Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 406 posts.
By now effectively all ;login:’s readers have heard the term “web3” and “dapps” bandied about as if they are some great revolution. They are not. The technical underpinnings are so terrible that it is clear they exist only to hype the underlying cryptocurrencies. The actual utility of these “decentralized” systems is…
Generics is entering the language change proposal process
Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction (PSSD) is a condition in which sexual function does not return to normal after the use of SSRIs and related antidepressants.
On the evening of March 8, we invalidated all authenticated sessions on GitHub.com created prior to 12:03 UTC on March 8 out of an abundance of caution.
In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot.
Update 4/29/2021 3PM PT : Through our investigation, we now have additional information concerning what environment variables may have been obtained without authorization and how they may have been used. Affected users can view details within the Codecov application. Additionally, we have posted our most up-to-date…
This is for people who want to understand how programs get loaded under linux. In particular it talks about dynamically loaded x86 ELF files. The information you learn will let you understand how to debug problems that occur in your program before main starts up. Everything I tell you is true, but some things will be…
We’d like to provide a further update to our customers in regards to the SolarWinds breach. At this point we reiterate the message we posted yesterday – we have not played any role in this breach, nor are we aware of any vulnerabilities in TeamCity that may have led to this breach, as we are also not aware of any…
posted by Matthew Flatt With the upcoming version 8.0 release, Racket on Chez Scheme (Racket CS) will become the default implementation of Racket. This report discusses the implications of that change, continuing a series that was originally about Racket...
During the pandemic, a dangerous business has prospered: invading students’ privacy with proctoring software and apps. In the last year, we’ve seen universities compel students to download apps that collect their face images, driver’s license data, and network information. Students who want to move...
There is a significant difference between developing and promoting a protocol (such as XMPP) and a product (such as Signal). Both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. This post details how and why Snikket aims to strike a balance between the two.
We’ve taken important steps to make YouTube a safer place for families. We’re announcing a continuation of these efforts.
Molly Graham helped forge a work culture at Facebook that's withstood huge amounts of growth. Today, she's something of a rapid scaling expert. Here's the key to doing it right, she says.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's immortal 1974 essay calling for civic courage.
To streamline the productivity of the JFrog Platform we will be sunsetting Bintray (including JCenter), GoCenter, and ChartCenter services on May 1st, 2021.
As part of our commitment to security, we regularly monitor our services for actual, suspected, or attempted malicious or unusual activity. We recently investigated reports of an uptick of users recei[..]
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) offer fundamentally better economics for creators by removing rent-seeking, enabling granular pricing, and reducing customer acquisition costs.
How we built an authorization system based on Google Zanzibar
There is no shortage of package managers. Each tool makes its own set of tradeoffs regarding speed, ease of use, customizability, and reproducibility. Guix occupies a sweet spot, providing reproducibility by design as pioneered by Nix , package customization à la Spack from the command line, the ability to create…
I get asked this a lot, and I write property based testing tools for a living, so you'd think I have a good answer to this, but historically I haven't. This is my attempt to fix that.
Brave Wallet is a secure crypto wallet, built right into the Brave privacy browser. No extension required.
The Haskell Phrasebook is a free quick-start Haskell guide comprised of a sequence of small annotated programs.
polkit is a system service installed by default on many Linux distributions. It’s used by systemd, so any Linux distribution that uses systemd also uses polkit.
Six years, no deadlines, and one rule: write some code every day. That slow, stubborn routine turned a side project into a sustainable search company.
Fellow Amazonians:
Meet the new Sublime Text - it's faster and smarter than ever with hardware acceleration, Apple silicon support, and more!
Apple parts, tools, and manuals — starting with iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 — available to individual consumers.
