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Swiffy: convert SWF files to HTML5
By Marcel Gordon, Product Manager, Swiffy Some Google projects really do start from one person hacking around. Last summer, an engineerin...
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 812 posts.
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Profiling Go Programs
How to use Go's built-in profiler to understand and optimize your programs.
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House Keys copyable from 200 ft away via camera
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering2011133 points69 commentscited by 4Security & Privacy details
 UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.
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Instapaper Server Update
About 40 minutes ago, at 11:45 PM EST on June 23, the server that I believe the FBI took during the DigitalOne raid came back online for the first time.
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Tech journalists who make no sense
I’m sure all fields have terrible reporting, but the shit that’s coming out of the tech world must be eligible for some sort of cake. Taste this slice of delicious nonsense that made the Forbes site today in Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: We’ve Moved Past The Cloud: Salesforce.com remai…
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The FBI stole an Instapaper server in an unrelated raid
UPDATE: The server has been returned. Please read.
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Ten apps is all I need
Nokia’s new N9 phone based on MeeGo looks wonderful and according to Engadget, it’s a delight to use as well. But supposedly it’s dead on arrival because it’s not going to have a massive platform. Excuse my french, but fuck the platform. For all the 200,000 apps in Apple&…
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DOM Snitch: Google's passive in-the-browser reconnaissance tool
By Radoslav Vasilev from Google Zurich Every day modern web applications are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and as their complexity ...
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Firefox 5 is now officially released
Everyone deserves access to the internet — your language should never be a barrier. That’s why — with the help of dedicated volunteers around the world — we make Firefox available in more than 90 languages.
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EFF and Bitcoin
EFF's position on Bitcoin donations in 2011. For an update, see https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-will-accept-bitcoins-support-digital-liberty and https://www.eff.org/pages/other-ways-give-and-donor-support.
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Dropbox Cofounder & CTO Arash Ferdowsi responds to yesterday's bug
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Google's "Chrome Frame" plugin for IE no longer requires admin rights
We released Google Chrome Frame in September 2009 to expand the reach of modern web technologies and help developers take advantage of HTML...
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MIT professor's hack to recruit students
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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Engineering hints you'll rarely hear
Explore the latest technologies and innovations on the architecture engineered for agility
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Reddit Sees Massive Growth & Hires New Programmers
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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