Technology Commentary

If secrets are hard-coded or left unprotected in source code, the proverbial keys to the kingdom are at greater risk of exposure.

Without a much bolder plan from OpenText, the Micro Focus portfolio isn't worth anything close to the amount of money paid for it.

The kidney allocation score determines who gets a life-saving transplant. Here’s how it was made.

In the ’90s, Microsoft created a cartoon paperclip that it quickly retired. Its developers never imagined the virtual assistant would become a cultural icon.

Building on composable parts such as APIs, microservices, and the cloud will actually require more tech talent. Here's why.

Survey details how tech pros and managers operated under extreme pressure during COVID and its aftermath -- but, on average, digital transformation projects were delivered three times faster than ever before.

Technological leaps always take us by surprise. What happens when every visual image ever created can be remixed and expanded? Van Gogh, Superman, or Moses. These link to an open search engine, so …

There was an article in the Guardian this week about supermarkets selling “wonky” fruit during the current drought. It got me thinking about how our perceptions of what is good, normal …

There is probably very little among the topics covered here at Hackaday that doesn’t have its roots somewhere in scientific research. Semiconductor devices for example didn’t simply pop…

After 2.5 years and over 1,000 articles here, I’m leaving How-To Geek. It’s a bittersweet feeling, since I love this place, but new adventures are calling. Before I go, I thought it would be fun to round up my favorite and most popular features with behind-the-scenes tidbits. I think you might enjoy it, too.

Declarative code explained with examples

The gatekeepers keep disappearing. When it cost $500,000 to produce a record album, you could assume that it was going to reach some people and not be completely amateurish. Today, many songs in th…

Bitcoin.com: A set of hackers managed to impersonate Binance chief communications officer (CCO) Patrick Hillmann in a series of video calls with several representatives of cryptocurrency projects. The attackers used what Hillman described as an AI hologram, a deepfake of his image for this objective, and managed to fool some representatives of these projects, making […]

Addressing the increasing demands of the front-end

I am not a lawyer. Today I wanted to package the tea command line utility, which is a CLI frontend for the gitea git forge. Gentoo’s guidelines for Go helpfully states: “Since Go programs are statically linked, it is important that your ebuild’s LICENSE= setting includes the licenses of all statically linked dependencies. So please make sure it is accurate”. Naturally, I’m happy to oblige. So you know, I go looking at the licenses for tea’s dependencies, and it turns out one of those dependencies doesn’t have a license at all! I’m no expert, but this may violate the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines that distributions like parabola strive to adhere to. Oh fun.

MIT Technology Review obtained Prince’s investor presentation for the “RedPill Phone,” which promises more than it could possibly deliver.

Neural networks and back propagation, John Carmack Interview, Clock Bound Wait, Emergent Leader, Distributed Systems with Liquid Haskell

Here’s a theory you hear a lot these days: “Microsoft is finished. As soon as Linux makes some inroads on the desktop and web applications replace desktop applications, the mighty empir…

There is no doubt that the cloud is one of the most significant platform shifts in the history of computing. Not only has cloud already impacted hundreds of billions of dollars of IT spend, it’s still in early innings and …

A deep dive into writing detailed planning docs from one of the most successful companies in the world

During a conversation in the #gotime channel of Gopher Slack, Jerod mentioned that some people paint with a blank canvas while others paint by numbers. In this 8th episode of the maintenance series, we’re talking about maintaining our knowledge. With Jerod’s analogy and a little help from a Leslie Lamport interview, ou...

From “Hello World” to Architect

Have pro users stayed away from Mac OS X because they weren’t happy with the previous crop of PowerMacs? Or, have they postponed buying new PowerMacs because they aren’t happy with Mac OS X?

A recent satellite hacking shows that end-of-life satellites may be vulnerable.

Sponsored GPUs have revolutionized AI and HPC over the last decade. But they didn’t do this on their own. The AI and HPC boom could not have happened without massive amounts of data, requiring corresponding leaps in file system and storage technology. So, what is the state of the art today? What effect will the […]