Lombok Is Still Relevant in the Age of Java Records(swaranga.dev)

10 points by swaranga 10 days ago | 6 comments

Blog post by Swaranga Sarma arguing that Project Lombok remains useful in Java despite the introduction of records, addressing common criticisms.

I got into YC Startup School by hacking it(obaid.wtf)

94 points by speckx 3 months ago | 59 comments

We accidentally built an LLVM compiler for Jax(iza.ac)

46 points by infinitewalk 2 months ago | 12 comments

Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim(pikuma.com)

261 points by amosjyng 1 year ago | 111 comments

The Evolution of Vi and Vim(pikuma.com)

86 points by ibobev 3 years ago | 29 comments

Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements(ziglang.org)

266 points by kouosi 4 months ago | 135 comments

What Is PID 0?(blog.dave.tf)

344 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 56 comments

Blog post by David Anderson explaining what PID 0 is in Unix/Linux, why it is hidden from userspace, and its role in booting and idle scheduling.

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.

From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video](media.ccc.de)

361 points by cookiengineer 1 year ago | 132 comments

Video recording of Matthias Frielingsdorf's 38C3 talk on how commercial spyware like Pegasus and Predator targeting iOS has evolved.

What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do? (2018)(twobithistory.org)

338 points by mitchbob 1 year ago | 116 comments

A Two-Bit History blog post from 2018 explaining what Ada Lovelace's Note G program for Babbage's Analytical Engine computed and how it worked.

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.

There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability(eliastaylor.com)

566 points by zkldi 4 days ago | 437 comments

Blog post arguing a newly disclosed PHP vulnerability is hard to exploit and that thousands of LLM-generated GitHub PoC exploits don't work against vanilla PHP.