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Stories by technetium

Death by a thousand slops (daniel.haxx.se)
L 177 pts 53 comments by technetium Jul 15, 2025 security Security / Privacy thread
Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin (andadinosaur.com)
L 93 pts 82 comments by technetium Oct 31, 2023 web Web Development thread
Lua is so underrated (nflatrea.bearblog.dev)
L 86 pts 63 comments by technetium Dec 26, 2024 lua Programming (General) thread
Terminals should generate the 256-color palette (gist.github.com)
L 84 pts 28 comments by technetium Feb 17, 2026 design Design / UX / Visualization thread
mold 2.0.0 (github.com)
L 82 pts 22 comments by technetium Jul 26, 2023 release thread
But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't “reasonable” any more (lkml.org)
L 75 pts 84 comments by technetium May 30, 2020 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
shit -- an implementation of Git using (almost) entirely POSIX shell (git.sr.ht)
L 72 pts 6 comments by technetium Feb 11, 2020 vcs Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Please Just Try HTMX (pleasejusttryhtmx.com)
L 71 pts 61 comments by technetium Dec 18, 2025 rantweb Web Development thread
When Zig is safer and faster than Rust (zackoverflow.dev)
L 70 pts 14 comments by technetium Mar 7, 2023 rustzig Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Speed of Rust vs C (kornel.ski)
L 66 pts 12 comments by technetium Mar 13, 2021 crust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
neovide – No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust (github.com)
L 65 pts 36 comments by technetium Feb 29, 2020 rustvim Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers (vulpinecitrus.info)
L 62 pts 33 comments by technetium Dec 12, 2025 web AI / Machine LearningWeb DevelopmentProgramming (General) thread
passerine: A small extensible programming language designed for concise expression with little code (github.com)
L 62 pts 11 comments by technetium Jul 28, 2021 plt Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread
delta - a viewer for diffs with syntax highlighting (github.com)
L 61 pts 16 comments by technetium Oct 16, 2020 programming Programming (General) thread
Asking nicely for root command execution (and getting it) (rachelbythebay.com)
L 60 pts 0 comments by technetium Aug 18, 2021 security Security / Privacy thread
How I found a bypass in Google's big anti-adblock update (0x44.xyz)
L 58 pts 5 comments by technetium Jul 13, 2025 web Web Development thread
Crafting Interpreters: A Review (chidiwilliams.com)
L 58 pts 4 comments by technetium Jun 22, 2022 compilers Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread
Debian/Raspbian rngd with -S0 will bite you after a week (rachelbythebay.com)
L 58 pts 2 comments by technetium Apr 20, 2022 linux Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Supertag — A tag-based file system for Linux and MacOS (amoffat.github.io)
L 55 pts 25 comments by technetium Jun 4, 2022 linuxmac Systems / Low-Level / OSApple / macOS / iOS thread
Wallops: A modern IRC client for classic Mac OS (jcs.org)
L 54 pts 0 comments by technetium Sep 13, 2024 historicalmacretrocomputing Apple / macOS / iOSGaming / Retro ComputingCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
What problems do people solve with strace? (jvns.ca)
L 52 pts 12 comments by technetium Apr 3, 2021 programming Programming (General) thread
What is this Gemini thing anyway, and why am I excited about it? (drewdevault.com)
L 52 pts 120 comments by technetium Nov 2, 2020 web Web Development thread
A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis (linyangchen.com)
L 50 pts 6 comments by technetium Jul 21, 2023 design Design / UX / Visualization thread
The Abiopause (drewdevault.com)
L 48 pts 20 comments by technetium Mar 4, 2020 cprogramming Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
How Zig is used at Uber (youtube.com)
L 47 pts 14 comments by technetium May 23, 2022 cc++transcriptvideozig Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming (General) thread
[Loose transcript.](https://jakstys.lt/2022/how-uber-uses-zig/)
Adding #[derive(From)] to Rust (kobzol.github.io)
L 45 pts 11 comments by technetium Sep 2, 2025 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
E-ink is so Retropunk (rmkit.dev)
L 45 pts 27 comments by technetium Aug 26, 2023 hardwarelinux Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
Why Modern Software is Slow–Windows Voice Recorder (randomascii.wordpress.com)
L 45 pts 13 comments by technetium Sep 30, 2022 performancewindows Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
Why are hyperlinks blue? (blog.mozilla.org)
L 45 pts 10 comments by technetium Aug 26, 2021 designweb Web DevelopmentDesign / UX / Visualization thread
Rust Is a Scalable Language (matklad.github.io)
L 44 pts 7 comments by technetium Mar 28, 2023 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS thread