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Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/reading-and-writing-are-less-symmetric-than-you-probably-think/
15•luu•3d ago

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vatsachak•18m ago
This is true even at the CPU cache level so it's probably going to trickle down all the way.

For example Jon G gave a talk at Jane Street about how he had a mysterious performance bug that was later attributed to cores fighting over the same cache line

https://youtu.be/tND-wBBZ8RY?is=624w3YoDN2QYBWuD

Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/appraisal-by-ai-model-driven-victim-prioritization-in-the-volt...
40•khalidkhair•1h ago•1 comments

We Took over ChatGPT Accounts

https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai
186•armcat•5h ago•94 comments

Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable

https://piefed.world/post/1503394
174•DeepLogin•5h ago•120 comments

Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament

https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament
589•input_sh•5h ago•343 comments

Switch Lowering in GCC

https://xoranth.net/gcc-switch/
138•signa11•8h ago•27 comments

Simple circuits can create complex behaviors

https://aatishb.com/myriad/lets-build-a-brain/
79•aatish•4d ago•13 comments

Casio Watches of the 1980s

https://www.casio.com/us/watches/50th/Heritage/1980s/
3•karagenit•20m ago•0 comments

Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation'

https://torrentfreak.com/ex-meta-researcher-torrented-pirated-books-dataset-deleted-it-due-to-all...
38•WesleyGrant782•1h ago•16 comments

Digital minimalism

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html
180•wilbertliu•10h ago•128 comments

Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/10/31/
112•fovc•4h ago•71 comments

Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/reading-and-writing-are-less-symmetric-than-you-probably...
15•luu•3d ago•1 comments

AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura

https://thedataexchange.media/leo-de-moura-lean-aws/
127•datascientist•2d ago•30 comments

Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32

https://zebra.rodeo/en/blog/marelleo/
139•foOg•4d ago•40 comments

Hunting 'Zombie Accounts' in Active Directory

https://www.fabian.fyi/2026/10/zombie-hunt.html
16•optimiz•1d ago•1 comments

The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes

https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/
532•domhudson•1d ago•380 comments

My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii

https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/
347•DHowett•22h ago•105 comments

Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)

https://github.com/chris124567/cfsolve
274•costco•2d ago•94 comments

Northflank Breached

https://status.northflank.com
461•js4ever•1d ago•339 comments

Breaking the open web won't stop the bad bots

https://www.techpolicy.press/breaking-the-open-web-wont-stop-the-bad-bots/
302•raybb•3d ago•131 comments

Tell HN: Scribd Breached

296•x______________•13h ago•109 comments

The oldest ice disappears and the Stone Age emerges from it

https://www.sciencenorway.no/archaeology-climate-culture/the-oldest-ice-is-disappearing-the-stone...
182•dxs•20h ago•80 comments

Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX

https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium
350•nanna•1d ago•51 comments

Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code

https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-...
255•taubek•1d ago•296 comments

Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

https://phorion.io/blog/offical-claude-code-vsx-compromise/
942•_chall•1d ago•538 comments

Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights

https://github.com/dbreunig/nesformer
274•dbreunig•23h ago•135 comments

Longitudinal Changes InWearable-Captured PhysiologyBefore Sudden Cardiac Death

https://www.jacc.org/doi/epdf/10.1016/j.jaccas.2026.110397
56•brandonb•3d ago•24 comments

The federated code forge

https://tangled.org/blog/forge/
313•zlliang•1d ago•90 comments

Azure's Weakest Link – Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises

https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2026/10/one-root-case
327•swq115•1d ago•59 comments

How this AI Agent ended +$517.61 in profits during a 10% market sell-off

https://twitter.com/DeployFinance/status/2116556597082116490
3•bsv_gtd•24m ago•0 comments

Keeping the Bonfires Lit

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/out-margins/keeping-bonfires-lit
13•Petiver•1d ago•8 comments