PSA: If you're a fan of ATmega, try AVR Dx(lcamtuf.substack.com)

133 points by scrps 2 years ago | 90 comments

UI is hell: four-function calculators(lcamtuf.substack.com)

198 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 115 comments

Spotify: Droppin' Some Fake Beats(lcamtuf.substack.com)

87 points by zdw 2 years ago | 71 comments

Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?(lcamtuf.substack.com)

204 points by guiambros 1 year ago | 49 comments

Ken Shirriff Tracks Down Intel's Infamous Pentium FDIV Bug in the Silicon Itself(hackster.io)

24 points by voxadam 1 year ago | 8 comments

How much of HN is AI?(blog.coredump.cx)

203 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 199 comments

Why Android can't use CDC Ethernet (2023)(jordemort.dev)

325 points by goodburb 1 year ago | 130 comments

A blog post by Jordan Webb investigating, detective-style, why Android cannot use USB CDC Ethernet adapters despite supporting USB ethernet.

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign(anthropic.com)

341 points by koakuma-chan 11 months ago | 261 comments

Anthropic news post describing how it detected and disrupted a cyber espionage campaign largely orchestrated using its Claude AI model, with a linked full report.

"Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B(zeropartydata.es)

330 points by donohoe 1 year ago | 167 comments

Substack post explaining Meta's "localhost tracking" technique that bypassed Android sandboxing to identify users' browsing, and the potential €32B regulatory fines.

What was a Token Ring network?(dfarq.homeip.net)

103 points by ibobev 10 days ago | 79 comments

Blog post from The Silicon Underground explaining the history of IBM's Token Ring networking technology and its competition with Ethernet in the 1980s and 1990s.

Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses(shkspr.mobi)

329 points by m_km 6 months ago | 88 comments

Blog post by Terence Eden describing how a unique email address he gave BrowserStack ended up with a third party via Apollo.io, implying a leak.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.