The Cypherpunk Library

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This shelf is public domain end to end. For everything else, there’s Anna’s Archive, LibGen, and the torrents.

Dopamine Fracking

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You coined the term "dopamine fracking" to describe the harm caused by prioritizing short-term dopamine hits over long-term cultural and personal sustainability. This phenomenon erases complexity and nuance, replacing it with a homogenized, commodified culture devoid of meaning and connection.

1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse

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The author of Have I Been Pwned reflects on the 1,000th breach loaded into the database, questioning its continued purpose due to emerging privacy regulations. Disclosure lag times for breaches are worsening, with companies taking months to notify victims.

A Family Project (2022)

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The writer's mother died after 18 months in assisted living due to Parkinson's and the pandemic, and they chose to bury her on their 40-acre property in North Carolina. The family built a casket and dug the grave together, creating a meaningful and intimate farewell.

Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony

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The user spent 14-16 years in juvenile prison and later became a convicted felon due to addiction, but rebuilt their life through software and open-source contributions. They now work at Hasura, a developer-facing tool, and hope to give others a chance despite their troubled past.

APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

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The APC-2 is a professional record cutter with superior sound quality, available exclusively through SUPERSENSE. It features advanced technology for precision cutting and control.

The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python

A perceptron is a simple neural network that takes one input, weighs it with a weight, adds a bias, and decides with a yes-or-no answer, and it learns from its mistakes by adjusting the weight and bias. The perceptron's ability to learn and make decisions relies on the weight, bias, learning rate, and normalization of the input data, which can be adjusted to improve its accuracy and performance.

OneDrive data now has an expiry date

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Starting this July, Microsoft will begin enforcing a structured lifecycle for unlicensed OneDrive accounts. If your organisation has any loose ends around licensing, now is the time to sort them out before files start di...

Richard Scolyer Has Died

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Richard Scolyer, a pioneering Australian doctor, has died at 59 after a three-year battle with an aggressive brain tumour. He made headlines for undergoing a world-first experimental treatment based on his own scientific breakthroughs in skin cancer.

Spherical Voronoi Diagram

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The algorithm computes the 3D convex hull of spherical points using a randomized incremental approach. This results in the spherical Delaunay triangulation boundary, which is the convex hull for points in a hemisphere.

How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?

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Researchers found over 450 manipulated images in Thermo Fisher's antibody catalog, with more than 100 images showing clear signs of fabrication. The images were used to verify the effectiveness of antibodies, which are crucial for biomedical research.

Playing with Vision Embeddings

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Researchers used a neural network called DINOv3 to generate images from a 384-dimensional space, where each dimension represents a unique feature. By training a sparse autoencoder (SAE) on DINOv3's embeddings, they were able to decompose the images into individual features and understand what each dimension encodes.

New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections

Researchers found that adding an experimental drug, bepirovirsen, to standard antivirals cured 19% of people with hepatitis B virus in two trials. The results are promising but may not be effective for the majority of the 240 million people worldwide living with chronic HBV infections.

Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring

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Employers rely heavily on hiring algorithms, but a study of 3.4 million job applicants found large-scale racial disparities and homogeneous outcomes. Algorithmic monocultures in hiring yield systemic rejections, with 25.87% of Black and 14.74% of Asian applicants facing adverse impact.

The EU Open Source Strategy

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The EU Open Source Strategy aims to strengthen Europe's digital sovereignty by supporting open source technologies and promoting their adoption in public and private sectors. It addresses challenges such as limited funding and dependence on non-EU technology providers through stronger coordination and governance frameworks.

DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision

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DeepSeek V4 Pro wins this head-to-head by being more exact where it matters: following instructions, matching schemas, and solving edge cases cleanly. GPT-5.5 Pro is still strong, but it gave away points with avoidable deviations.

Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)

The writer is unable to pursue snowboarding due to knee issues, but has come to accept and move on from the dream. They now focus on their current life and hobbies, finding satisfaction in the present moment.

Tiny hackable CUDA language model implementation

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The project implements an autoregressive sequence model using a transformer architecture that can process byte streams from various sources. It trains on text data but can model any byte stream, including DNA/RNA sequences, compressed data, and executable binaries.

Show HN: I Derived a Pancake

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The author created a pancake calculator to optimize pancake recipes by balancing four axes of quality: interior texture, tang, rise, and exterior crisp. The calculator uses stoichiometry to determine the optimal ratio of ingredients, including acid, leavening agents, and dairy, to create the perfect pancake.

Zig Structs of Arrays (2024)

Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank

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A UK think tank, FIPR, has raised concerns that proposed age verification measures for online services could harm adults and children, and may not effectively reduce online harm. FIPR suggests an alternative approach, "tagging and blocking," where internet sites tag their content and parents can adjust settings to block unsuitable content.

A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

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This repository contains Rust examples for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 using Embassy async framework, including sensors and displays. Examples include ADXL345 accelerometer, DS18B20 temperature sensor, DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor, and more.

Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post

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A software engineer is concerned about the impact of AI on their profession, feeling that domain knowledge is becoming commoditized and easily replicable with LLMs. They believe that competent software engineers will be replaced by cheaper, AI-powered alternatives.

What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)

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The /lost+found/ folder in Linux and Unix is for storing files that fsck, the filesystem check and repair command, recovers from a damaged filesystem. You would interact with it after a system crash or power failure, when fsck places recovered files there.

Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it

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Lathe is a tool that generates hands-on technical tutorials on demand using LLM skills, allowing users to learn by working through tutorials themselves. It's a combination of LLM skills and a Golang CLI used to store, manage, and view generated tutorials.

How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown

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Linear's speed comes from its local-first architecture, where the browser stores data and syncs with the server in the background. The app's design, including shortcuts and animations, also plays a crucial role in making it feel fast and responsive.

The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners

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IOCCC29 had a high submission quality and similar volume to last year, possibly due to improved website design and social media presence. The contest's rules and guidelines were rewritten for this year, and the next contest, IOCCC30, is planned for late 2026.

A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm

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The gcc libstdc++ algorithm and the forward-iterator algorithm are the same, but with different perspectives. The new algorithm is symmetric and performs swaps from right to left if the larger block is on the right.

Giant Floating Victorian Drydock

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Engineers built a 380-foot iron floating dry dock in the 1860s to repair ships in the Atlantic. It was towed to Bermuda and supported Royal Navy operations for over thirty years.

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

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The user, a 10-year experienced software engineer, is concerned that their domain expertise in finance and payment processing is becoming less valuable due to advancements in AI and LLMs, which can now perform tasks such as writing code and debugging. The user is worried about their long-term employability and is considering shifting their domain expertise to areas where LLMs are not yet ...