Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 338 posts.
Jepsen analyzes the safety properties of distributed systems–most notably, identifying violations of consistency models. But what are consistency models? What phenomena do they allow? What kind of consistency does a given program really need?
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Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass.
The Declaration of Causes made by Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas.
There are large differences in the land of different diets, mostly depending on how much meat people eat.
Does the Wirecutter offers unbiased real reviews? Not even close. This story is about a little company taking on a fake review site owned by the NY Times.
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I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for…
You may have heard of the “placebo effect,” in which people taking an inactive drug as part of a study actually experience an improvement in their symptoms. As it turns out, the placebo effect ...
NCEES will discontinue the Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) Software Engineering exam after the April 2019 exam administration. Since the original offering in 2013, the exam has been administered five times, with a total population of 81 candidates. Only 19 candidates registered for the April 2018…
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Data from a variety of sources contribute to a broad picture of strong growth and shared prosperity during the early postwar period, followed by slower growth and greater inequality since the 1970s. Within these broad trends, however, different data tell slightly different parts of the story, and no single data source…
Site Isolation is a security feature in Chrome that offers additional protection against some types of security bugs. It uses Chrome's sandbox to make it harder for untrustworthy websites to access or steal information from your accounts on other websites.
Phoenix LiveView is an exciting new library which enables rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML.
Today we announced support for encrypted SNI, an extension to the TLS 1.3 protocol that improves privacy of Internet users.
Calm, simple, and beautiful macOS note-taking app for creative thinking.
Do you have a gun in your home? In general, do you feel that the laws covering the sale of firearms should be made more strict, less strict, or kept as they are now? Do you think there should or should not be a law that would ban the possession of handguns, except by the police and other authorized persons?
Several recently-published research articles have demonstrated a new class of timing attacks (Meltdown and Spectre) that work on modern CPUs. Our internal experiments confirm that it is possible to use ...
The AMD Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is the focal point for reporting potential product security issues to AMD. AMD PSIRT works with both the AMD internal product security team and the external product security ecosystem, including security researchers, industry peers, government organizations…
40 common false assumptions programmers make about names, debunked with real-world examples from global naming systems and identity practices.
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
Online communities are in a precarious and unhealthy state right now. We can do better.
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Due to a variety of technical and organizational issues, we will be sunsetting React Native and putting all of our efforts into making…
Posted by Troy Kensinger, Technical Program Manager, Android Security and Privacy Android is all about choice. As such, Android strives to...
Cancers are one of the leading causes of death globally. Are we making progress against them?
Last week, we received the following email from Amazon: From: [redacted], [redacted] <[redacted]@amazon.com> Subject: Notification of potential account suspension regarding AWS Service Terms Moxie, Yesterday AWS became aware of your GitHub and Hacker News/ycombinator posts des...
