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How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it (laurenleek.substack.com)
L 99 pts 23 comments by df Dec 10, 2025 aivisualization AI / Machine LearningDesign / UX / Visualization thread
Slop is the new name for unwanted AI-generated content (simonwillison.net)
L 86 pts 31 comments by df May 9, 2024 vibecoding AI / Machine Learning thread
Engineering for Slow Internet (brr.fyi)
L 79 pts 8 comments by df May 31, 2024 networkingweb Web DevelopmentData / Databases / InfrastructureInternet / Digital Culture thread
Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically (sillycross.github.io)
L 79 pts 3 comments by df Nov 22, 2022 luaplt Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Reverse Engineering TicketMaster's Rotating Barcodes (SafeTix) (conduition.io)
L 68 pts 56 comments by df Jul 9, 2024 reversingsecurity Systems / Low-Level / OSSecurity / Privacy thread
Pineapple ONE: Open source 32 bit RISC-V CPU that you can make at home (pineapple-one.github.io)
L 59 pts 5 comments by df Sep 16, 2023 hardware Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Maker / DIY / Hardware thread
The First Stable Release of a Memory Safe sudo Implementation (memorysafety.org)
L 57 pts 38 comments by df Aug 29, 2023 releaserust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
pglite: Lightweight Postgres packaged as WASM into a TypeScript library for the browser, Node.js, Bun and Deno (github.com)
L 56 pts 27 comments by df Feb 25, 2024 databaseswasm Web DevelopmentProgramming (General)Programming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / InfrastructureCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
How are zlib, gzip and zip related? (stackoverflow.com)
L 52 pts 7 comments by df May 3, 2024 compscihistorical Programming Languages / CS TheoryCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Map of GitHub (anvaka.github.io)
L 48 pts 9 comments by df May 14, 2023 programmingvisualization Programming (General)Design / UX / Visualization thread
How to contact Google SRE: Dropping a shell in cloud SQL (offensi.com)
L 47 pts 6 comments by df Aug 20, 2020 security Data / Databases / InfrastructureSecurity / Privacy thread
gpg.fail (gpg.fail)
L 42 pts 31 comments by df Dec 27, 2025 cryptographysecurityvideo Security / Privacy thread
Humane AI – Pico Laser Projection – $230M AI Twist on an Old Scam (kguttag.com)
L 37 pts 5 comments by df Apr 17, 2024 hardwarevibecoding AI / Machine LearningMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Making a nice API of Amtrak's ugly API (mgwalker.github.io)
L 35 pts 11 comments by df Mar 10, 2024 apireversingweb Web DevelopmentSystems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
F5 Says Nation-State Hackers Stole Source Code and Vulnerability Data (securityweek.com)
L 34 pts 2 comments by df Oct 15, 2025 security Programming (General)Security / Privacy thread
Sitina1 Open-source Camera (gitlab.com)
L 34 pts 1 comments by df Sep 29, 2024 arthardware Programming (General)Maker / DIY / HardwareCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Types are moving to the right (elizarov.medium.com)
L 34 pts 25 comments by df Jan 13, 2023 plt Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
Xz format inadequate for general use (nongnu.org)
L 33 pts 32 comments by df Aug 26, 2025 unix Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
WebAssembly: A promising technology that is quietly being sabotaged (kerkour.com)
L 33 pts 46 comments by df May 23, 2024 rantwasm Web DevelopmentProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
&udm=14 | Google web search parameter (udm14.com)
L 33 pts 1 comments by df May 22, 2024 satirevibecodingweb AI / Machine LearningWeb Development thread
Conditionally Disabling Code with Comptime in Zig (mitchellh.com)
L 32 pts 15 comments by df Sep 12, 2024 zig Programming (General) thread
Tech Independence (sive.rs)
L 32 pts 46 comments by df Mar 28, 2024 devops Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
mess with dns (messwithdns.net)
L 32 pts 0 comments by df Nov 21, 2023 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
bash_tls: A minimal TLS 1.2 client implementation in a pure Bash script (github.com)
L 31 pts 8 comments by df May 9, 2024 programmingsecurityunix Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General)Security / Privacy thread
XKCD 2585 Implemented: Round the world (lam.io)
L 29 pts 0 comments by df Mar 4, 2022 databasesmath Data / Databases / InfrastructureScience / Math / Physics thread
That Time Berners-Lee Got Knocked Down to a Poster Session [2015] (hapgood.us)
L 28 pts 10 comments by df Sep 18, 2024 historicalweb Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
scala-3-is-yaml.scala (gist.github.com)
L 27 pts 11 comments by df Jun 28, 2024 scala Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
How a single ChatGPT mistake cost us $10,000+ (archive.is)
L 27 pts 56 comments by df Jun 13, 2024 programmingvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General) thread
Automerge 2.2: Rich Text (automerge.org)
L 27 pts 5 comments by df May 9, 2024 compscidistributedweb Web DevelopmentProgramming Languages / CS TheoryData / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated (youtu.be)
L 27 pts 0 comments by df Jul 4, 2023 graphicsvideo thread