Git Your Freedom Back: A Beginner’s Guide to SourceHut 2025-01-24 This article (or guide) is targeted towards users and contributors who are currently hosting their git repositories through GitHub.

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In Brief After Sam Altman trash-talked Anthropic for gatekeeping its cybersecurity tool Mythos by only releasing it to select users, he confirmed that OpenAI would be doing the same with its competin

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The Rotary Un-Smartphone is a followup to this personal project. It's a production-ready ground-up design with all new parts (yes, the rotary dial too) and many neat bells and whistles. * THIS IS A K

Hi HN, I'm Erwin. I built a small free open-source utility that bridges Bluetooth LE MIDI keyboards into the new Windows MIDI Services stack so any DAW or Web MIDI app can use them as if they were wir

My fourth month of unemployment. I'm fresh off an interview with a senior technical role advertised with a decent compensation range whose upper end would let me make median rent, and whose lower rang

WhatCable What can this USB-C cable actually do? A small macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do, and why your Mac might be c

Looking at code an LLM generated for you, you often can't really tell which of the small decisions about edge cases, error handling, and behaviour choices were deliberate and which the model just gues

iSCSI was designed for the SAN inside a rack, not the open internet. Here's the pile of small decisions that makes scsipub work anyway — Ranch 2.x listeners, a BEAM process per session, COW overlays,

The Log-Structured Merge Tree, also known as an LSM tree, is one of the most popular storage engines, focusing on performant write operations. The benefit over the B+ Tree with this mechanism is that

CISA and the UK NCSC confirmed this week that a state-sponsored threat actor has embedded a custom backdoor called FIRESTARTER inside Cisco Firepower and Secure Firewall devices — and patching you

183080824 story Belgium plans to buy its seven aging nuclear reactors from French power giant Engie in a "full takeover" aimed at securing domestic energy supplies, extending reactor operations, and d

The VT-100 is an interesting piece of computer history. Is it compatible enough with modern terminals to continue to use today? This is not AI generated or edited or ideated. I communicate worse when

In 1917, American Tobacco launched an ad campaign for its cigarette brand Lucky Strike, with the slogan It’s Toasted. The campaign was designed to address the growing public awareness that cigarettes

During today's earnings call for the second fiscal quarter of 2026, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the Mac mini and Mac Studio could be hard to get for months to come. "We think, looking forward, tha

Multiclass output? Softmax. Normalising probabilities? Softmax. Attention weights? Softmax. Partition function? You guessed it, Softmax. This function comes up everywhere, but how often have you reall

Tech companies are slashing jobs left and right, leaving many workers wondering if their role is next. Loading audio narration... In an episode of Steve Huynh's, "A Life Engineered" podcast released

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New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by Trinity researchers in Rome Posted on: 30 April 2026 Old fashioned sleuthing and the help of modern technology leads to discovery of manus

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Tom Burick has always considered himself a builder. Over the years he’s designed robots, constructed a vintage teardrop trailer, and most recently, led a group of students in building a full-scale rep

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183088346 story An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Elon Musk wrapped up his testimony on Thursday as the trial in his lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman continued into its fourth day. O

Users of modern versions of Windows 11 have a powerful security feature for keeping their devices secure, known as Smart App Control. I’ve talked about this feature a few times over the last year, bu

So I built local.vibe — a friendly dashboard and local .vibe hostname for every local web app on your Mac. No more localhost:3000 vs localhost:5173 roulette. I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers I

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Apr 1, 2024 The hearts of the Super Nintendo When I start studying a vintage system, the first thing I like to do is understand how its components work together at the hardware level[1]. Every comp

Status: Beta winpodx is in active development (v0.3.0). v0.3.0 ships a redesigned host→guest pipeline — bearer-authed HTTP agent on 127.0.0.1:8765 is now the default command channel, with FreeRDP Remo

For the last couple of years, we’ve watched the same predictable cycle play out across the globe: a state (or country) passes a clunky age-verification mandate, and, without fail, Virtual Private Netw

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A skill is a small program. It has three execution stages: 1\ what loads every turn, 2\ what loads on invocation, and 3\ what loads on demand. Because a skill is a program, it suffers from typical so

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183080540 story The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a rule banning senators from trading on prediction markets effective immediately. CNBC reports: The move came amid rising concern about insider tradi