News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

JosephRedfern

Re:Logo Programming Language on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:19PM (#49665537)
I had a great teacher in primary school who introduced us to programming with Logo. We ran a variant called MSWLogo - it was my gateway drug, and how I learned what "paisley" was. Good times!
Re:Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:48AM (#49656231)
It came of kinda passive aggressive to me, to be honest!
Re:Audacity 4.0 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:32AM (#49549145)
This doesn't feel like very constructive feedback. Have you actually tried 4.0 yet, or were you too put off by the Discord link to proceed?

IMO Audacity has never been particularly native-feeling, and I don't buy the McDonalds analogy - this release is still lightweight. It'd be a fair comment if they'd e.g. move to Electron, but Qt 6 is hardly that.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026) on Thursday July 02, 2026 @09:39AM (#48761457)
Runway | Trust & Safety Engineer | London / NYC / SF / Seattle / Remote (US + Europe) | Full-time

We're hiring a Trust & Safety Engineer to join Runway's AI Safety and Responsibility team. Runway builds AI world models - general-purpose simulators for robotics, science, and storytelling — and this role exists to keep that safe as it reaches millions of users.

Stack: TypeScript API on ECS/Fargate, Python/PyTorch inference backend, Claude + Gemini for safety/moderation, ClickHouse for abuse signal detection, AWS + GCP, Terraform, Prometheus/Grafana.

It's a generalist role, hands-on across the full engineering lifecycle - from model pre-training through productionisation. We're looking for 3+ years production Python or TypeScript, comfort across the stack, and experience with data pipelines (ClickHouse a plus).

Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runway-ml/c3ebd871-ea78-4b71-80a2-7..., or feel free to reach out with any questions (info in bio).

We're also hiring for a bunch of other roles, across Engineering, Research, GTM, Marketing, Finance, Legal: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/runway-ml?utm_source=kW6D9goed3

Show HN: Plonk – Spotlight Search style Python interpreter

https://github.com/JosephRedfern/plonk

I've just released Plonk, a Spotlight Search style Python interpreter interface for macOS.As someone who often uses Spotlight Search for quick calculations, I was left yearning for more - a way of quickly running snippets of code and bridge the gap between a calculator and a full on script. Plonk solves that problem by dropping you in to a persistent Python interpreter with a global hotkey. The...

( Read More... | no comments | on HN )
Re:Gyroflow: Video stabilization using gyroscope data on Friday May 15, 2026 @06:17AM (#48146797)
Out of curiosity - how do you sync gyro data with video timecode?
I've heard that LLMs can perform worse with these more efficient representations compared to e.g. JSON, because they've seen far fewer examples of them during training. Do you know how true that is?
Re:Raycast for Windows Is Here on Sunday November 23, 2025 @12:14PM (#46025188)
I think you're being oversensitive, especially in the context Raycast adding support for Windows.

The whole purpose of Raycast is to improve productivity and UX, be that under macOS or Windows. It'd be a pretty shitty launch announcement if the blog post didn't mention the problem that they're trying to solve.

> live video on the self checkout screen with the notice "Monitoring In Progress"

That really winds me up too - it shows such contempt for legitimate customers.

I imagine it may not be a proxy in the true sense, but a headless browser that's "proxying" the application process rather than the network traffic itself.
There's a really interesting article from Tavis Ormandy about the instruction set and virtual machine used in RAR: https://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2012/09/fun-with-constrained-prog....

The docs for the toolchain he implemented (https://github.com/taviso/rarvmtools) allude to a number of bugs, but doesn't sound (??) like they're related to this vulnerability.

Re:PostgreSQL Anonymizer on Friday January 17, 2025 @12:11PM (#42740531)
There's a write up from Alexey of different approaches considered for clickhouse-obfuscator here: https://clickhouse.com/blog/five-methods-of-database-obfusca....

The summary is pretty funny:

> "After trying four methods, I got so tired of this problem that it was time just to choose something, make it into a usable tool, and announce the solution"

These guys are building foundational models for this purpose: https://reveng.ai/. The results are quite compelling, and they have plugins for your favourite reverse engineering tools.
It'd be interesting to learn more about how this line was identified - was it by eye, or is there some neat analysis that was (or could be) performed to find it?
Re:Bluesky is breaking the rules in the EU on Monday November 25, 2024 @01:37PM (#42238800)
Yeah, this feels like a non-story.
Re:Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @05:50AM (#42192667)
Because they're interesting?
Nitpicking here, but you mean DHCP rather than NAT, right?
It's linked to at the end, but I'm surprised that this article didn't feature/mention ClickHouse's own write-up of this undertaking. Part 1 here: https://clickhouse.com/blog/building-a-data-warehouse-with-c..., part 2 here: https://clickhouse.com/blog/building-a-data-warehouse-with-c....

Aspects of the post seem to borrow quite heavily from the original write-ups, which are worth a read.

Re:Hetzner introduces GPU server for AI training on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @08:23AM (#41646569)
That's not a like-for-like comparison, though. ~2TB local NVMe storage included here, 10 (70%) more CPU cores, and more than twice the RAM.
Re:Winamp Legacy player source code on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @11:39AM (#41637737)
There is some pretty creative swearing throughout this codebase - very entertaining!
Re:Docker Desktop Alternative on Friday September 20, 2024 @03:54PM (#41605053)
+1 for OrbStack, it’s one of the few software subscriptions I pay for, and is worth every penny. Leagues head of Docker Desktop.
Re:What happens when you touch a Pickle to an AM radio tower? on Friday September 06, 2024 @10:50AM (#41466749)
I'm curious as to how much paperwork was involved here. Was the pickle grounding out the transmitter and (presumably) interrupting the broadcast not an issue?
Re:JPlag – Detecting Software Plagiarism on Friday August 16, 2024 @11:35AM (#41267289)
Is this also effective at detecting code duplication within a codebase?
Re:Browser Based XSS Scanner on Thursday August 15, 2024 @08:15AM (#41255034)
I don't think OP is suggesting that the payload list is the interesting thing here, rather the overall approach
Re:Apple Maps on the web launches in beta on Thursday July 25, 2024 @07:38AM (#41067369)
I thought the same, until I realised I still had `/unsupported` in the URL. Spoofing a Chrome UA and dropping that path from the URL let me load (and use) Apple Maps fine under Firefox.
Maybe slight off topic, but does anyone know what the deal is with the NVMe K/V command set spec? There was a fair bit of noise made about it at the time, but I’ve not seen any drives that support it (despite a few enquiries)
I remember some crazy insecure drivers on Android drivers back in the day (2012-13 or so) -- stuff like `/dev/fbN` and `/dev/input/eventN` being world read/writeable, allowing unprivileged screen and input capture from any application.

It was far more basic than what's described in this blog post, but really good fun to poke around at.

That's what breakdown companies (like the AA and RAC in the UK) do. It's slow enough that you'd only want to use it to get just enough juice to get to a proper charger, though - they use 3.5kW or 5kW chargers: https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/rac-news/rac-begins-rolling....

I'd imagine it's way less efficient and way more polluting than using the national grid, too.

Older »