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Are Compilers Deterministic?

🚀 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 22 Feb 2026 Betteridge says “no,” and for normal developer experience that answer is mostly right. (Also, you’re absolutely right! and here’s an em—dash so that you know that I used ChatGPT to help me write this.) Here’s my take. There’s a computer science answer and an engineering answer. The computer science answer: a compiler is deterministic as a function of its full input state. Engineering answer: most real builds do not control the full input state, so outputs drift. I worked at Ksplice back…
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sophiaeagent-beep/n64llm-legend-of-Elya: World’s First LLM-powered Nintendo 64 Game — nano-GPT running on-cart on a 93MHz VR4300

sophiaeagent-beep/n64llm-legend-of-Elya: World’s First LLM-powered Nintendo 64 Game — nano-GPT running on-cart on a 93MHz VR4300

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A nano-GPT language model running entirely on a 93 MHz VR4300 MIPS CPU. No cloud. No cheating. Real 1996 silicon, real neural inference. Legend of Elya is an original N64 homebrew game featuring Sophia Elya — a character-level LLM (nano-GPT) running live on-cart on the Nintendo 64's VR4300 CPU. Sophia generates responses in real-time, constrained to printable ASCII, with no floating-point (the N64's FPU lacks trunc.w.s) — everything runs in Q8.7 fixed-point arithmetic. This is believed to be the first neural language model to…
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Password managers less secure than promised

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: People who regularly use online services have between 100 and 200 passwords. Very few can remember every single one. Password managers are therefore extremely helpful, allowing users to access all their passwords with just a single master password. Most password managers are cloud based. A major advantage this offers users is the ability to access their passwords from different devices and also share them with friends and family members. Security is the most important feature of these password managers since, ultimately, users store sensitive data…
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datapartyjs/MeshTNC: MeshTNC is a tool for turning consumer grade LoRa radios into KISS TNC compatible packet radio modems

datapartyjs/MeshTNC: MeshTNC is a tool for turning consumer grade LoRa radios into KISS TNC compatible packet radio modems

💥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MeshTNC is a tool for piping LoRa data to and from consumer grade radios. Simple serial cli built into the firmware Transmit raw bytes (hex) over LoRA using serial CLI LoRA packet logging to serial (hex) BLE packet sniffing KISS-TNC mode Install PlatformIO in Visual Studio Code. Clone and open the MeshTNC repository in Visual Studio Code. See the example applications you can modify and run: Download precompiled firmware releases - github.com/datapartyjs/MeshTNC/releases We haven't built a flashing tool yet. You can flash builds using the…
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Home |inputlag.science

Home |inputlag.science

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Home |inputlag.science inputlag.science Welcome Hello traveler, welcome to the repository of knowledge about input lag in gaming. The input lag in a gaming system, or any interactive system, is the latency between the user input and a reaction on the screen. Input lag is an issue that has crept in the industry, little by little, without being noticed over the years. Nowadays, finding a gaming system with a latency similar to early 2000 without image degradation is a definitive challenge. It has come to a…
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Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: On February 20, 2026, at 17:48 UTC, Cloudflare experienced a service outage when a subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).The issue was not caused, directly or indirectly, by a cyberattack or malicious activity of any kind. This issue was caused by a change that Cloudflare made to how our network manages IP addresses onboarded through the BYOIP pipeline. This change caused Cloudflare to unintentionally withdraw customer prefixes.For…
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GitHub – Ragnaroek/iron-wolf: wolf3D in Rust

GitHub – Ragnaroek/iron-wolf: wolf3D in Rust

🚀 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Wolfenstein 3D in Rust The goal is to have a pixel, mod-friendly perfect recreation of Wolfenstein 3D in Rust. E1M1 Demo E1M1.mp4 just run-sdl-shareware should work out of the box on a cloned repo. It will run the shareware version, that is also checked in along with the code as testdata. Alternatively you can play the web version here: https://wolf.ironmule.dev/ If you have a copy of the full game files you can upload them there and play the full version in your browser: A config…
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What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Form

What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Form

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: What Not To Write On Your Security Clearance Form as reported in the [REDACTED] list and RISKS Date: 01 Apr 88 1620 PSTFrom: Les Earnest <LES...@S...>Subject: The "previous account" referred to in RISKS-6.51e-t-a-o-n-r-i Spy and the FBI Reading a book got me into early trouble--I had an FBI record by age twelve. This bizarre incident caused a problem much later when I needed a security clearance. I learned that I could obtain one only by concealing my sordid past. A friend named Bob and…
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sandbox-exec: macOS’s Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool

sandbox-exec: macOS’s Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 17 Apr, 2025 EARLY ACCESS If you want a deeper, up-to-date treatment of sandbox-exec—including modern macOS pitfalls, Mach/XPC failures, and working profiles—I’m documenting it as an extended handbook, sandbox-exec: The Missing Handbook (early access, $12). What is sandbox-exec?sandbox-exec is a built-in macOS command-line utility that enables users to execute applications within a sandboxed environment. In essence, it creates a secure, isolated space where applications can run with limited access to system resources – only accessing what you explicitly permit. The concept behind sandboxing is…
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