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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,323 posts.
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Globally Distributed Postgres
Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.
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Treat Kubernetes clusters as cattle, not pets
ZITADEL is the identity infrastructure platform that is built for developers and works for all users and applications.
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Ignoring bulk change commits with Git blame (2019)
A long-standing objection to making bulk changes to code using automated tools (e.g. to conform to a given code style) is that it clutters the output of git blame. With git 2.23, this does not have to be the case anymore! In this post I will start by explaining the value of git blame and […]
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NATO Classified Cloud Platform Compromised
Hackers attempted to use the data in an extortion scheme, joking about altering the source code or sending it to Russian intelligence
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An EPYC escape: Case-study of a KVM breakout
Posted by Felix Wilhelm, Project ZeroIntroduction KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is the ...
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MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U
MIT and Harvard University announced a major transition for edX, the online platform for university courses: edX’s assets are to be acquired by education technology company 2U, and reorganized as a public benefit company. 2U will transfer $800 million to a nonprofit organization, led by MIT and Harvard, to explore the…
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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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A Docker footgun led to a vandal deleting NewsBlur's MongoDB database
tl;dr: A vandal deleted NewsBlur’s MongoDB database during a migration. No data was stolen or lost.
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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)
by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.We have no elected...
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Privacy for Students: Surveillance Self-Defense
Schools are increasingly adopting surveillance technology to spy on students while they’re at school, at home, or even on their social media. The companies that make these surveillance products and services advertise them to schools as a way to keep students safe–but there’s no evidence so far that they actually...
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No Space Left to Run: China's Transnational Repression of Uyghurs
In partnership with the Uyghur Human Rights Project, the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs gathered cases of China’s transnational repression of Uyghurs from public sources, including government documents, human rights reports, and reporting by credible news agencies to establish a detailed analysis of how the…
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Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
From User-Agent tricks to canvas hashes, see how modern device detection—Picasso, fonts, emojis, touch—makes spoofing fail. Learn how to blend in safely.
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The school for sysadmins who can’t timesync good
(With apologies to Derek Zoolander and Justin Steven. And to whoever had to touch the HP-UX NTP setup at Queensland Police after I...
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Group Video Calls
Today's update lets you turn on your camera or share your screen during Voice Chats in groups – on all devices, including tablets and desktops. This brings voice chats to a whole new level, ready for online classes, business meetings and family gatherings.
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Querying Parquet with Precision Using DuckDB
DuckDB, a free and open source analytical data management system, can run SQL queries directly on Parquet files and automatically take advantage of the advanced features of the Parquet format.
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Slamming political rivals may be the most effective way to go viral
Study of almost 3 million Facebook and Twitter posts from US media and politicians shows divisive posts dunking on opponents drives engagement on social media.
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AWS acquires Wickr
We’re excited to share that AWS has acquired Wickr, an innovative company that has developed the industry’s most secure, end-to-end encrypted, communication technology. With Wickr, customers and partners benefit from advanced security features not available with traditional communications services – across messaging…
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AWS BugBust
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Announces AWS BugBust
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Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform
Mozilla teams up with Princeton University researchers to enable crowdsourced science for public good; collaborates with research groups at Princeton, Stan
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QUIC at Snapchat
At Snapchat, our goal is to make our Camera the fastest way to share a moment. We do not want Snapchatters to face any delays when they are in the moment and want to share with their real friends.
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The Next Backblaze Storage Pod
Each month we build 60 or so new Storage Pods, which require 60 CPUs, 720 SATA cables, 120 power supplies, and so on.
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Introducing Windows 11
At a time when the PC is playing a more central role in our lives, Windows 11 is designed to bring you closer to what you love.