Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst
4 October 2018 CIA Applicant Screening I first took a polygraph when I applied to the CIA and went through the applicant screening process. To prepare for the test, I read A Tremor in the Blood by David T. Lykken. The book described the use of control versus relevant questions as well as countermeasures such […]
What Not to Write on Your Security Clearance Form
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-6.51 e-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 […]
The Nekonomicon – Nekochan.net Archive, Updated
The Nekonomicon Volume 1 – Book of Endings What is the Nekonomicon? Volume 2 – Book of Notes The collected works of the Nekochan forums. Volume 3 – Book of Illustrations Nekochan photo gallery.
Show HN: Iron-Wolf – Wolfenstein 3D source port in Rust
Wolfenstein 3D in Rust The goal is to have a pixel, mod-friendly perfect recreation of Wolfenstein 3D in Rust. E1M1 Demo E1M1.mp4 Playing Iron Wolf 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 […]
macOS’s Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool
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. […]
CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate
CXMT halves DDR4 prices as YMTC gains ground in NAND, raising concerns over Korea’s legacy exposure China’s top DRAM manufacturer CXMT’s LPDDR5 DRAM (CXMT’s website) Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are locked in a race to mass-produce sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory, but Chinese rivals are making gains elsewhere — flooding the legacy DRAM market with chips […]
Show HN: Elecxzy – A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron
A lightweight, Lisp-free text editor with Emacs keybindings. Lisp非搭載・設定最小限。迷わず書ける、Emacs操作の軽量エディタ。 Warning 🚧 Project Status: Pre-release (Alpha) / 開発中（アルファ版） This software is currently in an early alpha stage. Features are under active development, and some functions may be incomplete or unstable. Use with caution. 本ソフトウェアは現在、開発初期のプレリリース（アルファ）版です。すべての機能が完全に動作する状態ではなく、挙動が不安定な場合があります。あらかじめご了承ください。 English | 日本語 elecxzy is a modern text editor built from the […]
zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32
The smallest possible AI personal assistant for ESP32. zclaw is written in C and runs on ESP32 boards with a strict all-in firmware budget target of
The Four-Color Theorem 1852–1976
History Robin Wilson Communicated by Notices Associate Editor Adrian C. Rice The four-color problem asks whether the regions of every map drawn on a plane or sphere can be colored with just four colors in such a way that any two regions sharing a common boundary line receive different colors. First posed by Francis Guthrie […]
Code has always been the easy part
When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in that time. I like to say (and it may even be true) that stopping and pivoting the team to standardizing on PHP was critical […]