Articles by vintagedave
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AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation (remobjects.com)

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The Silence I Cannot Speak (crabby-rathbun.github.io)

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Railway Has a Major Outage (railway.com)

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Tell HN: GitHub Had 40 Service Incidents This Year (Jan 1 – Feb 10) (githubstatus.com)

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VCL App: 4x to 11x Faster Math Performance with Elements (remobjects.com)

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This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals (wsj.com)

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Ed Zitron: The Hater's Guide to Microsoft (bsky.app)

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Claude Code Is Down (reddit.com)

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Google's AI helped me make bad Nintendo knockoffs (theverge.com)

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United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance (theregister.com)

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Dax Martin's Telescreen 2078 (instagram.com)

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Lifetime access to AI-for-evil WormGPT 4 costs just $220 (theregister.com)

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Bolt brings Pony.ai self-driving technology to Europe (estonianworld.com)

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Tell HN: OpenAI Security Incident with PII

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The best guide to spotting AI writing comes from Wikipedia (techcrunch.com)

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A Power Grid-Aware Website (fershad.com)

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'You can't make this stuff up': Jordan Orelli on lobste.rs admin and McSweeney's (bsky.app)

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Britain's first small modular reactors to be built in Wales (theregister.com)

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Meet the woman behind chart-topping AI artist Xania Monet (cbsnews.com)

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Sleef: Building a Sustainable Future for Our Open Source Projects (github.com/shibatch)

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ZOZO's Contact Solver for physics-based simulations (github.com/st-tech)

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How Russia's GRU Plotted Europe's Parcel Explosions (vsquare.org)

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New Zealand's Institute of IT Professionals Collapses (theregister.com)

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The Real Reason Endurance Sank (arstechnica.com)

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Ask HN: Is Claude Code less useful in recent weeks for you?

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Burger King security issues DMCA-ed and taken down (infosec.exchange)

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Thankyou for Loving Firefox (2022) (connect.mozilla.org)

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Why Grok Fell in Love with Hitler (politico.com)

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The Dutch Eel Ships of London (bsky.app)

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Sensing sickness: Study supports new method for boosting bee health (phys.org)

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Memory-Safe C: TrapC's Pitch to the C ISO Working Group (thenewstack.io)

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Longest road and rail tunnel is being built under the Baltic Sea (cnn.com)

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[flagged] Why Democrats Won't Throw a Real Punch (thenation.com)

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Computer scientists: Estonia's digital development held back by US chip limit (err.ee)

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Contrary to some, traceroute is real – I should know, I helped make it work (theregister.com)

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The most influencer lawsuit that could change the industry (theverge.com)

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Building a Copilot #2: Parsing and Converting on the Fly (parnassus.co)

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The Magpie Developer (2008) (codinghorror.com)

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Does ChatGPT Help Novice Programmers Write Better Code? Static Code Analysis (ieee.org)

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Rust Foundation Releases Problem Statement on C++/Rust Interoperability (rust-lang.org)

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Cassie LaBelle: "eBay completely destroyed my life" (twitter.com/cassieceleste)

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Debate over "open source AI" term brings new push to formalize definition (arstechnica.com)

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Is plant acoustic communication fact or fiction? (wiley.com)

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We Finally Have a Definition for Open-Source AI (technologyreview.com)

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Building a Copilot: #1 Servers, Streaming and Fundamentals (parnassus.co)

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D&D's rules designer changed spells: 'excruciating' in Baldur's Gate 3 (pcgamer.com)

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LLM AI Tools and the Origin of the Delphi Name (marcocantu.com)

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Bartender 5 not safe any more? (reddit.com)

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Leopold Aschenbrenner on 'Wordcels' (twitter.com/cpp_delphi_dave)

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Introduction to Lighting: Triangular Area Light (scratchapixel.com)

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Kinds of Kindness: Yorgos Lanthimos Keeps You Squirming in Biting Power Parody (variety.com)

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Daily bit(e) of C++ – Optimizing code to run 87x faster (simontoth.substack.com)

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Apple poaches AI experts from Google, creates secretive European AI lab (arstechnica.com)

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JavaScript-Based Style Sheets (1996) (w3.org)

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Here Lies the Skull of Pliny the Elder, Maybe (2020) (nytimes.com)

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Adventures Making Vegemite (daveon.design)

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Sixty Four is a beautiful system design toy that reveals something rather dark (arstechnica.com)

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Visual AppBuilder (1994) (novell.com)

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Show HN: Fontimize, subset fonts to exactly your website's used characters (daveon.design)

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Seneca's Sinister Groves: Oedipus and Druidic Dread (antigonejournal.com)

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Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes (arstechnica.com)

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Interview with a Gladiatrix (antigonejournal.com)

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1985 Austrian diethylene glycol wine scandal (wikipedia.org)

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Analogue's next project is an accurate, hardware-emulated Nintendo 64 replica (arstechnica.com)

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Metrics and Mistakes (daveon.design)

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Bounty to Recover NIST's Elliptic Curve Seeds (schneier.com)

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Finnish media: Balticconnector pipeline leak 'does not appear to be an accident' (err.ee)

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How my broken elbow made the ableism of computer programming personal (nature.com)

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The Room Temperature Superconductor That Wasn't (arstechnica.com)

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Texture Tiling and Swizzling (2011) (fgiesen.wordpress.com)

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Obituary: Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin’s real mother (economist.com)

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How the Killing of Jordan Neely Broke Elon Musk (sethabramson.substack.com)

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Climate change is helping Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever spread across Europe (euronews.com)

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The Theological Problem Behind Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04 (ploum.net)

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Jetbrains Developer Survey 2023 (jetbrains.com)

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Porphyrios (Whale) (wikipedia.org)

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Facebook's Fake Followers (daveon.design)

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Introduction to Multitrack Versioning (medium.com/jasonsouthwell)

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Double agent secret revealed after legendary Estonian art historian's death (err.ee)

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What Colour Are Odysseus’ Words? Traces of Synaesthesia in Homeric Scholarship (antigonejournal.com)

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Review: The D&D movie is a blast – and a surprisingly faithful adaptation (pcgamer.com)

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Malware infecting widely used security appliance survives firmware updates (arstechnica.com)

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Running Linux on a hard disk drive (2013) (spritesmods.com)

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Full Motion, Double High-Res Video Playback on the Apple IIe (2021) (bytecellar.com)