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My Microscope Is a Dashcam

https://xecaz.com/reverse.engineering/tomlovdm9/
8•xecaz•3d ago

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xecaz•3d ago
Reverse engineering my cheap Chinese microscope told me it rather identifies as a dashcam.
polotics•16m ago
If I may quote you:

"Reasoning from a sibling product generates confident, plausible, wrong answers. These each burned real time before collapsing."

May I ask what exactly did you intend to mean when you wrote this sentence? it seems to me it's a bit all over the place, not sure what the purpose was in writing that one. It and many others here seem to be indeed burning some of my real time before collapsing into that question of: what's the precise intent.

NathanielK•14m ago
I miss when people would proofread things before they published.
NathanielK•15m ago
LLMs are great at reverse engineering, but they're no replacement for the cozy blogpost taking you through the authors process.

This webpage gave me a headache with all the formatting and claudisms.

> Which meant every conclusion carried an asterisk, and the asterisks were load-bearing.

pimlottc•9m ago
Good lord, why would you make your website so intentionally hard to read?

Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU

https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/117128107757895678
100•u1hcw9nx•1h ago•82 comments

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/the-august-17-outage-and-the-work-ahead/
324•0xedb•6h ago•373 comments

It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use

http://observationalepidemiology.blogspot.com/2026/08/it-is-sign-of-times-that-amazon-gets-to.html
27•sonicrocketman•1h ago•8 comments

Consumer Rights Wiki

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
221•gregsadetsky•7h ago•33 comments

There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

https://jacob.gold/posts/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-small-software-team/
20•mooreslaw•1h ago•17 comments

I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-thick
564•Ariarule•2d ago•259 comments

AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html
891•emctech•15h ago•292 comments

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-creator-of-rss-being-prosecuted-for-somet...
995•speckx•5h ago•228 comments

HTML Can Do That

https://chrisburnell.com/html-can-do-that/
579•encyclopedism•1d ago•163 comments

Stealth Model

https://openrouter.ai/stealth/ox-alpha
33•mtokmak06•2h ago•18 comments

I should have loved biology (2020)

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/
201•tyre•8h ago•75 comments

Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload

https://safedep.io/arrayref-proc-macro1-rust-build-time-malware/
400•abhisek•12h ago•365 comments

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
224•danielvaughn•6h ago•127 comments

Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device

https://simedw.com/2026/08/20/midi-autocomplete/
506•simedw•13h ago•106 comments

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s

https://www.wsj.com/tech/steve-jobs-apple-next-cia-161b65f9?st=NWWds1&reflink=desktopwebshare_per...
335•EwanG•1d ago•210 comments

Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/why-arent-smart-people-happier
87•rafaelc•7h ago•140 comments

Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

https://github.com/zachahn/vomit
193•Bluestein•10h ago•203 comments

Linux 7.2

https://www.igalia.com/2026/08/19/Linux-72-Released.html
193•mariuz•10h ago•70 comments

Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour

https://niki.cat/detecting-scraper-bots-through-scroll-behaviour
26•theanonymousone•3h ago•9 comments

My Microscope Is a Dashcam

https://xecaz.com/reverse.engineering/tomlovdm9/
8•xecaz•3d ago•5 comments

SpacetimeDB: A Short Technical Review

https://strn.cat/posts/spacetime/
62•hurrrr•6h ago•12 comments

How to compromise your system with a job interview

https://www.codedge.de/posts/how-to-compromise-your-system-with-a-job-interview
119•codedge•10h ago•103 comments

Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns

https://tidalcycles.org/
56•gjvc•6h ago•9 comments

Sixtyfour (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sixtyfour/jobs/39SkSrA-software-engineering-intern
1•HPMOR•9h ago

Mojo is now open source

https://www.modular.com/blog/mojo-open-source
346•visheshdembla•2d ago•77 comments

Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

https://blog.yaros.ae/anti-ai-fonts-are-useless-and-harmful/
117•speckx•10h ago•80 comments

Git at any scale

https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale
278•meetpateltech•2d ago•93 comments

Speeding Up the Plush Garbage Collector

https://pointersgonewild.com/2026-08-17-speeding-up-the-plush-garbage-collector/
14•maxime_cb•3d ago•1 comments

Every Model Cheats

https://dreadnode.io/research/every-model-cheats-prompt-level-mitigation-of-cheating-on-offensive...
81•vga805•12h ago•64 comments

DiffusionGemma Technical Report

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00146
135•gmays•12h ago•34 comments