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kps··on Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth
GNU reimplementations showed up late enough not to care about running in a 64K address space.
kps··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
>Is macOS UX actually well thought out to begin with?

To begin with, yes. The decline only started around ten years ago.

kps··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
It's not the finger, it's the arm. Remember light pens?
kps··on Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
Amazon chose for itself a reputation as a place that nobody with a choice will work. I'm pleased to see that pay off.
kps··on Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month
All Matter Lives!
kps··on Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada
kps··on Color Names
From the README, this is a collection of names, not a prescriptive proposal for definitive names. Walk over to your local hardware store's paint section and you'll see the same hundreds of names for off-white variations.
kps··on What’s getting pwned right now
Still dark for me (Firefox 158.0 on Linux)
kps··on Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans
Hypothesis: Weighted to the postwar western fashion of amplifying Enlightenment self-critique into self-sabotage. What if you ask the same question in Mandarin?
kps··on Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
> the number of facebook users has been declining while the old folks staying on the platform grow ever closer to death

They don't mind; it's a targeted market fit. They have Instagram and WhatsApp for other demographics.

kps··on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security
The management class is certainly itching to ditch the remaining nerds.
kps··on OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud
There's always a silver lining!
kps··on Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
The POC video did have an anime catgirl. Maybe we're finally getting the cyberpunk dystopia we were promised.
kps··on Updated PHP version released to GitHub
Already, including backports to 7 and 5.
kps··on PHP 8.2.35
I see Debian has packages.

5.6.40-104+0~20261021.134+debian12~1.gbp7401dd

7.4.33-31+0~20261021.121+debian12~1.gbpe9c428

kps··on PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out
Debian has a new build of 7.4 at least.
kps··on PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 out
Two minutes before the announced 1400UTC? Or have I forgotten how to math?
kps··on I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories
You write sixteen lines, and what do you get?

Another PR and technical debt.

kps··on Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States
How to Wet Friends and Inundate People
kps··on JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
> for a wide variety of usecases

For a wide variety of usecases, not for every isolated usecase. Today, AVIF is better for showing people ads^W^W^W web content delivery. This article is titled “JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases”. The other article recently discussed¹ is subtitled “Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec” and ends:

> JPEG XL isn't useless; it is genuinely compelling technology for use cases beyond the Web.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690554

(Either way, can we agree to take webp out behind the barn?)

kps··on Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran
We're all stuck writing COBOL now.

“I used to be a mathematics professor. At that time I found there were a certain number of students who could not learn mathematics. I then was charged with the job of making it easy for businessmen to use our computers. I found it was not a question of whether they could learn mathematics or not, but whether they would. […] They said, 'Throw those symbols out—I do not know what they mean, I have not time to learn symbols.' I suggest a reply to those who would like data processing people to use mathematical symbols that they make the first attempt to teach those symbols to vice-presidents or a colonel or admiral. I assure you that I tried it.” — Grace Hopper

kps··on Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran
Fortran (before 90) ignored characters after column 72 because the IBM 704 had a 36-bit word and read each row of a card into two words. (The card reader could be wired with a plugboard to select any 72 of 80 columns from the card.)
kps··on Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran
My second university co-op placement, which led to my first real job of 16 years, included writing a FORTRAN 77 compiler front end. It's crazy by modern standards; in some cases you have to see as far as the second-last character of a multi-line statement to determine what kind of statement it is.
kps··on Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran
Other way around. I–N were integers rather than float because mathematics convention uses i, j, … as indices and n, m as sizes or counts.
kps··on Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI
Customers' desires are a nuisance, but if you ignore them long enough they go away.
kps··on Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font
Julia example: https://juliamono.netlify.app/#fnref:zscode

I can't include an example here because VC News strips out math.

kps··on Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font
Yeah, Unicode shipped 35 years ago. If you want a ≠ then use a ≠.
kps··on Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany
> a weeks worth of water in my basement

Eh, that'll take care of itself when the sump pump loses power.

kps··on Show HN: How Random Are You?
I guess I've skewed the totals a little, but the site agrees that the digits of π are random.
kps··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
Friends and I have a $10 VPS for a five or ten domains of ‘old web’ and email.
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