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May 24, 2026 A deep dive into the font of the “Dead Test” diagnostic cartridge of the C64, including an Easter egg, a look into the implementation, and, finally...

Grothendieck is revered in the world of math; outside of it, he’s known for his unusual life, if he’s known at all. But what were his actual mathematical contri...

Released at the Outline Demoparty in May 2026, Ommen, NL An exploration of algorithmic density in 16 bytes of x86 assembly. Hey everyone. I learned programming...

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tiling window managers are wonderful. ultra-flexible text editors are also wonderful. for a spell, i thought i'd found the ideal solution in exwm… and i think i...

By Susam Pal on 23 May 2026 This is going to be a rant about modern web design practices. But before I get to that, let me begin with a familiar principle from...

The First Six Books of The Elements of Euclid With Coloured Diagrams and Symbols A reproduction of Oliver Byrne’s celebrated work from 1847 plus interactive dia...

3 hours ago Tabby Wilson and Kayla Epstein California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency as emergency crews raced to contain a toxic chemic...

5 hours ago Tabby Wilson and Kayla Epstein California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency as emergency crews raced to contain a toxic chemic...

Share your feedback on Google I/O in this short surveyhttps://google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8es2wQJPAy3D51c. !/2026/assets/images/io26-desktop-video-iokeynot...

For years, devices like the RbPi have been described as “credit-card sized”. And of course the message is rather the footprint, but at some point I became obses...

Pardon MIE? Sat May 23, 2026Pardon MIE? Sat May 23, 2026 Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement is no joke. Five years of design, brand-new M5 silicon, hardware m...

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I have an attention problem. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to convert my old laptop into a writerdeckhttps://www.writerdeck.org/?ref=veronicaexplains.net, a...

I have an attention problem. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to convert my old laptop into a writerdeckhttps://www.writerdeck.org/?ref=veronicaexplains.net, a...

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Jennifer Combs had never gotten so much as a speeding ticket. On May 8, police in Trinidad, Texas, arrested her on a state jail felony charge for writing a Face...

SPEC’s CPU benchmark suite has been a long established industry standard, and is almost impossible to miss when reading through various publications. Intel used...

Claw-Coder is an AI agent that runs locally on your laptop and has access to powerful tools instead of configuring claude or codex to use a local model just use...

The tanker deal is not just a competition won; it is a decision that shifts the balance. Behind the purchase of the new Airbus A330 MRTT lies a shift in the cen...

The tanker deal is not just a competition won; it is a decision that shifts the balance. Behind the purchase of the new Airbus A330 MRTT lies a shift in the cen...

The Ebola outbreak erupting from the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to escalate wildly, with cases nearing 750, deaths reporte...

Last year, health wearable maker Oura became embroiled in a social media shitstormhttps://ouraring.com/blog/oura-us-department-of-defense/ after inking a deal w...

Last year, health wearable maker Oura became embroiled in a social media shitstormhttps://ouraring.com/blog/oura-us-department-of-defense/ after inking a deal w...

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-fbi-license-plate-reader-real-time-access/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...

Introduction introduction The , or description list, element is underrated. It’s used to represent a list of name–value pairs. This is a common UI pattern that...

Introduction introduction The , or description list, element is underrated. It’s used to represent a list of name–value pairs. This is a common UI pattern that...

Tipshttps://kk.org/cooltools/category/tips/ Book Freak 210: The Art of Money Getting P.T. Barnum's Golden Rules for Making Money !https://kk.org/cooltools/files...

There is a theory, popular among certain very old and very tired philosophers, that all memories take up a kind of furniture in the head. The good ones are armc...

After I posted 8086 microcode disassembledhttps://www.reenigne.org/blog/8086-microcode-disassembled/, Ken Shirriffhttps://www.righto.com/ sent me a high-resolut...

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So, you want to improve the performance of your deep learning model. How might you approach such a task? Often, folk fall back to a grab-bag of tricks that migh...

Article URL: https://www.cato.org/blog/dhs-quits-granting-green-cards-almost-entirely Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246735 Points: 28 Com...

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I concluded my previous posthttps://olano.dev/blog/tactical-tornado saying that it was irresponsible to assume that we won’t need to worry about reading and deb...

In the summer of 2000, I could never have imagined becoming a father. I was 34, living in New York City, with a good job in social care, but still in a tiny apa...

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Firms today are pushing employees to use as much AI as possible to squeeze out the technology’s productivity gains. But that pressure is leading to cracks, and...

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/05/22/new-rule-requires-most-green-card-applicants-apply-outside-us/ Comments URL: https://news.yco...

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A recent study provides evidence that TikTok’s recommendation system tends to expose users to more conservative and anti-Democrat political content than liberal...

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Understanding the sleeping airway Horner’s journey in sleep research began in the early 90s as a PhD student at the University of London where he worked in one...

For the last few years, while finally earning my belated Bachelor's Degree in the University of London's World Class program, I've met some amazing people from...

For the last few years, while finally earning my belated Bachelor's Degree in the University of London's World Class program, I've met some amazing people from...

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Today we’re shipping two updates focused on supply-chain security for npm: - Staged publishing is generally available. - New --allow- install source flags --all...