We see something that works, and then we understand it(lemire.me)

198 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | 77 comments

Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL parsing benchmark(lemire.me)

146 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 86 comments

Prefix sums at gigabytes per second with ARM NEON(lemire.me)

55 points by mfiguiere 7 months ago | 8 comments

Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests(lemire.me)

36 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 31 comments

All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair(terriblesoftware.org)

243 points by matheusml 1 year ago | 110 comments

JavaScript Gom Jabbar(frantic.im)

527 points by disadvantage 3 years ago | 238 comments

A satirical blog post framing reading a JavaScript package.json file as a Dune-style Gom Jabbar test of pain for veteran developers.

Trains were designed to break down after third-party repairs, hackers find(arstechnica.com)

608 points by Stratoscope 2 years ago | 211 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that hackers found a train manufacturer's firmware made trains break down after third-party repairs; the manufacturer called it slander.

Security Disclosure(blog.railway.com)

571 points by passenger 4 days ago | 334 comments

Railway blog post disclosing that an unauthorized party may have accessed and decrypted customer environment variables, urging users to rotate all secrets.

They have not been trained for this(ccc.de)

501 points by hacka22 1 year ago | 85 comments

CCC statement supporting the three hackers who exposed at 37C3 how Polish train maker Newag manipulated trains to block third-party repairs.

How to hack time, with C2PA(da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)

50 points by Retr0id 23 days ago | 6 comments

Blog post by David Buchanan (retr0id) on manipulating or forging timestamps in C2PA content provenance metadata.

Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn(theocharis.dev)

1122 points by JeremyTheo 10 months ago | 978 comments

Personal blog post by Jeremy Theocharis recounting a Deutsche Bahn train journey gone wrong, which he likens to being kidnapped, and the 1.50 EUR compensation he received.

Building the heap: racking 30 petabytes of hard drives for pretraining(si.inc)

392 points by nee1r 1 year ago | 267 comments

Standard Intelligence blog post describing how they built a 30-petabyte hard drive storage cluster in a San Francisco colocation center for under $500k to store video pretraining data.