sand beach.

Ray Tracer in 483 bytes (x86 boot sector). Contribute to nanochess/RayTracer development by creating an account on GitHub.

Sam and John Fetters are identical twins with autism. But Sam is in college, while John still struggles to form sentences. Their experience may shed light on the disorder's mix of nature and nurture.

Backyard Birding By Gayil Nalls Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Woods surround my back property in the Hudson Valley, a deciduous forest that includes a giant majestic sycamore, several...

The HP200LX was a palmtop, an early take on mobile computing from the mid 90s. It quietly built a following that continues to this day.

At Pier 17 in the South Street Seaport, New Yorkers can find the world’s largest sailing cargo ship that is also fitted with a wine cellar.

wingolog: article: tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm

Corporate defense lawyers have adopted a new strategy that not even the mob considered. When facing litigation from the government, file misconduct charges against the attorneys bringing the charges.

My startup Truss (gettruss.io) released a few LLM-heavy features in the last six months, and the narrative around LLMs that I read on Hacker News is now starting to diverge from my reality, so I thought I’d share some of the more “surprising” lessons after…

While I was looking the other way, Python got advanced static types! Here’s matrix multiplication, describing the input shapes and its output shape:

I built a magical meme search engine using siglip/CLIP and vector encoding images. It was a fun way to learn about this powerful technology. I'm sharing the code so you can build your own and discover forgotten gems in your photo library. Let's unleash the…

A fast, feature-rich static code analyzer & language server for Python - mtshiba/pylyzer

A rough comparison of the experience of running DOS apps under each early release of Windows

New research finds that attractive attorneys are more likely to win cases, suggesting an unconscious bias in judicial decisions. This effect persists even when controlling for experience, race, and other factors

By the way, you can listen to me read this post aloud on my Patreon, which starts at $1/month! My 🌶️ spicy take 🌶️ is that I don’t like seeing tech talks live. I get very little out of 95% of…

I played 15 diffrent notes at 0.2 bpm diffrences. The result is an amazing sweep of the rhythmic subdivision spectrum!

Each time you hear a bell it means that we’ve reached an important subdivision. 8th notes, triplets,
and sixteenth notes.

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