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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. 11,903 posts.
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A useful Caps Lock key
Updated: This configuration no longer works in macOS Sierra or greater due to changes in Karabiner. I’ve written some new instructions.
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Unicorn Unix Magic Tricks
This post is based on the talk of the same name I gave at the Arrrrcamp conference in Ghent, Belgium on October 2nd, 2014. You can find the slides here and the video recording here .
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Factorization diagrams in Haskell
Meta Title: Math, Sports Data & IPTV: A Portugal Guide Meta Description: Explore how math-minded sports fans use IPTV in Portugal to watch live football, Champi
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Russian ship loitering near undersea cables
**Russian ship loitering near undersea cables** Updated: Original article 9th Oct. 2016. The Russian Navy’s Project 22010 mini-sub host ship Yantar is known for loitering near undersea internet cables (known as Submarine communications Cables - SCC). It may have other special missions also…. Read More >….
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The Two-Hour Rule
This all-content, junk-free website's biggest source of support is when you use those or any of these links to approved sources when you get anything, regardless of the country in which you live. Thanks for helping me help you! Ken.
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Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB?
NoSQL databases were the future. MongoDB was the database for “modern” web engineers and used by countless startups. What happened?
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How often people copy and paste from Stack Overflow
April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.
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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change
The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004 (aka, the April 2020 version of Windows), in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been …
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Insecure by design: protocols for encrypted phone calls
The MIKEY-SAKKE protocol is being promoted by the UK government as a better way to secure phone calls. The reality is that MIKEY-SAKKE is designed to offer minimal security while allowing undetectable mass surveillance, through the introduction a backdoor based around mandatory key-escrow. This weakness has…
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Python 3.11.0 Released
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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Gmail: Send mail from another address without "on behalf of"
Posted by Emmanuel Pellereau, Software Engineer Quite a few of you use Gmail's custom "From:" to send messages with one of your other email...
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Monads in JavaScript
Monad is a design pattern used to describe computations as a series of steps. They manage side effects in pure functional languages but can also be used in other languages to control complexity.
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Solving Tetris in C
Exactly one of the following statements is true. In Tetris, you can always get at least one line before losing. In Tetris, a sufficiently evil AI can always force you to lose without getting a single line, by providing bad pieces. Which one? Prove it. The setup I crea...
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Loadsharers: Funding the Load Bearing Internet People (2020)
The Internet has a sustainability problem. Many of its critical services depend on the dedication of unpaid volunteers, because they can’t be monetized and thus don’t have any revenue stream for the maintainers to live on. Services like DNS, time synchronization, crypto libraries - software without which the net and…
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Distribution packages considered insecure
If you ever have run a Linux-based operating system you are probably aware of the way that software is usually distributed on them: Using a software repository. Repositories are great for numerous …
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2080 Ti TensorFlow GPU Benchmarks
What's the best GPU for Deep Learning? The 2080 Ti. We benchmark the 2080 Ti vs the Titan V, V100, and 1080 Ti.
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DBLog: A Change-Data-Capture Framework
Andreas Andreakis, Ioannis Papapanagiotou
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Huawei HKSP Introduces Trivially Exploitable Vulnerability in the Linux Kernel
Huawei has seemingly stepped its foot into the kernel self-protection game with the release of HKSP. Absent any threat model and riddled with weaknesses, it also introduces a trivially exploitable local root vulnerability due to a complete lack of defensive programming.
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A whirlwind introduction to dataflow graphs
While in the middle of writing “Reading bits in far too many ways, part 3”, I realized that I had written a lot of background material that had absolutely nothing to do with bit I/O and…
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One way to fix your rubbish password database
Suppose for a moment that you are running a web site that has a poorly implemented password database that stores password hashes using some...