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Thinking About Smart Contract Security
Over the last day with the community's help we have crowdsourced a list of all of the major bugs with smart contracts on Ethereum so far, including both the...
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Posts that commenters keep linking to, ranked by how many different people have cited them in Hacker News comments. 11,903 posts.
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ARM64EC: Building Native and Interoperable Apps for Windows 11 on ARM
Today, we’re announcing ARM64EC (“Emulation Compatible”), a new way to build apps for Windows 11 on ARM. With the latest Visual Studio tools in preview and the Windows 11 Insider SDK, you'll be able to take advantage of ARM64EC to incrementally
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Unlocking the Duron and Athlon using the pencil (2007)
Unlocking the Duron and Athlon Using the Pencil Introduction The best and most stable way to overclock your Athlon and Duron CPU is ...
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Chrome and Opera Optimize for Mozilla-Pioneered Asm.js
Browsers Join Firefox as approved for running Epic Citadel Mozilla has been working hard to make asm.js as fast as possible in Firefox and progress has been really solid. Less ...
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Anatomy of a Program in Memory
Memory management is the heart of operating systems; it is crucial for both programming and system administration. In the next few posts I'll cover memory with an eye towards practical aspects, but wi
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Rediscovering the Intel AMT Vulnerability
On May 1, 2017 Intel disclosed the AMT vulnerability (INTEL-SA-00075), but details of that vulnerability were not made public. However, Tenable researchers were able to overcome this challenge and make Tenable the first to deliver Intel AMT vulnerability detection capabilities to customers, just minutes after Intel’s…
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Docker Desktop: Your Desktop over ssh inside of a Docker container
Docker is a founding member of the Blueprint Alliance, a 12-company reference architecture for securing AI agents, built around four governance questions.
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The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2022133 points61 commentscited by 3History & Retro Computing details
This is the long-awaited first part of a series (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII. VIII) taking a historian’s look at the Battle of Helm’s Deep from both J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers…
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Is PaaS dead?
Is PaaS dead? Trends, pivots and troubles in PHP cloud hosting in 2015, seen from inside one of the companies competing in it.
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Building a More Secure World with the RISC-V ISA
RISC-V International Staff RISC-V International’s staff bring together expertise from multiple disciplines to advance our mission of promoting the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). On the RISC-V blog, we highlight...
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UUID Benchmark War
This month’s PGSQL Phriday #015 topic is about UUIDs, hosted by Lætitia Avrot. Lætitia has called for a debate. No, no, no. I say let’s have an all-out war. A benchmark war. I have deci…
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Diffusion with Offset Noise: Finetuning SD to generate very dark or light images
Historical research record. Fine-tuning against a modified noise, enables Stable Diffusion to generate very dark or light images easily.
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Compiling Clojure to javascript pt 1
this is the first entry in an n-part series explaining the techniques and design principles of ClojureScript . translations: [ 日本語 ]
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The Hunt for the Fastest Zero
Unexpected performance deviations depending on how you spell zero.
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We built another object storage
High-performance object storage exists, but the economics make it unusable at scale. FractalBits breaks out of the high-performance trap.
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The Problem with Implicit Scoping in CoffeeScript
A longer explanation of why I think that the CoffeeScript scoping is problematic and should be changed.
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The Art of Picking Intel Registers (2003)
I wrote this article for an online magazine called Scene Zine . Scene Zine caters to the Demo Scene, which is an digital art community dedicated to pushing the limits of computers through a mix of music, art, and computer programming. A particular category of demoscene productions, 4K intros, focus on the final…
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Manifest V3 now available on M88 Beta
With hundreds of millions of people using over 250,000 items in the Chrome Web Store, extensions have become essential to how m...
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Chrome just got faster with Profile Guided Optimization
From the very beginning , we built Chrome to be the fastest browser possible. The faster Chrome is, the faster you find the information you ...
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Curl those funny IPv4 addresses
Everyone knows that on most systems you can specify IPv4 addresses just 4 decimal numbers separated with periods (dots). Example: 192.168.0.1 Useful when you for example want to ping your local wifi router and similar. "ping 192.168.0.1" Other bases The IPv4 string is usually parsed by the inet_addr() function or at…
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Third Places and Neighborhood Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Starbucks Cafés
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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The case of the recursive resolvers: What happened during Slack’s DNSSEC rollout
On September 30th 2021, Slack had an outage that impacted less than 1% of our online user base, and lasted for 24 hours. This outage was the result of our attempt to enable DNSSEC — an extension intended to secure the DNS protocol, required for FedRAMP Moderate — but which ultimately led to a series of…
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Government Authority Intended for Terrorism is Used for Other Purposes
The Patriot Act continues to wreak its havoc on civil liberties. Section 213 was included in the Patriot Act over the protests of privacy advocates and granted law enforcement the power to conduct a search while delaying notice to the suspect of the search. Known as a “sneak and peek” warrant, law...
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Study: Effectiveness of Apple's app tracking transparency
Does it stop third-party tracking? Or is it just an illusion of privacy?
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Factoring RSA 260
How Devin and a Cognition researcher built the world’s highest-performance GPU lattice siever, to make factoring numbers 10x cheaper than the previous…
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