An early social un-network
Feb 16, 2025 reminiscence POWCON Vax With one thing and another I’ve recently been feeling quite nostalgic for the technology landscape of my early university days (around 1990) and so I wanted to write a little bit about that. Background To set the scene for you, I was at university – or rather at polytechnic […]
Searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours
searchcode.com’s SQLite database is probably one of the largest in the world, at least for a public facing website. It’s actual size is 6.4 TB. Which is probably 6 terabytes bigger than yours. -rw-r–r– 1 searchcode searchcode 6.4T Feb 17 04:30 searchcode.db At least, I think its bigger. I have no evidence to the contrary, […]
Twitter blocks links to Signal messenger
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, is currently banning links to “Signal.me,” a URL used by the encrypted messaging service Signal. The “Signal.me” domain is specifically used by the service so that users can send out a quick link to directly contact them through the messaging app. X, formerly Twitter, is blocking users from posting […]
A Tail Calling Interpreter for Python (already landed in CPython)
It’s been nearly four years since I published Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/s: How I Learned To Love Tail Calls in C. In that article, I presented a technique I co-developed for how to write really fast interpreters through the use of tail calls and the musttail attribute. While the article focused on Protocol Buffer parsers, […]
Word embeddings – Part 3: The secret ingredients of Word2Vec
This post will discuss the factors that account for the success of word2vec and its connection to more traditional models. Table of Contents: Excuse the rather clickbait-y title. This is a blog post that I meant to write for a while. In this post, I want to highlight the factors, i.e. the secret ingredients that […]
PASS on Firing of Probationary Employees at FAA
Details Published: February 15, 2025
Elon Musk’s terrifying vision for AI
All your thoughts belong to him Elon Musk thinks this is funny: I think it is terrifying. Everyone—and not just The Information—should be genuinely terrified that the richest man in the world has built a Large Language Model that spouts propaganda in his image.1 This isn’t free speech. It’s a massive, massive thumb on the […]
All Kindles can now be jailbroken
After all, all devices have their dangers. The discovery of speech introduced communication – and lies. – Isaac Asimov WinterBreak is a jailbreak which was released on New Year’s Day 2025 by HackerDude It is based on Mesquito Special thanks to Marek, NiLuJe, Katadelos and all the beta-testers during the development of this jailbreak. RIP […]
Ask HN: Can we get a HN background color (dark mode)
Before anyone comments chrome extensions. These don’t work on chrome mobile or safari mobile which make up a sizeable number of users. Please, can we just have native dark mode? I made a pretty mediocre HN client just for this feature https://github.com/rsimmons1/FlutterHnReader I don’t feel like working on it anymore, let’s just have dark mode. […]
Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone
Date 2025-02-11 Radar drone ready to take off from snow. I have made several homebuilt radars and done some synthetic aperture imaging testing with them on the ground. I have wanted for a long time to put a radar ona drone and capture synthetic aperture images from air. When I last looked at this few […]