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Sunday, September 20, 2026

How Hacker News ranking really works [Xtra!]A classic teardown of a real-world ranking system's scoring and penalties.
Defeating Chrono Trigger's Dream Devourer with an integer overflow [Xtra!]A fun lesson in unchecked arithmetic in shipped systems.
How NYC makes its 1M+ street signs [Xtra!]A look at physical-world operations at municipal scale.
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