Romania’s telecoms regulator is asking for TikTok to be suspended as the country’s defence council prepares to discuss cyber risks to its elections, after a little-known ultranationalist came from now
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Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. May 2004 (This essay was originally published in Hackers & Painters.) If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would b
This post will make more sense if you first read Dear Sir, You Have Built a Compiler . Dear friend, I regret to inform you that, despite your best intentions, you have built an Erlang. I know all you
I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather, so I’m taking the blog in a slightly different direction this week. I’m sometimes in a spot where young people ask me for advice. Sometimes it’s about a spec
Activist, politician, and author (born 1969) Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Lady Ferguson (born 13 November 1969) is a Somali-born Dutch-American writer, activist, conservative thinker and former politician. She is
Last week I wanted to replace my OpenVPN setup with WireGuard. The basics were well-documented, going beyond the basics was a bit trickier. Let me teach you want I learned. The basics But first, let’s
We keep trying to get LLMs to do math. We want them to count the number of “rs” in strawberry, to perform algebraic reasoning, do multiplication, and to solve math theorems. A recent experiment partic
Artificial intelligence The CEO of Google DeepMind cools expectations about the progress of AGI, which he sees as a lever to accelerate scientific research Demis Hassabis in London on October 9.Dan Ki
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Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has become a lot more popular, and excitement for its underlying protocol, ATProto, is growing. Since I worked
For as long as I’ve been around tech enthusiasts, there has been a recurring “decentralization dream.” While the specifics evolve, the essence remains the same: everyone would own a domain name and ho
Fun Package Fridays is a series where we ask members of the Flox team to share fun and perhaps not-so-well-known tools and utilities you can find in the Flox Catalog, powered by Nix. Today's edition c
There seems to be a lot of contention lately about whether you should go all-in on the cloud or to keep things as simple as possible. Those on the side of “build for the cloud” often frame this as clo
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This is part 4 of a series. Part 1 is here, part 2 is here, and part 3 is here. Come back next week for my thoughts on the future of desktop search. I thought this was going to be the last blog post a
This is part 3 of a series. Part 1 is here, part 2 is here. Come back next week for my thoughts on the next 10 years of Tracker. This post took a lot of research. I wanted to properly answer the quest
This is part 2 of a series. Part 1 is here. Come back next week to find out more about the history and future of Tracker. It was only a single line in the release notes. There weren’t any new graphics
This is part 1 of a series. Come back next week to find out more about the changes in Tracker 3.0. It’s too early to say “Job done”. But we’ve passed the biggest milestone on the project we announced
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
(Image credit: Canon) It may have slipped your mind, given that it was four months since the announcement, but the Canon EOS R1 – the company's brand new flagship camera – is on sale right now. Just t
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↤ Philosophy of How to Learn ↑ How to Learn ↑ Consensus ↦ Userland Disk I/O Posted 2024-11-0610 minute reading time With thanks to Thomas Munro for the Windows corrections, and Pratyush Mishra for the
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s App Store onto users’ iPhones or iPads. Thousands of software developers have written these apps for Apple’s “iOS” mobile plat
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I was talking to one of my students earlier, and lent him a book to read over summer. It was only after he’d left that I realised that — for me at any rate — the book I’d given him is probably the mos
Buying sexy sports cars, changing hairstyles, and finding a mistress used to be the classic signs of a midlife crisis—at least for older generations. But millennials have it so bad in today’s economy
My first experience with the Canon EOS R1 was in the sweltering heat of Phoenix, Arizona with a pre-production unit. There is of course, only so much that you can test with a pre-production unit under
(Image credit: Canon) The first whispers about the Canon EOS R7 Mark II have hit the internet – and it's claimed that the camera will be the company's first APS-C body to possess a stacked image senso
The moment we begin to see that there are infinitely many kinds of beautiful lives, we cease being captive to the myth of normalcy — the cultural tyranny that tells us there are a handful of valid way
“If you can fall in love again and again,” Henry Miller wrote as he contemplated the measure of a life well lived on the precipice of turning eighty, “if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can
I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get it right, because I’m good at it. Shipping in a big tech comp
I had the chance to do David Beazley’s SICP course towards the end of 2022. I have only good things to say. There are a lot of free resources out there [1]. Having Dave as a guide, I was amazed at how
It’s been more than five years since The PGP Problem was published, and I still hear from people who believe that using PGP (whether GnuPG or another OpenPGP implementation) is a thing they should be
Sometimes, I think I'm falling apart. Then, I talk to my friends. One spent a whole winter getting a babysitter for her toddler daughter in the middle of the day and then used the time to go to the mo
There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good. Regular activity not only strengthens muscles but can bolster our bones, blood vessels, and immune system. Now, MIT engineers have found that exercise
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