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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,277 posts.
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GDC 2020 has been postponed
After close consultation with partners in the game development industry & community around the world, organizers have made the difficult decision to postpone the Game Developers Conference this March.
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Swift: Announcing ArgumentParser
We’re delighted to announce ArgumentParser, a new open-source library that makes it straightforward — even enjoyable! — to parse command-line arguments in Swift.
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Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history lesson
AdGuard dives into the history of ad blocking, from the very first banner on the web to present days, and we even have a peek into the future of ads and ad blockers. Let's look back together to better understand what awaits us ahead.
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Advanced usage of Python requests: timeouts, retries, hooks
Learn about the advanced features the requests library hides under the hood. DRY base URLs, hooks, retry on failure, default timeouts and mocking.
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Our experience moving to SF to do YC
YC (a startup accelerator we are taking part in) ask you to move to the Bay Area for the whole program. This gives you “a socially acceptable excuse…
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Love Zombies? Thank the Public Domain
With more than 3.1 million views to date, “Night of the Living Dead” is among the most popular feature films on the Internet Archive. The 1968 movie is also generally acknowledged as one of the landmark films of the horror genre, as well as the work that single handedly created the modern conception of the
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Using BPF to Transform SSH Sessions into Structured Events
Teleport’s Enhanced Session Recording feature can add vital extra visibility into commands being run on your systems.
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Let's Encrypt Has Issued a Billion Certificates
We issued our billionth certificate on February 27, 2020. We’re going to use this big round number as an opportunity to reflect on what has changed for us, and for the Internet, leading up to this event. In particular, we want to talk about what has happened since the last time we talked about a big round number of…
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New improvements to IPFS Bitswap for faster container image distribution
All the latest information about the IPFS Project in one place: blog posts, release notes, videos, news coverage, and more.
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Study of 72,000 COVID-19 patients finds 2.3% death rate
Researchers from China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention today describe the clinical findings on more than 72,000 COVID-19 cases reported in mainland China, which reveal a case-fatality rate (CFR) of 2.3% and suggest most cases are mild, but the disease hits the elderly the hardest.
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New Chip Brings Ultra-Low Power Wi-Fi Connectivity to IoT Devices
More portable, fully wireless smart home setups. Lower power wearables. Batteryless smart devices. These could all be made possible thanks to a new ultra-low power WiFi radio developed by UC San Diego engineers. It enables WiFi communication at 5,000 times less power than commercial WiFi radios.
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The oldest company in almost every country (that is still in business)
To survive in the big bad world of business, you need staying power. We wanted to know which businesses around the world have stood the test of time and were
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CouchDB 3.0
Dear community, Apache CouchDB® 3.0.0 has been released and is available for download. Apache CouchDB® lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in …
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Kr00k vuln in WiFi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of traffic
Kr00k – formally known as CVE-2019-15126 – is a vulnerability in Broadcom and Cypress Wi-Fi chips that allows unauthorized decryption of some WPA2-encrypted traffic.
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DOJ plans to strike against encryption while the Techlash iron is hot
There’s a story in today’s Washington Post “Cybersecurity 202” newsletter that confirms that the Department of Justice is capitalizing on the techlash in order to build up congressional support for the DOJ’s long-desired goal of legislation that will restrict your freedom to encrypt your data and
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Don’t Confuse a Bug’s Priority with Its Severity
Bugs are a natural part of the app development process, when triaging a flood of bugs its important to understand priority versus severity.
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Isomorphic-git v1.0
Today marks the release of isomorphic-git version 1.0! 🎉 There are a lot of big improvements to celebrate.
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Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together
The Web just got a little bit more reliable. Available today, starting with version 1.4 of its desktop browser, Brave has added a 404 detection system, with an automated Wayback Machine lookup process to its desktop browser. By default, it now offers users one-click access to archived versions of Web pages that might…
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Amazon Common Software for Devices
Apply today to join the Amazon Common Software (ACS) for devices preview! We use ACS in Amazon devices, including the Echo Dot (3rd generation) and the Amazon Smart Oven, and now you can use it to accelerate integration of Amazon Device SDKs on your devices to bring them to market more quickly and cost-effectively.
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Securing Firefox with WebAssembly
Protecting the security and privacy of individuals is a central tenet of Mozilla’s mission. While we continue to make extensive use of both sandboxing and Rust in Firefox to address ...
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Firefox turns on DoH as default for US users
Today, Firefox began the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users. The rollout will continue over the next few weeks to conf
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Mozilla’s DNS over HTTPs
The current insecure DNS system leaves billions of people around the world vulnerable because the data about where they go on the internet is unencrypted. We’ve set out to change ...