Show HN: Nova JavaScript Engine
⚠️ This project is a Work In Progress, and is very far from being suitable for use ⚠️ Nova is a JavaScript and WebAssembly engine written in Rust. The engine is exposed as a library with an API for implementation in Rust projects which themselves must serve as a runtime for JavaScript code. The execution […]
Drinking water systems for 26M Americans face high cybersecurity risks
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPAs) Office of Inspector General (OIG) on Nov. 13 reported that 97 drinking water systems serving about 26.6 million Americans around the country have either “critical or high-risk” cybersecurity vulnerabilities. While attempting to notify the EPA about the cybersecurity vulnerabilities, the OIG found that the EPA does not have an incident […]
Is Chrome the New IE?
With a global browser market share of over 65%, Google’s Chrome has become the target of criticism and disdain, much like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer once was. Is Chrome facing similar challenges to Internet Explorer (IE) and will this lead to its downfall? Dominance Over many years commentators have proposed that Chrome is the new IE; […]
Reverse Engineering iOS 18 Inactivity Reboot
iOS 18 introduced a new inactivity reboot security feature. What does it protect from and how does it work? This blog post covers all the details down to a kernel extension and the Secure Enclave Processor. Security Before First Unlock / After First Unlock Did you know that entering your passcode for the first time […]
Electron Spins: a special case of Chromium mods
Challenges of modifying Chromium, compounded Chromium is a powerful project, implementing functionality that’s critical to the web and web-related technologies. Perhaps the greatest credit to its quality and completeness is the fact that it’s become an almost-de facto standard. So it’s no surprise that other projects would want to inherit much of that codebase. You […]
You could have designed state of the art positional encoding
Gall’s Law A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked John Gall This post walks you through the step-by-step discovery of state-of-the-art positional encoding in transformer models. We will achieve this by iteratively improving our approach to encoding position, arriving at Rotary Postional Encoding (RoPE) used […]
Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems?
Twitter users @tthirtle asked why Windows 95 setup goes through three operating systems: MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, and then Windows 95. Why not go from MS-DOS straight to Windows 95? Here’s another good question. Why does Windows 95 setup use 3 different UI’s. DOS,Win3.x,and Win9x? — Thomas (@tthirtle) July 7, 2024 Windows 95 setup could upgrade […]
Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates
A new study published today in Nature Geoscience by Dr Andrew Jarvis at Lancaster University and Professor Piers Forster at the University of Leeds shows that humans may have already caused 1.5 °C of global warming when measured from a time genuinely before the industrial revolution and the start of large-scale carbon emissions. The Paris […]
Creating a QR Code step by step
This JavaScript demo application visualizes in detailed steps, how a text string is encoded into a QR Code barcode symbol. The content of this page essentially explains and justifies how my QR Code generator library works internally. User input QR Code output Step-by-step process Show/hide each step: 0. Analyze Unicode characters Number of code points […]
Hobby Project: A dynamic C (Hot reloading) module-based Web Framework
Note:This project is currently a proof of concept and represents the bare minimum viable product (MVP).It is not designed for production use, and there may be bugs, limitations, or incomplete features.Use at your own discretion, and feel free to co Welcome to c-web-modules, a modular and efficient approach to web development in C. Inspired by […]