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Most cited
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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Study: Effectiveness of Apple's app tracking transparency
Does it stop third-party tracking? Or is it just an illusion of privacy?
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Factoring RSA 260
How Devin and a Cognition researcher built the world’s highest-performance GPU lattice siever, to make factoring numbers 10x cheaper than the previous…
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AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17
Effective June 17, 2025, you can no longer send or receive texts using email.
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37signals Basecamp Mobile HTML5 app for WebKit browsers
Today we launch Basecamp Classic Mobile for phones and devices with WebKit browsers. This includes the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, Motorola Droid X, Motorola Droid 2, Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Incredible, HTC Evo, Palm Pre 2, BlackBerry Torch, or any other device running iOS 4+, Android 2.1+, webOS 2, …
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Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.
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Finding MongoDB instances without any authentication
I would like to take a moment to discuss databases. Most people use Shodan to find devices that have web servers, but for a few years now I've also been crawling the Internet for various database software. I usually mention this during my talks and I've tried to raise awareness
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A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
Another rogue patcher.
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Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve
Cache reads are quadratic and dominate your long agentic conversations.
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Blueborne – A new attack vector endangering major operating systems
Following the disclosure of the BlueBorne attack vector this past September, Armis discovered that critical Bluetooth vulnerabilities impact the Amazon Echo and Google Home.
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Red Programming Language: 0.6.0: Red GUI System
Five years ago, when I started writing the first lines of code of what would become later the Red/System compiler, I had a pretty good pictu...
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Amazon 2020 Letter to Shareholders
To our shareowners:
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Learning to Predict Depth on the Pixel 3 Phones
Posted by Rahul Garg, Research Scientist and Neal Wadhwa, Software Engineer Portrait Mode on the Pixel smartphones lets you take professional-looki...
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Why We Choose Profit
We’re outspoken about running a profitable company in an industry that so often eschews profits for potential. So why? People ask us why all the time. Why choose profit? So I thought I’d detail som…
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A Story Of realloc (And Laziness)
A Story Of realloc (And Laziness) 05 April 2014 A Simple Macro It...
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News Feed FYI: Click-baiting
Today we're announcing some improvements to News Feed to help people find the posts and links from publishers that are most interesting and relevant.
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A walk through Project Zero metrics
Posted by Ryan Schoen, Project Zerotl;drIn 2021, vendors took an average of 52 days to fix secur...
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A crash course in just-in-time compilers (2017)
This is the second part in a series on WebAssembly and what makes it fast. If you haven’t read the others, we recommend starting from the beginning. JavaScript started out ...
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Improving Facebook's Performance on Android with FlatBuffers
Visit the post for more.
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New Federal Court Rulings Find Geofence Warrants Unconstitutional
Update December 14, 2021: After this post was published, on June 4, 2021, a federal magistrate judge in Kansas issued another opinion denying the government's application for a geofence warrant.Update May 17, 2021: Since this post was published, the court unsealed its July 24, 2020 opinion denying...
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The Noob Guide to Online Marketing
“Get me to page 1 of Google, while emailing our customers a bi-weekly newsletter, engaging influencers on Twitter, maintaining a captive Facebook audience, capturing new leads, and putting out 3 blog posts a week.” Harsh? Yes. Familiar? Definitely. Everything a Non-Marketer Needs to Take a…
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DHH vs. Calacanis on This Week in Startups
An intense debate about business models, bubbles, capitalism, quality of life, market share vs. profit share, running a business vs. selling a business, and a variety of other related topics from episode 46 of This Week in Startups. This is really good stuff. (There’s 47 minutes of mater…
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The Aol Chat Room Monitor Revolt (2014)
In 1999, America Online's volunteer chat room monitors sued the company for back wages. Do today's hot Internet companies risk the same fate?
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Heroku to discontinue free product plans and delete inactive accounts
Back in May, I wrote (https://www.heroku.com/blog/we-heard-your-feedback) about my enthusiasm to be part of the Heroku story, and I remain just as...