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GitHub – microsoft/litebox: A security-focused library OS supporting kernel

GitHub – microsoft/litebox: A security-focused library OS supporting kernel

🚀 Read this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: A security-focused library OS NoteThis project is currently actively evolving and improving. While we are working toward a stable release, some APIs and interfaces may change as the design continues to mature. You are welcome to explore and experiment, but if you need long-term stability, it may be best to wait for a stable release, or be prepared to adapt to updates along the way. LiteBox is a sandboxing library OS that drastically cuts down the interface to the host, thereby reducing attack surface. It…
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LLMs could be, but shouldn’t be compilers

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I’ve been going round and round in my mind about a particular discussion around LLMs: are they really similar to compilers? Are we headed toward a world where people don’t look at the underlying code for their programs? People have been making versions of this argument since Andrej Karpathy’s “English is the hottest new programming language.” Computer science has been advancing language design by building higher and higher level languages; this is the latest iteration: maybe we no longer need a separate language to…
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I Now Assume that All Ads on Apple News Are Scams

I Now Assume that All Ads on Apple News Are Scams

✨ Explore this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In 2024, Apple signed a deal with Taboola to serve ads in its app, notably Apple News. John Gruber, writing in Daring Fireball said at the time: If you told me that the ads in Apple News have been sold by Taboola for the last few years, I’d have said, “Oh, that makes sense.” Because the ads in Apple News — at least the ones I see1 — already look like chumbox Taboola ads. Even worse, they’re incredibly repetitious. I use Apple News to keep up on topics that…
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Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Daily links from Cory Doctorow

✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: #20yrsago UK nurses want to supply clean blades and cutting advice to self-harmers https://web.archive.org/web/20060206205108/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2025748,00.html #20yrsago PC built into whisky bottle https://web.archive.org/web/20060210043104/https://metku.net/index.html?sect=view&n=1&path=mods/whiskypc/index_eng #15yrsago Startups of London’s “Silicon Roundabout” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/feb/06/tech-startup-internet-entrepreneurs #15yrsago Antifeatures: deliberate, expensive product features that no customer wants https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/antifeatures-at-the-free-technology-academy #15yrsago Steampunk Etch-a-Sketch https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/erbnf/a_steampunk_etchasketch_we_made_for_a_friend_this/ #10yrsago There’s a secret “black site” in New York where terrorism suspects are tortured for years at a time https://web.archive.org/web/20160205143012/https://theintercept.com/2016/02/05/mahdi-hashi-metropolitan-correctional-center-manhattan-guantanamo-pretrial-solitary-confinement/ #10yrsago Error 53: Apple remotely bricks phones to punish customers for getting independent repairs https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/feb/05/error-53-apple-iphone-software-update-handset-worthless-third-party-repair?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #10yrsago Toronto City Council defies mayor, demands…
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A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content

A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content

🚀 Read this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: A new bill in the New York state legislature would require news organizations to label AI-generated material and mandate that humans review any such content before publication. On Monday, Senator Patricia Fahy (D-Albany) and Assemblymember Nily Rozic (D-NYC) introduced the bill, called The New York Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Requirements in News Act — The NY FAIR News Act for short. “At the center of the news industry, New York has a strong interest in preserving journalism and protecting the workers who produce it,” said Rozic…
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Jane Street Blog – What if writing tests was a joyful experience?

Jane Street Blog – What if writing tests was a joyful experience?

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” that makes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratory programming in a Jupyter notebook—with feedback cycles so fast and joyful that it feels almost tactile. Having used them for some time now this is the only way I’d ever want to write tests. Other languages call these “snapshot” tests—see for example Rust’s expect-test, which seems to have been inspired by our library, or Javascript’s Jest. We were first put onto the idea ourselves…
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artifact-keeper · GitHub

artifact-keeper · GitHub

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Your packages. Your servers. Your freedom. Website · Docs · Live Demo · MIT Licensed A full-featured, enterprise-grade artifact registry you can self-host in minutes. Drop-in replacement for JFrog Artifactory and Sonatype Nexus with zero feature gates — security scanning, SSO, replication, all 45+ package formats — everything ships in the open-source release. No open-core. No "enterprise edition." No surprise invoices. Repository Description Stack artifact-keeper Backend server, CLI, and Docker deployment Rust, Axum, PostgreSQL, Meilisearch artifact-keeper-web Web frontend Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui artifact-keeper-ios…
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Generative Pen-trained Transformer – Teddy Warner

Generative Pen-trained Transformer – Teddy Warner

đź’Ą Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: A few years ago, back when GPT-3.5 was first released, and I still spent most of my days sitting in a high school classroom, I had a project idea. Perhaps one of my best named project ideas to date: The Generative Pen-trained Transformer or GPenT for short. GPenT was awesome, I was going to build out a color-changing pen plotter with some funky coreXY-esque kinematic, and alongside it, try my hand at writing one of those SVG Blob Generators to generate a bunch of shapes…
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The Programmer’s Paradox: Systems Thinking

đź’Ą Explore this must-read post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: There are two main schools of thought in software development about how to build really big, complicated stuff.The most prevalent one, these days, is that you gradually evolve the complexity over time. You start small and keep adding to it. The other school is that you lay out a huge specification that would fully work through all of the complexity in advance, then build it.In a sense, it is the difference between the way an entrepreneur might approach doing a startup versus how we build…
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Things UNIX can do atomically — Crowley Code!

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: This is a catalog of things UNIX-like/POSIX-compliant operating systems can do atomically, making them useful as building blocks for thread-safe and multi-process-safe programs without mutexes or read/write locks.  The list is by no means exhaustive and I expect it to be updated frequently for the foreseeable future. The philosophy here is to let the kernel do as much work as possible.  At my most pessimistic, I trust the kernel developers more than a trust myself.  More practically, it’s stupid to spend CPU time locking around…
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