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SSH and User-Mode IP WireGuard
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
Most cited
Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 912 posts.
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Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
A common topic of discussion among my close friends is where the bottlenecks are in our productivity and how we can execute more quickly. This is very different from what I see in my extended social circles, where people commonly say that velocity doesn't matter . In online discussions about this, I frequently see…
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Learning APL
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. – Alan Perlis
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This Is Water (2005)
David Foster Wallace's remarkable 2005 commencement speech, This is Water, is a timeless trove of wisdom for living a meaningful life. Here is a full transcript along with audio.
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Fix Terminals
I want terminal keypresses to Just Work. What do I mean Just Work? I mean programs in a simple orthogonal way, can determine the key that was pressed, and this model should easily map to the user's expectation.
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The curious history of NovaMin toothpaste (2018)
I buy my toothpaste from overseas through eBay. Wonder why?
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ChaosDB Explained: Azure's Cosmos DB Vulnerability Walkthrough
This is the full story of the Azure ChaosDB Vulnerability that was discovered and disclosed by the Wiz Research Team, where we were able to gain complete unrestricted access to the databases of several thousand Microsoft Azure customers.
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The Apple goto fail vulnerability: lessons learned (2014)
Description of what we have learned
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I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time
Hello friends! :^) Let me tell you a story…
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Total Cookie Protection
Total Cookie Protection is a major anti-tracking advance in Firefox that confines cookies to the site where they were created.
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How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler
In the last three months, tech giants have censored political speech and journalism to manipulate U.S. politics, while liberals, with virtual unanimity, have cheered.
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Curves and Surfaces
Interactive article explaining how curves and surfaces are modeled.
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Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance
Facebook engineers have built and open-sourced an Open Compute Time Appliance, an important component of the modern timing infrastructure. To make this possible, we came up with the Time Card — a P…
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Logica, a novel open-source logic programming language
We present Logica, a novel open source Logic Programming language.
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Starship is still not understood
Another entry into my blog series on countering misconceptions in space journalism. I discussed this post on The Space Show on November 5 2021. It has been exactly two years since my initial posts …
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Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
Upcoming licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
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Beg Bounties
When someone passed me hundreds of thousands of records on kids taken from CloudPets a few years ago [https://www.troyhunt.com/data-from-connected-cloudpets-teddy-bears-leaked-and-ransomed-exposing-kids-voice-messages/] , I had a nightmare of a time getting in touch with the company. They'd
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The Pinecone Overlay Network
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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A Timeline of CIA Atrocities (1993)
A timeline of CIA atrocities.
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Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)
The new biography Steve Jobs contains a remarkable claim about the power supply of the Apple II and its designer Rod Holt: [1] Instead o...
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Typing Is Hard
Type checking is the process of taking a given program in some programming language and working out whether all variables and expressions have the correct types, i.e. strings are assigned to strings, arithmetic expressions involve only numbers, etc. Some languages also offer type inference , tasking the compiler with…
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Photoshop’s journey to the web
Over the last three years, Chrome has been working to empower web applications that want to push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. One such web application has been Photoshop. The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would have been hard to imagine just a few…
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JSON with Commas and Comments
Summary: JWCC is a minimal extension to the widely used JSON file format with (1) optional commas after the final element of arrays and objects and (2) C/C++ style comments. These two features make it more suitable for human-editable configuration files, without adding so many features that it’s incompatible with…
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Effective Concurrency with Algebraic Effects in Multicore OCaml
Algebraic effects and handlers provide a modular abstraction for expressing effectful computation, allowing the programmer to separate the expression of an effectful computation from its implementation. In this post, I will present an extension to OCaml for programming with linear algebraic effects, and demonstrate…
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