Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
1. We rewrote it in Rust so you have to upvote it (mullvad.net) 233 points by km 3 hours ago | 49 comments 2. Politicians who can’t use email try to ban the internet (decoded.legal) 28 points by ibobev 28 minutes ago | 25 comments 3. Amazon finally adds a feature that has been standard […]
The FreeBSD Foundation’s Laptop Support and Usability Project
Program Name Laptop Support and Usability Funding Body FreeBSD Foundation, and Quantum Leap Research Funding Status Approved on September 27, 2024 Program Sponsor Ed Maste Program Manager Alice Sowerby Objectives Deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range […]
A proposed amendment to ban under 16s in the UK from common online services
Earlier this week, I wrote about a proposed legislative amendment to attempt to compel VPN services providers to prevent anyone under 18 in the UK from using their VPNs. There’s a second amendment, by the same authors, to prevent under 16s in the UK from, well, doing an awful lot of things online. For this […]
AI Can Write Your Code. It Can’t Do Your Job
In May, OpenAI agreed to pay $3 billion for Windsurf, the AI coding assistant formerly known as Codeium. Three billion dollars. For a VSCode fork. The deal eventually fell apart, but what matters is that they wanted to do it in the first place. Last week, Anthropic made an interesting acquisition: they bought Bun, the […]
Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere
Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system, whose atmospheric composition challenges our understanding of how it formed. Officially named PSR J2322-2650b, this Jupiter-mass object appears to have an exotic helium-and-carbon-dominated atmosphere unlike any ever seen before. Soot clouds likely float through the […]
Engineers who dismiss AI
I refuse to use AI coding tools. I don’t need to try them to know they’re garbage. I have instincts. I tested ChatGPT in 2022, and asked it to write something. It (obviously) got it wrong; I don’t remember what exactly, but it was definitely wrong. That was three years ago and I haven’t looked […]
Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB
In the last few days, I built a shoot ’em up game by embedding a tiny custom bytecode VM and rendering the graphics using a fullscreen pixel shader. The result is a 3kB Windows executable. This was done for Langjam Gamejam, a 7-day challenge where you create a programming language and then use it to […]
Tiled Art
Welcome to the world of tessellation art, where talented artists craft a figure that interlocks with itself perfectly to fill the page. Dutch artist M. C. Escher mastered the form first, inspiring artists worldwide to create the captivating art shown on this site. At right, enjoy a gallery of artworks Above, enjoy a gallery of […]
8-bit Boléro
I perform Maurice Ravel’s Boléro on a variety of homemade 8-bit instruments. [embedded content] Download Some stats and details 9 hours and 42 minutes of footage 52 mixer channels 13 neck- and bowties 9 different instruments 1 crazy automaton 0 regrets This project took me a bit over half a year to finish. I hope […]
GotaTun — Mullvad’s WireGuard Implementation in Rust
GotaTun is a WireGuard® implementation written in Rust aimed at being fast, efficient and reliable. GotaTun is a fork of the BoringTun project from Cloudflare. This is not a new protocol or connection method, just WireGuard® written in Rust. The name GotaTun is a combination of the original project, BoringTun, and Götatunneln, a physical tunnel […]