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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. 385 posts.
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Learning with Privacy at Scale
Understanding how people use their devices often helps in improving the user experience. However, accessing the data that provides such…
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Visual Studio 2017 now fully supports Python and Django
Python code insights. Visual Studio IDE analyzes your code to make suggestions. Manage 3rd party libraries. Interativey debug on Windows and Linux. Much more!
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Designing Websites for iPhone X
The section below about safe area insets was updated on Oct 31, 2017 to reflect changes in the iOS 11.2 beta.
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Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?
Americans nearly universally speed, and excess speed is a factor in many accidents. But what if higher speed limits made roads safer?
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Breaking open the Mt. Gox case, part 1
The official blog of WizSec, a group of bitcoin security specialists, and their investigation into MtGox.
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What makes WebAssembly fast?
Programming with WebAssembly or JavaScript is not an either/or choice. So developers don’t need to choose between WebAssembly and JavaScript. However, we do expect that developers will swap out parts ...
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Sandstorm is returning to its community roots
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
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Why (blank) gets you root
tracking down the cause of a serious authentication flaw
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Why WebAssembly Is Faster Than Asm.js
Performance is tricky to measure, and has many aspects. Also, in a new technology there are always going to be not-yet-optimized cases. So not every single benchmark will be fast ...
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Australian PM Calls for End-To-End Encryption Ban
"The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia", said Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today. He has been rightly mocked for this nonsense claim, that foreshadows moves to require online messaging providers to provide law...
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Ways we harden our KVM hypervisor at Google Cloud: Security in plaintext
Google Cloud uses the open-source KVM hypervisor that has been validated by scores of researchers as the foundation of Google Compute Engine and Google Container Engine , and invests in additional security hardening and protection based on our research and testing experience. Then we contribute back our changes to the…
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No boundaries: Exfiltration of personal data by session-replay scripts
This is the first post in our “No Boundaries” series, in which we reveal how third-party scripts on websites have been extracting personal information in increasingly intrusive ways. [0] by Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan Update: we’ve released our data — the list of sites with session-replay…
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UC Berkeley makes course video content unavailable to public
Here is additional information about upcoming changes to UC Berkeley’s library of legacy public Course Capture (classroom lecture) content
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Scaling Git, and some back story
A couple of years ago, Microsoft made the decision to begin a multi-year investment in revitalizing our engineering system across the company. We are a big company with tons of teams – each with their own products, priorities, processes and tools. There are some “common” tools but also a lot of diversity – with VERY…
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Titan in depth: Security in plaintext
While there are no absolutes in computer security, we design, build and operate Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with the goal to protect customers' code and data. We harden our architecture at multiple layers, with components that include Google-designed hardware, a Google-controlled firmware stack, Google-curated OS…
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In search of the perfect writing font
Monospace is the typical choice that communicates writing. With iA Writer Duospace, we went a step ahead. What makes Duo better than mono?
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Revisiting 64-bit-ness in Visual Studio and elsewhere (2015)
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Code together in real time with Teletype for Atom
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.