The Internet Is Cool. Thank You, TCP
The Internet is Cool. Thank you, TCP The internet is incredible. It’s nearly impossible to keep people away from. But it can also be unreliable: packets drop, links congest, bits mangle, and data corrupts. Oh, it’s dangerous out there! (I’m writing this in Kramer’s tone) So how is it possible that our apps just work? […]
I can’t recommend Grafana anymore
Published: 14/11/2025 6 minute read Disclaimer: This tells my personal experiences with Grafana products. It also incudes some facts but your experience may entirely vary and I would love to here your take. I started my work life at a small software company near my university. They develop, run websites and operate web services for […]
AMD GPUs Go Brrr
Team: William Hu, Drew Wadsworth, Sean Siddens, Stanley Winata, Daniel Fu, Ryan Swann, Muhammad Osama, Christopher Ré, Simran AroraLinks: Arxiv | Code AI is compute hungry. So we’ve been asking: How do we build AI from the hardware up? How do we lead AI developers to do what the hardware prefers? AMD GPUs are now […]
I wrote a Pong game in a 512-byte boot sector
written by – Akshat Joshi Sometime back, I set myself a crazy constraint: Load only one thing at boot – A Pong game that fits in one floppy disk sector — 512 bytes. Why would I build this? I have played with Operating Systems and their workings by customizing them and tweaking their behavior. But […]
No Leak, No Problem – Bypassing ASLR with a ROP Chain to Gain RCE
After my previous post on ARM exploitation, where we crafted an exploit for a known vulnerability, I decided to continue the research on a more modern IoT target. In this follow-up post, I will take you through building a considerably more complex binary exploit. We will explore the path from firmware extraction and analysis to […]
Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]
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SSL Configuration Generator
Mozilla Configuration Modern Services with clients that support TLS 1.3 and don’t need backward compatibility Intermediate General-purpose servers with a variety of clients, recommended for almost all systems Old Compatible with a number of very old clients, and should be used only as a last resort
30 Days, 9 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go?
What traveling across America revealed about trust and work in the age of AI Peter Thiel recently did an interview with the Free Press about his 2020 email to Mark Zuckerberg. The title of the piece is “Capitalism isn’t Working for Young People1”. He has benefited from capitalism more than almost anyone alive. If he […]
Mentra (YC W25) Is Hiring: Head of Growth to Make Smart Glasses Mainstream
Mentra is building the operating system for smart glasses. Smart glasses will empower humans to be more than ever before. Use cases like subtitles for the deaf, proactive AI that during conversations, and POV streaming enhance our thinking and communication. Mentra’s mission is to build universal interfaces between mind and machine. We’re a team of […]
Houston, We Have a Problem: Anthropic Rides an Artificial Wave – BIML
I’ll tip my hat to the new ConstitutionTake a bow for the new revolutionSmile and grin at the change all aroundPick up my guitar and playJust like yesterdayThen I’ll get on my knees and prayWe don’t get fooled again Out there in the smoking rubble of the fourth estate, it is hard enough to cover […]