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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,277 posts.
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I went to see a movie, and instead I saw the future
A few days ago my wife and I went to see Uncut Gems at a Regal theater in Chicago. We booked our ticket online, reserved our seats, showed up 15 minutes ahead of time, and settled in. After the coi…
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Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay
We should look at individuals—not national averages—as the unit of analysis, and ask: Are wages adequate for full-time workers?
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HTML attributes to improve your users' two factor authentication experience
Learn how to use the HTML autocomplete, inputmode and pattern attributes to improve the user experience of logging in.
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Autonomous Rust Unikernels in Google Cloud
What if you could reboot an entire server in seconds in response to an active attack and get a brand new memory layout? While not feasible under linux it's an uniquely unikernel feature.
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OpenWrt 19.07
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US government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware
A US-funded government assistance program is selling budget-friendly mobile phones that come pre-installed with unremovable malicious apps.
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Weird and Innovative Chips (2007)
The GDP was exclusively object oriented - normal linear memory access wasn't allowed, and there was hardware support for data hiding, methods, inheritance, late binding, and access protection, and it was promoted as being ideal for the Ada programming language. To enforce this, permission and type checks for every…
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Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs
Today, January 10, 2020, the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation released the fact-finding report it commissioned to help the Institute understand the origins, nature, and extent of Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to MIT and learn from them. The questions and answers below provide context.
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I almost sold Baremetrics for $5M
tl;dr In the past 6 months I turned down multiple $3-5m offers and failed to close a $5m sale. In the past six years of Baremetrics' existence, I've
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Tanka: Our way of deploying to Kubernetes
YAML sucks! This blog post explains why existing tools hardly ease this pain, and what we at Grafana Labs did about it.
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Benchmarking DNS response times of TLDs
We tested and benchmarked 42 of some of the most popular top-level domains and aggregated the results into a global median average.
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The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)
How do early career researchers (ECRs) use Sci-Hub and why? In this post David Nicholas assesses early career researcher attitudes towards the journal pirating site, finding a strong preference for Sci-Hub amongst French ECRs. He raises the question, will Sci-Hub prove the ultimate disruptor and bring down the…
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Remote iPhone exploitation part 2: a remote ASLR bypass
Posted by Samuel Groß, Project ZeroThis post is the second in a series about a remote, interactio...
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Bay Area Regional GTFS Feed: 31 transit agency feeds together in one API
Last year, Interline began a "startup in residence" at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Now we're pleased to publicly release our first creation: the San Francisco Bay Area's Regional GTFS Feed.
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Security vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 72.0.1 and ESR 68.4.1
Incorrect alias information in IonMonkey JIT compiler for setting array elements could lead to a type confusion. We are aware of targeted attacks in the wild abusing this flaw.
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US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019
After a sharp uptick in 2018, we estimate that US greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.1% last year based on preliminary energy and economic data. This decline was due almost entirely to a drop in coal consumption.
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Contractors use shell games to hide owners, cheat taxpayers
We dig into the law, the Constitution, and public policy to give decision-makers in government the data and policy solutions they need enact reforms that ensure our government answers to the people.
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API Security Best Practices
Learn how to secure your API. Best practices for OAuth, REST, DDoS, Attack Mitigation and Design.
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ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations
Posted by Radu Soricut and Zhenzhong Lan, Research Scientists, Google Research Ever since the advent of BERT a year ago, natural language research...
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Want to make good business decisions? Learn causality
In some organizations, earnest efforts to be “data-driven” devolve into a culture of false certainty in which the influence of metrics is dictated not by the...
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Flyte: A Cloud Native Machine Learning and Data Processing Platform
Today Lyft is excited to announce the open sourcing of Flyte, a structured programming and distributed processing platform for highly…
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Urgent and Important – Rotate Your Amazon RDS, Aurora, and DocumentDB Certs
Feb 5th, 2020: We’ve made an edit to this post. Previously, we had communicated that between February 5 and March 5, 2020, RDS would automatically stage the new certificates on RDS database instances without a restart. Based on customer feedback and to give customers as much time as possible to complete updates, RDS…
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Firefox 72 – our first song of 2020
2020 is upon us, folks. We'd like to wish everyone reading this a happy new year, wherever you are. As you take your first steps of the new year, figuring out what your next move is, you may find it comforting to know that there's a new Firefox release to try out! Version 72 to be exact.
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Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
We’re kicking off this year’s CES with some big news. Millions of users and thousands of companies across the world already use Arduino as an innovation
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Firefox 72.0
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox.
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Translating Quake 3 into Rust
The Rust-loving team at Immunant has been hard at work on C2Rust, a migration framework that takes the drudgery out of migrating to Rust. Our goal is to make safety improvements to the translated Rust automatically where we can, and help the programmer do the same where we cannot. First, however, we have to build a…
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How Do Lava Lamps Help with Internet Encryption?
The Cloudflare lava lamps are used for Internet encryption. Learn about entropy in cryptography and why randomness is essential for SSL encryption.
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Google files opening Supreme Court brief in Oracle v. Google copyright lawsuit
We’re asking the Supreme Court to reaffirm the importance of the software interoperability that has allowed developers to write millions of applications for billions of …