uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
A maintained uBlock Origin filter list to hide all traces of YouTube shorts videos. Copy the link below, go to uBlock Origin > Dashboard > Filter lists, scroll to the bottom, and paste the link underneath the ’Import…’ heading:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/master/list.txt > uBlock Origin subscribe link < (does not work on GitHub) Bonus: hide YouTube Comments https://raw.githubusercontent.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts/master/comments.txt […]
Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar
Arcmark is a native macOS bookmark manager built with Swift and AppKit that attaches to any browser window as a sidebar. Inspired fully by how the tabs organization works in Arc browser’s sidebar, so that the author could finally stop using this browser and try something else. arcmark-demo-video-1-720.mp4 Why Arcmark? Browser-Attached Sidebar – Float alongside […]
Amsterdam Compiler Kit
THE AMSTERDAM COMPILER KIT V6.2+ ================================ © 1987-2005 Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 2025-04-17 INTRODUCTION ============ The Amsterdam Compiler Kit is a complete compiler toolchain consisting of front end compilers for a number of different languages, code generators, support libraries, and all the tools necessary to go from source code to executable on any of the platforms […]
A Review of M Disc Archival Capability. With long term testing results
The ProblemAnyone who wishes to archive material, be it images, documents, or videos, is faced with an almost unsolvable problem when one considers our over-reliance on new technology. Computer drives are predicted to have a life span of five years, flash cards even shorter. Magnetic creep, doping chemical migration in semi-conductors, failing physical parts, and […]
Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say
“The nature and content of the Defendants’ communications with these technology companies” is “critical for determining whether they crossed the line from governmental cajoling to unconstitutional coercion,” EFF’s complaint said. EFF Senior Staff Attorney Mario Trujillo told Ars that the EFF is confident it can win the fight to expose government demands, but like most […]
A Programmer’s Loss of Identity
I was listening to a 404 Media Podcast (404media.co) interview with Samuel Bagg about his article The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. (apaonline.org). It’s a fascinating and unsettling claim that the way we process information and truth is through our social identities. Bagg explains the research behind this clearly and convincingly in the […]
Vim 9.2 Released
The Vim project is happy to announce that Vim 9.2 has been released. Vim 9.2 brings significant enhancements to the Vim9 scripting language, improved diff mode, comprehensive completion features, and platform-specific improvements including experimental Wayland support. New Features in Vim 9.2 Comprehensive Completion: Added support for fuzzy matching during insert-mode completion and the ability to […]
My smart sleep mask broadcasts users’ brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
12 Feb, 2026 I recently got a smart sleep mask from Kickstarter. I was not expecting to end up with the ability to read strangers’ brainwaves and send them electric impulses in their sleep. But here we are. The mask was from a small Chinese research company, very cool hardware — EEG brain monitoring, electrical […]
Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB
A minimal chess engine supporting a constrained subset of the game. sameshi.h: 1.95 KB 120 cell mailbox board negamax search alpha beta pruning material only eval capture first move ordering full legal move validation (check / mate / stalemate) Note not implemented: castling, en passant, promotion, repetition, 50-move rule. ~1170 Elo (95% CI: 1110-1225)240 games […]
How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? (2020)
How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have? Programming, philosophy, pedaling. Nov 30, 2020 Tags: programming, x86 This post is at least a year old. x86 is back in the general programmer discourse, in part thanks to Apple’s M1 and Rosetta 2. As such, I figured I’d do yet another x86-64 […]