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Culture eats policy
The government has a culture problem, making it difficult to implement well-intentioned policies.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 4,918 posts.
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We rendered a million web pages to find out what makes the web slow
We rendered the top 1 million pages on the web, tracking every conceivable performance metric, logging every error, noting every requested URL. To our knowledge this produces the first dataset that connects performance, errors, and library use on the web. In this article we analyze what the data can tell us about…
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A principled approach to system design and programming
Technical maxims that define Urbit's approach to engineering.
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How Etsy Manages HTTPS and SSL Certificates for Custom Domains on Pattern
In April of 2016 Etsy launched Pattern, a new product that gives Etsy sellers the ability to create their own hosted e-commerce...
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ProtonDrive Security Model
Learn how Proton Drive uses end-to-end encryption to protect your photos, documents, and other sensitive data.
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Why are the username and password on two different pages?
Twilio posts cloud communications trends, customer stories, and tips for building scalable voice and SMS applications with Twilio's APIs.
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Linux Performance Analysis (2015)
You log in to a Linux server with a performance issue: what do you check in the first minute?
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Confidential VMs
Google Cloud will now offer the ability to encrypt data in use, while it’s being processed in a Google data center
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The USA Freedom Act: What's to Come and What You Need to Know
Update, Nov 18: The USA Freedom Act does not renew the entirety of the Patriot Act, which consisted of over 100 sections changing numerous electronic surveillance laws. The USA Freedom Act does extend three provisions of the Patriot Act: the "lone wolf" provision, the "roving wire tap" provision,...
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Remembering the LAN (2020)
Learn more about the early days of LAN.
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How I was able to track the location of any Tinder user
By Max Veytsman At IncludeSec we specialize in application security assessment for our clients, that means taking applications apart and finding really crazy vulnerabilities before other hackers do. When we have time off from client work we like to analyze popular apps to see what we find. Towards the end of 2013 we…
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Zig Software Foundation 2024 Financial Report and Fundraiser
Zig Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which I am proud to say makes extremely efficient use of monetary resources . Unlike many of our peers, our primary expense is direct payments to contributors for their enhancements to the Zig project.
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Testing Sync at Dropbox
Executing a full rewrite of the Dropbox sync engine was pretty daunting. (Read more about our goals and how we made the decision in our previous post here .) Doing so meant taking the engine that powers Dropbox on hundreds of millions of user’s machines and swapping it out mid-flight. To pull this off, we knew we…
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The GitHub Availability Report
What is the Availability Report? Historically, GitHub has published post-incident reviews for major incidents that impact service availability. Whether we’re sharing new investments to infrastructure or detailing site downtimes, our…
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GitHub Actions update: Helping maintainers combat bad actors
The trustworthiness of our platform is crucial, and our team is committed to developer productivity and Actions performing the way we intended.
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MIT team invents efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water
MIT researchers have invented an efficient shockwave-based process for desalination of water.
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A comparison to Waymo’s auto liability insurance claims at 25M miles
Understanding the safety impact of Automated Driving Systems (ADS) is crucial for their widespread adoption, yet robust real-world evaluation remains a critical area of development. By leveraging insurance industry third-party auto liability claims, we analyze the Waymo ADS performance across 25.3 million fully…
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ATProto spaces: A new extension to ATProto that enables non-public data
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
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Facebook acquires Mapillary
Today we're announcing that Mapillary has joined Facebook on the quest to improve maps everywhere and for everyone.
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Towards a conversational agent that can chat about anything
Posted by Daniel Adiwardana, Senior Research Engineer, and Thang Luong, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Modern conversatio...
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Disqus Security Alert: User Info Breach
More publishers trust us to engage, grow, and understand their audiences than any other. Build your on-site community with Disqus.
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Coco: Framework for enterprise blockchain networks
Microsoft is committed to bringing blockchain to the enterprise—and is working with customers, partners, and the blockchain community to continue advancing its enterprise readiness.
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Searching 20 GB/sec: Systems Engineering Before Algorithms (2014)
SentinelOne unifies AI-powered endpoint, cloud, identity, and data protection—enhanced by our Security Data Lake for seamless and efficient cybersecurity.
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A transport protocol's view of Starlink
How TCP interacts with the characteristics of the Starlink service.