Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000
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Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji
paulbutler.org
PgAssistant: OSS tool to help devs understand and optimize PG performance
github.com
Bad Smart Watch Authentication
sprocketfox.io
League of Legends data scraping the hard and tedious way for fun
maknee.github.io
The year I didn't survive
bessstillman.substack.com
Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting
blog.archive.org
I tasted Honda’s spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)
haterade.substack.com
Show HN: Mapping the Unix Magic Poster – An Interactive Annotation Project
drio.github.io
Improved evaluation times with pre-resolved Nix store paths
determinate.systems
Intensional Joy (a concatenative account of internal structure)
pithlessly.github.io
Show HN: Mikey – No bot meeting notetaker for Windows
github.com
DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
deadbeef.sourceforge.io
Extend (YC W23) is hiring engineers to build LLM document processing
jobs.ashbyhq.com
I wrote a static web page and accidentally started a community (2023)
localfirstweb.dev
Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024
backblaze.com
The missing tier for query compilers
scattered-thoughts.net
Storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs (2022)
fastcompany.com
Durable plastic gets a sustainability makeover in novel polymerization process
phys.org
The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars
theturnsignalblog.com
Dose-dependent effects of LSD in double-blind placebo-controlled study (2020)
nature.com
Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator
The problem with MySQL foreign key constraints in Online Schema Changes (2021)
code.openark.org
> Isn’t there some Instant DDL?
Run into this way too many times at my last few jobs. MySQL has some serious land mines built in, which result in many companies just adopting the policy of never upgrading the schema during business hours.
You are basically required to implement pt-online-schema-change in order to reliabily do basic changes.