I have a complicated relationship with Hacker News. The site is the most important aggregator of geek news and a major source of traffic to this blog. At the same time, it has a fair number of toxic commenters, making it a dependable source of insults hurled…

Urea rose to 585 USD/T on March 10, 2026, up 0.09% from the previous day. Over the past month, Urea's price has risen 29.71%, and is up 52.15% compared to the same time last year, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark…

Now that we’ve covered the contenders for this test, I will cover how this test will be performed and go through the results. It was a long time for me, but for you, it’ll just be a few…

Aether is a modern, open-source ISP orchestration lab built with custom BNG, Access Routers and other network components.

Context-aware safety guard for Claude Code. A permission system you control. - manuelschipper/nah

The Shared Memory Network for AI Agents

A hacktivist group with links to Iran's intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technology company based in Michigan. News reports out of Ireland, Stryker's largest hub outside of the United…

It comes as Iranian attacks on ships intensify in the crucial Strait of Hormuz waterway.

Most developers know WireGuard as a VPN tool. Fewer know it as a lightweight, stateless cryptographic protocol you can use as a drop-in encryption layer for any UDP application — no VPN required.

An interactive visualization system designed to help non-experts learn about Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).

I love a good side-project. Like most geeks, I have a tendency to go down rabbit holes when faced with problems - give me a minor inconvenience and I’ll happily spend weeks building something far more elaborate than the situation warrants. There’s joy in…

A collective of slightly odd artists and makers

Preliminary data from our longitudinal AI impact study

There’s been a push over the last twelve years to move web traffic off unencrypted HTTP to encrypted HTTPS, to protect the general public from dragnet surveillance, gaping assholes on public wifi>airpwn, backhauls over unencrypted satellites, that kinda thing.…

I illustrate how _Data-oriented Design_ helped to remove annoying memory pressure and lock contention in multiple sorters used in the Matrix Rust SDK. It has improved the execution by 98.7% (53ms to 676µs) and the throughput by 7718.5% (from 18K elem/s to…

Sweaters made seamless on 3D-knitting machines, removing waste while increasing strength and comfort. Made on demand in Brooklyn NY.

An IDMerit data breach allegedly exposed over 203 million U.S. records containing personal details for identity verification, researchers reported.

I originally posted this on Mastodon, but I thought I’d add it here too: “What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else…