Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

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The editor in chief of this blog was born in 2004 and uses the 1997 window manager Enlightenment E16. She fixed a rare bug in the codebase dating back to 2006 caused by a faulty Newton's algorithm implementation.

My adventure in designing API keys

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The author discusses API key creation and design, explaining the standard format and its components. They then explore different approaches to mapping API keys to account IDs in a multi-tenant system.

Claude Code Routines

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Claude Code routines are saved configurations that run automatically on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure. They can be triggered by schedule, API, or GitHub events, and can perform tasks such as code review, deployment verification, and documentation updates.

Wacli – WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send

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To use the WhatsApp Web protocol via whatsmeow, install via Homebrew and authenticate with pnpm wacli auth.

Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive

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The Internet Archive has posted 2,500 rare punk tapes, including Nirvana's 1989 performance and previously unknown recordings from Sonic Youth and R.E.M. Volunteers digitize and clean up the tapes, making them sound great despite being recorded with mediocre equipment.

A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing

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The author reflects on the current AI hype and the value of reverse engineering, which involves understanding a design to reproduce and adapt it. The author shares personal experiences with reverse engineering, including the Bulgarian Правец computer and the ISCAS-85 benchmarks, highlighting its importance in understanding technology.

My AI-Assisted Workflow

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The user describes a workflow that uses AI assistance to speed up software development while maintaining clarity and intentionality, focusing on thinking problems before implementation and using AI to stress-test ideas. The workflow involves writing a document to clarify thinking, structured interviews with AI, and a review process to validate AI-generated code and ensure it meets acceptance criteria.

Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel)

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La pintura presenta cuarteado, cazoletas y desprendimiento de la capa pictórica. Se aplica un cubriente de color para reparar o modificar el original, y se observan líneas de la composición debajo de la capa pictórica.

Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider

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The author argues that dependency cooldowns, which delay adopting new versions of packages, are not a good solution to supply chain attacks and instead proposes using upload queues, which delay distributing new packages until they have been reviewed. Upload queues can be implemented in central dependency servers and have several benefits, including reducing the power of release credentials ...

MDalgorithms (AI Healthcare) – Hiring Growth Marketer – Remote – $80K-$140K

A rare opportunity to be a Creative Strategist at MDalgorithms (https://www.mdalgorithms.com), a fast-growing AI consumer technology company ✨ About the company & mission Today 90% of people can't afford to visit a Dermatologist. Our brands, MDhair, MDacne and Nuvane automatically analyze the skin or hair using our AI technology and then deliver a customized treatment kit to the ...

Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network

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Stop Flock

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Flock Safety's AI-powered cameras track vehicles and people, creating detailed records of movements and associations without consent. This mass surveillance raises Fourth Amendment concerns and enables biased enforcement.

Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 Writerdeck

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To install OpenBSD on a Japanese-model Pomera DM250, you need a custom kernel and U-Boot image, and follow specific steps to boot the device into recovery mode and write the new U-Boot image to the eMMC. After installing OpenBSD, you can customize the device by setting up the keyboard layout, creating a custom kernel, and addressing the LEDs near the USB-C port.

Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals

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A startup CEO should not invest time and resources in building prototypes without knowing the path to a purchase order. Use polite forcing functions like cancelable purchase orders to discover who else needs to say "yes" in complex sales.

Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1 (2013)

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Clojure's persistent vectors use balanced, ordered trees to achieve O(1) runtime for appends, updates, lookups, and subvec operations while maintaining persistence. The tree structure is shallow due to a high branching factor, allowing for "effectively" constant time modifications and lookups, although technically O(log32 n).

5NF and Database Design

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The traditional way of teaching fifth normal form (5NF) is confusing and unnecessary, and a more logical approach is to start with business requirements and create a physical table schema using a textbook table design strategy. Two patterns of physical table design follow naturally: the AB-BC-AC triangle and the ABC+D star pattern, both of which are fully normalized and do not require 5NF ...

Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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Chrome introduces Skills, a feature that lets users save and reuse AI prompts with a single click. Saved Skills can be edited and used across multiple tabs for tasks like recipe substitutions and gift selection.

What Is in Road Flares?

Different companies use different compositons when manufacturing road flares, so it is impossible to give a specific answer for the flare in your hand. However, they do tend to have similar compositions, and so a generalized answer is possible. Note that every composition contains strontium nitrate (Sr(NO3)2). That is because the strontium is responsible for either a red or red-orange color. ...

The Orange Pi 6 Plus

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The Orange Pi 6 Plus, a board with a CIX P1 SoC, showed promising hardware but struggled with software issues, requiring custom OS images and vendor-specific GPU and NPU userspace. Despite these challenges, the board proved usable for local AI work, with some models and runtimes performing well, but its high power draw and loud fan made it less attractive as a low-traffic always-on appliance.

Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log

The paper by Andrzej Odrzywołek claims that elementary functions can be expressed with a single operator, but this definition is narrower than standard mathematical usage.

Let's talk space toilets

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NASA has been working on space toilets for decades, with early designs being rudimentary and often causing problems for astronauts, but recent advancements have improved the systems, especially for the International Space Station. However, the challenge of designing a reliable and safe toilet for a Mars mission is significant, requiring consideration of factors like radiation, gravity, and ...

PCBWay sponsorship: full-size SD module for Arduino projects

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The user accepted a sponsorship offer from PCBWay to review their service, having previously used them for the BurgerDisk project and now ordering a full-size SD card module. They found PCBWay's unique features, such as human DFM analysis and engagement with free software/open-source communities, to be justifiable for the slightly higher pricing compared to JLCPCB.

The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing

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California's A.B. 2047 bill will criminalize open-source 3D printer use and impose censorship, hurting innovation and consumer choice. This legislation risks surveillance, platform lock-in, and stifling grassroots creativity, with unintended consequences extending beyond California's borders.

Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable

Fiverr uses Cloudinary to process and serve work products, but uses public URLs for sensitive client-worker communication. This exposes hundreds of files containing PII in Google search results, violating GLBA/FTC Safeguards Rule.

Guide.world: A compendium of travel guides

It's surprisingly hard to find good travel writing online. Upon landing someplace, you can peruse Wikipedia, but what else should one read? Below is a compendium of recommended pieces.

Hazardous States and Accidents

I have long wanted to write about how root cause analysis is a crap technique for learning from failure. In order to do that, we need to know some fundamentals first. These are good to know for anyone designing anything they want to be reliable. In safety-critical systems, we distinguish between accidents (actual loss, e.g. lives, equipment, etc.) and hazardous states (sometimes called only ...

I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program

User sent opt-out request to Flock Safety due to CCPA, but they refused citing customer ownership of data. User disputes this, believing Flock Safety is responsible for complying with CCPA.

Saying goodbye to Agile

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The Agile industry was defined by what it wasn't, primarily Waterfall, but its core principles were vague and unworkable. Agile innovations were actually developed decades earlier by serious engineers.
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Players praise the game's unique art and challenging platforming experience, with some experiencing disorienting effects from the looping visuals. The game's creator is commended for their technical skill and inspiration from Escher and other sources.

Troubleshooting Email Delivery to Microsoft Users

Microsoft temporarily blocked our emails to Hotmail, Live, MSN, and Outlook users due to a rate limit, but it was later resolved after we implemented a Redis-backed throttler to control our sending rate. The issue was likely caused by a spike in email traffic from our IPs, which Microsoft's algorithms flagged as suspicious, and we are considering warming up an IP solely for transactional ...