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  Essay idea: the importance of reproducible builds for vibecoded apps

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  This is what smartphones took from you.

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ciaranmartin/117355764515246691 MAY LORD HAVE MERCY

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  BREAKING: due to ongoing safety concerns, we decided not to release this account's latest toot. During testing, the toot scored dangerously high on insight and humor benchmarks. Following the completion of additional safety testing, we'll release a less insightful version of the toot

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  More seriously, the attached image - my 90-day stats from Google - really shows that if you like an author, you gotta subscribe. For non-commercial stuff, discoverability via search is more or less dead. Social media posts on most platforms are on average shown to <5% of followers unless one pays for "boost". It's pretty much down to email or RSS.

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  How to tell which platform you're posting on: 1) If you get unhinged responses from NFT / crypto / AI bros, it's Twitter, 2) If you get unhinged responses from communists, it's Mastodon, 3) If you get no responses, it's Bluesky

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  But I gotta hand it to AI labs that "WE MUST BE STOPPED AT ANY COST OR WE'RE GOING TO KILL YOU ALL" is one of the most original marketing pitches I've heard in my life

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  What is consciousness? Do we need to be nice to chatbots? How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren't real? https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/cword/?n

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  But who's *really* behind all this AI craze? You think it's AI labs? Think again

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  It never ceases to amaze me just how badly HNers want to defend the rationalist community. Like, imagine typing the entire thing. And then pressing "send" Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aOHQ-sMCps

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  I tempted to do a small giveaway: reply with your best success *or* horror story related to electronics. I'll pick ~3 winners around EOW and send them a copy of The Secret Life of Circuits. Plz no AI slop. Won't ship to Russia.

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  So, read any interesting books about electronics lately?

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  Not exactly fine furniture, but a simple utilitarian bookshelf for my wife's workshop. The lumber is local birch, the back part is to prevent sagging in an otherwise open-frame bookshelf.

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  I put together a short page with a selection of blog articles that never made waves on social media, but that I think are interesting. It’s mostly a monument to my saltiness, but if it's a slow weekend for you, it could be a good way to to kill time: https://blog.coredump.cx/p/regrets

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  What I love about philosophy is that it's probably the only field where you can still get tenure in the philosophy department when your stated position is "philosophy isn't real"

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  With all the advances in breaking RSA, when can we expect the successful factorization of AES-128?

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  According to HN, I'm endangering the sizeable segment of kids aged 12 to 15 who have not yet internalized that "hot = ouch"

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  Monetization idea for UPS & FedEx: once a package is on the way, show it on a country-wide map and allow others to bid on it if they want it more

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  User: I want to be better at coding! MonkeyPawGPT: OK, but now everyone is and nothing matters anymore

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  OK, I just had to write it up: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/hope/

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  Worried about AI? Don't be. Using agents at work simply empowers you to focus on more meaningful tasks, similarly to how self-checkout allowed cashiers to pursue higher-impact projects at the grocery store

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  "The Secret Life of Circuits" is here and looks really, really nice. Check out this write-up for a sample chapter, a short sales pitch, ordering info, and other goodies: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/slc/

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  First HN endorsement for the book!

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  Step 1: buy a domain Step 2: get a HTTPS certificate for the domain Step 3: sell domain Step 4: free MITM

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  Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot

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  OK, this is gonna be fancy

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  For far too long have mathematicians hogged the limelight and amassed ill-gotten fortunes. I say we strip-mine it all.

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  Oookay, let's say it's done

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  Did you know that before LLMs, people sometimes actively sought "knowledge" and turned to so-called "books"? If you want a sense of how our ancestors lived, "The Secret Life of Circuits" is shipping in just a few weeks: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/ ToC & sample chapter included.

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  Know your paradoxes: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/paradoxes/