Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome(foxmoss.com)

80 points by foxmoss 11 months ago | 17 comments

Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB(laurent.le-brun.eu)

71 points by laurentlb 10 months ago | 11 comments

S32 Unix Clock(da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)

135 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 15 comments

AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary(popcar.bearblog.dev)

64 points by popcar2 12 days ago | 54 comments

A personal blog post arguing that AI tools are enabling mass decompilation of video games, which the author sees as both exciting and worrying.

Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver(dmitrybrant.com)

833 points by dmitrybrant 1 year ago | 275 comments

A blog post by Dmitry Brant describing how he used Claude Code to update an old Linux kernel driver for QIC-80 tape drives to work with modern kernels.

Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023)(aalonso.dev)

122 points by cyclopeanutopia 6 months ago | 67 comments

What a Hacker Stole from Me(mynoise.net)

355 points by wonger_ 1 year ago | 106 comments

A myNoise blog post by founder Stéphane describing a hacker's attack on the myNoise website, first via code-injection attempts and then a different strategy.

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.

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc(birchtree.me)

669 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 703 comments

Birchtree blog link post commenting on an extended Xbox outage that blocked players from launching even disc-based games, raising game ownership concerns.

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great(theverge.com)

647 points by rorylawless 9 months ago | 566 comments

A Verge first-person diary column by Nathan Edwards about replacing Windows with Linux on his gaming desktop, chapter one.

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 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.