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HTTP/2 rapid reset attack impacting Nginx products
Deliver modern applications with NGINX. Explore high-performance load balancing, API gateways, and web server solutions trusted by top global enterprises.
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 11,897 posts.
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Bye Twitter – Manu Cornet
Manu Cornet's personal website.
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Some people who take psychedelics continue hallucinating indefinitely
[Related to: Relaxed Beliefs Under Psychedelics And The Anarchic Brain, HPPD And The Specter Of Permanent Side Effects] I. Hallucinogen persisting perceptual disorder is a condition where people wh…
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js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.
js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read. Pages that are empty without JS: dead to history (archive-org), unreliable for search results (despite any search engine claims of JS support, check it yourself), and thus ignorable. No need to waste time reading or responding. Also known as, if it’s not curlable, it’s not on…
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Safari now supports File System Access API with private origin
WebKit supports new API that makes it possible for web apps to create, open, read, and write files directly, or create directories and enumerate their contents.
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The ways we contain Claude across products
As agents grow more capable, so does their potential blast radius. Here's what we learned building containment for claude.ai, Claude Code, and Cowork.
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Misidentifying talent
Out of context, you might think they were scouting actors or models, but these are baseball players ("A" is Lloyd Moseby, "B" is Jim Abbott, and "C" is Derek Jeter), ones that were quite good (Lloyd Moseby was arguably only a very good player for perhaps four years, but that makes him extraordinary compared to most…
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Daring Fireball: "Facebook login"
Link to: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_your_one_true_login.php
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Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility
We’ve just signed an agreement to sell Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion. We explain why.
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Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go
L19 = 208168199381979984699478633344862770286522453884530548425639456820927419612738015378525648451698519643907259916015628128546089888314427129715319317557736620397247064840935
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Lyra V2 – a better, faster, and more versatile speech codec
We are now releasing Lyra V2, with a new architecture with a wider platform support, provides scalable bitrate capabilities, has better performance.
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AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
After 10 years as an AWS customer and open-source contributor, they deleted my account and all data with zero warning. Here's how AWS's 'verification' process became a digital execution, and why you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything.
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Probabilistic Data Structures For Web Analytics And Data Mining
Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets oft…
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How Google Authorship decreased our traffic by 90%
We claimed Google Authorship like every SEO blog told us to. Then our search clicks dropped 90%. Here are the numbers and what really happened.
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How I made the print and eBook versions of my web book
It’s a funny feeling to spend nearly six years making something and then finally hold it in your hand. It’s simultaneously, “This is it! ” and “Is this it?” How can it be so small when it feels like such a big piece of my life?
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New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search
We’re making updates to show less unoriginal, low-quality content on Search.
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The Egg (2009)
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
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Probabilistic Filters By Example
Probablistic filters are high-speed, space-efficient data structures that support set-membership tests with a one-sided error. These filters can claim that a given entry is definitely not represented in a set of entries, or might be represented in the set. That is, negative responses are conclusive, whereas positive…
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JavaScript Needs Blocks
While reading Hacker News posts about JavaScript, I often come across the misconception that Ruby's blocks are essentially equivalent to JavaScript's "first class functions". Because the ability to pass functions around, especially when you can create them anonymously, is extremely powerful, the fact that both…
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The Dangers of Low Head Dams (2019)
Dams serve a wide variety of purposes from hydropower to flood control to storage of water for municipal and industrials uses. But when a dam’s useful purpose fades away, the structure itself still remains. Dams come in all shapes and sizes, but contrary to what you might think, the most dangerous d
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An introduction to deterministic builds with C/C++
What are deterministic builds?
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How generics were added to .NET
Before we dive into the technical details, let’s start with a quick history lesson, courtesy of Don Syme who worked on adding generics to .NET and then went on to design and implement F#, which is a pretty impressive set of achievements!!
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A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go
Generics is entering the language change proposal process
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Most books don't sell only a dozen copies
A little post on why publishing statistics are so confusing
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ETS Isn't TLS and You Shouldn't Use It
The good news: TLS 1.3 is available, and the protocol, which powers HTTPS and many other encrypted communications, is better and more secure than its predecessors (including SSL). The bad news: Thanks to a financial industry group called BITS, there’s a look-alike protocol brewing called ETS (or...
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Who smeared Richard Feynman?
Richard Feynman's FBI file contains one very pointed, personal, anonymous attack. But can we figure out who wrote it from the context?