Sony’s Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games
The PS5 ‘Portal’ companion device can now do more than just remote play, thanks to a new hack that sees PSP emulation running on the handheld. Well, that didn’t take too long. Sony’s remote-play PlayStation Portal handheld has been hacked — meaning it can now be used for emulation, perfect for playing back your PSP […]
Job posts for workers without degrees are booming, but not the hiring
A jobseeker attends a jobs fair in Castle Hayne, North Carolina, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Many of the market’s top companies with the largest workforces in the nation are touting degreeless jobs and actively removing degree requirements from more job postings. The idea of hiring based on […]
Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox
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Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning [video]
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Building a hybrid native application with Gleam and Tauri
I took a few hours this weekend to experiment with building a hybrid native app with Gleam and Tauri. This post is a summary of that project. If you’d just like to see the code, I have published that at: https://forge.wezm.net/wezm/gleam-tauri-experiment Screenshot of the application. Introduction Gleam is statically typed functional language originally written to […]
Hono on Cloudflare Workers is 3x faster than alternatives
You want to know which cloud providers offer the lowest latency? In this post, I compare the latency of Cloudflare Workers, Fly, Koyeb, Railway and Render using OpenStatus. I deployed the application on the cheapest or free tier offered by each provider. For this test, I used a basic Hono server that returns a simple […]
Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations
Google regularly launches updates to its algorithm to continuously improve search results quality. Think of these updates as a refresh of the system where rankings change: some websites see an improvement while others see a decline. At HouseFresh, we keep an eye on Google’s news and documentation because these updates can literally make or break […]
What is a species, anyway?
Naturalists have been trying for centuries to catalog all of the species on Earth, and the effort remains one of the great unfinished jobs in science. So far, researchers have named about 2.3 million species, but there are millions — perhaps even billions — left to be discovered. As if this quest isn’t hard enough, […]
OTP at a High Level
Erlang/OTP is different from most programming environments out there, even those that also use a virtual machine. Erlang has a strong opinion about how your applications should be structured, the level of isolation they should have, and a separation between what Erlang’s VM can do, and what your software can do. It’s not just a […]
About Y Combinator’s software team (which is currently hiring)
Y Combinator is hiring a few people to work with us on our small software team in SF. In particular, we’re hiring a couple of people to help us build some websites we run, and also someone who’s good with infrastructure to help us keep things running. But I thought that rather than write a […]