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Visit us on Threads! Opens External Webpage Visit us on Bluesky! Opens External Webpage Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests by D.W. Gibson Simon and Schuster, 354 pp., $19.99 (paper) I was…
Visit us on Threads! Opens External Webpage Visit us on Bluesky! Opens External Webpage Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America by Sam Tanenhaus Random House, 1,018 pp., $40.00 An aristocrat who goes in for…
Did you know...? LWN.net is a subscriber-supported publication; we rely on subscribers to keep the entire operation going. Please help out by buying a subscription and keeping LWN on the net. April 12, 2023 This article was contributed by Lars Wirzenius My name is Lars Wirzenius, and I was there…
Open source, the thing that drives the world, the thing Harvard says has an economic value of 8.8 trillion dollars (also a big number). Most of it is one person. And I can promise you not one of those single person projects have the proper amount of resources they need. If you want to talk about…
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway, let’s look at some…
In-App Browsers subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites and enable applications to severely undermine user privacy. In-App Browsers hurt consumers, developers and damage the entire web ecosystem. OWA recently met with both the Digital Markets Act team and the…
There has been quite a surge in interest towards desktop Linux lately. The userbase, atleast according to some metrics, seems to be climbing. I realised today that it's been 4 years for me since I did the switch. I have gathered some know-how that maybe a complete newbie could find useful. I also…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Meta is investing hundreds of billions of dollars in AI, and sees bots as key to user engagement. REUTERS/Manuel Orbegozo An internal Meta Platforms document detailing policies on chatbot behavior has permitted the company’s artificial intelligence creations to “engage a…
We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future! An internal Meta Platforms document detailing policies on chatbot behavior has permitted the company’s artificial intelligence creations to “engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual,” generate false…
Earlier today, I made the decision to remove all advertising from OSNews. From here on out, you will no longer see any ads, cookie banners, and other ad-related privacy-invasive technologies on this website. While this means a hit to my income, making OSNews even more reliant on our Patreon…
It seems Microsoft is absorbing GitHub deeper into Microsoft. GitHub’s CEO Thomas Dohmke is stepping down, and GitHub will be integrated into a new department within Microsoft. Which department will become the new stewards of GitHub, and the massive pile of open source code it’s hosting? You already…
Zig’s Lovely Syntax Aug 9, 2025 It’s a bit of a silly post, because syntax is the least interesting detail about the language, but, still, I can’t stop thinking how Zig gets this detail just right for the class of curly-braced languages, and, well, now you’ll have to think about that too. On the…
The dominant metaphor for a successful startup these days is the rocketship. The not so humble brags are all over x and the press, founders and VCs saying - “0-100m in ARR faster than any company in history” and “idea to $1m in revenue in a month.” I get why these are exciting. The stories are…
I live along the coast of America’s High-Capacity Server Coolant Reservoirs, formerly the “Great Lakes,” where the late summer air is all a hum with raw processing power. Sure, these colossal data centers drive up our utility bills and chew through our natural resources, but that’s a small price to…
WhenWhen armies invade, hurricanes form, or governments fall, a Wikipedia editor will typically update the relevant articles seconds after the news breaks. So quick are editors to change “is” to “was” in cases of notable deaths that they are said to have the fastest past tense in the West. So it was…
As the eldest daughter in a family of six siblings, with a brain wired for strong convictions, Amy Lentz was born to give advice. Lentz is a 36-year-old with sea green eyes and wavy brown hair worthy of a shampoo commercial. She works as the chief people officer — the head of human resources — at…
It started out harmlessly, a comment on hacker news roughly 16 years ago. From there it expanded to reddit, substack, twitter. And it increased in frequency, from every few months to every week, peaking at several times a day. It became an addictive, productive habit—I would scan the headlines for a…
I’ve spent a good deal of my professional life arguing against using protobuffers. They’re clearly written by amateurs, unbelievably ad-hoc, mired in gotchas, tricky to compile, and solve a problem that nobody but Google really has. If these problems of protobuffers remained quarantined in…
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There’s a good reason Denmark is known as the home of hygge. While the word is often translated as that warm, cozy feeling you get from soft lighting and good company, it’s really about something deeper: taking pleasure in sharing life’s simple moments. And that’s something Denmark does…
Joachim Trier’s masterful “Sentimental Value” opens with two theme-defining scenes. In the prologue, we’re introduced to a home that a child has reimagined as a character for an essay, wondering if it’s happier when its belly is full of life, asking if it feels pain when its window is slammed. In…
Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow 5 September 2025 Sergey GoryashkoBBC News Russian NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images For many Russians, going online has become harder as censorship has tightened access to popular apps Marina, a 45-year-old…
Among the software developers who use Microsoft's GitHub, the most popular community discussion in the past 12 months has been a request for a way to block Copilot, the company's AI service, from generating issues and pull requests in code repositories. The second most popular discussion – where…
Today, most people use LLMs as an information lookup and generation system. Develop a personalized workout plan for me. Summarize and respond to this email. Give me some recipes I can make with these ingredients. Without some new breakthrough in AI that opens the door to AGI, we probably won’t get…
written on December 26, 2024 Last year I decided that I want to share my most important learnings about engineering, teams and quite frankly personal mental health. My hope is that those who want to learn from me find it useful. This is a continuation to this. Over the years, I’ve been asked…
Alexis Osler, left, and Turner Osler display a QOR360 chair. Photo courtesy of QOR360 A Colchester doctor and his son are hoping to change the way people sit. What began as a basement project in 2018 now employs the equivalent of six full-time workers who produce active sitting chairs — a style that…
Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings blog archive projects travel talks about written on September 04, 2025 “Amazing salary, hackerhouse in SF, crazy equity. 996. Our mission is OSS.” — Gregor Zunic “The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 9-9-6, […].” — Daksh Gupta “The truth is, China’s…
06 Sep, 2025 I saw someone earlier post about how intrusive it felt to read a personal blog post. They made a point that folks like them who have grown up on short form microblogging like Twitter and Tumblr have a big leap to make when reading longer form blogposts. Not sure how many folks have that…
Julian Gollop's PC Gamer columns Did you know Julian Gollop has written four columns for us, including subjects like the creation of the deck builder genre? Find them all here. This article was originally published in issue 313 of Edge, an extremely good magazine about computer games. Subscribe here…
We’re just now starting to learn how to work with AI as software developers. The big idea: Claude can automate the coding, while you step into higher-value roles as project manager, designer, and software architect. The trick is to stop treating Claude as a chatbox and start treating it as a…
I was reading funding news last week, and I came to a big realization: Andreessen Horowitz is not a venture capital fund. A lot of people are thinking it. So there, I said it. And it’s not just Andreessen. It’s all the big funds. They started out as VC. They operate funds that invest in private…
Memos from Howard Marks Listen to Memo Archived Memos Subscribe The Calculus of Value On July 28, I flew to South America on a plane without Wi-Fi, leaving me without email or entertainment. What was I to do but start in on a memo? Interestingly, the things I wrote during that flight turned out to…
Smalltalk MVC is defined in Design Pattern as: MVC Consists of three kinds of objects. The Model is the application object, the View is its screen presentation, and the Controller defines the way the user interface reacts to user input. However this definition has been abused over the years - Back…
Contents Getting about (this post) This post is big! Skip whatever bores… Follow the ! It is an "I to I" explanation I wish I had long ago. I've referenced and toward the end, which may be the most practically useful section of this post. Update (2025-02-18): Links to my talk at Functional Conf…
In 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, leader of the New England transcendentalist movement, published an essay about the importance of cultivating self-reliance. Emerson wanted each individual to make their own moral compass of greater importance than the rules imposed by the state and society. It was a…
Two-and-a-half years ago, we flagged a looming “cloud crisis” at AWS. Today, the evidence has mounted. AWS is the crown jewel of the Amazon empire, generating ~60% of group profits, and dominating the lucrative Cloud Computing market. But it struggles to translate this strength into the new GPU/XPU…
When the populist strongman Juan Perón ran Argentina’s economy from his presidential palace in the mid-20th century—personally deciding which companies received favors, which industries got nationalized or protected, and which businessmen profited from state largesse—economists warned that the…
"This is the blog version of a talk I gave at LocoMocoSec 2024. It’s mostly a lightly edited transcript with some screenshots, so if you’d prefer, you can watch the video or just flip through the slides." This post is about how to keep secrets out of logs, and my claim is that (like many things in…
For a decade, GPUs have delivered breathtaking data processing speedups. However, data is growing far beyond the capacity of a single GPU server. When your work drifts beyond GPU local memory or VRAM (e.g., HBM and GDDR), hidden costs of inefficiencies show up: spilling to host, shuffling over…
Sim Wong Hoo was born on the 28th of April in 1955, the tenth child in a family of twelve children (five brothers, seven sisters). His family were Singaporean Hoklo with ancestry in the southernmost area of Fujian, China, and they spoke Hokkien. He grew up in a kampung called End of Coconut Hill in…
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