How Does GPT-4o Encode Images?(oranlooney.com)

262 points by olooney 2 years ago | 99 comments

Will protein design tools solve the snake antivenom shortage?(owlposting.com)

54 points by sebg 1 year ago | 23 comments

Cat as a Service(cataas.com)

42 points by kaycebasques 2 years ago | 45 comments

I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'(blog.daviddodda.com)

829 points by DavidDodda 1 year ago | 427 comments

A blog post by David Dodda recounting how a fake job interview attempted to get him to run malicious code on his machine.

I ditched Docker for Podman(codesmash.dev)

1020 points by codesmash 1 year ago | 607 comments

A blog post on CodeSmash explaining why the author switched from Docker to Podman for containers and recommends others do the same.

SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a minor miracle(labs.quansight.org)

425 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 225 comments

Quansight Labs blog post on how SciPy was built for Python 3.12 on Windows, including the move to the Flang Fortran compiler.

JSONB has landed(sqlite.org)

579 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 181 comments

SQLite forum post by Richard Hipp announcing JSONB, a binary rewrite of SQLite's JSON functions that landed on trunk and can be several times faster.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation(discuss.python.org)

329 points by ayhanfuat 9 months ago | 151 comments

A Python discussion forum post from PSF staff announcing Anthropic's $1.5 million, two-year donation to the PSF focused on security work.

There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository(github.com)

63 points by st_goliath 6 days ago | 66 comments

A GitHub repository by jwz whose only content is a README stating there is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.