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The XY Problem (2014)
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It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out
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ABC: A C compiler for printable x86
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I Asked ChatGPT to Explain Some Jokes to Me
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Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode’s code quality
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A neat XOR trick
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ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword
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ChatGPT, Rot13, and Daniel Kahneman
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How the famous “comfy shorts” quote worked in Japanese Pokémon (2018)
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Ken Thompson's NFA regex patent (1971)
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Mel's Hack – The Missing Bits
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Java Apache Commons Text vulnerability
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Project Euler on a Microcontroller
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Wordle in Python using literate programming
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What chords do you need?
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Finding an authorization bypass on my own website
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Game Boy Wordle clone: How to compress 12972 five-letter words to 17871 bytes
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Do not use 'week year': YYYY
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Faster IndexOf for Substrings in .NET
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Log4j 2.16: Certain strings can cause infinite recursion
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Kobayashi’s Maid Dragon Translation Notes
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Spotify Codes – Part 2
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“Death” one of 5 ways to lose at Chess, according to PGN standard
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An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object
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Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30? (2017)
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The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed (2019)
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ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ causes "Invalid MD5 checksum on messages"
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The XY Problem (2014)
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The TeX tuneup of 2021 [pdf]
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Don't use functions as callbacks unless they're designed for it
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Knuth-Morris-Pratt string-searching algorithm: DFA-less version
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KFC Mascot Col. Sanders Talks Malbolge Programming on General Hospital
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Reverse Engineering Source Code of the Biontech Pfizer Vaccine: Part 2
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Reverse Engineering the Source Code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine
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Why is subtracting these two times in 1927 giving a strange result? (2011)
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Fix Boyer-Moore searcher with the Rytter correction
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New Grad vs. Senior Dev
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What is the smallest possible valid PDF?
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Nightmare – Guided Intro to Binary Exploitation/Reverse Engineering
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Programming trick questions
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Chrome 80 Is 30% Slower Than Chrome 75
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The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed
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The XY Problem (2014)
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$50M CTF from Hackerone – Writeup
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The Matrix Code Came from Sushi Recipes
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Billion laughs attack
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LOLWUT: a piece of art inside a database command
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Why does man print “gimme gimme gimme” at 00:30?
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Java.­math.­BigDecimal toString is not thread safe
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Avast Antivirus Remote Stack Buffer Overflow with Magic Numbers
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1213486160 has a friend: 1195725856
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Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (2014)
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The tyranny of the Hollerith punched card
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Oh, Go Ahead, Overthink FizzBuzz (2008)
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Down the Rabbit Hole of the Ol' Reddit Switcharoo
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DEFCON 23 Badge Challenge
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Ethereum: what’s about to happen
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Java 7 changed the structure of String
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Breaking the Zyzzyva encryption
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Being Sneaky in C
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Sherlock Holmes Debugging
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Defcon Badge Walkthrough
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The Last Line Effect
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Nerdsniping: A glimpse into a stubborn mind
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Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”?
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Cryptic Crossword: Amateur Crypto and Reverse Engineering
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Source Code in TV and Films
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The Worst Programming Environment in the World?
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How 1927-12-31 23:54:08 happened twice
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Patent #7028023: Linked List
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Billion laughs
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Printers are spontaneously printing odd "SQL" strings
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Shortest program to print "Never gonna give you up..."
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A little game to demonstrate timing attacks.
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Xkcd Password Generator
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Screw Hashbangs: Building the Ultimate Infinite Scroll
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Writing a GPT-4 script to check Wikipedia for the first unused acronym
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Lolwut: A piece of art inside a database command (2018)
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Insult Passphrase Generator
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