“Rabbit Test” Unwins the Hugo Award
I cannot convey the supreme depths to which I’d rather be doing anything else with my Saturday afternoon other than writing this blog post, but here we are. If you have been blessedly insulated from the current furor over the 2023 Hugo Awards — good for you! (I’m going to have to explain this post […]
Show HN: RAM Prices
$0.62 $19.99 32 GB 1 1333 MHz DDR3 RDIMM A-Tech 32GB RAM Replacement for Dell SNP0R45JG/32G | DDR3 1333MHz PC3-10600 RDIMM 4Rx4 1.35V ECC Registered 240-Pin DIMM Server Memory Module (SNP0R45JG/32G-ATC) $0.69 $10.99 16 GB 1 1600 MHz DDR3 RDIMM A-Tech 16GB RAM Replacement for IBM-Lenovo 47J0237 | DDR3 1600MHz PC3-12800 RDIMM 2Rx4 1.35V ECC […]
VPP on FreeBSD
Ever since I first saw VPP – the Vector Packet Processor – I have been deeply impressed with its performance and versatility. For those of us who have used Cisco IOS/XR devices, like the classic ASR (aggregation services router), VPP will look and feel quite familiar as many of the approaches are shared between the […]
Serving a Website from a Git Repo Without Cloning It
Serving a Website From a Git Repo Without Cloning It – mediocregopher’s lil web corner .%*. .-. .%@@@+. .–=%@@@- =@@@@@@- :–+@@@@@@@@@* *@%@@@@@%: :–=#@@@@@@@@@@@@#@@+ @@::%@@@@@@-: :::-=%@@@@@@@@@@@@@@%#*- :@* .@@ =@@@@@@@@@+-:::::::-=*@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@%##- @@: #@# +%@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@%%#*: -@@ #@- *%@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@%%%#= %@= @@: -=+++== .. @@: @@ . -@@@ +@@ #@% =@@@@- +@@@@# *+ %@# #@- -@@@@@@@. +@@@@@% .%@@@@= @@: @@: +@@@@@@@@@ […]
Google Cloud’s New Assured Open Source Software Service (2022)
The figure above details the many stages of the software supply chain for an open source dependency. Enterprises have widely different entry points to this lifecycle – some organizations may build packages from source themselves, while others pull packages from repos that they trust. A few organizations including Google centralize control and actively secure each […]
Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation | I’m trying some experimental tiers on Patreon to see if I can get to substack-like levels of financial support for this blog without moving to substack! If I ask myself a question like “I’d like to […]
The steep rise of Hackernews in Google rankings
I had a weird experience today. I saw the forum Hackernews in my Google results, a forum that I often visit to learn about cool opensoure projects and internet news, but I never found it on google before. Did it benefit from Googles hidden gem update? This November update changes the ranking system to prioritize […]
Meticulous (YC S21) is hiring to eliminate UI e2e tests
Hey HN! I’m Gabriel, CEO and co-founder of [meticulous.ai](https://meticulous.ai/?utm_source=hn). Meticulous is a tool which creates and maintains a suite of e2e tests that exhaustively covers your web application – without any developer intervention whatsoever. We’ve also eliminated flaky tests (really!). No flakes. The tech behind this is fascinating. Meticulous passively records sessions and uses these […]
The AI Bullshit Singularity
I’m sure we are all familiar with the idea of a technological singularity. Humans create an AI that is smart enough to create an even smarter successor. That successor then creates an even smarter successor. The process accelerates through a positive feedback loop, until we reach a technological singularity, where puny human intelligence is quickly […]
Sora could ruin peoples lives
Like in the time when typewriter was invented, plan text stenographers were threatened, but typewriter created new jobs like “typist” for them. Similarly, computers brought new jobs to plan typists. In the same way, not going to far future, this new wave of AI will open a new paradigm of even newer jobs for almost […]