2011
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,089 posts.
2012
Advice for First Time Founders
We operate a platform called Bookface for YC founders to connect with each other, ask questions, find intros, and share advice. Recently on Bookface Zach Dixon [https://twitter.com/zachdixongg], cofounder of the gaming company Players’ Lounge [https://playerslounge.co/] (W18), asked a great question: 1. What are some…
2013
2014
Things you must know before you can understand Meltdown as a developer
Meltdown is a cache-timing attack on Intel CPUs that allows all memory to be read by any process because of how they do Speculative Execution.
2015
2016
New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices
US Customs and Border Protection, a component of the Department of Homeland Security, today posted a revised policy on Border Searches of Electronic Devices and a Privacy Impact Assessment of some of the changes made by the new policy.
2017
Presidential Approval Ratings
Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president?
2018
Intel Security Issue Update: Addressing Reboot Issues
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
2019
Government Communication
When legally forced to provide information to government or law enforcement agencies, we'll disclose the transcripts of that communication here.
2020
2021
Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance
If you’ve been keeping up on the latest tech news, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the CPU security flaw that Google’s Project Zero disclosed last Wednesday. On Friday, w…
2022
2023
Filecoin 2017 Q4 Update
Since the completion of the token sale, we have been heads down turning Filecoin’s tremendous potential into reality – from implementing the core parts of the Filecoin protocol to growing our team with the best talent we can find.
2024
Post-mortem of this weekend's NPM incident
npm Blog (Archive); updates from the npm team are now published on the GitHub Blog and the GitHub Changelog
2025
Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
In collaboration with Signal, Microsoft is introducing a Private Conversations feature in Skype, powered by Signal Protocol.
2026
2027
The Brutal Lifecycle of JavaScript Frameworks
JavaScript UI frameworks and libraries work in cycles. Every six months or so, a new one pops up, claiming that it has revolutionized UI development. Thousands of developers adopt it into their new projects, blog posts are written, Stack Overflow questions are asked and answered, and then a newer (and even more…
2028
Detecting Spectre and Meltdown Using Hardware Performance Counters
Security pros have been working on a new hardware attack type that exploits cache side-effects and speculative execution to perform privileged memory disclosure.
2029
Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research
CONTACT: Brad Burge, Director of Strategic Communications, MAPS Media Requests: Press Resouces:
2030
2031
Sourcegraph Server 2.4: free, powerful search for private code
Sourcegraph 2.4 is here. It is now free for unlimited users and repositories, can be installed in minutes with a single docker run command, and is easily configurable in the new web-based site admin.
2032
Courts: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime
Good news out of the Ninth Circuit: the federal court of appeals heeded EFF’s advice and rejected an attempt by Oracle to hold a company criminally liable for accessing Oracle’s website in a manner it didn’t like. The court ruled back in 2012 that merely violating a website’s terms of use is not a...
2033
The State of Atom's Performance
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
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Turning a side project into an open-source project
The world benefits from open source, big time. In this blog post, we’re going to spell out how you and the world can benefit from your side project, too.
2037
2038
Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (2015)
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), privacy company Disconnect and a coalition of Internet companies have announced a stronger “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting for Web browsing—a new policy standard that, coupled with privacy software, will better protect users from sites that try...
2039
James Dolan, co-creator of SecureDrop, has died
In memory of computer security expert James Dolan, 1981-2017.
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