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Article: Beyond the Benchmark: A Metrics-Driven Approach to Sustained iOS Performance on Real Devices
iOS performance engineering often defaults to a mental model where performance is a property of a component. Performance is instead an emergent behavior of the interaction between application code, device hardware, OS resource management, network conditions, and user behavior patterns over time. This article gives a direct, first-party path to capturing performance issues using Xcode Instruments. By Vasuki Uday Kiran Vudathala
Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (A Surprisingly Long Answer)
9 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
A new filesystem for pidfds (2024)
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Windows Phone Link Exploited by CloudZ RAT to Steal Credentials and OTPs
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an intrusion that involved the use of a CloudZ remote access tool (RAT) and a previous undocumented plugin dubbed Pheno with the aim of facilitating credential theft. "According to the functionalities of the CloudZ RAT and Pheno plugin, this was with the intention of stealing victims' credentials and potentially one-time passwords (OTPs),"
The Boring Internet
Article URL: https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48033689 Points: 13 # Comments: 10
How ChatGPT learns about the world while protecting privacy
Learn how ChatGPT safeguards your privacy, reduces personal data in training, and gives you control over whether your conversations improve AI models.
The vi family
19 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
iPhone dumbphone
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Grafana's Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart v4 Brings Multiple Fixes
Grafana Labs has released version 4 of its Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart, describing it as the most significant update the chart has received since its introduction. The release, announced in April 2026 by Pete Wall and Beverly Buchanan, addresses a range of configuration problems that had accumulated as users scaled to larger and more complex deployments. By Matt Saunders
Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
Article URL: https://draxinar.github.io/articles/2026-05-01-uodemo-reverse-engineering.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032976 Points: 36 # Comments: 6
Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
94 points, 104 comments on Hacker News
Palo Alto PAN-OS Flaw Under Active Exploitation Enables Remote Code Execution
Palo Alto Networks has released an advisory warning that a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in its PAN-OS software has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0300, has been described as a case of unauthenticated remote code execution. It carries a CVSS score of 9.3 if the User-ID Authentication Portal is configured to enable access from the internet or any
Knitting bullshit
Article URL: https://katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/knitting-bullshit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032461 Points: 60 # Comments: 19
Multi-stroke text effect in CSS
Article URL: https://yuanchuan.dev/multi-stroke-text-effect-in-css Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032265 Points: 45 # Comments: 3
Go is FIPS 140-3 certified
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Principia Softwarica
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Pen pal programs endure in a digital age
15 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
The soul of maintaining a new machine
51 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping
Article URL: https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/industry-leading-245tb-micron-6600-ion-data-center-ssd-now Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031867 Points: 88 # Comments: 59
Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me
35 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
26 points, 11 comments on Hacker News
StarFighter 16-Inch
97 points, 63 comments on Hacker News
Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
63 points, 28 comments on Hacker News
YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
11 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
How frontier enterprises are building an AI advantage
OpenAI’s B2B Signals research shows how frontier enterprises deepen AI adoption, scale Codex-powered agentic workflows, and build durable competitive advantage.
Singular Bank helps bankers move fast with ChatGPT and Codex
Singular Bank built Singularity, an internal assistant using ChatGPT and Codex to help bankers save 60–90 minutes daily on meeting prep, portfolio analysis, and follow-up.
Uber uses OpenAI to help people earn smarter and book faster
Uber uses OpenAI to power AI assistants and voice features that help drivers earn smarter and riders book faster across a global real-time marketplace.
Introducing ChatGPT Futures: Class of 2026
Meet the ChatGPT Futures Class of 2026—26 student innovators using AI to build, research, and drive real-world impact. Discover how this generation is redefining learning, creativity, and opportunity with ChatGPT.
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