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V8: A Year with Spectre
The V8 team details their analysis and mitigation strategy for Spectre, one of the top computer security issues of 2018.
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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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WebVM: Server-less x86 virtual machines in the browser
We made a server-less virtual Linux environment that runs unmodified Debian binaries in the browser. This is powered by CheerpX, a WebAssembly virtualization platform. Feel free to play with it and report bugs: https://webvm.io
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Why We Still Believe in Working Remotely
It’s 2013, almost three years after we first raised money and started growing beyond the first four employees . At the time, Jeff wrote a great blog post about working remotely, basically laying out our plan for how we were going to make it work. Now we’re a few years in and it’s time to update it with, well, what…
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We are rewriting CodeMirror
In-browser code editor
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Police search homes of Zwiebelfreunde board members and OpenLab in Augsburg
On June 20th, board members of the „Zwiebelfreunde“ association in multiple German cities had their homes searched under the dubious pretence that they were „witnesses“ while their computers and...
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Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National Emergency Library
Last Tuesday we launched a National Emergency Library—1.4M digitized books available to users without a waitlist—in response to the rolling wave of school and library closures that remain in place to date. We’ve received dozens of messages of thanks from teachers and school librarians, who can now help their students…
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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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Svelte and TypeScript
Typernetically enhanced web apps
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How Zoom’s terms of service and practices apply to AI features
As part of our commitment to transparency and user control, we're providing clarity on our approach to Zoom’s AI features and content sharing for product improvement purposes.
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LibreSSL: More Than 30 Days Later
LibreSSL was officially announced to the world just about exactly five months ago. Bob spoke at BSDCan about the first 30 days. For those who weren't there, I'll quickly rehash some of that material. Also, it's always best to start at the beginning, but then I'll try to focus on some new material and updates.
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Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end Encryption for Allo
At Open Whisper Systems, our goal is to make private communication simple. The foundation of our technology is Signal Protocol, a modern, open source, strong encryption protocol for asynchronous messaging systems. It is built from the ground up to make seamless end-to-end encrypted messaging poss...
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State of CSS
Web styling features of today and tomorrow, as seen at Google IO 2022, plus some extras.
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Postmortem for Malicious Packages Published on July 12th, 2018
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
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Branch predictor: How many “if”s are too many?
Is it ok to have if clauses that will basically never be run? Surely, there must be some performance cost to that...
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Swift Homomorphic Encryption
We’re excited to announce a new open source Swift package for homomorphic encryption in Swift: swift-homomorphic-encryption.
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Changes to Npm's unpublish policy
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
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LLaMA2 Chat 70B outperformed ChatGPT
AlpacaEval an LLM-based automatic evaluation that is fast, cheap, and reliable. It is based on the AlpacaFarm evaluation set, which tests the ability of models to follow general user instructions. These responses are then compared to reference responses (Davinci003 for AlpacaEval, GPT-4 Preview for AlpacaEval 2.0) by…
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Facebook is not worth $33 billion
Facebook is an amazing success as a social network. Anyone who can get 500 million people to connect, share photos, and click on little cows in Farmville deserves major kudos. But the bullshit monopoly-money valuation merry-go-round has to stop. It’s getting beyond ridiculous and when even…
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On WD Red NAS Drives
On WD Red NAS Drives - Data - Western Digital (WD) Corporate Blog
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A Fighter Pilot’s Guide to Surviving on the Roads
Portsmouth CTC part of Cycling UK organises cycle rides and events including easy rides, short rides, flat rides, long rides, and hilly rides.
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NPM package compromised by author: erases files on RU / BY computers on install
Vue.js users using the dependency “node-ipc” are experiencing a supply chain attack protesting the invasion of Ukraine, from a package named “peacenotwar”.
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Unison: a next-generation programming platform
A friendly programming language from the future.
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Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS.
In our State of the Union blog post, I mentioned that we’ve been working on some iOS proof of concept / research projects here in the Panic Office. It’s been a lot of fun for us.