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TunnelBear Joins McAfee
TunnelBear joins McAfee but will continue to develop the bear-filled products you've come to know and love.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,089 posts.
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Ten Hours of Static Gets Five Copyright Notices
Sebastian Tomczak blogs about technology and sound, and has a YouTube channel. In 2015, Tomczak uploaded a ten-hour video of white noise. Colloquially, white noise is persistent background noise that can be soothing or that you don’t even notice after a while. More technically, white noise is many...
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The real reason for large DDoS attacks? It's IP Spoofing, not memcached
A week ago we published a story about new amplification attacks using memcached protocol on UDP port 11211. A few things happened since then: Github announced it was a target of 1.3Tbps memcached attack. OVH and Arbor reported similar large attacks with the peak reported at 1.7Tbps.
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How to Write CSS That Works in Every Browser, Even the Old Ones
Jen Simmons' seven-part mini-series on resilient CSS and how you can create great graphic design on the web, now, and not have to worry about all the old browsers.
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Keybase is now supported by the Stellar Development Foundation
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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A non-profit that figured out how to massively cut suicide rates in Sri Lanka
The cheapest way to save lives may be tackling a means of suicide you've never even heard of.
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Unexpected challenges of making money on the internet
Before I left Google to work on my own startup, I hadn’t thought much about monetization. I believed that, because so many websites do it everyday, charging people for online services would be straightforward. But as I started growing Kapwing, my video editing website, [https://www.kapwing.com/] with
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Vulkan 1.1 Released
The Khronos Group announces the release of the Vulkan 1.1 and SPIR-V…
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HTTP Analytics for 6M requests per second using ClickHouse
One of our large scale data infrastructure challenges here at Cloudflare is around providing HTTP traffic analytics to our customers. HTTP Analytics is available to all our customers via two options:
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Why DNSFilter replaced InfluxDB with TimescaleDB
Stay informed with the latest updates, trends, and insights on DNS and content filtering. Get useful tips and best practices in network security.
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Previewing Android P
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button
Walkthrough of an IoT Potty Button which makes a phone call when a kid has to go. With Python, Twilio, AWS IoT, Lambda and an IoT Button build one-touch alerts to make a phone call. Includes sample code and links to build your own poop button or extend the idea.
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The New Wave of Indian Type
Discover new fonts for Indian languages. Learn about open-source fonts & design solutions.
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Jepsen: Aerospike 3.99.0.3
Aerospike , formerly Citrusleaf, is a distributed, sharded document store designed for high-throughput, low-latency applications. Each record is a map of keys to values, which may be either primitive types (integers, strings, bytes, etc.) or nested collections like lists and maps. Secondary indices are also available…
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Automatic Machine Knitting of 3D Meshes
This Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab web page is now available at https://textiles.cs.cmu.edu/publications/2018-autoknit/ .
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Continuing frequency deviation in the Continental European Power System
The Continental European (CE) Power System -a large synchronized area stretching from Spain to Türkiye and from Poland to Netherlands; encompassing 25 countries- is experiencing a continuous system frequency deviation from the mean value of 50 Hz, and this since mid of January 2018.
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How Amazon Can Blow Up Asset Management
Amazon’s home page is arguably the most valuable real estate in the world. What happens if that page offers an ASSET MANAGEMENT tab?
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23andMe Granted FDA Authorization for Genetic Test on Cancer Risk
23andMe Granted First FDA Authorization for Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Test on Cancer Risk
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Prototype to production: How to build and design a PCB prototype
Learn how to build a PCB prototype, define fabrication specifications, and create gerber files in our new comprehensive guide
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Create Statistics in PostgreSQL 10
Postgres stores a lot of statistics about your data in order to effectively retrieve results when you query your database. Here we deep dive into some of the statistics PostgreSQL stores and how you can leverage a new feature in Postgres 10 to improve performance when different columns are related.
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Updated Request for Startups
The application deadline for YC Summer 2018 is on March 24, and in honor of the deadline, we published an update to our Request for Startups [http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/] (RFS). While many of the best ideas we’ve funded were ones that surprised us, there are always a collection of ideas we wish more founders would…
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The metrics behind Spotify’s IPO
Spotify's direct listing IPO filing reveals how monthly churn fell from 7.7% to 5.5% as personalization and family plans drove subscriber retention at scale.
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Sin and Cos: The Programmer's Pals
In this article I shall discuss several game programming techniques, all revolving around a central theme: the sine and cosine functions. This article will explain sine, cosine, vectors, atan2, and some useful special effects such as how to make homing missiles and how bitmap rotation works. I shall start with the…