Neo Lee neolee

This is an OPML version of the HN Popularity Contest results for 2025, for importing into RSS feed readers.

Plug: if you want to find content related to your interests from thousands of obscure blogs and noisy sources like HN Newest, check out Scour. It's a free, personalized content feed I work on where you define your interests in your own words and it ranks content based on how closely related it is to those topics.

CVE-2022-23812

RIAEvangelist/node-ipc is malware / protestware

The RIAEvangelist/node-ipc module contains protestware peacenotwar.

Excerpt from RIAEvangelist/node-ipc:

as of v11.0.0 & v9.2.2 this module uses the peacenotwar module.

i3 Window Manager Cheat Sheet

$mod refers to the modifier key (alt by default)

General

startx i3 start i3 from command line
$mod+<Enter> open a terminal
$mod+d open dmenu (text based program launcher)
$mod+r resize mode ( or to leave resize mode)
$mod+shift+e exit i3

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

	import re

	from txtai import Embeddings, LLM

	# Prompt courtesy of the following link: https://github.com/codelion/optillm/blob/main/cot_reflection.py
	def cot(system, user):
	system = f"""
	{system}

	You are an AI assistant that uses a Chain of Thought (CoT) approach with reflection to answer queries. Follow these steps:

	#!/bin/bash
	## This gist contains instructions about cuda v11.2 and cudnn 8.1 installation in Ubuntu 18.04 for PyTorch

	#############################################################################################
	##### forked by : https://gist.github.com/Mahedi-61/2a2f1579d4271717d421065168ce6a73 ########
	#############################################################################################


	### steps ####
	# verify the system has a cuda-capable gpu

	(defun vulpea-project-p ()
	"Return non-nil if current buffer has any todo entry.

	TODO entries marked as done are ignored, meaning the this
	function returns nil if current buffer contains only completed
	tasks."
	(seq-find ; (3)
	(lambda (type)
	(eq type 'todo))
	(org-element-map ; (2)

	;; Example implementation of Norvig's Spellchecker in Clojure,
	;; using core.async
	;;
	;; There are probably some bugs in this.
	;;
	;; Original problem: https://github.com/ericnormand/spelling-jam
	;; from Lambda Jam, Chicago, 2013: http://lambdajam.com/
	;;
	;; Clojure core.async introduction:
	;; http://clojure.com/blog/2013/06/28/clojure-core-async-channels.html

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	#!/usr/bin/env sh

	##
	# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
	#
	# install it:
	# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh \| sh
	#