Each step of decoding a PNG (2022)(iter.ca)
29 points by jxmorris12 | 5 comments
A blog post walking through each step of decoding a PNG file, from chunk parsing through decompression and filtering, using an example image.
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5 stories on the front page, newest first. Scroll down to watch the site change over time.
YouTube's new anti-adblock measures(iter.ca)
851 points by smitop | 1169 comments
A blog post explaining YouTube's A/B-tested anti-adblock measures such as fake buffering, and a uBlock Origin filter written to partially avoid them.
Forging signed commits on GitHub(iter.ca)
270 points by rokkitmensch | 104 comments
GPT-3.5 crashes when it thinks about useRalativeImagePath too much(iter.ca)
421 points by goranmoomin | 129 comments
Blog post showing that asking ChatGPT 3.5 to repeat a string containing "useRal" tokens consistently triggers an error in the message stream.