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who-shot-jr··on Prompt caching for cheaper LLM tokens
What a fantastic article! How did you create the animations?
who-shot-jr··on Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft
The Universe is Hostile to Computers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8
who-shot-jr··on Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window
There is also https://github.com/FelixKratz/JankyBorders

Bizarre that this has not been fixed by Apple, it has been an annoyance well before Tahoe. Relying on the three dots in the top left corner to see which window is on top gets frustrating.

who-shot-jr··on A woman on a mission to photograph every species of hummingbird
Amazing! hummingbirds are so cool.
who-shot-jr··on Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year
Would like to switch to Linux but hardware/laptop options are horrible compared to MacBook M series machines.
who-shot-jr··on Tarsnap is cozy
Switched away from Tarsnap to BorgBase - https://www.borgbase.com/
who-shot-jr··on Paged Out #6 [pdf]
Nice, really liked the AI stuff.
who-shot-jr··on WebGL Fluid Simulation
I am utterly amazed by people who can do stuff like this.
who-shot-jr··on Polymarket Paid US Social Media Influencers for Election Content
Archive link: https://archive.ph/ouJmu
who-shot-jr··on Hacker Typer
A true hacker typer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzZAtrw_XDI

who-shot-jr··on Reflections on Palantir
Fantastic read!
who-shot-jr··on Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website
Page them :)
who-shot-jr··on Wuffs: Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely
Could you use this to make sure users uploading files to your website are correct (i.e only jpegs and valid image data)? But in a fast and safe way, or is this overkill?
who-shot-jr··on How did authorities identify the alleged LockBit boss?
Click Here podcast - 129. LockbitSupp tells us: UK and US have got the wrong guy

"In an interview, LockbitSupp, head of the Lockbit cybercrime operation, told us that the U.S., U.K. and Australia have the wrong guy — he’s not Dmitry Khoroshev, the 31-year-old Russian national they’ve charged with hacking. What’s more, he says more attacks are coming."

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/click-here/id122507730...

who-shot-jr··on Show HN: I built a math website the internet loved, I'm back with more features
This looks fantastic, getting better at maths is something I have always wanted to do.

Also, some of the commenters have posted python code but it is not formatted/styled.

who-shot-jr··on The Nature of Code (2nd Edition)
Daniel Shiffman is a legend! love his teaching style.
who-shot-jr··on A visual interactive guide to Bloom filters
Amazing! Very well explained.
who-shot-jr··on EncroChat
If anyone is interested, the BBC made a podcast about EncroChat - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p09dj358
who-shot-jr··on Bluesky signups are now open to the public
All the single word handles seem to be taken! :(
who-shot-jr··on Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
Take a look at broot https://github.com/Canop/broot
who-shot-jr··on A TV Show Forced Britain's Devastating Post Office Scandal into the Light
lol
who-shot-jr··on Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers
great work!
who-shot-jr··on Shopify live dashboard
Stunning! I wonder how they did the globe animation with real time data.
who-shot-jr··on Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search
https://archive.ph/vZwNu
who-shot-jr··on FTX "insurance fund" calculated by multiplying trading volume by random number
import fraud
who-shot-jr··on The father of modern spam speaks (2002)
"Canter was disbarred from practicing law by the Supreme Court of Tennessee in 1997, partly because of his e-mail advertising campaign."

I wonder what else he was up to :)

who-shot-jr··on Fx – Terminal JSON Viewer
Looks great!

What is the website https://fx.wtf/ built-in?

who-shot-jr··on Chicago’s parking meter disaster
There is a podcast about this - "The City That Sold Itself To Wall Street":

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales/the-city-th...

who-shot-jr··on Jacobin: A more than minimal JVM written in Go
Inception GC
who-shot-jr··on The Nature of Code (2012)
Daniel Shiffman is amazing! An excellent teacher.
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